I love both the aesthetic and practicality of the tiles. Having scenery which you can pack away is always useful as it means it's not in the way if you haven't got the space to leave it lying around all the time. Numbering the tiles and adding their orientation was a genius addition too!
Wow, talk about a passion project! I admire your dedication and patience - but the results speak for themselves! Amazing stuff, can’t wait to see how your buildings turn out! ~ Gordon
Instead of inks, try to use oils in your next project. Much longer working time, easier clean up & they flow nicer. It will save you more time than messing around with inks and yield a better result.
Thanks for the tip! Oils have been used in previous videos due to the reasons you mentioned. I was slightly concerned about oils over this scale due to wait times and additional sealing and consistency issues. I can make oil washes work of smaller scale stuff. But due to how big this project was I had to just do the things I knew would work rather than experiment too much as every step of this project took forever sadly. But I’m with you on oils for sure. It’s a super great method.
@BUNKER6 I use Winsor & Newton oils out of the tube, I dilute with white spirits when doing panel lines over a gloss clear coated project. When done I let them dry for an hour (basically wait for the spirit to evaporate) and hit them with GW munitorum varnish. It works really well for speeding the process along, did nearly 4500pts of eldar with this method. Try it out when you have some free time. The varnish locks the oil in place and you can keep on working. Also used it on some gundam kits too.
I have a giant double filtered extraction unit to the left of my camera. It’s not in shot because it’s ugly. But thanks for your concern! I’m here for the snark 🫡
Because this is resin they're all going to be different heights because they're different volumes... did you not pour 24 of the same tile? With the same resin no less? Why would they turn out different heights?
Yes, measurements were not always exact due to pouring from giant bottles into small measuring containers. Pouring out the resin was not always consistent between pours due to resin getting stuck on the inside of the measuring cups and the mixing stick, additionally the walls of the molds were not supported so they warped and widened. Things can get a little inconsistent when 72 pours are involved. I hope this makes things clearer for you. 🫠
To be clear each tile was created with Epoxy resin. This is an extremely high viscosity product unlike resin used in recasting models. This stuff is as thick as molasses. Not like watery model resin. Pouring epoxy in one go creates trapped air bubbles and you will not always get the resin in all the nooks and crannies. You brush the first layer of epoxy to minimize missing any details. Then you go in with each major pour after that with hours long intervals. So at this point I feel your comments are just more antagonist rather than honest enquiry. But keep it coming. I can waste your time as much as you’re wasting mine. 🤙
It’s strange because I normally have no problem using oils. But for some reason I just couldn’t let myself go there on this project. I played it very safe and stayed in my lane with things I knew would work no matter what. But hopefully I’ll pull out the oils more often for painting the buildings. A real time saver would have just been to buy the official Legions Imperialis tiles 😂
This is the stuff: a.co/d/1CLRplm it’s fantastic. But be warned. This is the stuff that I had an allergic reaction with. It completely destroyed my sinuses when ever I used it. It was crazy.
What a great project. A perfect model of an imperial city. It already looks amazing. I am sure it will really sing when the buildings are done too. I am going to binge your vids over the next few days. I have missed a load for some reason. Forgive me 🙏😅
I love both the aesthetic and practicality of the tiles. Having scenery which you can pack away is always useful as it means it's not in the way if you haven't got the space to leave it lying around all the time. Numbering the tiles and adding their orientation was a genius addition too!
Very much appreciated and thank you for watching. The board in its entirety is nearly finished. It will be the next episode! Cheers
Wow, talk about a passion project! I admire your dedication and patience - but the results speak for themselves! Amazing stuff, can’t wait to see how your buildings turn out! ~ Gordon
Thank you Gordon. Plenty more to do. I look forward to sharing more of the process! Stay tuned :)
Gordon’s ALIVE?!
Yeah man!!!! Looks great!!!!
Thank you!!!
Looks fantastic! I would recommend trying oil washes , they would be great for those grates etc
Totally! Next time I’ll give the oils a whirl :)
Instead of inks, try to use oils in your next project.
Much longer working time, easier clean up & they flow nicer.
