tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23355091106499169402024-03-06T12:01:36.108-08:00Indelible Ink StudioA.K.A. "The Devlan Mudbath" - Hobby Painting & CustomsCarminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-48979134326598666582021-02-09T06:12:00.002-08:002021-02-09T06:12:53.387-08:00We Print Miniatures - Wasteland Bounty Hunters & Competition...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmFaDuYwgnHmKzDiU2ZxGiAxUJNGnmAbiSRtHAn-JMaHcTHJGvurQrBtDnW936D7Z3fgqHgs6a1vkapO4k-G4-lx2syaLMBVhrOpaXCGHI3GzOY1kDFMGcNcK3NGHSkBKYxnMK8QakZz8/s2048/IMG_20210209_120316.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="2048" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmFaDuYwgnHmKzDiU2ZxGiAxUJNGnmAbiSRtHAn-JMaHcTHJGvurQrBtDnW936D7Z3fgqHgs6a1vkapO4k-G4-lx2syaLMBVhrOpaXCGHI3GzOY1kDFMGcNcK3NGHSkBKYxnMK8QakZz8/w640-h338/IMG_20210209_120316.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The gang's all here - Wasteland Bounty Hunters pose for a rare group photo on the outskirts of the sprawl</div><p>3D printing is probably rightly hailed as the next big thing in the hobby (and it probably already is, for all I know!), and we've all by now seen the images of the kind of things that can be downloaded in the form of STL files and run off on a printer that uses UV-sensitive resin. It's a brave new world, with so much wonder and promise in it.</p><p>But what if you don't own a 3D printer for whatever reason? Is there a viable alternative for getting your hands on this kind of thing? Of course there are more than a few companies springing up that offer to print minis for you or sell the ranges that they print on demand.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p><a href="https://weprintminiatures.com/">We Print Miniatures</a> are one of those companies, based in Harrogate and selling through their own site and an eBay store at the moment. I took the plunge a little before Xmas 2020 and ordered some minis from their Wasteland Bounty Hunters range. And when they arrived, I was more than a little impressed with the quality of the product when it was finally in my sweaty palms.<br /></p><p>Things only got better when I actually started painting them, as the details were crisper than most printed minis that I'd come across in the past. In addition the scale being closer to 32 than 28mm meant that the sculpts looked more imposing than the average mini too, inspiring me to go even further in terms of details and basing than I would otherwise have done.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6bgZYQKLrPM1iwWbBwp4zGpHgMkws7D7aSotNdRymMFtYCI9OAJ-E_g6-Lu5T9swuO99BYpZ8F4Ag9V7jU_1Tug9PHSk2jDJDUHJlvo4f536nUhTT2ANW5VxDUvxiWh3BBnFwncB5RIQ/s2552/Devil+Driver.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1208" data-original-width="2552" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6bgZYQKLrPM1iwWbBwp4zGpHgMkws7D7aSotNdRymMFtYCI9OAJ-E_g6-Lu5T9swuO99BYpZ8F4Ag9V7jU_1Tug9PHSk2jDJDUHJlvo4f536nUhTT2ANW5VxDUvxiWh3BBnFwncB5RIQ/w640-h302/Devil+Driver.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Devil Wheeler - sporting antlers and improvised armour, this guy dual-wields a pair of revolvers, using them to keep his head on his shoulders out in the wastelands.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHs9TwS7coVj8Wn4LEHj49RoUqzRuNmM3u-NULe-LfwQBN8syFfrpA231ChfoNA2v8z0fzIZQscocFSrutKYfgiXahD6USCKVBu98qJOhzCsEsEpbXNAjHkK0kv9HJciLKh5hFBpSC9NM/s2652/Bone+Merchant.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="2652" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHs9TwS7coVj8Wn4LEHj49RoUqzRuNmM3u-NULe-LfwQBN8syFfrpA231ChfoNA2v8z0fzIZQscocFSrutKYfgiXahD6USCKVBu98qJOhzCsEsEpbXNAjHkK0kv9HJciLKh5hFBpSC9NM/w640-h286/Bone+Merchant.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">CrowEye - a silent stalker in his plague-doctor's mask, CrowEye is a deadly shot with the antique rifle that he always carries with him.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgga8gJFBVl-EF8alkgyRrn0eUvb8xEIVfHo8l8SvZxmd7XZhzcLhin6dvwp1rbiRbCcRCuQPzdu0VKqyVXCd-Fodtupo1COpmE4okf3lWaALqNIUq5LcIYLVEzhNf7-TLK8jhSOgSdLpQ/s2551/Gerado.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1233" data-original-width="2551" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgga8gJFBVl-EF8alkgyRrn0eUvb8xEIVfHo8l8SvZxmd7XZhzcLhin6dvwp1rbiRbCcRCuQPzdu0VKqyVXCd-Fodtupo1COpmE4okf3lWaALqNIUq5LcIYLVEzhNf7-TLK8jhSOgSdLpQ/w640-h310/Gerado.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gerado - known to offer his quarry a swig of whiskey and the chance to come quietly, Gerado isn't known to make the same offer twice.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9T5DRGFEZ9JHk8nt2HlBvTmjtVNrBH7ap67Dx0cNmPQMEVEtqx_ixicGYyg3ta9rsqHThixtut92nJm0gz56RJFYOLLK7FUtukF1CN-r-ZM-CcXCQj91aohTgJzHgHiEOzkkOUChmU80/s2630/Kazumi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1196" data-original-width="2630" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9T5DRGFEZ9JHk8nt2HlBvTmjtVNrBH7ap67Dx0cNmPQMEVEtqx_ixicGYyg3ta9rsqHThixtut92nJm0gz56RJFYOLLK7FUtukF1CN-r-ZM-CcXCQj91aohTgJzHgHiEOzkkOUChmU80/w640-h292/Kazumi.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Kazumi - a street samurai wielding a deadly vibro-blade katana, Kazumi descends from the high-class stacks to hunt amongst the scum of the wasteland.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEt0zRrVCRL-9f1_qbmDVsuFNGOAZwHFsji9AwWWDlTtYWuOEdOU1nKxZ5D_h-qHTYJnGKrGOg6H8oSksSPevLxozS5A0k1C9WSh6xDxMb7PQtbzNIx6CbkRTlt9Qk1ryQ2QmPjqk0O2k/s2691/Kolotov.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1169" data-original-width="2691" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEt0zRrVCRL-9f1_qbmDVsuFNGOAZwHFsji9AwWWDlTtYWuOEdOU1nKxZ5D_h-qHTYJnGKrGOg6H8oSksSPevLxozS5A0k1C9WSh6xDxMb7PQtbzNIx6CbkRTlt9Qk1ryQ2QmPjqk0O2k/w640-h278/Kolotov.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Kolotov - known for hurling Molotov cocktails, no one knows if Kolotov is an actual veteran or else a thug dressed in scavenged gear.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomhVpFhGxVl-F1ft0jMebnVhtGcV65dLJweU8R9t7CL0B8vN4vOkczpr6rDO3NWnxaGAd_KDPH3yvwDlu8lA2kV_VDIMGHJeBMG-C26YuvONOXBcOdO2lnHoRoYDcVkGKZrWRNz_gaFg/s2540/Junk+Girl.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="2540" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomhVpFhGxVl-F1ft0jMebnVhtGcV65dLJweU8R9t7CL0B8vN4vOkczpr6rDO3NWnxaGAd_KDPH3yvwDlu8lA2kV_VDIMGHJeBMG-C26YuvONOXBcOdO2lnHoRoYDcVkGKZrWRNz_gaFg/w640-h312/Junk+Girl.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Junk Girl - an inhabitant of the junkyard, she can find a bounty as easily as root out salvage form the towering stacks of refuse.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWiMZkgLgeQrTNcTjlo9jgcdWl_f9rRiP_rJILaV-KKhPxu7hulPkV8OaZga1tNz1r7FjdOhpBnTfYJovso4CWkfZ_jPjBhn5kt7rLH12cNjzKYkdVQ0BjEQy6Aounn7UgCyu_BgquMuE/s2048/Octogrunge.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWiMZkgLgeQrTNcTjlo9jgcdWl_f9rRiP_rJILaV-KKhPxu7hulPkV8OaZga1tNz1r7FjdOhpBnTfYJovso4CWkfZ_jPjBhn5kt7rLH12cNjzKYkdVQ0BjEQy6Aounn7UgCyu_BgquMuE/w516-h640/Octogrunge.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Octogrunge - is he an alien, a mutant or a man in an elaborate mask? No one knows and he's not telling either...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSXpVGxPUJhFGqYi0DEKSRHy6ZKSjFCUNNZD4cq1zHW6zmaaDFjiElL-WazQMKmNIvGF3pHqmEigpf-4reCuC5jJW6ZGisv9seWCHPs0cvotw9_q8dcPTPCe7lCkLL4CeVld_zHJD-JlQ/s2636/Veira.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1193" data-original-width="2636" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSXpVGxPUJhFGqYi0DEKSRHy6ZKSjFCUNNZD4cq1zHW6zmaaDFjiElL-WazQMKmNIvGF3pHqmEigpf-4reCuC5jJW6ZGisv9seWCHPs0cvotw9_q8dcPTPCe7lCkLL4CeVld_zHJD-JlQ/w640-h290/Veira.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Viera - rather than being put out of a job by losing a leg, Viera got a replacement and then got right back on with the job.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFwZp2d1ffFE6rgMGSw3h68jlL4Hk98Ffr6ywqKi0gbuvPJOieBpCi7NrFHztL5JTFWL7_Uxm8nBA9-TuOnm_2ESGcvn-lMwsa4CBHKZtXUI1DtI5G6yzlEU5bFJTVPwSBzKbg2l953c/s2685/Rottenhorn.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1171" data-original-width="2685" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFwZp2d1ffFE6rgMGSw3h68jlL4Hk98Ffr6ywqKi0gbuvPJOieBpCi7NrFHztL5JTFWL7_Uxm8nBA9-TuOnm_2ESGcvn-lMwsa4CBHKZtXUI1DtI5G6yzlEU5bFJTVPwSBzKbg2l953c/w640-h280/Rottenhorn.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rottenhorn - wandering barefoot through the wasteland, Rottenhorn unnerves his quarry as much with his presence as his skills.</div><p>Starting to become somewhat addicted to the experience of painting them, I ordered more and sent some shots of the results to WPM. They seemed to like what they saw and offered me the chance to get my hands on some more freebies to paint (did I mention that they're a bunch of sweeties like that?). But the thought struck me that their generosity would be better shared with others in the hobby too.</p><p>I suggested that they send me some minis and I give them away to readers of my blog instead, and they thought that it was a pretty good idea. All of which lead to me getting sent a very generous box of minis, which I was amazed to find contained enough stuff for me to offer a first, second and third place prize.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZHXVv33Vex6mhijQ_vSr6YcmIpQIrqCNHV04Xk6btvWirQ6B7_3ytq6wz2dzrlFsH_pQV0AlL92I7Zghv12L2E-43ERjucBAID9NO_EXeSvkEHXoTXiIbpDWNDIa4i6fD21VpfJRqJ-c/s2048/IMG_20210209_121227.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1345" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZHXVv33Vex6mhijQ_vSr6YcmIpQIrqCNHV04Xk6btvWirQ6B7_3ytq6wz2dzrlFsH_pQV0AlL92I7Zghv12L2E-43ERjucBAID9NO_EXeSvkEHXoTXiIbpDWNDIa4i6fD21VpfJRqJ-c/s320/IMG_20210209_121227.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Third Prize - Devil Driver & Wandering Bard</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCkfw_W2YKqc_s1ZUXW1ga_wvjdrN2T8oU2Kp3TAoXf9Kx7sMF_Lcck42A7Fz9Lp7TyYSrLa6chT9_-kI6DqsXu_jJc0m8tPOyIYdAQXWQi3ejRGo5SQbGFF4zlqpIciJDmLi8ZJ7C-4/s2048/IMG_20210209_121157.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCkfw_W2YKqc_s1ZUXW1ga_wvjdrN2T8oU2Kp3TAoXf9Kx7sMF_Lcck42A7Fz9Lp7TyYSrLa6chT9_-kI6DqsXu_jJc0m8tPOyIYdAQXWQi3ejRGo5SQbGFF4zlqpIciJDmLi8ZJ7C-4/s320/IMG_20210209_121157.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Second Prize - Devil Driver, Gerado, CrowEye & Wandering Bard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt0Cpu-dEHyNLY673CJUeeeCa2Ox_Vc-2BE9xKmbEaNVuT5vHlaZnHsR9PQKmLsqjotah76S05hONCtCNV4CCR2iEEvUhzNH9kU-RVce6uvAH59HeJyMDt3XudxdIpuahYIXSG6zTCQFs/s2048/IMG_20210209_121051.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1270" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt0Cpu-dEHyNLY673CJUeeeCa2Ox_Vc-2BE9xKmbEaNVuT5vHlaZnHsR9PQKmLsqjotah76S05hONCtCNV4CCR2iEEvUhzNH9kU-RVce6uvAH59HeJyMDt3XudxdIpuahYIXSG6zTCQFs/s320/IMG_20210209_121051.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">First Prize - Devil Driver, Gerado, Croweye, Octogrunge, Junk Girl & Rottenhorn</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All you need to do is answer the following question:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What does the acronym "STL" stand for?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But before you just reel off "Standard Triangle Language" or "Standard Tessellation Language", I should say that I'm looking for humorous answers only, okay?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So see what you can come up with and post it in the comments section below, and I'll pick the three that make me chuckle the most and they'll receive a package containing some of these wonderful minis through the post (allowing for weather and pandemic-related issues, of course).</div></div>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-53705797538824173992021-01-30T06:33:00.004-08:002021-02-01T06:51:22.098-08:00Far Corfe: Battle Bus<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQEnYNXnMsb_mPFuAqB8owwocD1dk2X3bPLbVWNN2n30Nk8QFG2bIbXu0IvRYLoKI1uw68goasqg469VOee0Z8CGybzingV0yH4oLT4xREemoZ1PyifEizAhVGrJ6BsO8cU25gkFeqxIM/s2048/IMG_20210130_125539.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1375" data-original-width="2048" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQEnYNXnMsb_mPFuAqB8owwocD1dk2X3bPLbVWNN2n30Nk8QFG2bIbXu0IvRYLoKI1uw68goasqg469VOee0Z8CGybzingV0yH4oLT4xREemoZ1PyifEizAhVGrJ6BsO8cU25gkFeqxIM/w640-h430/IMG_20210130_125539.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Bring out your Remoaners!" - the call went out to the wasteland settlements, with no one knowung what it meant, save for it being related to Boareez the Dishevelled, a chieftan of the ancient, pre-apocalyptic Britons...