Monday, June 18, 2012

A little more on Nico's and the Billboard

   I know I am ready for these to be done.  I have to convince my wife to help me with the Photoshop for my signs on Nico's and the Billboard.  My attempt in Paint
Not as nice as I'd like

This convinced me photoshop was what I wanted.  Not awful, just not where I wanted it to be.    I've based and painted Nico's and the Billboard, and have been working on some survivors.  This week was busy.  At fighter practice on Tuesday, I broke my shield.  On Wednesday, I started work on a new one.  They are fairly time intensive if you want it to look something close to right.  I worked on all Wednesday night, went to fighter practice without one on Thurday, and worked on it to finish on Friday.  Fought again on Saturday, my birthday, and went Kayaking down the broad river on Sunday.  Whew!  Hard week, fun week, glad to be back to modeling! 
      Here is Nico's

Before gluing the base on, and painting it.


And second:


Both Together, Bases done.
As ususual, feel free to comment and I will happily entertain suggestions.  The idea to use the window as the entrance was brilliant.  Nico's will have boarded up doors and broken windows.  Thanks!

8 comments:

  1. Looking very good! and if that 1st pic was your painted billboard, I can't see anything wrong with it at all!

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    1. Thanks so much Mr. Nash. The billboard only lacks an advertisement... I am considering putting a fence around it as well.

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  2. That billboard looks superb mate go for it. Get some painting done and have a rest.

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    1. Thanks. I look forward to slowing down a bit this week...

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  3. Was that "Paint" as in the freebie that comes with Windows, or "Paint.NET" which is also free, but starts giving you more Photoshop-like tools. If the former, I highly recommend the latter, as it will let you start layering things over eachother to produce some nice effects.

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    1. It was the one that comes wit windows. Thanks for telling me about the other. I will have to give it a whirl.

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  4. Looking good; that billboard is going to be really something when finished.

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