It will save you more time than messing around with inks and yield a better result.
Thanks for the tip! Oils have been used in previous videos due to the reasons you mentioned. I was slightly concerned about oils over this scale due to wait times and additional sealing and consistency issues. I can make oil washes work of smaller scale stuff. But due to how big this project was I had to just do the things I knew would work rather than experiment too much as every step of this project took forever sadly. But I’m with you on oils for sure. It’s a super great method.
@BUNKER6 I use Winsor & Newton oils out of the tube, I dilute with white spirits when doing panel lines over a gloss clear coated project.
When done I let them dry for an hour (basically wait for the spirit to evaporate) and hit them with GW munitorum varnish.
It works really well for speeding the process along, did nearly 4500pts of eldar with this method. Try it out when you have some free time. The varnish locks the oil in place and you can keep on working. Also used it on some gundam kits too.
@rmo917 screen capped your comment! Really appreciate the advice! I look forward to trying this out. Thank you!
Makes a big deal about not spraying aerosol paints indoors, proceeds to aerosolize varnish indoors a few shots later...
I have a giant double filtered extraction unit to the left of my camera. It’s not in shot because it’s ugly. But thanks for your concern! I’m here for the snark 🫡
Because this is resin they're all going to be different heights because they're different volumes... did you not pour 24 of the same tile? With the same resin no less? Why would they turn out different heights?
Yes, measurements were not always exact due to pouring from giant bottles into small measuring containers. Pouring out the resin was not always consistent between pours due to resin getting stuck on the inside of the measuring cups and the mixing stick, additionally the walls of the molds were not supported so they warped and widened. Things can get a little inconsistent when 72 pours are involved. I hope this makes things clearer for you. 🫠
To be clear each tile was created with Epoxy resin. This is an extremely high viscosity product unlike resin used in recasting models. This stuff is as thick as molasses. Not like watery model resin. Pouring epoxy in one go creates trapped air bubbles and you will not always get the resin in all the nooks and crannies. You brush the first layer of epoxy to minimize missing any details. Then you go in with each major pour after that with hours long intervals. So at this point I feel your comments are just more antagonist rather than honest enquiry. But keep it coming. I can waste your time as much as you’re wasting mine. 🤙
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Fantastic! The best Epic scale content out there.
Really appreciated. Hopefully more to come soon
I think an all over oil wash would have made a few parts of this much easier for you.
It’s strange because I normally have no problem using oils. But for some reason I just couldn’t let myself go there on this project. I played it very safe and stayed in my lane with things I knew would work no matter what. But hopefully I’ll pull out the oils more often for painting the buildings. A real time saver would have just been to buy the official Legions Imperialis tiles 😂
But thank you for watching and thank you for your advice!
@@BUNKER6 no problem, thank you for posting!
Amazing looking table. What casting (model) resin do you use?
This is the stuff: a.co/d/1CLRplm it’s fantastic. But be warned. This is the stuff that I had an allergic reaction with. It completely destroyed my sinuses when ever I used it. It was crazy.
What a great project. A perfect model of an imperial city. It already looks amazing. I am sure it will really sing when the buildings are done too. I am going to binge your vids over the next few days. I have missed a load for some reason. Forgive me 🙏😅
Cheers mate. Watching my videos is all I can ask for. 🙏
Phenomenal work!
Very much appreciated!
Good Work!
Thank you! The board is nearly finished 💪
epic work !
Ha ha I see what you did there 😅 thank you!
LOVE it
Thanks babe.
I didn't knew platinum silicon didn't cure with uv resin (or 3d printing UV resin inhibite the curing of platinum silicon)
The combination of silicon and resin seemed to be the issue. It’s sulphur fumes apparently. But thank you for watching.
Looks awesome!
Thank you so much!!
that's a really huge amount of buildings, the final result is impressive, good job!
Thank you. It was a lot of recasting and printing. I’ll be painting them in the next few episodes. Thanks for watching!
very ... very cool .. well done sir !
Thank you so much friend!
Finally bunker6 is back 😊
I will try and not do such long breaks
Crazy good!
Super appreciated!