</div><p>A little while back, a friend of mine showed me pictures of a model someone had made for Gaslands of the now infamous "Brexit Battle Bus". You know the one - it had a certain statement written on the side of it and sort of divided opinion right down the middle?</p><p>Well, he was adamant that I should make one in 28mm scale, and I agreed on the proviso that I could find a coach that would work in 1:43 scale, which I find works best with most companies miniatures and table-top terrain.</p><p>The problem is that coaches in that scale are both scarce and expensive if you're buying them in pristine condition. So I had to wait until one popped up on eBay that was cheap on account of being screwed up, but yet not too ruined for my purposes.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7n7rLmyO34nhzB6FcyKy8X3YfGPyeRrlhFOublOfCJLAl1KpSXXslUT3diAJfjJqdSpCjAUbp3lhAgTs1VCP7aDUw-q857hihltGnaBQGcxEIv6KiW-tWafuXH0B18EcEN_x4O5lU35c/s2048/IMG_20210128_141157.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1213" data-original-width="2048" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7n7rLmyO34nhzB6FcyKy8X3YfGPyeRrlhFOublOfCJLAl1KpSXXslUT3diAJfjJqdSpCjAUbp3lhAgTs1VCP7aDUw-q857hihltGnaBQGcxEIv6KiW-tWafuXH0B18EcEN_x4O5lU35c/w400-h238/IMG_20210128_141157.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Scraped and cleaned</div><p>The basic coach turned up missing a door and other small bits, none of which were a concern to me. And so it got a wash, the decals removed with lighter fluid and then a second more intense wash before it was time for turning the thing into something worthy of the wasteland highways.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoYDqeBP5Ma-WVPDWLNyidcv_DRJK8MUKlqFHvhRr_OAQtjiszslPZWtsiqQ-bQeoWiM0ZTUdw_tCCXXPM6YlOhU3mnRPqSPIhW2ZXE-C1ftm5jMJx3ri7cNu_UTYzJXH-x4Kg-PsxLA4/s2048/IMG_20210128_225410.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1381" data-original-width="2048" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoYDqeBP5Ma-WVPDWLNyidcv_DRJK8MUKlqFHvhRr_OAQtjiszslPZWtsiqQ-bQeoWiM0ZTUdw_tCCXXPM6YlOhU3mnRPqSPIhW2ZXE-C1ftm5jMJx3ri7cNu_UTYzJXH-x4Kg-PsxLA4/w400-h270/IMG_20210128_225410.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All white now...</div><p>I went into the build with only the vaguest idea of what I wanted the thing to look like, being more inspired by the parts that I was able to find in the bits box and where they seemed to fit. Once I was happy with the look, I gave it a cheap rattle-can prime with black and then a heavy zenithal white.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK46_ic6faDXnkMJjenrDhVO-V2A2o7anjlhCuTuniGuZiLxnf_yZtalAg0SmaBIbnvMhnLk8KHwNjhs_ey0EjnAylzywCaMk6jBNu2pK-srMSDuSDXiDhPiAiq4tOrLvwqSKXb-7c9sg/s2048/IMG_20210129_113455.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1480" data-original-width="2048" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK46_ic6faDXnkMJjenrDhVO-V2A2o7anjlhCuTuniGuZiLxnf_yZtalAg0SmaBIbnvMhnLk8KHwNjhs_ey0EjnAylzywCaMk6jBNu2pK-srMSDuSDXiDhPiAiq4tOrLvwqSKXb-7c9sg/w400-h289/IMG_20210129_113455.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Red and blotchy, like a politician's complexion...</div><p>All it took was a couple of coats of red acrylic craft paint to get the basic colour down, and then a tour around the bus with other colours to define the details a little better. Being rough at this stage helped to add to the ruined feel of the bus, and I knew that there was some heavy weathering and washing to come in the next stages.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJr7Bv71ZllwPjgoaZ7nZQJS5YjsIkv8YKnvlnunCLq1kSYM6aiV2Q2wHVlfVthxGsHjn3WJ1_HQgF9CGifD4b459xo3l1pFjjbrOxPnB8mDFUt9s_JnyhPe1zilZv8KWQVbefxzLSPMM/s2048/IMG_20210129_234532.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1161" data-original-width="2048" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJr7Bv71ZllwPjgoaZ7nZQJS5YjsIkv8YKnvlnunCLq1kSYM6aiV2Q2wHVlfVthxGsHjn3WJ1_HQgF9CGifD4b459xo3l1pFjjbrOxPnB8mDFUt9s_JnyhPe1zilZv8KWQVbefxzLSPMM/w400-h226/IMG_20210129_234532.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Politics, Cthulu Mythos style</div><p>I needed something to write on the side of the bus, but recreating the original slogan seemed to be pretty unimaginative and likely to fly up the arses of people that were on both sides of the Brexit debate, and so I settled on something more in keeping with the post-apocalyptic style of the thing:</p><p style="text-align: center;">"We sacrifice 350 million souls to Cthulu every day. Why not Ai! Shub Niggurath instead?"</p><p style="text-align: left;">For the record, this is supposed to be a bit of fun - not a political statement!</p><p style="text-align: left;">I finished the bus off by weathering it with a dark brown and then a metallic, followed by washing with diluted brown and black acrylic paints and a final dry-brushing with an ivory to bring out the finer details and give the impression of dust.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Let me know what you think, either here or on social media.</p><p></p>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-67643632013279767852021-01-03T08:44:00.000-08:002021-01-03T08:44:14.815-08:00Hobby Quickie - Ford Capri & Armed Bastards...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4jteojHcjl_mc8daWIULdoiiD5Fli1M9bevO7zsxyaJ4_LZ1fndALiwiJRR_DJYW9Ew70ZXbgqGxGrlI_FLzjM8FL1iiUeIjiDaquM5JQwVOmBFDWCbAS5sR1X0n6CQpq09h7xSVV9T8/s2048/IMG_20210103_162027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1299" data-original-width="2048" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4jteojHcjl_mc8daWIULdoiiD5Fli1M9bevO7zsxyaJ4_LZ1fndALiwiJRR_DJYW9Ew70ZXbgqGxGrlI_FLzjM8FL1iiUeIjiDaquM5JQwVOmBFDWCbAS5sR1X0n6CQpq09h7xSVV9T8/w640-h406/IMG_20210103_162027.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's not an Audi Quatro, it's something a little better...</div><p></p><p>No time for a long blog entry this weekend, so I just took a moment to grab one of the cars and a couple of the minis that I've been painting over the dead period between Xmas and New Year to throw together a photo opportunity.</p><p>Most people seem to fall for the allure of the Audi Quatro from this period, but as I came to cars from the perspective of American muscle, rather than 80's police dramas in the UK, I'm more into this kind of thing - plus, my old man drove one of these back in the day.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p>Hopefully I'll be back with something more substantial in the next week or so.</p><p>See you then.</p>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-91093392154195885602020-12-26T07:26:00.000-08:002020-12-26T07:26:21.203-08:00Artel W: Hydrophilia - Syndicate "Streets on Fire"<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1G0rOjl74zuqXnDExM61WFXyw56qqT2rfV7h4eYDLWB9tnO0KzpxtbrSd3ivMhdMkVsRaI1NAX4HLx9LsNsZ2qlFmkoKi0gDK1-c4PCdY8q7CRv_kVKfsEHk5YaDYoOiT1zO69onNkgM/s2048/IMG_20201226_124439.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="2048" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1G0rOjl74zuqXnDExM61WFXyw56qqT2rfV7h4eYDLWB9tnO0KzpxtbrSd3ivMhdMkVsRaI1NAX4HLx9LsNsZ2qlFmkoKi0gDK1-c4PCdY8q7CRv_kVKfsEHk5YaDYoOiT1zO69onNkgM/w640-h362/IMG_20201226_124439.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Closing time was always colourful and exciting in the Neon District of Downtown Far Corfe...</div><p></p><p>Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk - that's all I seem to be interested in doing at the moment.</p><p><a href="https://artelw.com/" target="_blank">Artel W</a> are one of those companies that just seem to be addictive, like once you see one of their miniatures that catches the eye, there's at least a dozen more that instantly become something that you just have to get your hands on.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a>The Syndicate faction in their Hydrophilia skirmish game seems to have had that effect on me, and I was lucky enough to bag the Streets on Fire box set as an Xmas gift, which was rather naughtily opened, assembled and painted a couple of days before the 25th arrived...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg89jGz0bs4wRmtsism82d5U0r_ymtAFPtAwgJqRzadHYIWDCIlMa4Urojgs_erHdOgFIZGPhjAmOekAFbW37iCOLlbmREsHbHxCgaNwTqK7h2h0njMAKneqiLygBvLXK-KBFo5zo_L4p0/s1801/IMG_20201214_153040.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="1801" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg89jGz0bs4wRmtsism82d5U0r_ymtAFPtAwgJqRzadHYIWDCIlMa4Urojgs_erHdOgFIZGPhjAmOekAFbW37iCOLlbmREsHbHxCgaNwTqK7h2h0njMAKneqiLygBvLXK-KBFo5zo_L4p0/s320/IMG_20201214_153040.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I fell in love with a video nasty...</div><p>The first thing that hits you about the box is the presentation, and the fact that the thing looks just like an aged VHS tape from the 1980's. In fact, if you send most people a shot of it, that's just what they'll assume it is - but only the Millennials that you know will feel the need to assure you they actually know what a VHS tape is!</p><p>You get eight minis for your money, as well as all the cards and stuff you need to play them in the actual game, three punks, three civilian rioters, a rabble-rouser who serves as a sort of leader and a Hydroid, that I assume is a synthetic/android unique to the setting in which the game takes place (I haven't read up on the rules yet).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzprezvsf7Gf0D-Ay9HoAGovSGJX04MuSDA_8rpqZhLRaX4NWanZNmcE1UEXeTcKbg6KlnqS-gyySz0mkB46pvQzECBV9GQk2c3MqvJi8eb3LEJLiG4JKX8wBzBK6EQZEFckBSdWpO9_A/s1853/IMG_20201226_123536.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1853" data-original-width="1768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzprezvsf7Gf0D-Ay9HoAGovSGJX04MuSDA_8rpqZhLRaX4NWanZNmcE1UEXeTcKbg6KlnqS-gyySz0mkB46pvQzECBV9GQk2c3MqvJi8eb3LEJLiG4JKX8wBzBK6EQZEFckBSdWpO9_A/s320/IMG_20201226_123536.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Never mind the bollocks...</div><p>The punks were one of the first things that attracted me to the box, as they're an unusually good combination of Cyberpunk aesthetic and actual observation of the real sub-culture that's still out there, as strong and vibrant as ever.</p><p>I always like to take the chance with minis like this to reflect actual punks that I've known over the years and put in little things like brick-red leather on some of their footwear - the second most popular choice when opting for Doc Martens, but woefully under represented in minis that try to portray punks and skins.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLytBC5_ObexNg7ARv9rrgfF5MExqGXXOhNEsNUzZd96CLG86HU5b0Bep_GmUAbtHA8BY3kMuSFPn9hLqd5wdVMBZXcXEhM3FSSDt193lgrfPOt0pvxY6GDkEUY0QBWidcCxC-0m7B3Z8/s1952/IMG_20201226_123638.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1952" data-original-width="1698" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLytBC5_ObexNg7ARv9rrgfF5MExqGXXOhNEsNUzZd96CLG86HU5b0Bep_GmUAbtHA8BY3kMuSFPn9hLqd5wdVMBZXcXEhM3FSSDt193lgrfPOt0pvxY6GDkEUY0QBWidcCxC-0m7B3Z8/s320/IMG_20201226_123638.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me...</div><p>The rioters are a nice mixture of idealistic youth toting placards and those who look more like they're just along for the promise of some bovver. I guess the fact that they come across a little more Gropnik then Chav comes down to the fact that they were designed and sculpted in Russia!</p><p>My favourite is the sign-wielding female in the middle here, who's dress seems to be inspired by skinheads of her gender, despite the fact that she can clearly be seen to have a full head of hair, rather than the more appropriate fringe and sideburns of the look.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqc_TIm_kK0AFOpH12OCZQ6bdh7GxKpmsF2iF0aqLnYzZn2m1dgYzvUOamv-Ps1AynGnzjbzteHX2pgLBG0pwNpXvX0p3NIzj8gyD2tjuVnR3jQJfBgxHvm-9KPepYMuQ4ubRnQyPOnGY/s1379/IMG_20201226_123716.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="965" data-original-width="1379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqc_TIm_kK0AFOpH12OCZQ6bdh7GxKpmsF2iF0aqLnYzZn2m1dgYzvUOamv-Ps1AynGnzjbzteHX2pgLBG0pwNpXvX0p3NIzj8gyD2tjuVnR3jQJfBgxHvm-9KPepYMuQ4ubRnQyPOnGY/s320/IMG_20201226_123716.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bring on the bling...</div><p>The agitator guy was a sheer joy to paint, what with his pompadour, shell-suit and boombox - he's almost more 1980's than the decade itself ever was, referencing countless trends, films and icons of the era.</p><p>The fluff for the mini describes him as being more of a rallying point for his faction and not very good in actual combat, and so it seemed appropriate to give him a silvery chrome look to his rather impressive firearm, in the hope that it would somehow make up for this lack of genuine skill.