The Survivor has to be my favorite of all the Deadzone models so far, and very much enjoyed painting him up. I went with mostly the same scheme as my Rebs as it will tie him in with them if I ever do get round to using him.
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Deadzone – Time to Paint Some Mercs!
Before I move onto another faction I’d like to get the Mercs I have painted and ready to play…
So far I have Nastanza, Wrath and the LE Survivor to paint. The plan is to do the survivor in similar colours to the Rebs and Wrath in a kind of opposite colour scheme – Red armour with white detailing. Nastanza I’m not sure on, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out before I’ve finished the other two 😀
Deadzone – Terrain Photoshoot!
With the last piece of terrain(for now)for my Deadzone board done I took the chance to get some photos of a few bits and bobs of it all together, with and without some Rebs…
It’s good to get a sense of scale on the Dreadball pitch, which still looks a little small, but I’m happy with how it all looks together and the character it adds to the board 😀
Deadzone – Dreadball Pitch Terrain Finished!
The Dreadball pitch has now had a lick of paint and is all the better for it 🙂
I decided to add some of the colours I used on the buildings to give the pitch a link to it’s surroundings. So I added it on the top half of the concrete barriers and the goals/nets/tubes/scoring mechanism. I also added some colouration on the pitch itself in the form of strike zone markings and a centre line. Both of these were applied by airbrush after a coat of hairspray, so I could give them a chipped worn look. I didn’t bother with any salt on these as I wanted much larger areas of chipping. I also added a couple of white crosses to give at least a vague idea of where one cube begins and another ends 🙂
Deadzone – Dreadball Pitch Terrain!
An idea struck me whilst I was making up the Antenocitis Billboards and adding the Dreadball poster in particular. What if there where street style Dreadball pitches, like you see in basketball and football in real life? Not something like used in Xtreme, but something used by the kids and adults alike of the cities and colonies. With that in mind I set out to try and figure out the best way to make something like that and discovered this on Antenocitis Workshop:
This would work really well to get the main shape onto a base. I had a couple of wooden backs from frames lying about, intended for basing some terrain, so cut one to the size I wanted, 3 x 2 cubes or 9″ x 6″. With that base size in place I had a limit to the size of the pitch and how much of the above to cut into shape and size, I wanted it a little smaller than the base so I could add a few extra bits around the edges, specifically some barriers and some strike posts. Using some of the Antenocitis barriers, a few bits of Deadzone terrain, metal tubing and a wee bit of guitar string, this is what I came up with…
It looks a little small when compared with the size of the figures, but I think any larger and it would take up way too much space on the board, and I think at the end of the day it does what it’s supposed to do- add a characterful piece of terrain to the board, something that makes it look like people did at one time or another live and play in the Deadzone 🙂
Now to get the blighter painted 😀
Deadzone – Bar Terrain Finished!
The second of my characterful terrain pieces for Deadzone is finished, the bar…
The idea is it was a Rebs affiliated bar that has since been shut down by force (should have picked a more subtle name, stupid sympathisers), so I’ve made it look like it’s been burned out and boarded up. I added the extractor from antenocitis workshop to add a wee bit more to the feel.
The last bit of the terrain is up next, and something that got me very excited, an outdoor Dreadball pitch…
Deadzone – Cafe Terrain Finished!
I’ve been working on a few terrain pieces with a bit more of a story to them for Deadzone. The reason behind this is with what I have it feels like a very industrial hollow battlefield, and as each deadzone is supposed to have been something; Military compound, newfound colony, sprawling colony etc. I wanted to get that across with the terrain.
I wanted to go for something that looked like it would be a civilian area and I’ve chosen to make 3 peices of terrain to help evoke that; a cafe, a bar and a outdoor dreadball pitch 🙂
The first one I set about getting finished was the cafe…
I’m very pleased with how it’s turned out, and it looks good setup with the other terrain.
Next up will be finishing off the bar…
Deadzone – Buildings with Character!
I’m onto painting the next and last (for now) peices of Deadzone terrain, something with a bit more character and story to it.
The first of these is a wee cafe…
This ones going to be Azurian in theme, so what better colour than blue 😀
The next one is the Reb affiliated bar…
I will be adding a wee bit of the creamy colour I used on the Rebs armour and other terrain, to link it in further (possibly on both pieces tbh), but for now I need to focus on getting these base colours highlighted up 😀
Dreadball – Veer-myn Numbering!
The final stage for the Veer-myn was adding the numbering, neither me or the client had a good idea as to where we were gonna go with this so I set out to test out a couple of things…
The first 3 I tried out, from top to bottom, where a simple scratched on number over the base grey using a deep brown for the number, a white number over the orange used on the shoulder pads and finally the same as the top but with silver inside the scratches. The top one seemed to be the favorite of both me and the client, but it needed something more…
At the clients request I tried it out with an orange stripe on a white background, and the same stripe on the original grey background. The client preffered the look of the whte background, so that’s what I went with…
The only one done any differently was Reek Rolat, who had the grey background, to tie in with his shoulder guards…
Unfortuanatley the client still wasn’t keen on them, and decided he would like to have the transfers on them instead. So off to the local shop I went and picked some up 🙂
Here’s how the finished product looks…
Had to re-jig some of the numbers, as there wasn’t enough on the trasfer sheets. But got there in the end 🙂
Dreadball – Veer-myn Commission Almost Done!
With only the numbers needing to be added, the Veer-myn team is just about finished. Here’s how they are looking…
These guys have been a lot of fun, and I have a new found appreciation for Veer-myn as a whole, I can’t wait for these guys to show up in Deadzone now.
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