Finishing Paint on the Shack

The LED Discovery

I popped the magnet strip off the bottom. Last Christmas I got a baggie of these little LED throwies and had no idea what they were. I’ve just been sitting on them.

I usually don’t like incorporating LEDs into tabletop stuff because it can turn super toyish. But this objective marker is already so ridiculous—you thought it was an abandoned love shack? No, this love shack is in use and the rave is ongoing!

I think this is perfect. The LED changes up the speed rather than constant blinking. This is definitely happening.

Starting the Metal

We’re going to start with Cultist Cloak. I’m doing this pipe first since it looks rubbery, then mixing in some Broadsword Silver for a metallic effect.

The Metallic Technique

Using Mithril Silver, rust streaks, and Molotow Liquid Chrome. We’re going to hit the hard edges up here and all the rivets with the silver. Then go back and only hit some of them with liquid chrome—that’ll really add to it.

On the bottom panels, I’m kind of wet dry brushing and just scratching the top. We’re only hitting the top parts to create contrast. We don’t want any on the underside—we’re creating the illusion that it’s metal from different angles.

The Liquid Chrome Warning

You have to be careful using liquid chrome because it’s almost so metallic that if you’re not careful, it breaks immersion. You suddenly have what looks like real metal and it takes you back to having a metal model.

So I’m using it very sparingly—door rivets, parts of the door edge, some scratches on the bottom. I’m only hitting the top rivets. The ones in shadow I’m actually not going to hit.

Creating Scratches

Using the raggedy brush to do scratches through there for contrast. Even on parts that won’t be seen, just in case.

The Result

At tabletop level, this thing looks like somebody actually built a little miniature outhouse on the tabletop.

The Base

I grabbed this rust paint—but I’m actually not going to rust the shack because old iron just gets darker. What I’m going to do is use this rust to paint my base since it’s effectively a wet pigment powder.

I’ll even go inside the shack with it, and take it up the side of the house a little—just to bring it together. Heat gun evaporates the enamel out.

Boom. If you don’t want to add snow, the Love Shack is done! Two nights of 15-minute sessions each gets us to this point.

Transcript

into our love shack. It’s all dry. Um I think it looks pretty awesome. We need to paint the metal and I think I’ I’ll definitely paint it get it all 100% painted tonight. Okay.

So, I’ve uh I popped the magnet strip off the bottom and there’s just beard hair on everything. But uh last Christmas I got a baggie of these little guys and I had no idea what they were. The person who got them had no idea what they were. Uh, you know, so what they are though, and they are uh I don’t know, maybe they’re supposed to be like throwies, but they don’t have the sticky part on them. Not quite sure.

And I’ve just been sitting on the bag cuz I didn’t know what to do with them. And I actually uh I do I like playing around with LEDs, but I don’t usually like incorporate them into the tabletop stuff because I think it it like turns into like super toyish. But this objective marker is just so ridiculous already. I was playing around with it and if I if I set this up, let me turn this off. Like you thought it was an abandoned love shack.

No, this love shack is in use and the rave is ongoing. So I think this really just makes it look awesome. Uh, I’m going to uh I’ll do put a little bit more effort into it instead of just like throwing it in there. But this is definitely happening. So, let me let me lower you down a little bit and you can get a get a head on the full effect.

Yeah, like this. I think this is perfect. And I’m so glad I thought about this and remembered that I had these things. So, I think it’s also cool that it’s not like a constant uh it’s like a not a it’s not just like a constant blinking like it changes up the speed. So, this is going down for sure.

Okay, we’re going to start off with a cultist cloak. I haven’t used this before and I kind of just want to see what we get out of it. Now, I’m doing this pipe first just cuz it looks rubbery. And I’m gonna mix in some broadsword silver to see if that kind of gives us that metally effect. So I just want to hit the stuff that’s not definitely going to be metallic.

And there’s a whole lot on the brush. Let’s just come in hot. see where we’re at. And I think I might get my airbrush out to blue that like kind of heat vent thing. I’m not really sure what it is.

Like, is that steam powered? Like, what makes this thing go, you know? All right, back to the desk. Myithil silver rush streaks Moloto Liquid Chrome. All right.