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0rtH9kruxkxS6bonJbqGASw7UpCaK_4yZ0SNtjqLB9Zhvv7k9CDzPFSDUJZQdsuTUU3i6rwjbpXEWLuITnclxNB2Ja6laT7vLNTXH3SSMbF1bX6OtSTNF2XxIOCW7ddHTf900osbKl1I/s1485/IMG_20201226_123743.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="1485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0rtH9kruxkxS6bonJbqGASw7UpCaK_4yZ0SNtjqLB9Zhvv7k9CDzPFSDUJZQdsuTUU3i6rwjbpXEWLuITnclxNB2Ja6laT7vLNTXH3SSMbF1bX6OtSTNF2XxIOCW7ddHTf900osbKl1I/s320/IMG_20201226_123743.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Madame Cold-Thighs will see you now...</div><p>The Hydroid was the mini that took me the longest to paint and held my interest the least, not because it's any less of a great sculpt than the others, but more because of the fact that it seemed to the the one that was most at odds with the rest of the set.</p><p>I guess that's just because I was drawn to this box wanting punks and rioters, not sinister android assassins.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4HPFVM_VPHIR6W_3i1-iiY_iLlQ1WnkyoSGdAuGl8edf9Ol95xSpRxs__HrAPFuyHzO288Ko_E2_r9QYVXg2rHjpsDH9aFTMQq5fzaPigS_06_nHPn4r7Gi5hyC1Dyc5CUv_a0phi8l0/s2048/IMG_20201226_123446.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1385" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4HPFVM_VPHIR6W_3i1-iiY_iLlQ1WnkyoSGdAuGl8edf9Ol95xSpRxs__HrAPFuyHzO288Ko_E2_r9QYVXg2rHjpsDH9aFTMQq5fzaPigS_06_nHPn4r7Gi5hyC1Dyc5CUv_a0phi8l0/s320/IMG_20201226_123446.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The gang's all here...</div><p>This ain't no cheap set of minis, checking in at around £40.00 before you take the shipping into account, but as always with Artel W, the product that you end up with is well worth the price-tag. The fact that they're resin makes them a little more fragile when it comes to the thin and protruding parts, despite the fact that they're marketed as minis for the rough and tumble of table-top games.</p><p>I'm hoping to get my hands on the other Syndicate box some time in the new year, so watch this space.</p><p>As always, let me know what you think, either here or on social media.</p>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-58990779495725894232020-12-21T06:15:00.002-08:002020-12-21T06:15:28.952-08:00Trash Terrain: GENCORP Tower<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIJBA_6payf8W5bQgZCRN_KlaHOFHG2HkJLRevOqh7YO7imG6UNtlXP2TiDoHlsKG5h2gyK37-eAkxj63dmbQLVwgX7ggve_Lr9_49Qnqh2zD6ANyCgoiZUAvQKJtv2e1O_0KGPcbAJh0/s2508/IMG_20201221_110119.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIJBA_6payf8W5bQgZCRN_KlaHOFHG2HkJLRevOqh7YO7imG6UNtlXP2TiDoHlsKG5h2gyK37-eAkxj63dmbQLVwgX7ggve_Lr9_49Qnqh2zD6ANyCgoiZUAvQKJtv2e1O_0KGPcbAJh0/w640-h320/IMG_20201221_110119.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Legitimate businessman, pillar of the community and all-round swell guy Bugsy Capone indulges the local media while his small and discreet cadre of bodyguards stand watch...</div><p></p><p>Everything and everyone seems to be about Cyberpunk at the moment, and I'm no exception, loving the combination of neon glare, shiny chrome cybernetics and grimy cityscapes for it all to play out against. There's also some amazing MDF terrain out there that adds a wonderful Brutalist aspect to the whole scene too and the mere sight of it makes my palms go sweaty.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a>But that would mean shelling out money, and I'm a notorious tight-arse, so I decided to make something in the same spirit myeslf, a grim, towering centrepiece for a skirmish game where my punks and corporate suits can shoot it out over data. tech or whatever.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwuiJRrCOXxL5Y9_l-npJ1LMrCrP7tUzgGG_L4klnyZLh-N5JY2deNHasjvhyy9OWOKQIfw0Rn-oEXAykoqsdShyphenhyphenHbJkqt2BIfuUCJq2yrOKrc7TfHUDSYeykA5tphojzUq4fu3vWiUC4/s2508/IMG_20201003_181332.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="1254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwuiJRrCOXxL5Y9_l-npJ1LMrCrP7tUzgGG_L4klnyZLh-N5JY2deNHasjvhyy9OWOKQIfw0Rn-oEXAykoqsdShyphenhyphenHbJkqt2BIfuUCJq2yrOKrc7TfHUDSYeykA5tphojzUq4fu3vWiUC4/s320/IMG_20201003_181332.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span>I started, as I normally do, with only a general idea of where I was going, making a tower out of two smaller boxes and using a larger one for the base and foot print of the building. I clad the tower in thin card and used cable ties to mark out the floors, then edged it with more card. </span>I had a MDF kit that contained a fire escape, water-tower and electrical box, and I used these to furnish the roof and the rear of the tower.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRuB8_9XIgbjbQWbphIxokIBcEQjA_SlyrgTcwSmCxWfTeKhFMptHAHSJgn7-mwGxRPt_6ORE83nXRebtIiWYaFg4UfOwTwG1FtUo9FPi8Rq456FYNVB21ywfc0-BYKFn85L_jkq8kCcs/s2048/IMG_20201023_223920.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1202" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRuB8_9XIgbjbQWbphIxokIBcEQjA_SlyrgTcwSmCxWfTeKhFMptHAHSJgn7-mwGxRPt_6ORE83nXRebtIiWYaFg4UfOwTwG1FtUo9FPi8Rq456FYNVB21ywfc0-BYKFn85L_jkq8kCcs/s320/IMG_20201023_223920.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhve4Aa8Bs3PfFMRpyQAEBNqwOuzMq4AkutwRsiM1k1DLNBo3C81UlnjvDc0DAVAIPynBFGw2RcaEyeQBaaZV-YWjRBMZoS581rG_Pb79Y390gtyrIYWZ2RAUSvsIbpYxTmQEqrw9SoE_4/s2048/IMG_20201023_223905.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhve4Aa8Bs3PfFMRpyQAEBNqwOuzMq4AkutwRsiM1k1DLNBo3C81UlnjvDc0DAVAIPynBFGw2RcaEyeQBaaZV-YWjRBMZoS581rG_Pb79Y390gtyrIYWZ2RAUSvsIbpYxTmQEqrw9SoE_4/s320/IMG_20201023_223905.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>As always, I wanted all sides of the build to have some form of feature and interest, with the one face being a more prestigious street-facing facade and the other a pretty grimy loading bay. I made the cladding from thicker card and the frames of the doors from sprues, with some bits from the Maelstrom's Edge terrain sprue.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5QD6kQ7TI5JkMvIa2WWPS5PV9mq9444W-26XdmiGbIpTQxISFoTxpDOm31nmNhHzJHcKQ447ikONIQPS-B3U-X4VXtR9Lvl2LxqcIDOI8ATB3WKf5w47JHLwOC-yybK0nKs0-LptJf4Y/s2508/IMG_20201217_124016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="1254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5QD6kQ7TI5JkMvIa2WWPS5PV9mq9444W-26XdmiGbIpTQxISFoTxpDOm31nmNhHzJHcKQ447ikONIQPS-B3U-X4VXtR9Lvl2LxqcIDOI8ATB3WKf5w47JHLwOC-yybK0nKs0-LptJf4Y/s320/IMG_20201217_124016.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCu_ENHYWY53GgGOiNj0kN-Dl2uf5yauiPEKI1_VWVOppXYw-wMNbOZuhAXnMynVsYXEdmHFapzczwG_J73HMCfb8uol4gQ2tMY-bse63BR7A4weWWotpXcXInjC5ikDQo3NVeBdWgmdg/s2508/IMG_20201217_124032.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="1254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCu_ENHYWY53GgGOiNj0kN-Dl2uf5yauiPEKI1_VWVOppXYw-wMNbOZuhAXnMynVsYXEdmHFapzczwG_J73HMCfb8uol4gQ2tMY-bse63BR7A4weWWotpXcXInjC5ikDQo3NVeBdWgmdg/s320/IMG_20201217_124032.jpg" /></a></div><p>I then added more details to flesh out the various areas of the build and make them more attractive to the eye, gubbins and the like for the rear to make it look functional and fugly, then a nice sign and lighting for the front so that it gave the impression of a respectable corporate image.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Ar9QG6zTv2e10L3yo7QSNwohA8X0_3YHzAMKyoiPUExLeSjDT_8YZUgfy3LxF-pQgbg5nhyi0l_M9YggGxA0u4SU47lZ0w7lodxNNgB_GpIpKzKt7JrsRONcijhJAR7WAMSam5w3zr0/s2508/IMG_20201221_104751.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="1254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Ar9QG6zTv2e10L3yo7QSNwohA8X0_3YHzAMKyoiPUExLeSjDT_8YZUgfy3LxF-pQgbg5nhyi0l_M9YggGxA0u4SU47lZ0w7lodxNNgB_GpIpKzKt7JrsRONcijhJAR7WAMSam5w3zr0/s320/IMG_20201221_104751.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUCJB6ivIlemPBf8WuxFAySrgt8LK2H0zbpnBroQXTm3Ca9_crDQ3yNgMcYddbBoLKcrtb9AnJUp34YqhtJiNJfXBSRAhudEloRPJCDLz-h6C-MMou-8H-uuR1-DS7nOM9L0MDEAU6-rI/s2508/IMG_20201221_104806.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="1254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUCJB6ivIlemPBf8WuxFAySrgt8LK2H0zbpnBroQXTm3Ca9_crDQ3yNgMcYddbBoLKcrtb9AnJUp34YqhtJiNJfXBSRAhudEloRPJCDLz-h6C-MMou-8H-uuR1-DS7nOM9L0MDEAU6-rI/s320/IMG_20201221_104806.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ThUF0kxFk14eYN282_BY5P8PiESdDBCJREfJAUdGGe7jNucZv1MxYdugSTDkTrxpJrMFyFseR5_pouA6exZQ3wUyHUPbPAjqUWIiQ9Gb0YWQCq2iiciF_CAkas7Sh7NBtrMr5hxogw0/s2508/IMG_20201221_104843.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="1254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ThUF0kxFk14eYN282_BY5P8PiESdDBCJREfJAUdGGe7jNucZv1MxYdugSTDkTrxpJrMFyFseR5_pouA6exZQ3wUyHUPbPAjqUWIiQ9Gb0YWQCq2iiciF_CAkas7Sh7NBtrMr5hxogw0/s320/IMG_20201221_104843.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBH4dJr36qNcz0iT6UfPDK9IE0X0ykcAz302Pm_dGZDiP2rW8KJrgn6Q2BBSb-qlHcPj0wUvMWhCkAIQLYtEBtsTe3sm6GeAEMxeyD8luJIGZhPOsWuWGWMhjWXWygjn0gM9lCVK8n2tk/s2508/IMG_20201221_111848.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="1254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBH4dJr36qNcz0iT6UfPDK9IE0X0ykcAz302Pm_dGZDiP2rW8KJrgn6Q2BBSb-qlHcPj0wUvMWhCkAIQLYtEBtsTe3sm6GeAEMxeyD8luJIGZhPOsWuWGWMhjWXWygjn0gM9lCVK8n2tk/s320/IMG_20201221_111848.jpg" /></a></div><p>I sealed the entire thing with Mod Podge, gave it a coat of texture paint where I wanted to give the impression of poured concrete, then primed and highlighted it with black, grey and then white rattle-cans. I picked out the areas of detail using a combination of craft paints and emulsion samples, only stepping up to model paints where more detail was needed. Last of all it got a series of washed using watered-down black and burnt umber acrylic paints, adding multiple layers in the places where the most grime would have accumulated.</p><p>As usual, let me know what you think here or on social media.</p>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-66022726259599209812020-12-08T05:33:00.000-08:002020-12-08T05:33:16.581-08:00Trash Terrain: Spaceport Landing Pad<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjME9Zt2c9Zb0u7LSD07Dif1JJXFgoFsDUKI4mFaq2FaDWy0HtqghSk789h94gZMklSaLJW4DIYsU-rAXqigm-Smq4__xAhMnRhUcKhcfvWd0O0Oscb359KKIGettnXQc0kNhodwpqCAmg/s2512/IMG_20201208_121157.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1252" data-original-width="2512" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjME9Zt2c9Zb0u7LSD07Dif1JJXFgoFsDUKI4mFaq2FaDWy0HtqghSk789h94gZMklSaLJW4DIYsU-rAXqigm-Smq4__xAhMnRhUcKhcfvWd0O0Oscb359KKIGettnXQc0kNhodwpqCAmg/w640-h318/IMG_20201208_121157.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Agents of a Rogue Trader rendevous with a pilot returning from an advance scouting mission atop a remote landing pad...</div><br /> A couple of months ago, my neighbour (who keeps on seeing my various projects being put out to dry in our shared back yard) asked me if I could use a circular metal tray that had been inside of his cooker and was now destined for the bin. I immediately thought of the landing pads that I had seen on sale from various companies and for various different prices, and wondered if it could be the basis of something similar.<p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p>I sawed off the feet on the three legs so that I could stick some medicine bottle caps onto them to serve as something more stable and sci-fi in appearance. I might have thought about using some kind of plastic or MDF for the basic platfrom, but the size of it meant that cardboard was the most effective and easily available material on hand.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ilwNVpQoqBOXKfvZsfVFvz8GPQif83ZV_moaw3oFn4_EZ1dQmqJiksSTGJ5dtl5qj4zmGEVWVM8ej7ZmBF5ncT5N8pgt67F1YBqHgPNCm2CNUaINKXAxojJ-ezVClbzpz0TdbSM74Jk/s2048/IMG_20201205_161412.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1409" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ilwNVpQoqBOXKfvZsfVFvz8GPQif83ZV_moaw3oFn4_EZ1dQmqJiksSTGJ5dtl5qj4zmGEVWVM8ej7ZmBF5ncT5N8pgt67F1YBqHgPNCm2CNUaINKXAxojJ-ezVClbzpz0TdbSM74Jk/s320/IMG_20201205_161412.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAJjrIFeqeVwq9KTLFfGoMR95y2hRjhllrcoRfsl-X8IF1e0SPXB6UlL1F5i-vCLo2B1Pk8Fm2wctsk38gSb1xXQ1BwKPNv3Ym97q-yYbgGM_vTcElZ8Svw8RowkAglHLrcIdGrfjP4KU/s2048/IMG_20201205_161429.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1420" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAJjrIFeqeVwq9KTLFfGoMR95y2hRjhllrcoRfsl-X8IF1e0SPXB6UlL1F5i-vCLo2B1Pk8Fm2wctsk38gSb1xXQ1BwKPNv3Ym97q-yYbgGM_vTcElZ8Svw8RowkAglHLrcIdGrfjP4KU/s320/IMG_20201205_161429.