Post by bat89231 on Jun 20, 2006 8:21:46 GMT -5
Well, I hope this will be helpful:
Techniques used for the cathedral:
At the beginning I sculpted the bricks idividually row for row. I guess it's not surprising that I got sick of it after one wall
Luckily I found plastic brick sheets that matched the brick size of the ones I sculpted on the first piece
But I couldn't get enough of those so I took a piece of sculpey flattened it. The result should be a piece half the size of your palm and about 5 mm thick. Now you push the sculpey onto the bricksheet and bake it/ let it dry (depends on what material you are using).
Take it off and you have a good negative which can be used to make the bricks on round shapes as in my case the side towers.
So, basically you make your own punching tool.
For some pieces like thin walls I took a thick piece of cardbard and pushed the backside of a hobby knife on it to engrave a brick pattern.
On the Wayne Manor tower model I used slightly different methods:
The ground structure is made of several pieces of plexiglass (the cardboard wasn't strong enough).
Then I took a big piece of sculpey and flattened it with a rolling pin (don't use the one from the kitchen
because parts of the sculpey may stick on it, otherwise you'll eat cookies with sculpey flavor ;D )
I flattend it till it was around 5 mm thick and had the right size.
Then I layed it ontop of the plexiglass and cut off the overlapping pieces with a sharp knife.
Next step is slight brick pattern which I engraved with a scalpel. Don't push it in too hard, just so much that you can still see there is a pattern on it.
To texturize the pieces I took a small piece of sandpaper (try around with several types till you find one that gives the piece the desired texture).
Wrap the piece around your index finger and push it in very slightly.
That way the brick pattern will become a little more subtle, too.
If you want the thing to look really old try to find some photographic reference material.
I used this photo:
I liked how small pieces of stone broke off on the surface and tried to replicate that on my model:
I used the tip of my sculpting tool (but anything pointy will do) and made little dots very close to each other so that they form a little "canyon".
Now Painting:
The cathedral got spray painted black and then I drybrushed it with brown to raise the brick pattern. The roof was drybrushed in grey and in some areas I put in some green highlights, again drybrushing.
Same with the patina; set only a few highlights otherwise it would look overloaded
The result looked like this:
Wayne Manor got a light sandstone colored base coat and the I started mixing several wheathering colors: grey, brown and yellow.
I started with washing some areas with the grey and later added more details with drybrushing. After I applied all the darker tones with drybrshing I used a light grey to highlight some areas (again drybrushing).
Result looked like this:
Pretty simle, heh
To be honest I never used these techniques before I started with the first Wayne Manor model...
If there are still question... No harm in asking ;D
Techniques used for the cathedral:
At the beginning I sculpted the bricks idividually row for row. I guess it's not surprising that I got sick of it after one wall
Luckily I found plastic brick sheets that matched the brick size of the ones I sculpted on the first piece
But I couldn't get enough of those so I took a piece of sculpey flattened it. The result should be a piece half the size of your palm and about 5 mm thick. Now you push the sculpey onto the bricksheet and bake it/ let it dry (depends on what material you are using).
Take it off and you have a good negative which can be used to make the bricks on round shapes as in my case the side towers.
So, basically you make your own punching tool.
For some pieces like thin walls I took a thick piece of cardbard and pushed the backside of a hobby knife on it to engrave a brick pattern.
On the Wayne Manor tower model I used slightly different methods:
The ground structure is made of several pieces of plexiglass (the cardboard wasn't strong enough).
Then I took a big piece of sculpey and flattened it with a rolling pin (don't use the one from the kitchen
because parts of the sculpey may stick on it, otherwise you'll eat cookies with sculpey flavor ;D )
I flattend it till it was around 5 mm thick and had the right size.
Then I layed it ontop of the plexiglass and cut off the overlapping pieces with a sharp knife.
Next step is slight brick pattern which I engraved with a scalpel. Don't push it in too hard, just so much that you can still see there is a pattern on it.
To texturize the pieces I took a small piece of sandpaper (try around with several types till you find one that gives the piece the desired texture).
Wrap the piece around your index finger and push it in very slightly.
That way the brick pattern will become a little more subtle, too.
If you want the thing to look really old try to find some photographic reference material.
I used this photo:
I liked how small pieces of stone broke off on the surface and tried to replicate that on my model:
I used the tip of my sculpting tool (but anything pointy will do) and made little dots very close to each other so that they form a little "canyon".
Now Painting:
The cathedral got spray painted black and then I drybrushed it with brown to raise the brick pattern. The roof was drybrushed in grey and in some areas I put in some green highlights, again drybrushing.
Same with the patina; set only a few highlights otherwise it would look overloaded
The result looked like this:
Wayne Manor got a light sandstone colored base coat and the I started mixing several wheathering colors: grey, brown and yellow.
I started with washing some areas with the grey and later added more details with drybrushing. After I applied all the darker tones with drybrshing I used a light grey to highlight some areas (again drybrushing).
Result looked like this:
Pretty simle, heh
To be honest I never used these techniques before I started with the first Wayne Manor model...
If there are still question... No harm in asking ;D
