Iron Chef: Guant's Lava Pits

[Saltor666]

Was there an exstension that I missed? I thought that the due date was the 20th.

[Shonuff]

I thought it was the 20th also.

Someone go to Gaunt's house and check his calendar and make sure he's on the right day.

I say we give him until Friday, and the poll goes up.

[sutterkane]

ok so its friday night at 11:45 pm and still no pic of gaunts finished lava pits... sounds like polls should go up....*cough Cough* Shonuff's gonna win*cough cough*

[omgitsduane]

Dude, head off to the doctors, thats a terrible cough!

[sutterkane]

what can i say?.... im a fan of shonuff .... ive watched him make scenery and he will just take a piece of foam core or styrene and 5 mins later...bam rocky wall or ruined building... ive tried making scenery...and i suck at it man... ill stick to making my 99% chaos space marines...who are still loyal to the emporer...aka Legion of the damned

[sutterkane]

and about the doctors.... i got an appointment monday...

[Hemogoblin]

Even though you might not (or might not have, depending on which friday they were talking about), I think you should finish this piece regardless.

and if you dont finish on time... *cough cough* GAUSS STORM! He used easier to find materials! *cough hack sputter*

[Guant]

WELL THEN I have to say Im sorry to everybody here for my sudden and unexplained peroid of not posting and nothingness. My computer decided to literally explode and contract all sorts of viruses about two weeks ago and its taken me some time to get everything fixed and back into working order. For the most part this consisted of me randomly deleting files and stopping .exe programs from running. And I guess it worked cause some time last night I regained control of the internet and of my USB ports. So I downloaded the pictures and wrote this up.

I feel that due to my lack of meeting the deadline(even though it really wasn't my fault) that the voting should only be between Shonuff and Guass being they meet all the requirements and deadlines.

So any way heres the final product.




To make lava look like that I painted it a dark dark red. On top of that I randomly splotted(no thats not a word) a watered down orange. Once everything had dried I highlighted some parts with a light yellow. Once the highlight was dry I made a wash of 1:1 water to dark red paint and drenched the damn thing in it. When that was dry I went over cetain parts with a drybrushing of orange and yellow. To make the sucker look wet (cause molten rock is to be considered 'wet') liberally apply a coat of GLOSS varnish over everything. This will make everything look awesome.



To finish up the forty some odd toothpicks I needed to use I made a sign. I got the decals from Warseer and tweaked them in photoshop. Yes thats right you can see Guant and Shonuff battle to the death in THE PIT for only $49.99 a ticket, all funds raised go to help save puppies from the likes of Chaos. BUY THEM NOW

I then glued toothpicks over the back in three layers for support and then made two triple layered legs fro the sign and up t over the entrance to the platform thing. For the actual platform I jsut painted it occordingly to how stuff like that should look, you know pipes made pf metal, lights and buttons red and green, ect.



And there you have it the end of yet another From Guants Workbench. Hope everyone learned something here, cause i know i did. Actually I learned two things
1) Viruses suck and make you miss deadlines

and

2)Hotglue is very very very hot


Guant

[omgitsduane]

DUDE!
I was totally not expecting that to come out so well, but just to let you know, you may get my vote this time over shonuff!

That lava looks friggin sweet and the whole set up has come together so nicely.

I don't know if its just how I imagine it, or whether lava really does it, but I thought it tended to glow yellow in the middle more, rather than on higher areas, if I make sense. being that only the edges have cooled down.

[Guant]

When I paint I tell the laws of reality to "SIT THE F$%K DOWN AND SHUT UP" But no your right lava tends to be a darker color around the edges but I didnt have any reference photos when I was painting this due to my lack of a computer so I did my best.