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I decided that an octagonal platform would look better than a circular one, and so that's the shape that ended up getting glued to the frame. As you can imagine, hot glue was really the only option that I could use to stick the whole lot together, but also meant that things progressed far more quickly than they would have using PVA.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh42uJStZYleiwn_Bk_P6ZUAacR3dZ7A-HnFmvHCZ-WLg9ZKQ-ChDg89_wkiCZl3ATZiCV1egOQ-twRSzuBF_LnNVliW-Bstrp_A8FWGybPA_FycOoPjFRaI-5_DlL5CQ8tlpJqm9n72hU/s2048/IMG_20201205_164604.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1292" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh42uJStZYleiwn_Bk_P6ZUAacR3dZ7A-HnFmvHCZ-WLg9ZKQ-ChDg89_wkiCZl3ATZiCV1egOQ-twRSzuBF_LnNVliW-Bstrp_A8FWGybPA_FycOoPjFRaI-5_DlL5CQ8tlpJqm9n72hU/s320/IMG_20201205_164604.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9_8oFq9bPF5CRpVKZhQEAyo3LQsnyZFtx5jtfYcjlYXuyXHBnTg1lxweVlQLIotYmR4EK6wQ67ZmgksbOlNuHfpka3hGDA31Yk6ih33hPTyfQgd3LKUPcZpkJg_bqS4lr2-kIAI0uTSs/s2048/IMG_20201205_232317.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1473" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9_8oFq9bPF5CRpVKZhQEAyo3LQsnyZFtx5jtfYcjlYXuyXHBnTg1lxweVlQLIotYmR4EK6wQ67ZmgksbOlNuHfpka3hGDA31Yk6ih33hPTyfQgd3LKUPcZpkJg_bqS4lr2-kIAI0uTSs/s320/IMG_20201205_232317.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I added edging made of the same cardboard as the platform and then a landing pattern in the middle of thinner card so that it would be raised once the whole thing was finished. Self-adhesive beads from a craft shop and a couple of bottle caps were next to act as lighting beacons, then a couple of ladders attached to two of the legs for access to the platform itself.<br /><br />I sealed the cardboard with Mod Podge, painted the apron of the platform with texture paint and followed this with a coat of black primer, then grey and white dustings from an angle above. Then it was time to get into weathering, washing and picking out the smaller details.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG527kO9BHhb5XqJ-AhhfzF1iWAo2SyAiydTwUmoMkUJOgC7agb_KX0yeb9ixuBecqVUshMu-cFssXgRNq315GNm0Y1cN3W-uDWvuLpNrSNzIJaI-oWGqG5AwX6uc44YbydavY32opgv8/s2048/IMG_20201206_121812.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1284" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG527kO9BHhb5XqJ-AhhfzF1iWAo2SyAiydTwUmoMkUJOgC7agb_KX0yeb9ixuBecqVUshMu-cFssXgRNq315GNm0Y1cN3W-uDWvuLpNrSNzIJaI-oWGqG5AwX6uc44YbydavY32opgv8/s320/IMG_20201206_121812.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR3VKEcrEQ0nrXA-L4-Z1GKhUCZ0zcMcPDi_iw79diMT_8sg1D-rAEd6gX9AkqWonXiCZcGtJUnAJeLpBja94gTYQtCbo0VX1lOXj2gRWHqJII48YN73mRmJLfuJkT2An6NvnsatXW9Rw/s2048/IMG_20201206_182818.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1226" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR3VKEcrEQ0nrXA-L4-Z1GKhUCZ0zcMcPDi_iw79diMT_8sg1D-rAEd6gX9AkqWonXiCZcGtJUnAJeLpBja94gTYQtCbo0VX1lOXj2gRWHqJII48YN73mRmJLfuJkT2An6NvnsatXW9Rw/s320/IMG_20201206_182818.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I mostly used Vallejo paints for the next stage, Desert Yellow for the landing pattern, Bright Yellow for the beads, German Field Grey for the feet and ladders, then finally Ivory for the edging and four larger beacons, followed by sponge weathering on both of these using German Camo Brown.</p><p>Everything then got a heavy wash with Black and Burnt Umber craft paints, water and washing-up liquid, to simulate grime and stains, all the nasty stuff that must accumulate from take-off and landing, as well as liquids dripping from poorly-maintained craft too.</p><p>Last of all, I came back in to pick out the tops of the larger beacons with White and then Aethermatic Blue Citadel Contrast Paint, which helped to give the impression of a weird, lambent glow. In reality, I have no idea if these are supposed to be lights or power relays of some kind, as I just wanted them to look sci-fi and cool in nature.</p><p>And there you have it, a piece of terrain that cost no more than the materials needed to assemble and paint it. I'll probably build some kind of ramp or cargo elevator to go with it at a random point in the future, but that's a project for another day.</p><p>As always, let me know what you think, either here or on social media.</p>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-34235340954146854502020-11-30T05:19:00.002-08:002020-11-30T05:19:28.491-08:00Far Corfe: Marines Penitent<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioLwMHo0fSspQF-YQ4ekOqSpYIJDxdydtH2AkM0cbWUh3Dwqe7VpuzKU2KFxSfWj6kvFagW-CmcGEiuYO4GfQZM9Wv_mu6oIB0_5CXI9A7boEQg3_YYb5KTyYavDevfQsSYXFHgYvxU8w/s2508/IMG_20201130_112106.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioLwMHo0fSspQF-YQ4ekOqSpYIJDxdydtH2AkM0cbWUh3Dwqe7VpuzKU2KFxSfWj6kvFagW-CmcGEiuYO4GfQZM9Wv_mu6oIB0_5CXI9A7boEQg3_YYb5KTyYavDevfQsSYXFHgYvxU8w/w640-h320/IMG_20201130_112106.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A squad of Marines Penitent shows no qualms when it comes to using extreme force to suppress civil unrest and gang violence in Far Corfe...</div><p></p><p>Everyone in the hobby that's flirted with GW has gone through their Space Marine phase, and some people never come out of it. But I thought I'd well and truly gotten over mine a couple of years back when I started to be more interested in smaller and more grimy areas of the Grimdark. But the exception seems to be old-school Marines, as there's just something so wonky and charming about them when compared t something like a modern Primaris. So when the chance to get my hands on an entirely new sculpt came along, I was champing at the bit to put my name down. </p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcXRQgv7KBDOF9Bk2xPayRRCYlKX_28-WiqLXdcuY08jqsf-nlmf9TVifGtnV1Y_1rKMVeE2_EEfAH6YsLqZz3j0YlLo9RrafDIQXTZPGrvbIe4slUPaMD8rRcGsAhs4ggM9PgXs4eUX0/s700/123948565_402772087403585_5808951850130033401_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="493" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcXRQgv7KBDOF9Bk2xPayRRCYlKX_28-WiqLXdcuY08jqsf-nlmf9TVifGtnV1Y_1rKMVeE2_EEfAH6YsLqZz3j0YlLo9RrafDIQXTZPGrvbIe4slUPaMD8rRcGsAhs4ggM9PgXs4eUX0/s320/123948565_402772087403585_5808951850130033401_n.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Oi, he just shot Dave in the face!"</div><p>The model in question was inspired by the chap happily slaughtering filthy scum in this classic illustration that came along with the original Confrontation game, the predecessor to what we now know as Necromunda. And though it's never specifically stated that the guy in power armour is actually a Marine, it's my mini, and so I thought fuck it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFL7FuPATXWInrhNzKHb5YeqUJu_9mJU0-iYNibdqo8ZXii9zIj96OZzH3pCivfMwUfANN9Nn6aWFkmlXVyVKxvGiy6lWY9f-XyfAz40iYDHxd1qgx_NJ4hT4_HXImIR_P-hoP390vwFo/s1969/IMG_20201130_113029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1969" data-original-width="1862" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFL7FuPATXWInrhNzKHb5YeqUJu_9mJU0-iYNibdqo8ZXii9zIj96OZzH3pCivfMwUfANN9Nn6aWFkmlXVyVKxvGiy6lWY9f-XyfAz40iYDHxd1qgx_NJ4hT4_HXImIR_P-hoP390vwFo/s320/IMG_20201130_113029.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfoWwxlGoTQeJs62b5XwYHPm2i9LjqJANmY04OU_4vqgfCw1sxkdyMlCovSqSR2unxEjgs110KrA9e0zl-8gtRlYL2lKtDiN5TmWCent3u1QErA_X_V3BQGChuNG6fXV4lNslgpN_bXSs/s1969/IMG_20201130_113037.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1969" data-original-width="1624" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfoWwxlGoTQeJs62b5XwYHPm2i9LjqJANmY04OU_4vqgfCw1sxkdyMlCovSqSR2unxEjgs110KrA9e0zl-8gtRlYL2lKtDiN5TmWCent3u1QErA_X_V3BQGChuNG6fXV4lNslgpN_bXSs/s320/IMG_20201130_113037.jpg" /></a></div><p>I raised him up so that I wouldn't get questions about the tactical validity of shooting foes below the knees and went to town on his base a little more than I would with an average mini. I see him as a grizzled, no-nonsense sergeant that shoots first and worries about shit like guilt and accountability later, or more likely never.</p><p>In the past I'd gone for elaborate colour schemes for my marines, but now the pendulum seems to have swung the other way, and I have the Marines Penitent to show for it. Just black-grey armour and no actual chapter iconography, signifying that the entire lot of them are on a mission to atone, but no one can actually remember what for or when they'll have made up for it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBYRA4VERsgxJym5nFdIfIxXInAyQrzjp5uqtpv-i6KRhhIlYU6TaLKzgYxFgJQVw1HWy9yvGM6fNI2to1Nf9EAWHKRSgKSLZ1iUSFheCqjX5uVgKI5W-0VIE-uPb4MnwPcF9L1D0TsmQ/s2048/IMG_20201130_113057.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1292" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBYRA4VERsgxJym5nFdIfIxXInAyQrzjp5uqtpv-i6KRhhIlYU6TaLKzgYxFgJQVw1HWy9yvGM6fNI2to1Nf9EAWHKRSgKSLZ1iUSFheCqjX5uVgKI5W-0VIE-uPb4MnwPcF9L1D0TsmQ/s320/IMG_20201130_113057.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGURhokGPCcRcld_n9tTDyJ8pftyTMTnaTCEFyNQfIRQxkFQqePzdsqiI78Y_-UqKazv4wybxOnI6H25b-zfUFLWRRvtjyot219FxiTGMbTdBpOSHoj8aloVM6gVB0s768L50i9nqBTI/s2048/IMG_20201130_113108.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1377" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGURhokGPCcRcld_n9tTDyJ8pftyTMTnaTCEFyNQfIRQxkFQqePzdsqiI78Y_-UqKazv4wybxOnI6H25b-zfUFLWRRvtjyot219FxiTGMbTdBpOSHoj8aloVM6gVB0s768L50i9nqBTI/s320/IMG_20201130_113108.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I wanted to show this guy off on here, but then I got to thinking that the original bloke in the image always looked a bit lonely (and most likely got mobbed and killed by all those scummy wretches surrounding him too). And so I broke out some other suitably old-school minis that had been sitting on the shelf waiting to be painted, and used them to make him a posse.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRetfL59-miN8dmudOclS1lqvWQ9_n16RO3bquB0bAUr-vKpYhos7dLwl0GN7KXszquHD8a-LnG1gDC_5I5_gH34KPEV5U7SOcAWXkCkphdAPKPsN3b27xgENPw1wosZ6xEOyNNxGLkJY/s2048/IMG_20201130_113124.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1518" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRetfL59-miN8dmudOclS1lqvWQ9_n16RO3bquB0bAUr-vKpYhos7dLwl0GN7KXszquHD8a-LnG1gDC_5I5_gH34KPEV5U7SOcAWXkCkphdAPKPsN3b27xgENPw1wosZ6xEOyNNxGLkJY/s320/IMG_20201130_113124.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The guy on the right is a genuine, 100% bona fide RTB01 marine, but the one on the left was one of the Festive Marines that GW put out back in the day as a tongue-in-cheek release. Unfortunately, his legs had been hacked off below the knees when I got him, and so I cut him in half at the waist and gave him some RTB01 legs as replacements, which I think give the mini a more serious and less comical aspect.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy24K6gzongKkZg7rNa6MSdRETv7RMgI40Vi1TcJ5jrtx8F5llzmw-SC7VR4FubEGQGdt0y4xBLve2djd9Hs3NGS3jtjOy_5TFXLFPJwYAqxoi8FaPCylvSK7TDDHDzjMfQdmlOjpOo9Y/s2048/IMG_20201130_113138.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1660" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy24K6gzongKkZg7rNa6MSdRETv7RMgI40Vi1TcJ5jrtx8F5llzmw-SC7VR4FubEGQGdt0y4xBLve2djd9Hs3NGS3jtjOy_5TFXLFPJwYAqxoi8FaPCylvSK7TDDHDzjMfQdmlOjpOo9Y/s320/IMG_20201130_113138.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><p>Much as I love the Marines from this era, there are some that even I can't defend, and the guy on the left was one of them, with a crap hand weapon and a shitty power sword in his other hand, until I removed them both, giving him a bolter and an RTB01 arm instead. The guy on the right has one of those hand-held devices from the era that are utterly impossible to identify, and will probably just end up being defined as whatever the game he's involved in needs him to be carrying.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR44KeCrQIUbyr_-vTjiiwm0hTXERaoFMUm5xM-gQ9LW2G-O9oWN8f6oQzOaOHFRaWQeMvWYBfTwCXT6ZDJ1t7KUOQ3AfmfV8f4uqM18vSrVoPfPdV12exT8-TwzZLObOnt0UwzKHWpjU/s2048/IMG_20201130_113152.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR44KeCrQIUbyr_-vTjiiwm0hTXERaoFMUm5xM-gQ9LW2G-O9oWN8f6oQzOaOHFRaWQeMvWYBfTwCXT6ZDJ1t7KUOQ3AfmfV8f4uqM18vSrVoPfPdV12exT8-TwzZLObOnt0UwzKHWpjU/s320/IMG_20201130_113152.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The chap on the left here is pretty sensible, in that he's got a bolter and a chainsword as well as some augmetics too. But the Marine on the right is a good example of the crazy weapon combos that you could actually find on one-piece minis back in the day, specifically a plasma gun and a hand-flamer!