How to Make Planets 2

I forgot ages ago to show the final result of my planets for Noble Armada (I'm working on the third edition currently)

The moon had a nice rough texture. A good dark grey base cost, followed by a number of lighter grey and white dry brushed highlights.

Habitable planets, need water (nice blue green oceans), and continents and land masses using browns, lighter orange tones for deserts, white for the polar regions, and green for rainforests etc. 

To start blues were used to give a feeling of strata of clouds.

The initial pass I wasn't too happy with. So more colour tones were added, and as you can see that gas giant is looking great.

Meanwhile, want to join the playtest?

On the Table

New week, new stuff!

The Li Halan fleet is almost complete for Noble Armada

A Khador Koldun Lord for Warmachine

Khador Kovink Joe and a few of my al-Malik ships for Noble Armada

Khador plastic Winter Guard

The table in all its glory.

How to Make Planets part 2

Nothing much to show here but the planets painted up. All that is needed is a layer of varnish to seal them and perhaps some clouds on the Earth like planet.

To finish them off I will be ordering some flyer stands, which I intend to use for some asteroids in future.

How to Make Planets part 1

So as part of my growing immersion into the Fading Suns setting, I have some fleets for Noble Armada on their way. These are ships from when Mongoose Publishing held the license for the IP for space battles. And FASA is of course now holders of that license, and of course I am writing for Fading Suns. Can you see why I am doing this.

So first up you are going to want to have some form of globe or half moons. I got polystyrene globes from the craft store, ranging from 2 inches across, to about 8 inches across. So that means I have a moon, a Earth like planet, and a gas giant. Now you could just use old cds, card, foam board etc for flat planet representations, or mould a planet using papier mache and some sort of bowl perhaps.

The other things you will need are something to be a spatula, skewers to hold your planets, and a textured paint. I'm using what is called a structure paint, or a silica gel. I use this for the bases on my wargaming figures. The bonus is it is what paint as a base. Which will make for a great base coat.

Once the texture is all over you need to give the planets some more definition. The moons has been given a stippled effect. The Earth like planet has been smoothed, as if plastering a wall. And the gas giant has been textured using a brush to given the hint of layers of clouds.