"MORTAL ENEMIES" Diorama
By: Banjo

This is a diorama I made for a painting contest that is to be held at our GW on Sunday (August something or other). I REALLY want to win this thing, so I busted my ass and worked hard on this one, and I think it paid off. Take a look, I'll narrate ;)

Here's the base. It's a 9"x9" piece of wood, with holes boared out for slots for, well, you'll see. Anyways, I used rocks from my mom's flowerbed next to the house (eek!), and some gravel from the side of the road, toss in a cut up section of styrafoam from a Dreadnought box PVCed with gravel and then painted, and you've got a rubbled town. I drybrushed eveything Fortress Grey and did the toothbrush method of splattering for the muddy ground.





And here comes the lazy Catachan (no surprise there... >) You'll see what I mean by this. I used the metal bit blister than came with the Leman Russ Exterminator for this (since I hate Catachans and will never use them).











The Catachan Again.

Uh oh, who's this? >)














I found something out: Watered down paints and a a few coats mixed with a bit of time work WONDERS. I used watered down Fortress Grey on the cloak quickly re-drybrushed with watered down Chaos Black. I used about four to five coats of REALLY watered down Blood Red on the power claw followed up by dry-brushed on watered down Boltgun Metal. On the breat plate I used watered down Mithril Silver, and used Brazen Brass under Burnished Gold for the symbol and sword handle. On his face I used watered down Dark Flesh drybrushed with Rotting Flesh to give him that "old man" feel.



Same as above. Lookey! I even got his Purity Seal!













My brother commented that he was trying to punch out the screen, or the person looking at him.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! The beast is back! This one was a nifty little bugger, as it was my FIRST ORK ever PAINTED. I used lots of drybrushed metals (all watered down), such as Boltgun, Beaten Copper, and Brazen Brass. For the ork skin I used Dark Angels Green as an undercoat, followed up with Snot Green, and then gently highlighted with Goblin Green.







Look! I got the wires too!















And from the back...














A bit closer up.















"WAAAAAAAAAAGH! ME GUNNA CRUSH DEM HUMIES GOO' AN' MAKE DAT YAH-RIK PAY!"

Ok, so you've come this far, so what's next? The finished product.