Community Spotlight: Upgrading Houses, Monster Beetles & Carcassone Bling
February 17, 2017 by crew
We're diving into some more Community Spotlight goodness with you today as we look at work being done by you fine folks in the Hobby & Painting Forum.
We have some interesting terrain to look at, a masterful beast and then a bit of board game bling!
4Ground Terrain Upgrades by soapddodger
Picking up some of the basic buildings from the 4Ground range soapdodger went about putting his own mark on these buildings. He has been tinkering with additional effects to bring the buildings to life and lift them up past the basic make-up of these Fantasy/Medieval buildings.
You can see the finished product here once it's gone through the various upgrade stages. The additional detail on the outer walls is new, plus an upgraded interior, new roof tiles, a new door and much more.
You can take a peek through the front door here with a little of interior lighting. If you're interested in the process you can find out more over on the forum thread linked above which packs in much more step-by-step detail.
His next building is of a similar design but instead, it's going to have seen a few bad days!
This gives you a much better idea of what has been added to the building beyond the basic structure and silhouette work on the exterior. Taking a look inside you can see how much work has also been done...
Floorboards and all sorts have been added into the mix making for quite the wonderful looking piece. With plenty of other buildings included in his pool of goodies no doubt we're going to be seeing soapdodger work on plenty more of these terrain pieces over the next few weeks.
Have you ever considered adding your own personal touch to your terrain?
Alarielle & Wardroth Beetle by brydeemer
Stepping into the world of Fantasy we have this rather fantastic looking Wardroth Bettle, the steed of Alarielle in Age of Sigmar, painted by brydeemer.
This piece, which also features a wonderfully constructed base, has been painted with standard paints but also a Modo Paint which gives you an almost pearlescent/metallic look to the armour of the beetle. It looks utterly superb and means you get a very natural look when the light hits it.
You can see that the detail work is fascinating and so many of the little bits have been picked out to make the model stand out on the tabletop. Despite its ultra-magical appearance it also feels like it fits with the basing material which is good.
brydeemer is also working on Alarielle right now with the same diligence and she's looking wonderful even at this early stage.
She truly is a magnificent model and it looks like brydeemer has his work cut out for him, but we reckon he's got this!
Carcassone Storage Box by avien
Stepping away from the tabletop we then move to our next slice of hobby from avien which is focused on adding some board game bling to his wife's favourite game, Carcassone.
The box started out as this art supply case which was serving well, but he decided to take it to the next level and focus it towards the game components, giving it an upgrade.
As well as making sure that all of the components were going to fit snugly inside he also took some time to stain the wood and carve out the Carcassone logo onto the front of the box. Now that is some rather good dremel work sir!
...and this is how it all looks now. The finish is superb and everything has its place within the box. This takes things from a favourite game to a treasured part of the collection and we think it's a wonderful way to spend your hobby time!
As something a little different, stepping away from the wargaming aspect of our community, this certainly impressed us. Also, good choice on Carcassone! It's a brilliant tile-laying game worth adding to your collection.
So there we have it, another week of awesome Hobby & Painting Forum goodness. Make sure to drop your own projects into the forums and we may pick out your work to show off.
We hope you enjoy what we've shown off today and it's given you a bit of inspiration.
What are you working on?
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Must have been a slow week guys, I am humbled. Thanks! As you said more to come.
It’d be a slow week when I get up there …
You did a great job by making a 4ground house even more impressive and good looking.
Don’t say that man it is fully deserved, this golden demon level work! The amount of time effort and care that went into that is more than obvious. Everyone who gets one of these fully deserves it, and take a look at the people your up with, you deserve it man 🙂
I missed @soapdodger ‘s stuff, but it is really characterful and yes mate, you fully deserve it. The other two lads have done brilliant work ….. but @brydeemer now you have your coveted (and fully deserved) golden button please, don’t stop, please ! My gob wants to be smacked some more!
(I was about to hit “Submit” when I read the last sentence, which, when coupled with the pleading in the sentence before, looks vaugely kinky. I assure you it isn’t …….honestly …… I am not like that ………..*leaving)
Ooo wow amazing work on the projects guys probably some of the best work I have seen for ages.
Why is there no Age of Sigmar category in the Fantasy dropdown? Not even a text link?
Both the “Warhammer” text link and icons in the dropdown go to the Warhammer-Fantasy category, which has mostly older articles, and doesn’t include any of the AoS content.
Damn brydeemer, pulled that one out of the bag. So good I want to paint one myself
Yeah I have always wanted to paint one but since seeing @brydeemer ‘s one it has made me more passionate it has made me want to make one as a Christmas Beetle that we get here around Christmas time (go figure).
Thanks for all the love everyone, I really appreciate it. I’m hoping to have Alarielle herself finished this weekend. As soon as I do I’ll put everything together and take proper photos.
Also, I really want that Carcassonne box!