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-AUtSpDldqYdGcy8mUmW1JRtxo2cYtMMXSMl2pASgof95Bq4CvUSAXGQ4twXyUrcecFAKJlB0-FTV8BGD-CKFtJhZSC9XKKA3DJUK4DyEVIPST6gPE08xOPYLG4VWuMWYeUd0pP_rrVs/s2048/IMG_20201130_113239+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1486" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-AUtSpDldqYdGcy8mUmW1JRtxo2cYtMMXSMl2pASgof95Bq4CvUSAXGQ4twXyUrcecFAKJlB0-FTV8BGD-CKFtJhZSC9XKKA3DJUK4DyEVIPST6gPE08xOPYLG4VWuMWYeUd0pP_rrVs/s320/IMG_20201130_113239+%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfSm4WghRbe26KbhRaX1lpxfsdAb25l6C2-MyleOvDYRKPr0QiGhwcIU9DVC-cl7AvJj-pgjI01_-PucUJiXykhpIWDoFzIhjetVeKt2fqHsZTnz-ZTVkSEEnHf5RYV4boNOo6ZPfNyM/s2048/IMG_20201130_113305.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1217" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfSm4WghRbe26KbhRaX1lpxfsdAb25l6C2-MyleOvDYRKPr0QiGhwcIU9DVC-cl7AvJj-pgjI01_-PucUJiXykhpIWDoFzIhjetVeKt2fqHsZTnz-ZTVkSEEnHf5RYV4boNOo6ZPfNyM/s320/IMG_20201130_113305.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Last of all we have four Marines from the Armour Through the Ages box that GW put out a good few years back now. I lost track of where these guys were for a while, and only rediscovered them a week or two ago. Their older style of Power Armour fits in well with the overall theme of the Marines Penitent being constantly on the move and repairing what they already have, rather than being resupplied and possessing the latest in arms and armour.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So there you have it, a brief glimpse into the world of my very own Space Marine chapter.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As always, let me know what you think, either here or on social media.</div>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-67378251208114150902020-11-27T05:03:00.002-08:002020-11-27T05:03:38.899-08:00Far Corfe: Whacky Races<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhASyFyAiKJIT1wXjjuqeT8Gno57CsTQgWMvdFaTK-6N2jqddtZHDWtq-vwseRZYVT3AQ-sBDIYbOoo6nWH_HWhNA3KQR9jlfbUNnqs2NolzDRl1vAdXs08j7sIN34_cZbdnfSlGv8Wz5o/s2508/IMG_20201127_100815.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhASyFyAiKJIT1wXjjuqeT8Gno57CsTQgWMvdFaTK-6N2jqddtZHDWtq-vwseRZYVT3AQ-sBDIYbOoo6nWH_HWhNA3KQR9jlfbUNnqs2NolzDRl1vAdXs08j7sIN34_cZbdnfSlGv8Wz5o/w640-h320/IMG_20201127_100815.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After eating their complimentary buffet from Rat Burger, the official sponsors of the event, the competitors in the annual Windy 500 tear through downtown Far Corfe...</div><br />Vehicles always help to make a gameboard pop and add to the effect of the buildings and minis that you use them, and when Axiom over at <a href="https://magpieandoldlead.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Magpie & Old Lead</a> posted a wasteland trader with a large saurian carrying his wares, it made me get off my arse and finish my own, as well as realise just how many different vehicles I've worked on over the past couple of years.<p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p>Vehicles generally break down into three broad categories in my mind - those that are purely terrain pieces for the most part (but might serve as means of delivering troops to the table), those that minis can ride on the back of and those that are a vehicle and rider, be it mechanical or organic in nature. </p><p>There's a mixture here, so get ready for pick n' mix style experience, in which I hope most people will find something to interest them.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1164" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU74JJGtDjE92ehTjUmmrqJPIw3bsGyHli3kh7mW9e-dgD0GF_uWZxKezEJ_YfVEhFQmghWz1i7GwXWfOm_mqYOYeZTeW9Zcodsv1yli0N0NlDQ9yvSBOLT9YVzoTy0usBQ2l8mEFFEkI/s320/IMG_20201127_102558.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Since I already mentioned the guy, here's my own wasteland rider on a saurian - I think he was originally a Ral Partha mule-cart driver, but the addition of a feather in his hat, kneepads and the obligatory cyberpunk visor lead make him more sci-fi - or wastleland pimp, as one observer put it...</p><p>Next to him is a walker made mainly from parts by <a href="http://ramshacklegames.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ramshackle Games</a> and build on the capsule from inside of a Kinder Egg, which took more than a little inspiration from The Luggage in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIxhKvmPthSObfzL04nhh_AKC9bNmQ55REz68KLMstisFkuQca3SY2rprlEtEZgJc7jacIDHxoTEFZzChD-no5Ay4oaV1aM-dK7aubUJ-vpLbrKxsGjw04S_X0Zv_v9JlpqwM6PWqTDSM/s2527/IMG_20201127_102131.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH-GG-F3gYPdx52v-4HPHIFX_MHcOXF8PwlxvLvE7Te9rLBYgGvVoozdS2dohhgXqdc2rlQxVQhnKTkkfLHk0eGR6ad4_Pm7UW9zjeCfnF6kaNvfD1yNmC8t1zt7L73BDVnhd13-b6Svo/s2048/IMG_20201127_101749.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH-GG-F3gYPdx52v-4HPHIFX_MHcOXF8PwlxvLvE7Te9rLBYgGvVoozdS2dohhgXqdc2rlQxVQhnKTkkfLHk0eGR6ad4_Pm7UW9zjeCfnF6kaNvfD1yNmC8t1zt7L73BDVnhd13-b6Svo/s320/IMG_20201127_101749.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Ork trucks from the old Gorka Morka game are great if you can get hold of them, and offer plenty of chances for modification too. The only issue is with the narrow beds in the back (designed for the narrower bases that game used), which I have seen some people widen, but I couldn't be arsed with.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjym6qofwDwXGobm8PntsVfYNXdY8f0UCT2bAzz-A6TdbX8nIKvtksiIiXHPqm6rwUv_Pfv1nwZU7V5iy_beM2qlniQD7wNisNeWSBjI5EOtcf3JK4THW1itUi3TGpECSTvXJnnKUWRHhs/s2048/IMG_20201127_102238.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1226" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjym6qofwDwXGobm8PntsVfYNXdY8f0UCT2bAzz-A6TdbX8nIKvtksiIiXHPqm6rwUv_Pfv1nwZU7V5iy_beM2qlniQD7wNisNeWSBjI5EOtcf3JK4THW1itUi3TGpECSTvXJnnKUWRHhs/s320/IMG_20201127_102238.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-6atgv61ointg_TL_lhv6QvnZ08iu7cglEicFPIyUIjHA0Ji37SU-xb4d62PnQRplVqhMWUkTQ1dSrQS-rAp43-eg87BYcJ1ZggND5iGp6vem5w7ojm4_qsQ-xdPuiupIi2hvUT7RQwg/s2048/IMG_20201127_102322.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1542" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-6atgv61ointg_TL_lhv6QvnZ08iu7cglEicFPIyUIjHA0Ji37SU-xb4d62PnQRplVqhMWUkTQ1dSrQS-rAp43-eg87BYcJ1ZggND5iGp6vem5w7ojm4_qsQ-xdPuiupIi2hvUT7RQwg/s320/IMG_20201127_102322.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>No one's going to be winning any races in this Quad Gun Tractor, but I chose to include it here as it made an appearance in my recent post about my Chem Brute (which can be read <a href="https://indelibleinchobbyandcustoms.blogspot.com/2020/11/ebay-rescue-3-zerkerchem-brute.html" target="_blank">here</a>) and as it was parked halfway into a garage, no one could see that the rear has been modified to hold a gunner. I see this as a wasteland vehicle capable of pulling a load or packing a punch in its own right.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhncvKPzLuMwh_OzjscIaQlhFZudhGIf1L5wUSv-l3_ehzYgdM1nf-uOAlwo4Z0UQuZt2fR41LeuXPB_gtkFMCoIdrOeV2IoFMRGuVjGXgT5nSXi8HKIK6Im6hv6Ysw9zZ73Surk4C0TCU/s2578/IMG_20201127_103037.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1220" data-original-width="2578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhncvKPzLuMwh_OzjscIaQlhFZudhGIf1L5wUSv-l3_ehzYgdM1nf-uOAlwo4Z0UQuZt2fR41LeuXPB_gtkFMCoIdrOeV2IoFMRGuVjGXgT5nSXi8HKIK6Im6hv6Ysw9zZ73Surk4C0TCU/s320/IMG_20201127_103037.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgkdnpnY_85xeAB8Zq36Rk_RJE7OwuFPzqjyMbLaCii6rGiGtwjg70gxBIx0rBC-ZuGeiutYZeGU01oo3wflzy4KSjNLwFJWA6OEr-4NKbZZAQZWImG1HpKM03HiqKkYlBVZ_VbjxW1Mk/s2559/IMG_20201127_103055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2559" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgkdnpnY_85xeAB8Zq36Rk_RJE7OwuFPzqjyMbLaCii6rGiGtwjg70gxBIx0rBC-ZuGeiutYZeGU01oo3wflzy4KSjNLwFJWA6OEr-4NKbZZAQZWImG1HpKM03HiqKkYlBVZ_VbjxW1Mk/s320/IMG_20201127_103055.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Vehicles don't just have to be sourced from wargames companies or model makers either, both of these off-road vehicles were originally toys based on characters from the Cars films. But with something like this, you really do have to be careful and make sure that the eyes and mouths are well hidden!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO5SFeM3125hwFoPV3DvLsCp4iZb4pWODPtq0O_mVJnpCZ0aUw_jBB13s6lhUsca4mipe2PXfrOrverYIgmaOFGF29dUResFCP3gW9bENxg8NTGhnvG1L7owcKtCKIYGMY8hxbD5nI_7I/s2508/IMG_20201127_102033.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO5SFeM3125hwFoPV3DvLsCp4iZb4pWODPtq0O_mVJnpCZ0aUw_jBB13s6lhUsca4mipe2PXfrOrverYIgmaOFGF29dUResFCP3gW9bENxg8NTGhnvG1L7owcKtCKIYGMY8hxbD5nI_7I/s320/IMG_20201127_102033.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Likewise, this hot-rod came from a McDonalds Happy Meal, and didn't need much to make it look like something that could be seen cruising the streets of a cyberpunk metropolis or post-apoc frontier town.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDiwxFYwgjnfBK0tOdm-NKaSHknbcj3nyI8jzapbz1nm3n9UMP0CvsN6-nUFEYyGCdJdA3lyoYtHfOvJ_Y00hX6Fh-WM9Ge-gRKekWEV_qy9iF2d9bLWLzQ6Qfp9IdqvfggdAB3JX0FoE/s2048/IMG_20201127_102943.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1185" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDiwxFYwgjnfBK0tOdm-NKaSHknbcj3nyI8jzapbz1nm3n9UMP0CvsN6-nUFEYyGCdJdA3lyoYtHfOvJ_Y00hX6Fh-WM9Ge-gRKekWEV_qy9iF2d9bLWLzQ6Qfp9IdqvfggdAB3JX0FoE/s320/IMG_20201127_102943.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRDAeD_SMqWpWhKfLbwjX7UChxuEHPnijISTdQl86J5votBzsMhoJKYWKN5otVu31F1cSd1yvHQ1Af4TGApJbabx9zWX8NmEvKepIaGvXZ67QoVp6lZyK_aq3gmqiqkZS3MfNhTBNEjJA/s2048/IMG_20201127_103002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRDAeD_SMqWpWhKfLbwjX7UChxuEHPnijISTdQl86J5votBzsMhoJKYWKN5otVu31F1cSd1yvHQ1Af4TGApJbabx9zWX8NmEvKepIaGvXZ67QoVp6lZyK_aq3gmqiqkZS3MfNhTBNEjJA/s320/IMG_20201127_103002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>It seems like everyone and his mother's done their own take on the Road Warrior and his infamous interceptor, but mine's just a nice, chunky-looking muscle car that I picked up at a local antiques dealer/flea market and gave a muted paintjob. That guy knows bait when he sees it...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitsFxe0gSqML6UMBZidc3uur8lQFqgwiXd8_OuThuwaJHmBiQ8dlM1uNdlmGEmL5NQqySAg6Jb2f_6yW6SjHNqTHFh9y5a7EzWrRskPpnZyOSEJZk-E6kUA_c7jgwjMww7emaOb1F_X-I/s2048/IMG_20201127_101926.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1453" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitsFxe0gSqML6UMBZidc3uur8lQFqgwiXd8_OuThuwaJHmBiQ8dlM1uNdlmGEmL5NQqySAg6Jb2f_6yW6SjHNqTHFh9y5a7EzWrRskPpnZyOSEJZk-E6kUA_c7jgwjMww7emaOb1F_X-I/s320/IMG_20201127_101926.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEU0y5ErC1_54gt9TP6Nk_GeTEn0vR5wAPKRYOSooBeZATEfH-WEcICEufX7AlQSHiPBsASo_u8TyUfjcmTclXTJgAHBs4Go37Pv3MUpdedjTnKSM18y10QCppvizoohugVO6nLmzW0AQ/s2048/IMG_20201127_101939.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1693" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEU0y5ErC1_54gt9TP6Nk_GeTEn0vR5wAPKRYOSooBeZATEfH-WEcICEufX7AlQSHiPBsASo_u8TyUfjcmTclXTJgAHBs4Go37Pv3MUpdedjTnKSM18y10QCppvizoohugVO6nLmzW0AQ/s320/IMG_20201127_101939.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Even things that were never envisioned as vehicles can be converted with a minimum of effort, like this toy pistol that became a land-speeder or cargo-hauler.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNDLLDZJdA-Yy1eIBbqmbNClakvVKnaC3cycg9Ewr0tJWrtAeHyGD1_yYzNvco7xH_uGm7NfHF6x4LmJljK8TLc0KmTKAMrhdlOw-moAMamuSbTODYUKpDNyxOEX_f2rjtgXubgVcyhA/s2539/IMG_20201127_103232.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="2539" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNDLLDZJdA-Yy1eIBbqmbNClakvVKnaC3cycg9Ewr0tJWrtAeHyGD1_yYzNvco7xH_uGm7NfHF6x4LmJljK8TLc0KmTKAMrhdlOw-moAMamuSbTODYUKpDNyxOEX_f2rjtgXubgVcyhA/s320/IMG_20201127_103232.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Here's another tip when on the lookout for potential conversions - smaller ranges of diecast models like Hot Wheels and Matchbox often produce vehicles that would be far too small if made in the same scales as the regular cars that they're better known for. This means that something like the speeder-bike from Star Wars: The Force Awakens (as shown above) can be used without much of a problem in 28mm scale.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1bNgTznLnSNLd3B069_3aQ5Aa7iOdzNWmFbtF5zvJlsYci6RFvcBSvY_cI6cN7jiA7buy_kj4hpS0Z9FFgrfa0IUDXEzZ2RJrEkkSwrPEQZmZzsWFGEkLHguIZvQdLFpnrhjvn-rPof8/s1979/IMG_20201127_103508.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1969" data-original-width="1979" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1bNgTznLnSNLd3B069_3aQ5Aa7iOdzNWmFbtF5zvJlsYci6RFvcBSvY_cI6cN7jiA7buy_kj4hpS0Z9FFgrfa0IUDXEzZ2RJrEkkSwrPEQZmZzsWFGEkLHguIZvQdLFpnrhjvn-rPof8/s320/IMG_20201127_103508.