I’ve been slowly building a modular city board and building set, with some built and bought scatter terrain over a few years. I’ve almost finished building it, few rough edges, but have no clue on colours or painting. I’d like something simple, not too expensive to paint, but coherent and not too distracting when playing. (I have an airbrush) What opinions, suggestions, example images do you have for painting an infinity city board, and what are the things to watch out for? Images of a few of the buildings and panels below:
My suggestion would be to find a city scene in a movie or game you like and use that as inspiration. My own dark grey military base was mainly inspired from the opening scene of the movie The Rock for example so it doesn't even have to be sci-fi.
Nice idea. I’m maybe leaning toward Xandar from Guardians of the Galaxy, or anywhere in Mass Effect, for a ‘clean, utopia’ look. Hard to find daytime cyberpunk scenes that aren’t still dark, but that might be an option too for something more ‘used’
For scenery you can use masking to do some mass processing on specific areas. You can also use permanent acrylic markers to do weathering. Pigments can also be used to do quick shading or smudging. Otherwise in infinity scenery tutorials, I have this, maybe it could be helpful for ideas: Warsenal https://warsen.al/pages/tutorials Tom Shaddle http://tomschadleminiatures.blogspot.com/2015/11/warsenal-ord-buhkrep.html Tabletop artist Brutal Cities https://brutalcities.com/blogs/tabl...argaming-terrain-tutorial-without-an-airbrush
Brutal Cities (IIRC) mentioned that with airbrush you can do concrete by thinning paint a lot, so it creates a texture. Basically use "oops, something went wrong" as intentional helper. There is also the sponge method for general colors, and old toothbrush splatter for some fine random dots. For daytime and "happier", search for solarpunk instead of cyberpunk images. The idea leans optimistic and thus goes with brighter, lighter, even greener, palette.
Another technique i've seen used to give texture to MDF stuff is texture pastes As usual you can go with the commercial stuff (Vallejo or whatever) or just make it yourself mixing paint, fine sand and either PVA or acrylic medium (this also works for basing, don't pay for the overpriced GW pots). Also regarding pigments, i gotta gotta share this video on how to cheaply make them yourself
