Officer Hickley - Prod Goon with Shock Baton. Eager future Prods and Breakers! We've got our first casts in hand, and I have to say that I am ecstatic. Sure, there is always room for improvement and this is a learning process, but it doesn't change that this project has come so far in the last year, and rapid progress has been made in just the last 4 months. Valiant Enterprises has sent over three casts (two that we'll show today) and it was such an epic moment opening that parcel; very exciting indeed. That being said, Officer Hickley (above), was our first sculpt, and now we have him in hand and its a proud moment. Officer Hickley will be a Kickstarter and convention Exclusive character. He's a brutal tool of corporatocracy - a willing bloodthirsty goon. I'm even more excited because he is modeled after my friend and play tester - Chuck Hickey. Trest - Gen-Mod Brute with Rocksaw. Trest stands an epic 38mm from foot to eye. He is a genetically modifie...

Almost done. Let's see how we got there. Today we're going to make a passage with an adjustable height door. I didn't quite finish it yet, but I got far enough that you can see how its going to look when its done. Continuing on from where I left off in Making Mine Scenery Part VI , I shaped the pink foam in the exact same way I did in Making Mine Scenery Part II . Once I had a suitably rocky texture, I moved onto designing a door to drop into the grooves at either end. For some extra detailing I decided to cut some plasticard tread plate. I cut the treadplate 5" x 1/2". Once cut, I used CA glue the treadplate strips down where the doors would drop. To begin a door I started by cutting a 5" x 2 1/4" piece of thick plasticard. This will serve as the basis for the door. Next I cut two 4" x 2 1/4" pieces of cardstock. Then I drew 1/4" borders all the way around each, and another one down the center. Then...

Foreboding! Dust hung heavy in the air. With a fleeting moment's reprieve from the Prods they saw their holy grail. Across the chasm was a sealed off tunnel that they believed would ultimately lead them out of the mines and into the Bonelands. But first they had to cross the chasm and find a way through those panels. That's when they heard the approaching shouts coming towards them. The Prods were catching up. Well that isn't very pretty is it? Last time we saw the chasm it looked like this (built in Making Mine Scenery Part III and Making Mine Scenery Part IV ). With the piece completed I then followed all of the painting steps in Making Mine Scenery Part I and Making Mine Scenery Part II . Those painting stages transformed that messy looking board section into what we see in the the next photo. That's more like it! I wanted the chasm to be an undetermined depth so I chose to paint it Citadel Chaos Black. I popped out the girders and drybrushed ...

Model's eye view of the panels I created to seal this opening. In Part V of the series we're going to focus a bit more on the details that will add atmosphere to these pink foam and play sand creations. I'm going to start with the piece I scratch built to seal off the "secret tunnel" I built into one of the board sections. In Making Mine Scenery Part IV I went through the step-by-step process of building the panels. Here is where I left off: The three panel "seal" scratch built in Part IV. Drybrushing Tin Bitz. Tell me what brand of paper towels I use from the photo and win my praise! I primed the panel piece with Chaos Black Spray and then gave it a heavy drybrush of Citadel Tin Bitz. The blister pack in the corner was a free model I got at AdeptiCon 2014. What do you think it is? I'm skipping steps here, but next I drybrushed over the Tin Bitz with Citadel Boltgun Metal (Lead Belcher I think its called now) and then again w...

The chasm taking shape. Today we're going to focus a bit more on the chasm board section. Last week I posted the above picture showing the pieces I was going to use for the incline. I actually opted to split the small connector piece in half and shape the "chasm end" some. The middle piece was split in two so they could be spread apart. The other half is sitting all the way to the left of the picture, on top of the black cardstock. The other weird offcut was to be used as well. Cardstock spread across the pink foam to create the incline. I spread the 3 pieces of foam out to create a more gradual transition, and then I glued down a piece of black cardstock across the 3 pieces. This created a nice shallow smooth incline. I had some offcut foam suitable for making some larger rocks so I shaped and glued those down as well. Finally, I laid down the two pieces of I-beam/girder, traced them with a pencil in the spot I wanted them, and then I cut insets into th...

Ari Gaylen - the Breaker daredevil 3D sculpt by Tim Barry Its been another exciting week of development in the world of Broken Contract. Prototype figures are now in the hands of the caster and we are now eagerly awaiting our very first master models. We also had a batch of 3D renders from Tim Barry that we had sent back for revision, and two of them came back finalized on Friday. Those have now been sent off to VisionProto for prototyping! The initial model range is really coming together. Last week, I posted the new background and art for Overseer Billins . John Gendall 's next project is actually the last essential piece of art for the initial cast of characters - Kollis, the Breaker Crew Leader. He has all of the references in hand, so hopefully he'll be done sometime this week. Officer Tulson - the Prod gunner 3D sculpt by Tim Barry A couple of days ago I showed a snapshot of a page from the rulebook . That same night Sam sent over a brand new mock-up Stat Card...

Abandoned iron mine pic I stole off of Google Images. Today I jumped around between 3 different projects relating to the iron mine scenery I'm working on. The afternoon began with some quick shaping of the other half of the chasm I was working on in Making Mine Scenery Part II . Since I already discuss the shaping process in detail, I'll just show you two quick shots, one of the pieces after shaping and then another of pieces being left to glue. Pretty dramatic stuff (actually its really not). Thanks to Edgar Allen Poe for the assist. More shaped pink foam waiting for glue. Luckily for my project Edgar Allan Poe was a prolific writer. I'm not sure where my bricks are. Which begs the question.. "How do you lose a brick?" So with the chasm section left to dry it was time to work on something else, so I dragged out the three original board sections from Making Mine Scenery Part I for some rough detailing. In the photo I started the article with yo...