Infinity Terrain

It’s been a long weekend but the end is nigh. While watching the Games Expo I have been painting my behind off and making lots of errors along the way.

I started off doing some sub assembly’s and painting. Hazard stripes this time using my laser cut template to help. This sped things along and meant i didn’t need to measure anything. This worked well and I will definitely use this in the future.

I painted the power bricks for the ends. This was done by undercoating with grey primer then spraying white then orange. After this I put them into the waste I laser cut from and masked everything but the stripe and the bottom. this allowed me to spray the  red and grey with only one mask. I then hand painted a grey line for under the struts that come out so they would not have an orange background.

This was assembled stages. I  made an jig to help ensure i stuck these down straight. I had painted some small balls and put these in with the paid of a scalpel with a dot of blue tack on it. Everything was mounted with superglue from a cocktail stick.

I then glued the numbers onto the power bricks using PVA this allowed me to move it on the brick to get the correct alignment. (sorry for the troll couldn’t resist)

This was at the point where i decided to make 2 blue and one purple power hubs. I ripped off the side of a failed one and cut a new elevation and stuck it together.  So i needed a few more parts and done these at this point.

I went ahead and painted all of the side vents. This was simple spray then hand paint the hinges.

I  also sprayed the 0.5mm card I had left yellow.

This is where I had the first of two nightmares. I painted all the rungs of the ladder. First by priming in grey then painting in white and then orange… I then masked each one of the 54 rungs and sprayed grey.

I made this mistake before, they were supposed to be yellow the same as the one I just sprayed.

Instead of just accepting this and pushing on I binned all the rungs cut new ones and done the same steps but painted yellow. I do not wish to know how much time that wasted but the second set turned out better anyway.

I pushed on with my new found drive I was ready to paint the main body of the power hubs.

I blued in the BB’s in the orders and added on the lights to the sides.

I started by painting the top section this was sprayed grey then went over in different blues and then some parts black wash.

It was at this point I seen my mistake. Not on the one pictured but one the second one i made wile i done the first below. I blued in the roof backwards so the walkway did not line up with the stairs… DOH! I had already painted this and did not want to start this from the start. So I plucked up the courage and attached it with a chisel. I managed to break it apart with only minor damage to the model and paint. I then repainted the broken sections using the same method as above.

I then picked out the handles and future rivets in a lighter grey and the vents in black.

I then masked this off so not to get any paint in there.

I painted the blue ones in a light blue and the purple one in a light purple. (it looks very pink but I assure you it’s purple) This sort of reminds me of an ice-cream sandwich.

After this I went on and done by gradients. This was done in three stages. I took a medium colour and added dark and light grey to  do the top and bottom it and then white at the top.

Unmasked and then went in with hand brushing out all the grey. This made it pop like I wanted adding some needed high contrast to them.

After this I want back to the roof and finished off the grooves in the plates with a darker grey to make them pop out a bit more.

So that’s me up to date with this project again. I now have to assemble everything. I am tired, grumpy and hungry so best not rush ahead even though I want to. All of the components are painted sub assemblies complete and painted not bad for a weekends work.

More to come!