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Chapel Sanctuary - MrJuice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MrJuice provides us with this guide to how he built
his brilliant Chapel Sanctuary terrain piece:
This is my concept sketch and what I plan to work from to make a ruined chapel sanctuary (I'm not the greatest artist but you should get the idea).
The windows are going to be broken stained glass and I haven't exactly determined how I will do the statue, I have a few to choose from but don't know if I will make it like stone or in colour. Here is some rough structural work, a little ways to go still. I seem to have deviated from the original concept but I like how its heading. I really like how the shingles turned out, gives a nice gothic feel I think.
The thumbnails below show a little more structural work finished, will start the tile work next.
The shingles (roof tiles) turned out pretty sweet, I used a pair of scissors that
cut with a pattern. For the most part its pretty much done and ready for paint.
My dilemma, I still haven't decided on what base colour to go with for the tiles and for the roof. I was thinking white or creamy colour tiles with dark accents/veins, would make the terrain pop at you. But I also had a green based tile colour in mind too. For the shingles I think I will be going for a deep brown with reddish undertones. The idea is that the tiles will be painted whatever base colour I choose then inked or washed in a contrasting colour to bring out the veins. Not sure how it will turn out, but it should be ok.
3 more layers of colour on the stonework
From the pictures it's hard to tell but the bricks and stone rubble stand out from the rest of the stone/concrete. As you can see I'm dreading doing the tiles, I'm still not sure on what I'm going to do.
I decided to go with a dirty white/cream marble look, I wanted to do the veining but at this point it would have been really difficult to do. Next time I do something like this I would pre-paint the tiles beforehand then add them near the end stages. I did a bunch of altering colour schemes for tiles.
These were some of my test tiles, some look absolutely awesome (IMO anyway), but I wouldn't have been able to do it on the piece, here were some of the ones I liked: [I decided on the last one]
To do the tiles I started with a base colour then just a series of uniform and non-uniform heavily watered down washes for each different colour. During the construction process I wasn't sure exactly how things were
going to look, just had a concept in mind. I should have built out the front
a little more to give the illusion that there was once more in front of the
statue. There is 4" of tile area in front of the statue, maybe I should
have gone about 6". My plan intentionally was to do some stained glass on acetate to put in
the windows. Now that I'm nearing the end stages I decided to do a test. I don't
think that I'm
liking it, I don't know if its because the pictures I have are too busy or if
it's
the colours that bothering me. The colours can be changed easily in
Photoshop though. The problem with using some acetate sheets is that
inkjet printer ink won't stay on and will smudge. You would have to seal it with
some sort of clearcoat or sandwich it using two layers.
Finally some vegetation was added, my own blend of Woodland Scenic's static grass flock and some natural bristle material I use for long grass. All that's left to do is put the window 'glass' in permanently and it's finished.
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