So, now we’re just going to hit these like hard edges up here and like here. Definitely want to hit all of these. And I’m going to hit all of these of the rivets. with this. And then I’m going to go back and only hit some of them with the liquid chrome.

And that’ll really uh add to it. Then on this part, I’m just kind of like wet dry brushing it and just in case it’s seen, but I’m really just not that too worried about it. And then we’ll hit this top part. Same kind of thing. Like we’re really at this point, we’re just kind of adding in those metal flakes back into it.

And then same thing. Hopefully I’m in frame. So, I’m just going to add these. Uh, we’re kind of like wet dry brushing it, I guess. I’m not really sure what I would call this.

We’re just like scratching the top of it really. And that way hopefully it comes through the light. You can kind of see like it’s creating that contrast. We’re only the top part of this. And we’ll hit the full edge here.

and we’ll hit the full scraping the top of that there. But again, we don’t want any on the underside of it. Hit the edge. And we’re just trying to like create the illusion that that’s metal from the different angles with metal with contrast. And like we’ll hit the top of this thing that’s coming out of the ground.

And I guess if that’s coming out of the ground, it’ probably be gas, which I just thought of. So again, hitting the tops. Going to hit this part. And now there’s very little pigment. So I’m just kind of dry brushing all this side and being lazy with it.

[snorts] >> All right. So now this part uh this part I don’t want to be lazy with. So very carefully trying to like look at the look at this brush that I am hopefully it’s in focus. I can’t see. Look at this brush I’m trying to add highlight with.

Hit these. Definitely want to hit this little knocker right here. And again, this catching the tops. All right. Boom.

[snorts] Here we go. Two nights of like 15 minute sessions each gets us to this point. uh if I wasn’t so rushed on the wood. I think I mean I think the wood looks pretty good, but that you could definitely get a better result on the wood if you weren’t rushed and let each layer dry in between. But I kind of like the effect that we got.

So, do I want to dry brush this like the wood? I mean, oh man, I think I do. I think I do want to do it. I think I want to hit this a little bit more on the edge just establish more color. All right.

So, what we got these can you see it? Uh, so one, you have to be careful using this because it’ll it’s almost like so metallic that if you’re not careful with it, it breaks immersion because you just all of a sudden have like a real like it takes you just kind of like back to having a metal model almost. So again, I’m just gonna very sparingly like the door rivets I’ll use it on and like not a full edge highlight, but just kind of like parts of that door and like maybe some scratches on the bottom here. [snorts] Oh, almost dropped it. Definitely don’t do that.

Just like work this into the knocker a little bit more. and and then I put way too much on that palette. But like I’m only going to hit the tops of these or the top ones. And again, like that one I’m actually not going to hit cuz it’s going to be in shadow. >> [snorts] >> And I’m just putting a little bit of scratches in here, you know, because why not?

Even though it’s not going to be seen, just in case. And then same thing on this tank on the inside. And then that’s how you get the effect. And then I’ll I’m just coming in and using this raggedy brush to do scratches through there to get our contrast. Then maybe even a little bit there and a little bit here.

And again, I’ll put There’s not very much pigment on this brush right now, but I’ll do it on the top of that. And boom. This thing hopefully it comes through on the camera like at tabletop level. This thing looks it looks like it has a really somebody built a little miniature outhouse on the tabletop. And I grabbed this rust out.

I’m actually I’m not going to rust it just because like iron old iron like it oxidizes and it just gets like kind of darker. I mean it it’ll rust for sure it’ll rust but uh just not This one’s not going to be rusted. But what I’m going to do with it is I’m going to use this rust here to paint my base because it this is effectively a wet pigment powder. And I’ll even go inside the hustle bit. And so I’m going to put I’m going to I’m painting my base with this and I’m going to hit it with a heat gun.

And I’ll even like take this up a little bit. I said I wasn’t going to rust it. And here I go. Rusting it cuz again, we’re just trying to give like the illusion. And it’s okay to go up the side of the house.

That’s just going to bring it in. All right. So, the heat gun’s going to evaporate the enamel out of this. But boom. If you don’t want to add snow to it, the love shack is done.

Thanks for watching. See you tomorrow.