Sunday 22 August 2021

THIS ONES FOR YOU !

 While I was building Jabba's throne room, several other bloggers were mentioning other rooms in his palace, and wondering if I would be tackling those as well, for once I can't blame Roger, but Ivor, Dai, and Jeff instead. Now saying that this would be like pouring petrol on a fire would probably be an understatement ! LOL

So which of these areas to do first, well I've gone with the Rancor pit, as it directly effects the throne room. It's been carve out of the heavy duty insulation foam, which gives a great rock texture.


So far I've been working on the area the victims are dropped into, and have got the basic wall structure done, and the textured rock faces. I used the colour of the foam, as the base colour, so only had to do a wet brush of brown, and a dry brush of bone to get the areas painted


I've also got a sliding shutter done for the trap door entrance, and included a skull that I found was sitting in one of the fissures of the rocks.

I'm currently working on the big door and the Rancor enclosure, and I hope to get everything finished before the end of the challenge.

One of the things I did get to do on the bad week was catch up on some watching of series, and got through three seasons of Mayans, it's a spin off series from Sons of Anarchy, which is all about outlaw bikers or the 1% and covers some very topical agendas that was going on in the US at the time.

I also sat through two seasons of Scream Queens, now I started to watch it as it starred the excellent Jamie Lee Curtis, but I found it was a poor rip off  of many of the 80's style slasher movies, and the main difference was in the originals there were characters you wanted to see survive, the main characters in this series are so obnoxious I found myself actually hoping the killer would knock them off sooner rather than later, but they have so far managed to avoid that for two series. So why am I sharing this, because I thought I would save anyone who hasn't seen it the time of sitting through it ! LOL

That's all for this post so until next time stay safe and have fun !

Cheers Dave

20 comments:

  1. Ohhh... That Rancor cave entrance looks excellent, Dave. Really nice work on the rock face. It looks top-notch!!!

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    1. Thank you Simon, pretty easy to do, just very messy ! LOL Unfortunately, not finished on the messy part either.

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  2. I can see the squealing green piggie now as he slides down join Luke as a mid day snack. :)

    Amazing work Dave, am very impressed by this so far!

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    1. O and cheers for the recommendation to not watch that show. Never heard of it, but now I will make doubly sure to avoid it!

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    2. Thank you Dai, glad it invokes the right scene, there are quite a few details to get in and in the right places, including a huge steaming pile of Rancor poo ! LOL

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    3. No problem on the show advice ! LOL

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  3. Ooo, this looks amazing already and I'm really looking forward to seeing this one completed! I loved the Rancor when I first saw it at the ripe old age of 11 LOL!

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    1. Thank you Matt, the Rancor was such a cool looking creature, shame he didn't last long ! LOL. Hopefully i've got a few more details to impress with.

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  4. Looking great Dave - you do terrain so well!

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    1. Thank you Mark, when I'm out and about I do spend a lot of time looking at elements around me, colours and textures especially, my kids find it funny when I'm checking out a tree, or piece of broken concrete ! LOL

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  5. Looking good and well done avoiding grey walls ! It must have taken a while getting all those rocks carved out of the foam, but at the same time I suspect it was very satisfying to finish.

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  6. Thank you Joe, was lucky on the rock colour, as in the movie it had a grey undertone, but was predominately brown. I spent about a day carving the rocks for this section, so hoping the other room will be quicker as it's smaller, the most satisfying part was to get the paint on, and could fully see the carving had worked.

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  7. Looking really good mate! have you seen the fan-vid on youtube about the boy who finds a baby Rancor in a cave? It's very well done!

    Never watched scream queens but did watch an old 80's slasher with Jamie Lee the other week....Terror Train, great trashy nonsense and David Copperfield (the magician)is in it too!!

    Cheers Roger.

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    1. Thank you Roger, will have to check out the youtube vid.
      You haven't missed anything with Scream Queens, except saving yourself a lot of time sitting through rubbish ! LOL Terror Train great cheesy horror at it's best/worst

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  8. Excellent looking texture, really nice finish!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thank you Iain, the foam does a lot of the work for you, in the way it cuts and tares

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  9. John@justneedsvarnish25 August 2021 at 09:08

    The rock face looks excellent, Dave! :-) Relatively easy to finish off after carving by the sound of it! I maybe need to catch up on some telly, but at least I know what not to watch now. Hope you're feeling better this week!

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    1. Thank you John, it is a very versatile medium, if you don't mind the mess ! LOL Glad to help on what not to watch ! Back down to my mid level pain, so able to function again, thank you mate.

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  10. We just want you to respect the source material and you can't do that if you leave any stones unturned here ;) The latest addition looks fantastic unsurprisingly. Its great to see you get back to this project and I'm about to go jump to the next update because I can't wait to see more :D

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    1. Thank you Jeff, I'll always have respect for the source that is Star Wars ! LOL The other areas might take a bit longer than this section, but will get to them all at some point.

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