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>And last but not least, vehicles don't have to travel exclusively on or above the ground - everyone needs a huge tunneling machine, whether they realise it or not.</p><p>I hope that you could stay with me through the course of this rather random and meandering post, and, as always, let me know what you think, either here or on social media.</p>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-87193399256255366802020-11-23T02:37:00.002-08:002020-11-23T07:48:33.849-08:00Ramshackle Games - The Pilgrimage of Rust (aka The Tetanus Tribe)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMRUwxiXFkivh5qLVd2jAMC7b5uc-4n90rJ2Un0F4xygmuGzLP3V8GU1fRPXoxrUfZE7UQQFXpWlJ0kUFdFgXxA1PgcsZoFvIm_HNC7NBIfTt96LmVtpxCAiRztT9AVrwxKCRSAcleRG8/s2543/IMG_20201122_213120.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMRUwxiXFkivh5qLVd2jAMC7b5uc-4n90rJ2Un0F4xygmuGzLP3V8GU1fRPXoxrUfZE7UQQFXpWlJ0kUFdFgXxA1PgcsZoFvIm_HNC7NBIfTt96LmVtpxCAiRztT9AVrwxKCRSAcleRG8/w640-h312/IMG_20201122_213120.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Pilgrimage of Rust picks its way through a landscape of decaying metal...</div><p></p><p>We live in an age for the hobby where we're spoiled for choice when it comes to minis, there are a myriad companies, large and small, that are producing a stunningly diverse range of models that are more detailed than anything that I've seen in the past. But that's not to say that there aren't people out there making stuff that harks back to the more old-school feel of minis that I remember from back in the day.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><a href="http://ramshacklegames.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ramshackle Games</a> is one of those companies, based in Nottingham they offer an entire range of miniatures, vehicles and terrain that's satisfyingly chunky and gritty in terms of it's aesthetic, and recently they made the insanely generous offer of giving away four miniatures for just the price of the postage.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9A0tQG7h39Yh7i4pggU5veoSdE6ti2w3Mw9ExwrMThBdb6jzQOPC_nSAknRyU6uugJrtnXj0wfJaGkjZ16Iww5sWA0zRj7VekzOkPl8B9znre9jxNUlAB4z8bzA7oeODSneLGR6FRO9s/s3018/IMG_20201122_214131.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="3018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9A0tQG7h39Yh7i4pggU5veoSdE6ti2w3Mw9ExwrMThBdb6jzQOPC_nSAknRyU6uugJrtnXj0wfJaGkjZ16Iww5sWA0zRj7VekzOkPl8B9znre9jxNUlAB4z8bzA7oeODSneLGR6FRO9s/s320/IMG_20201122_214131.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGUgGt9bf6nEOtmGj1oCFNl8TysDJa3h5BqHlSHQYuTu0suh_SsAQcocuNTIR4e7tbhhMr5yVtyG-YyWUduPxCx9qGcLm9CQvs-VzLiM9V-XrPbltGaVwsnic8tI6Kq7A9FU62n4iiioE/s2918/IMG_20201122_214153.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1077" data-original-width="2918" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGUgGt9bf6nEOtmGj1oCFNl8TysDJa3h5BqHlSHQYuTu0suh_SsAQcocuNTIR4e7tbhhMr5yVtyG-YyWUduPxCx9qGcLm9CQvs-VzLiM9V-XrPbltGaVwsnic8tI6Kq7A9FU62n4iiioE/s320/IMG_20201122_214153.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I jumped on this offer as soon as I heard about it, and Ramshackle were kind enough to send me this quartet of robed wastleland wanderers as a result. Based up and painted, they're a striking set of minis, perfect to be slotted into any grimdark or post-apocalyptic setting.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJH68GNoCsLiAZU75CRQ_okCvY6CdXWiGUvZxndQFS0I4GXnqRw3cXYEPq5s36pORIMWfFvnC57ozJJQFpxPluzJ6gmwxrGoeQWqgWuUCqQu0Pc7Ku_OL_z8ozmh2asNftwi5nzL5tMc/s2048/IMG_20201122_214245.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1552" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJH68GNoCsLiAZU75CRQ_okCvY6CdXWiGUvZxndQFS0I4GXnqRw3cXYEPq5s36pORIMWfFvnC57ozJJQFpxPluzJ6gmwxrGoeQWqgWuUCqQu0Pc7Ku_OL_z8ozmh2asNftwi5nzL5tMc/s320/IMG_20201122_214245.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9uIo3cLlYtTXx_p1_K7OyGiVZTsMLCLsGlOsEC5UBY-z1BYfwJbayFsLF2QSUB-LiKuL751V-z0a0swE0oaZees8HoIEXNVhSv-BiJDUuJyE9q4pC4nk90_qa7MFTeink9FXyfchCZZg/s2048/IMG_20201122_214310.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgounPYvlXAtFE8bsYChTMFT2FapfAQ1YIJIFqjoy9mHWXUTG5l_AlN6rD1WEsi6YnWt2LacdoTu9lVk9TUkqkNqL5N36Z1ezMQvykORK9K74Z-CUqZBxOqG2UMBHFjCLG4X0Y1GdmiaR0/s2048/IMG_20201122_214338.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1718" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgounPYvlXAtFE8bsYChTMFT2FapfAQ1YIJIFqjoy9mHWXUTG5l_AlN6rD1WEsi6YnWt2LacdoTu9lVk9TUkqkNqL5N36Z1ezMQvykORK9K74Z-CUqZBxOqG2UMBHFjCLG4X0Y1GdmiaR0/s320/IMG_20201122_214338.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Of course these guys are only a small part of the range that Ramshackle offer, and I chose to order the rather nice Smockington Skelletons to go along with the freebies, as they fit the same look and feel, rounding the group and making them feel more like a coherent gang and less like a random collection of robes weirdos.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1969" data-original-width="1352" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZxnNUybIXa7J7C6vCnsm2KeHasChx2u4AGM12_P9M_UCiCVTrTkjOpKhATW832FE4kg6lu5XBXgHKxgCp8iKnNStk_-GabHjlTN5DlBk4z0OQSFsObYHS7BKHG8ydYr9YHYbMbVU_9_w/s320/IMG_20201122_214357.jpg" /></a></div><p>The last addition to this group comes in the shape of a little more muscle, an armour-plated hulk that I see serving as the main meat-shield for the group, protecting the more delicate members while moving slowly and with an inevitable accumulation of unstoppable force.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFHyurcIv-jaxLRvsWKTNZmFsRhzJi1GjeEYK6eRphflIVR7HKJlQ9bb1ho6ai5rn_fIbDnRgFqMo_AMM3oCSz-Dv44ILAezFY2t9S6XWsVgJY3yveTfqY35NpfpU8G0tLUbUGaeGp4Lg/s2048/IMG_20201122_214540.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1226" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFHyurcIv-jaxLRvsWKTNZmFsRhzJi1GjeEYK6eRphflIVR7HKJlQ9bb1ho6ai5rn_fIbDnRgFqMo_AMM3oCSz-Dv44ILAezFY2t9S6XWsVgJY3yveTfqY35NpfpU8G0tLUbUGaeGp4Lg/s320/IMG_20201122_214540.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Group photo - shortly afterwards the photographer was found cut into many, many bloody pieces...</div><p>So there you have it - a pretty striking and unique gang for little more than the investment of a tenner, which makes me feel perfectly confident in saying that Ramshackle are a company that are more than worthy of a look and maybe even your support in these trying times.</p><p>They're also generous enough to provide a basic version of their Mini Gangs skirmish game available for free, which means that you can hit the table with anything you buy from them super-fast and with a ruleset that's easy enough for kids of all ages to pick up (trust me, I played it with my own little goblins and they loved every minute!).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN2ruy0anD4M4J8JmiGgK4q6tV6MPXPem6CfjlgcAHlB7JmQG6CRbJEngmprLOihdu6zFKBrM94oQ5V0hGqq3qe3SMak4J3yDAEEiVWnfhxYk4XDcPQwlIfRC4CUtsipxFUQ2KhJp3ia0/s2048/IMG_20201122_213428.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1081" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN2ruy0anD4M4J8JmiGgK4q6tV6MPXPem6CfjlgcAHlB7JmQG6CRbJEngmprLOihdu6zFKBrM94oQ5V0hGqq3qe3SMak4J3yDAEEiVWnfhxYk4XDcPQwlIfRC4CUtsipxFUQ2KhJp3ia0/w211-h400/IMG_20201122_213428.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Andre, Engels & Local Oaf enjoy what is said to be the best view of the Pilgrimage...</div><p>For the record, most of the terrain in the picture above was made with components from Ramshackle as well!</p><p>I don't know if these guys are robots that have begun to think they're human or humans that have been so radically and extensively augmented with cybernetics that they've forgotten that they were ever mainly organic in nature, or some mix of the two.</p><p>I definitely see them as being divided between an order militant (the guys with the weapons) and an order contemplative (the guys without the weapons), maybe even that all of the latter are actually so far gone with the task of serving as a living archive that they've become slaved to the taller contemplative that's clutching at his satchel bag.</p><p>Whatever the story behind them, let me know what you think, either here or on social media, and check out <a href="http://ramshacklegames.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ramshackle Games</a> for more of the same goodness.</p>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-31257746518110812372020-11-19T02:12:00.000-08:002020-11-19T02:12:07.561-08:00eBay Rescue: £3 'Zerker/Chem Brute<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLdZ0g97gk_hLMHOfc1HDZiW10Uk871jUuE8tIBWHWBzYYZzx_iK39XZ6SMXTDywtQmfO3_8FBU9B-L06w76Te4cUE_g44OHoObuzJEE3HoyeofTllycMTh74ggeYYJe11Wa4hwEra158/s2538/IMG_20201119_083400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1239" data-original-width="2538" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLdZ0g97gk_hLMHOfc1HDZiW10Uk871jUuE8tIBWHWBzYYZzx_iK39XZ6SMXTDywtQmfO3_8FBU9B-L06w76Te4cUE_g44OHoObuzJEE3HoyeofTllycMTh74ggeYYJe11Wa4hwEra158/w640-h312/IMG_20201119_083400.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A security patrol walks into the middle of a private discussion, and things suddenly take a turn for the worse...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm sure we all have things that we're constantly searching eBay for, and at the moment it seems to be the larger minis that are capturing my own interest. I also keep looking at the miniatures for the game Guildball, which I have no interest in playing for its own sake, but does have an interesting range of models available.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Oddly for minis that can cost as much as £20, these seem to be turning up pretty regularly for a very reasonable price on the well-known auction site. And one that I picked up recently for around £3 was a large chap called "Katalyst".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVXcN0KtdzPmUKM5FeLx6hrIqBdJ0UEOUQctiQzSSNvsbypk3RJXloeuEDlecW5yAeeHMR67jY553vyLsK_ZL9ZWY6SDHmfM4F6JS3DYx664S6zjQ6bSRMJ9-wYEM0QGGdWBN4dne-NE/s2048/IMG_20201117_222208.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1902" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVXcN0KtdzPmUKM5FeLx6hrIqBdJ0UEOUQctiQzSSNvsbypk3RJXloeuEDlecW5yAeeHMR67jY553vyLsK_ZL9ZWY6SDHmfM4F6JS3DYx664S6zjQ6bSRMJ9-wYEM0QGGdWBN4dne-NE/s320/IMG_20201117_222208.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Katalyst minus a metric ton of paint and superglue...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The mini arrived painted and on a base, but the paint was so thick and the base so caked in flock that I had no choice but to strip everything back and start from scratch. This proved harder than it should have been thanks to the fact that the previous owner must have literally used a pint of superglue on the thing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Even after stripping the paint, I had to spend at least an hour scraping more of the stuff out of the crevices and chiseling off the last of the superglue. But finally I had the components cleaned and ready to be reassembled.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR8okU0EOl5qGnaqSS2JG-Fwj7V5HmQyRMFEsOkIaUixWGVI8UhQhEu_u0f4rNRfHpvSjrR1EGtEg8D3vic7XbfTWtlAyOHJPbH0qCui7Z-vwe74Cd-xUdYlIAC4h93MQ4TnhoEChBniQ/s2508/IMG_20201117_223711.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="1254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR8okU0EOl5qGnaqSS2JG-Fwj7V5HmQyRMFEsOkIaUixWGVI8UhQhEu_u0f4rNRfHpvSjrR1EGtEg8D3vic7XbfTWtlAyOHJPbH0qCui7Z-vwe74Cd-xUdYlIAC4h93MQ4TnhoEChBniQ/s320/IMG_20201117_223711.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Starting to look more Bane-like...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The original head seemed too large for the look I wanted and the cable top-knot just wasn't doing it for me, so I feel back on my go-to solution for this kind of thing - the space marine head with rebreather. It looked pretty small perched atop that huge, hulking body, but I had a solution in mind for that too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPM6PdLLCMPtyTWijQldZAAEboESOyDDDyfAjapO-uj0B9aVS-oceP8PMIyhxAvCKybiSSqSRpLNpWRIXu-D3vPDPco9NL_73XC0SZDsmERXFN4TgGliUePbA5iRmb-bXnMhV5VSPB9tM/s2508/IMG_20201117_231001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="1254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPM6PdLLCMPtyTWijQldZAAEboESOyDDDyfAjapO-uj0B9aVS-oceP8PMIyhxAvCKybiSSqSRpLNpWRIXu-D3vPDPco9NL_73XC0SZDsmERXFN4TgGliUePbA5iRmb-bXnMhV5VSPB9tM/s320/IMG_20201117_231001.