Back to props this week and the end is in sight. Well, it is for me since I've basically finished painting all of them but they'll be pushed out here in increasing velocity as we close out the year. Also! perusing the photos below, you might note a change. I've swapped the old charcoal grey low-contrast background for a brand new kind of shiny white one and I've started really learning how to use my camera after, I dunno, more than a decade of not doing that. I'm already a lot happier with the photos that are coming out of it and hope that I'll be able to dial it in more in the coming years.
First up we have two large map display things. I imagine this as a situation room kind of deal, like where the villain mastermind is giving his soliloquy over a map of the world. I wanted the desks to be kind of dingy because I imagined these as old tech and painted some texture on the displays with, er, paint. They look better in person, IMO, but I don't know when they'll ever be used. Also, they're woefully unbalanced and don't like to stand up.
Next up we have a couple pairs of additional computer terminals. I had delusions of grandeur where I was going to paint in a bunch of details on the screens but ended up not doing any of that (obviously). I also grunged these down like the map display things. Also, I added the two DnL cola bottles and then didn't really paint them. A lot of these guys were really hard to magnetize so many of them aren't. I'm going to not be happy with so I expect to be rage-gluing magnets to the bottom of these at some point.
I interpret the two guys on the left as old-school terminal-y guys and painted them thusly. Like a lot of these guys, they were badly base-coated with the airbrush, grunged down, and then badly detailed with brushes. The guys on the right are clearly globe displays and I figured they wanted to be holographic. The heavy-duty hydraulic tables they're on? I wasn't so sure on why they're necessary. I glued the globe-y guys to bases to make them more easily magnetized but I really don't know what the intent was. I probably could have done something with the seam in the terminal-y guys but clearly didn't.
These would be a pair of (seemingly) atomic-age TVs with weird wheeled feet. I'm immediately reminded of 70s era TVs and TV trays though I've never seen one with the
atomic whirl on the top but I'm not well versed in these things. I did the same scan line thing on the screens that I did with the large map display things but ultimately I don't think they look particularly good. Then again, I have no idea if/when I'd ever use them so there's that.
Last up we have a pair of vending machines. Here too I had delusions of grandeur of painting the product behind the glass and/or some kind of corporate logo but clearly I didn't do so. I do like these and we do occasionally have
Fizzy-Cheese or Space Coffee (TM) in play so out of the group of these, they're the most likely to get screen time but then again, we're good for maybe a couple sessions of Sci-Fi in a year.
2024 finished mini counter: 339/208
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