New Fogou terrain and more !

Hey there, Pretty chuffed to show you these today, I've been working on a bit of scenery as a back burner and it's starting to pay with many pieces coming to an end (and many more still in progress ^^').
Now today is special since it's also the opportunity for me to reveal one of the latest Fogou designs for a most excellent range coming !
We're mostly all familiar with Starwars, Madmax or some of us might even be into more historical settings, bottom line being we're mostly all interested in getting good looking adobe buildings right ?
Well look no further, these are the ones !

Now here's a test piece I was kindly given fy Fogou to paint, I therefore decided to add two more buildings I had bought a while ago.

As you can see, the building is fully modular with detailed interior so fully playable, that's a real advantage to me, wether you want to play or just take scenic shots, this is a considerable advantage.

The second one is Brother Brownpony's bar , an older reference with the same kind of removable storeys and playable interiors.

 Now the last one is a bt different since it's a concrete block building, this is Vozzgrud's Vault, an excelent piece which will perfectly play its part as a power facility or bunker.

 Now while I was painting those and chatting with Fogou Chris, we thought a little tutorial might be fun !
First of all, you have to know that the new adobe buildings come in a very clever sand colour. If you forget the added bits I glued on to sic-fi those up a bit, this means you could paint them right away without even a primer or a basecoat !
This is due to :
- Fogou casts don't use release agent, this means a thorough washing session is not required
- There is little to no preparation work required either, I usually just sand the bottoms extra flat but you could skip that.
- the fogou resin is extremely paint friendly and LOVES paint,

Now with the resin already coloured and textured, all you could do is throw a few washes and drybrushes on those and they'd be ready. Of course pics are better proofs than any word can be so expect to see that illustrated by others soon !

Now I didn't go with the basic colour because I wanted to paint the other pieces I had in the same colour scheme and they were not in the coloured resin to begin with. Also I wanted something which could blend on my table and existing stuff.
The base coat was a deep reddish brown followed by a semi zenithal spray of light brown to catch details.

The concrete slabs above and the concrete building below were sprayed with black, grey (45°) and then abit of white (zenithal) with a few sprays of teh reddish brown in some places before the grey.
To achieve the spots on the plain slabs, I just halfway pressed on the sprays to get as many drops as possible. Don't mind if the spots are too visible at this stage, a few washes will blend them in.

Next step were washes. Now I really love those Vallejo washes for scenery, the pgments are really fine and run in every crack, they're rich and easy to apply and you can play with them while wet.
I usually mix half black half brown mixes with a tiny little it of water (not much really) and play with them, placing them where I want, then after they've tried a bit (a minute or so, just the time to do the entire thing and come back to the starting point, I rub them with my fingers or a tissue to remove any excess and blend it. It works a treat, the more textured the surface, the better it works.

Then I selected a very light brown with a slight greenish tint to drybrush, the idea is that the green tint being the complementary colour of red underneath, it will soften and desaturate the base colour below. I want my adobe to look like it's undergoing heavy UV rays and acidic rains, much worse than anything on earth (now).
It's followed by a sligt drybrush of stone grey (with a drybrush of the mix in between) with top to bottom motions to really catch light on raised area and reinforce the zenithal lighting.

Pretty muchthe same approach on the concrete parts but with standard neutral greys (seen below)

Once that was done, metallic parts were basecoate in warplock bronze and stippled with an old brush with browns and orange. A brown wash and some leadbelcher applied with foam and it's done. Just add a few washes or extremely diluted skrag brown and cadmium red (last 2 below) in the recesses to simulate rust and you're good.

Now with all the terrain frenzy I thought it was the occasion to paint those containers as well and use the opportunity to test the salt weathering technique helped by my kids (aged 5 and 8), it was quite fun I must say and although it's not exactly perfect from a close inspection, it cetrainly sells the idea of heavily corroded and weathered steel boxes so works for me !

 Amongst all the bits I had I also remembered I had won those food booths thaks to the miniature in the middle. It took me a while to paint those as I was'nt sure how to apprach them but in the end, just basic work and a fair bit of weathering just did it, I'm really looking for quick and effective with such piecesn it's not worth spedning much time on mdf kits and I believe quick straight to the point paintobs suits them more. I'm actually quite fond of these two bits now and I'm eager to put them on a table !

Last summer, I did paint a few obejctive markers for a Terminator game and never got to blog them so here's a corrupted computer (with a fitting blue screen of death) and a time nuclear bomb (7 seconds away from exploding it seems). I also got some liquid nitrogen tanks from Fogou (because with terminators around you either want that or molten steel really)

Now since my kids enjoyed weathering the containers, I got my 5yo son to paint these crates and I'm pretty happy with his work ! He's enjoyed it a lot and I have more stuff painted so best of both worlds !

He actually started with this piece (miscast kindly offered by Ramshackle games) and did everything according to my tips. I was stunned by the ideas he had like washing the tops and pulling the ink with his fingers to create streaks...

He was  adamant on getting some wee stains on a corner because "dad, dogs really wee everywhere you know"

So here we are, still pleeeenty left to do but still a good bit done so I'm only waiting for the opportunity to use those in game !