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Plastique choker - THE fashion accessory of the season</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I filled in the gaps with Miliput and then sculpted scar-tissue over the top as well as giving him manacles around the wrists. The join between the head and the body I hid with a large and very obvious collar that (I hope) looks like a huge amount of plastic explosives strapped around the brute's neck, to be used in extreme cases of disobedience on his part.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAj4IuxgTq3aix0aBU6X5HKf4kLmB6pamLi3YcLKMBrPw7ON4i_8KVap9AYuFjsotKRfG29XTCFu3OEvAvBSVnJOiS4rIhQgWImMbEOdUNG330Odan7whpxhbr26t5ELlEZtdSGu8PIxw/s2048/IMG_20201119_083931.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1751" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAj4IuxgTq3aix0aBU6X5HKf4kLmB6pamLi3YcLKMBrPw7ON4i_8KVap9AYuFjsotKRfG29XTCFu3OEvAvBSVnJOiS4rIhQgWImMbEOdUNG330Odan7whpxhbr26t5ELlEZtdSGu8PIxw/s320/IMG_20201119_083931.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuUM9Xj8PcqoHx9zI712rUHfUJUr-M-x-aDwmHwMCNr8mKXygid9rAToktbc5ASRoGecIiO_6enmBiGU-R1qw1ZzvEXE-HA7NaxbKipnankLGgj6Fm0e-nK_2LjRyZ_-6zFfmIoDbqa5w/s2048/IMG_20201119_084028.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuUM9Xj8PcqoHx9zI712rUHfUJUr-M-x-aDwmHwMCNr8mKXygid9rAToktbc5ASRoGecIiO_6enmBiGU-R1qw1ZzvEXE-HA7NaxbKipnankLGgj6Fm0e-nK_2LjRyZ_-6zFfmIoDbqa5w/s320/IMG_20201119_084028.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Chem Brute poses alongside Local Oaf for size comparison</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I think this might just be one of the eBay rescues that I'm most proud of, having turned it around in the space of just twenty four hours and managed to produce what I think is a pretty decent brute for a sci-fi or post-apocalyptic setting, and a mini I hope to soon be able to use on the tabletop.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Adding a mohawk with greenstuff or substituting a Goliath head would make this a good alternative to the official GW 'Zerker too, that is if you can track the original mini down for a reasonable price and are prepared to put a little bit of work into the conversion as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As always, let me know what you think, either here or on social media.</div><p></p>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-30151462846427901272020-11-16T08:44:00.001-08:002020-11-16T08:44:32.799-08:00Trash Terrain: Cyberpunk Nightclub - "The Chibified Assassin"<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSKpGiwWqwoVxBOztRCqe_H5sV66G_TiiBVuWdNqsU3i-9XU7I9hbH6BC_Pz2KqrtdhebMeI7Ee3n8eJI5XkonJt5LM0dWZF1QVc5xpZCKxZJ1X93SA2RZNup7W3b9A6cgjd7qjvebj0c/s2508/IMG_20201116_113524.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSKpGiwWqwoVxBOztRCqe_H5sV66G_TiiBVuWdNqsU3i-9XU7I9hbH6BC_Pz2KqrtdhebMeI7Ee3n8eJI5XkonJt5LM0dWZF1QVc5xpZCKxZJ1X93SA2RZNup7W3b9A6cgjd7qjvebj0c/w640-h320/IMG_20201116_113524.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Andre & Engels were known to moonlight as bouncers in the downtown sprawl when tag matches were scarce...</div><p></p><p>A little while back I dropped a quite popular blog post about some Hostile Environment Hab Pods that proved quite popular (and which you can read <a href="https://indelibleinchobbyandcustoms.blogspot.com/2020/09/trash-terrain-hostile-environment-hab.html" target="_blank">here</a>) and so, as I'd always intended to do more builds in a similar vein, I kept my eyes open for something similar the next time I was in the shop where I found the original materials.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p>What I found was a container about four times the size of the original ones, but otherwise the exact same kind of shape, and so I grabbed one to see what I could make out of it. My first thought was to simply stick to the same kind of idea and make a larger version of the Hab Pods, as maybe an admin office or lab of some kind.</p><p>But then it occurred to me that I'd always liked the idea of formerly utilitarian buildings being repurposed for another, more interesting kind of use. And my eyes fell upon a chibi assassin figurine that I'd bought off of eBay with absolutely no idea whatsoever as to how I would ever find a way to actually use it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI4-s8Sa4JzQbNN3Ln0tu7jqK7S030KdtdTYItoNLq7ub9nTJN_4MQjOztEAqvGaT_xUnyR59p5ZXGg5voRTixa5PH_hgn5I5FNWybdN-vMBPr3KE4Op7w5zXzFVVFkLRMo8mh1jUbk-w/s2048/IMG_20201008_215352.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI4-s8Sa4JzQbNN3Ln0tu7jqK7S030KdtdTYItoNLq7ub9nTJN_4MQjOztEAqvGaT_xUnyR59p5ZXGg5voRTixa5PH_hgn5I5FNWybdN-vMBPr3KE4Op7w5zXzFVVFkLRMo8mh1jUbk-w/s320/IMG_20201008_215352.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At this point, it's purpose is so obvious as to be transparent...</div><p>I used my ever-dwindling supply of Maelstrom's Edge Terrain Sprues (available <a href="https://www.maelstromsedge.com/medge/store.jsp" target="_blank">here</a>) to furnish most of the details, along with things like cable tidies and bits from the packaging of some disposable razor blades to add the final touches.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNqqCsm6Ot0aVmoJ4ivtb4EhTfiGeQ_vkYiQtLuW10d8jOjJm4ddCYGkoqBtieC1TNdwXZOputrvipKKhyphenhypheng2htzEg5cIED3vojFJmJe0iE_NQsy9dcNJYy0l-wL9vJ5B6sGzfeEH_1GU/s2048/IMG_20201009_171207.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1539" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNqqCsm6Ot0aVmoJ4ivtb4EhTfiGeQ_vkYiQtLuW10d8jOjJm4ddCYGkoqBtieC1TNdwXZOputrvipKKhyphenhypheng2htzEg5cIED3vojFJmJe0iE_NQsy9dcNJYy0l-wL9vJ5B6sGzfeEH_1GU/s320/IMG_20201009_171207.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But once the paint was on, it turned out to be all white...</div><div><br /></div>I primed the whole thing black with a poundshop rattle can, but rather than my usual progressively lighter coats of grey and white, I made sure the coat was more even and smooth to simulate the supposed plastic nature of the prefabricated structure.<div><br /></div><div>But there was still something missing, and I had been planning to use a sprue that had a nice bit of writing in kanji that would have served very well as the basis for a neon sign. The problem was that my memory had played me false, and this had already been used on a previous project.</div><div><br /></div><div>My solution was to do something that I'm not often guilty of, which was to order an acrylic sign from TT Combat (the website for which can be found <a href="https://ttcombat.com/" target="_blank">here</a>) and mount this on a couple of poles. At least the poles were made from recycled sprues, which made me feel a little less guilty.</div><div><br /></div><div>The details I picked out with Vallejo Black Grey and drybrushed with Sky Grey from the same range, and then I washed the whole thing with a diluted mixture of black and burnt umber craft paints, favouring the black as I wanted a more urban grime look to the finished product and finally the whole thing was sealed with a matt varnish.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ3J3X5-Auyq_teBea5GAKPVEu2ZmA1wV7oRsolGjEegvxFJ3SmYeCpAvDKby0Gmxeu51mGSCn6u_ZGJ0hipSbZ_fHt7hufBE5TzLmdvwsD7DedK86d-TfwP-gSCgELS6OhR0ziVyOusY/s2048/IMG_20201116_113947.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1546" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ3J3X5-Auyq_teBea5GAKPVEu2ZmA1wV7oRsolGjEegvxFJ3SmYeCpAvDKby0Gmxeu51mGSCn6u_ZGJ0hipSbZ_fHt7hufBE5TzLmdvwsD7DedK86d-TfwP-gSCgELS6OhR0ziVyOusY/s320/IMG_20201116_113947.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8-sQhTQ6PU3m8AYzGPGyhyphenhyphen8zh5xzbWG_eyuuC4A1eqr-WueKjYP_cR-FGyPXCOR3u2KW8U6z2Hfj-05foD90_fhjzUTqerTCLQF2e4SK31b1T754J5UqxsaziSXxCL49J4TaATb1CK6o/s2048/IMG_20201116_114000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1481" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8-sQhTQ6PU3m8AYzGPGyhyphenhyphen8zh5xzbWG_eyuuC4A1eqr-WueKjYP_cR-FGyPXCOR3u2KW8U6z2Hfj-05foD90_fhjzUTqerTCLQF2e4SK31b1T754J5UqxsaziSXxCL49J4TaATb1CK6o/s320/IMG_20201116_114000.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirjgyrBIJRDOvnuHPzuK6ehiIPWLtHmxJ2OKcdYoabhyphenhyphenpNFeQmzylH1x2VviuI6wIS1Fa4rutPxEsrm877qYhxkWu3fZQW5pTjlri1qvetmqSjD3pnq7ywvhDk87J_E7sbEC107stVjso/s2048/IMG_20201116_114007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1553" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirjgyrBIJRDOvnuHPzuK6ehiIPWLtHmxJ2OKcdYoabhyphenhyphenpNFeQmzylH1x2VviuI6wIS1Fa4rutPxEsrm877qYhxkWu3fZQW5pTjlri1qvetmqSjD3pnq7ywvhDk87J_E7sbEC107stVjso/s320/IMG_20201116_114007.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHjBGrxlVfMC9sjDUMrdG5m6hMJT1UOOq5glcrX_JT-pASr0NQPQW8MO1pFfv3CtGdjpsUAiRALK90qJTfzwiD3B9Wu5ZlupkSM2rU2W7EqEwKWQM1e9zR5LSCY5Hb0Urb0dNaGjkBD8/s2048/IMG_20201116_114019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1529" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHjBGrxlVfMC9sjDUMrdG5m6hMJT1UOOq5glcrX_JT-pASr0NQPQW8MO1pFfv3CtGdjpsUAiRALK90qJTfzwiD3B9Wu5ZlupkSM2rU2W7EqEwKWQM1e9zR5LSCY5Hb0Urb0dNaGjkBD8/s320/IMG_20201116_114019.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiieCOxSWofECXUDdOiK-IwwRgyQ72f3NUk_EwMQK1-jxnKcyrwDPQONN4-sQHEw8t9kTYucz16hzhdeAnyVaCjYtHEkwDpaatg4SVuQwR1CLB5XXU19HEckvbR1g9HwhfZtlcx62eeR-4/s2048/IMG_20201116_114032.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1553" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiieCOxSWofECXUDdOiK-IwwRgyQ72f3NUk_EwMQK1-jxnKcyrwDPQONN4-sQHEw8t9kTYucz16hzhdeAnyVaCjYtHEkwDpaatg4SVuQwR1CLB5XXU19HEckvbR1g9HwhfZtlcx62eeR-4/s320/IMG_20201116_114032.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_clpslU6HaxoiZChHJbBR0CTTo2PbcxLnjFVXj4vdBL1tBfpEg1E2bKtxI1cmS6w7e0dHHNwGjVp9FIRRQaQokFUhhftx-DJLMUX959lgj37Z6py7FUXyLGKOd_TPg2FxUfbCCSsvZVg/s2048/IMG_20201116_114054.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1746" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_clpslU6HaxoiZChHJbBR0CTTo2PbcxLnjFVXj4vdBL1tBfpEg1E2bKtxI1cmS6w7e0dHHNwGjVp9FIRRQaQokFUhhftx-DJLMUX959lgj37Z6py7FUXyLGKOd_TPg2FxUfbCCSsvZVg/s320/IMG_20201116_114054.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>This was one of those projects that only felt like it came together once everything was done and the piece was an actual item of three-dimensional terrain that would work on the table-top. And once it was, the thing just seemed to click and make sense.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'll probably go back in and add some minor details such as illumination from the lights and a colour on the door-panel screen too, but it's good enough to drop into a cyberpunk skirmish game or a more domestically themed take on 40K as it is.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, as always, let me know what you think, either here or on social media.</div>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-55399935266101001432020-11-09T06:38:00.000-08:002020-11-09T06:38:04.402-08:00Trash Terrain: Garage/Lockup/Hideout...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGV9zdNx4o2M5hNPRgAOGl-9ZvQuDIbqcR9Xs2Swyjrqv8pvuPiBXkuGeqb8m61beWGy_vk1yalo5xFmkd-r_AaH3nO1MZZQzQqpfrV9Wb5CfJ_l97vQ9nvT6uPNgCQsI4NQjEe-qYQVs/s2508/IMG_20201109_132317.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGV9zdNx4o2M5hNPRgAOGl-9ZvQuDIbqcR9Xs2Swyjrqv8pvuPiBXkuGeqb8m61beWGy_vk1yalo5xFmkd-r_AaH3nO1MZZQzQqpfrV9Wb5CfJ_l97vQ9nvT6uPNgCQsI4NQjEe-qYQVs/w640-h320/IMG_20201109_132317.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cops mount a night raid on the Punks at what they thought was a secure location...</div><p></p><p>A while back I posted about a garage that I made from a Star Wars Micro Machines Action Fleet pod-racer playset, which seemed to be quite well received. Even at the time I was on the lookout for more stuff from the same range in order to make similar terrain pieces. I landed a couple, but for some reason they sat on the to do pile for a couple of months before I found the time and motivation to finish one of them off.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjldqphHb1xv4snEWPkzMNmf3iqxiTmetqVS7VlTtWgYFw9c-pBdHYWExn0UYIlfpTa_lx5al0I5ZB-Ej25fi6hGqkNMnF_b4ixypzf1UlbP5WYptMo-oyjN9vDJzGRSyfWB1fDZDvX0D4/s640/s-l640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjldqphHb1xv4snEWPkzMNmf3iqxiTmetqVS7VlTtWgYFw9c-pBdHYWExn0UYIlfpTa_lx5al0I5ZB-Ej25fi6hGqkNMnF_b4ixypzf1UlbP5WYptMo-oyjN9vDJzGRSyfWB1fDZDvX0D4/s320/s-l640.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4mderi2X8ySx-LpXZlCncPGg79YRV5HejkXWesHopEAh083gRf66DWqhxxMXXiAEexOoTYxvetvttkAm-9l1OScbX-OEcPH8JMBYRdnj0Iwby1Zg-ASXI5Zfv81er2ztH1Tyoax4ux68/s1200/star-wars-action-fleet-naboo-hangar-micromachine-halcon-D_NQ_NP_618932-MLM26183901785_102017-F.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4mderi2X8ySx-LpXZlCncPGg79YRV5HejkXWesHopEAh083gRf66DWqhxxMXXiAEexOoTYxvetvttkAm-9l1OScbX-OEcPH8JMBYRdnj0Iwby1Zg-ASXI5Zfv81er2ztH1Tyoax4ux68/s320/star-wars-action-fleet-naboo-hangar-micromachine-halcon-D_NQ_NP_618932-MLM26183901785_102017-F.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The first one that I worked on was the Naboo Hanger playset, which pretty much came with all of the pieces that you can see in the pictures above. My idea was to make it fit in with the previous set that I'd converted, and so I thought that some serious remodeling of the original layout would be necessary.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJFMtdCXR9oCtZYy0s5jWRVyK8LVjN2svQ4f5OBPJpgnfRJT-T1NcICZMuLU6ov9REhnR9V1IlOT_y3RqRJZ6K13irs-svYOa5MqMJw1yep0fsSb1MmiXxY1yIse3W2sPDWMGEvdkebc/s2048/IMG_20200807_092336.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1057" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJFMtdCXR9oCtZYy0s5jWRVyK8LVjN2svQ4f5OBPJpgnfRJT-T1NcICZMuLU6ov9REhnR9V1IlOT_y3RqRJZ6K13irs-svYOa5MqMJw1yep0fsSb1MmiXxY1yIse3W2sPDWMGEvdkebc/s320/IMG_20200807_092336.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCsbPj4B3qTlh3P3jFMhgOP2Bd14d7bpOcdufUVn2Zm1UVSukezA7sWlS-JKmEpZQ1XI8MPzCLHl-b8g2BXlgeOq9Rz9SH4_lrBzyW0vjf7ctVhaVeoiZigfCnMSAYpYYKTzJZOKAXuWE/s2048/IMG_20200807_092347.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1585" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCsbPj4B3qTlh3P3jFMhgOP2Bd14d7bpOcdufUVn2Zm1UVSukezA7sWlS-JKmEpZQ1XI8MPzCLHl-b8g2BXlgeOq9Rz9SH4_lrBzyW0vjf7ctVhaVeoiZigfCnMSAYpYYKTzJZOKAXuWE/s320/IMG_20200807_092347.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuL96vdNnycs5aD1y-SofdnevR8JrO0LdUKUcS2tqf0pdl-sAF1-XuenFiNpbzOJ6IJPZz7mqcVJ2iAp1cuyhWkzewmYl-jaRT-U_2NSItQakFgKB2MEHj54yHEEP6DeO2muTgripxhTI/s2048/IMG_20200807_092357.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1235" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuL96vdNnycs5aD1y-SofdnevR8JrO0LdUKUcS2tqf0pdl-sAF1-XuenFiNpbzOJ6IJPZz7mqcVJ2iAp1cuyhWkzewmYl-jaRT-U_2NSItQakFgKB2MEHj54yHEEP6DeO2muTgripxhTI/s320/IMG_20200807_092357.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9MygQTKkUzCXSt3hy9bGsHtUW9SAAt8Dk11MgKVXCuO1p9LptFkI5oBEbaQYN9agWtudDuxWEzC-FM_ebLkXYB0SDZssEvVsaPM0XNMeQQbPuFPeqPW-shavs1tODJJ2NS3jHF8wnpic/s2048/IMG_20200807_092408.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1816" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9MygQTKkUzCXSt3hy9bGsHtUW9SAAt8Dk11MgKVXCuO1p9LptFkI5oBEbaQYN9agWtudDuxWEzC-FM_ebLkXYB0SDZssEvVsaPM0XNMeQQbPuFPeqPW-shavs1tODJJ2NS3jHF8wnpic/s320/IMG_20200807_092408.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I started off by using the upper section to create a second storey for the building, enclosing it and adding features from the Maelstroms Edge terrain sprue. Then I enclosed the lower hangers too, building the walls out of polystyrine and the rooves out of an old for sale sign topped off with corrugated card.<br /></p><p>I added an old printer cartridge and various bits from my pile around the model to add more gubbins and details, used filler to cover over the battle droids molded into the ground and also added a catwalk to the right-hand side of the build. This was made from the same material as the roof and a leftover MDF staircase, with granny grid for flooring and handrails made from old sprues.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzpoxruKlDZ5GYvPXRurTZ58y-3Wz6z6RqbvMhjy8S_9f6Tsl5_6_8byxWIuOvCI3iXLTOKbXqf7aUQ6gYI1HUvoIQAPYjBRN_VdozAlJb_fuHt41EjSPCateTPXq8DBhJzskfLK3pnX4/s2048/IMG_20201109_131402.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzpoxruKlDZ5GYvPXRurTZ58y-3Wz6z6RqbvMhjy8S_9f6Tsl5_6_8byxWIuOvCI3iXLTOKbXqf7aUQ6gYI1HUvoIQAPYjBRN_VdozAlJb_fuHt41EjSPCateTPXq8DBhJzskfLK3pnX4/s320/IMG_20201109_131402.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhes_Cg6bu5-AeqTcZfvMQ-xwdiecr_IEz-MxurnBDyR6N1bLSeSzPQaHHrsY1GrdgcmApMreQAiBZ55Nek_09SLhyphenhyphenhjKOlu_d2rvlalky_PvVFFpX9zhityN5JlXqULfmvDRRgU2Rgdkw/s2048/IMG_20201109_131421.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1276" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhes_Cg6bu5-AeqTcZfvMQ-xwdiecr_IEz-MxurnBDyR6N1bLSeSzPQaHHrsY1GrdgcmApMreQAiBZ55Nek_09SLhyphenhyphenhjKOlu_d2rvlalky_PvVFFpX9zhityN5JlXqULfmvDRRgU2Rgdkw/s320/IMG_20201109_131421.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfITjq2gtdQFIMinnPRNUTd7iSrGy1togacuZhIYybxwhOkIeKWE3cyQau5M35Y60jbpmSppD6JDSB20Iftc90dg8EjxgmDcb_ZCd_FOEljIod1DbfS_CmmbGd00gjj2FOcN-UNKq_V74/s2008/IMG_20201109_131433.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1969" data-original-width="2008" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfITjq2gtdQFIMinnPRNUTd7iSrGy1togacuZhIYybxwhOkIeKWE3cyQau5M35Y60jbpmSppD6JDSB20Iftc90dg8EjxgmDcb_ZCd_FOEljIod1DbfS_CmmbGd00gjj2FOcN-UNKq_V74/s320/IMG_20201109_131433.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhii8Wuj_2XiRnz8rlsrO_MrAmqpmjM03txdLAbeptlbpZYi4wDnBuToQnLIMcSdC3rsC9Zz7E4YzQEjSs4kJuxVwybybnldqqsYsZf6w3dAm6QClDx6C9UtGukJ55U_5zC_1-zMeQmRFM/s2048/IMG_20201109_131501.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1691" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhii8Wuj_2XiRnz8rlsrO_MrAmqpmjM03txdLAbeptlbpZYi4wDnBuToQnLIMcSdC3rsC9Zz7E4YzQEjSs4kJuxVwybybnldqqsYsZf6w3dAm6QClDx6C9UtGukJ55U_5zC_1-zMeQmRFM/s320/IMG_20201109_131501.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I used a paste of dried tea leaves in PVA glue to hide most of the sins on the front of the build, simulating some kind of moss or lichen, and then sealed the entire thing with mod podge. It was then primed in black and hit with graduated passes of grey and white from above, all using pound shop rattle cans.</p><p>I used Vallejo Black Red on the doors and Black Grey gubbins, which were dry-brushed with Red Leather and Light Grey respectively. The ground and the moss were first painted with a slate grey and a dark green emulsion and then dry-brushed with Light Grey and Golden Olive. Finally, everything was then hit with a heavy wash of black and burnt umber acrylics diluted with water and washing-up liquid, before being sealed with a spray of polyurethane varnish.</p><p>I was pleased with the results and even more pleased to have what should have been a pretty quick build off of my workbench and onto the gaming table - or at least it would have been, were it not for a certain fun-stopping pandemic...</p><p>As always, let me know what you think, either here or on social media.</p>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-78373064414184040732020-11-06T08:51:00.002-08:002020-11-09T06:02:42.150-08:00Far Corfe: Old School Chaos Warband<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEindsMhmNPNednOB9xIrO6hflHtXe4LIjuWuWfc1OVKqOQLGqOKcWeQr1-89uynlwbAMKQh72tzExVcZZyZ4D43M0kOOc1gccfxDrfoYVC-SRmSYrIsoRIMtfLCAp4ctZsrHRjYdpb85hA/s2048/Untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="2048" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEindsMhmNPNednOB9xIrO6hflHtXe4LIjuWuWfc1OVKqOQLGqOKcWeQr1-89uynlwbAMKQh72tzExVcZZyZ4D43M0kOOc1gccfxDrfoYVC-SRmSYrIsoRIMtfLCAp4ctZsrHRjYdpb85hA/w640-h482/Untitled.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>One thing I've always had the urge to do is create a bunch of chaotic rabble and unleash them on a gaming table somewhere. I think it comes from having one of the old Realms of Chaos books when I was younger and messing around with the Byzantine charts supposed to enable the reader to roll up a unique warband.<span><a name='more'></a></span><p></p><p>The only problem with that is you have to then go out and find the crazy collection of freaks and mutants that you managed to roll up, or else customise something to fit. So in the end, it just seemed an easier thing to me to make one out of the stuff that I had sitting around in my bits box.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkVNbmBrVX8dJ_GxYiLh3r3gc4ESp5ZYGPgR69yj2DMyxi_LCIn2v5_RZoDy2udhvzZoIBi6okyypj5toIhVDnKhoB98jvy4xciQWalYVMWfaR05f7yFSzGfuHT0BO-KuS_O3qf7xlzvU/s3148/IMG_20200728_165032.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="3148" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkVNbmBrVX8dJ_GxYiLh3r3gc4ESp5ZYGPgR69yj2DMyxi_LCIn2v5_RZoDy2udhvzZoIBi6okyypj5toIhVDnKhoB98jvy4xciQWalYVMWfaR05f7yFSzGfuHT0BO-KuS_O3qf7xlzvU/w400-h127/IMG_20200728_165032.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Work in progress...</div><p>I started out with the idea of just doing some Chaos Militia based on cultists, leftover parts from Mantic zombies and various sprues that have come free with hobby magazines over the years. But as always, things began to spin out of control. It might have been due to lockdown fever biting me on the ass, but whatever the cause, I was soon churning out far more miniatures than I had planned.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigA7cQulOsVLJ8GHskFGDRtBeaXD5DUL05t-Tx9bhqMbfkKV2m72Ct1_CzP0ptFlcj3-FJi_LR6hhkbw5oUTOfgAS8D2Zt1bGmJ5mOx310_75v_RTCNStHsorbReh6mTBZ65Bi0S5rqCk/s2682/IMG_20201106_135239.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="2682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigA7cQulOsVLJ8GHskFGDRtBeaXD5DUL05t-Tx9bhqMbfkKV2m72Ct1_CzP0ptFlcj3-FJi_LR6hhkbw5oUTOfgAS8D2Zt1bGmJ5mOx310_75v_RTCNStHsorbReh6mTBZ65Bi0S5rqCk/s320/IMG_20201106_135239.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGX41bZSwNFw0QIBYJnUUdyw0CqYnv0ZS2JdiCWIciBLsISQ5dVlJdkBhNK3VFTlKgulSXvXsfc-snG56Wkq2FxHuYP69DFwuigHLgf_kwjU0ImanaJzrWUyq3q79c1rrM9nADeDLKt8/s2724/IMG_20201106_135353.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1gF6aViUcqCPfm7JzjJNF9bkd9A62scJsq85kzVJU_8X5S90DuKNH49UE6drR7UDW2JzeQ9qIGqvyEePU2Di4_7YTrf-cn_rEAAy94juhurGoo7EkACeIEQM61kMTDT_OOCOSHdBO0Kw/s320/IMG_20201106_140446.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>These guys represent the core of the warband, a deliberately motley and mutated bunch of reprobates that could as easily be derelicts from a back-alley as corrupted members of the Imperial Guard. I tried to work in mutations from Slaves to Darkness wherever possible and keep their colours a fairly uniform palette of desaturated tones in order to give some sense of unity to the perpetually disunited.</p><p>The basic rule is that if the original mini was a GW cultist, then you chop off his head and replace it with one from a Bolt Action WW2 sprue. And if the mini was from a Bolt Action WW2 sprue, you do the exact opposite.</p><p>A friend commented that the scheme put him in mind of Ian Millers original illustrations in ink for the books, which was a nice compliment and helped me to be confident that I was building a force with an identity that would hold together once it was completed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcmY32nhEo1rjoP1y3LcuW8X_67kIHtWuWV-41-JK7UdknNAMDrM5RFl2Z5NVyj2OCSSuKHH8yRaXjJmYa1CT47HnODTtF4shd7ASpsQDSDL32KwlOuDUR6APOABEezsB6qRAfZ5pCPKA/s2048/IMG_20201106_134927.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcmY32nhEo1rjoP1y3LcuW8X_67kIHtWuWV-41-JK7UdknNAMDrM5RFl2Z5NVyj2OCSSuKHH8yRaXjJmYa1CT47HnODTtF4shd7ASpsQDSDL32KwlOuDUR6APOABEezsB6qRAfZ5pCPKA/s320/IMG_20201106_134927.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I added some more irregulars, such as some little guys and a heavy weapon specialist. But my favourite by far turned out to be the big guy in shot above, a converted Guidball mini that I ended up calling "The Jolly Rotter" on account of him reminding me of the happy mascot on the old Little Chef signs you used to see on your travels here in the UK.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1oCVXHW3PDOBzwlMNlfELk_bXCbZUlArzsn2TXzDxV6Y_adSDtBRmp-j0XLaekooXKyFonUwAXaKcuvRFrm80yB4IP-pMSzgX5UYy540l-0KKtwlaHI7xtjqck-lKF4_ixBq_ySaGTw0/s2612/IMG_20201106_133358.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1204" data-original-width="2612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1oCVXHW3PDOBzwlMNlfELk_bXCbZUlArzsn2TXzDxV6Y_adSDtBRmp-j0XLaekooXKyFonUwAXaKcuvRFrm80yB4IP-pMSzgX5UYy540l-0KKtwlaHI7xtjqck-lKF4_ixBq_ySaGTw0/s320/IMG_20201106_133358.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">I've always wanted to add Beastmen to a 40k force ever since realising that they were classed as a type of abhuman in the rules. But the GW ones are far too expensive (IMHO) and so it was a relief to be able to pick up a couple from Crooked Dice in their sale. I did manage to get one GW beasty and replaced his standard pole with a jezzail, then added a beastmaster in the form of a chaos warrior that had been deprived of his weapons.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Chaos warriors and renegades seem to be getting into the realms of silly prices on eBay too right now, and so ending up with ones that have been abused by their former owners is becoming something of a regular thing. This guy got a hook from one of the AOS Unmade and a shock baton from the AdMec Skitarii box too.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I do want to add more to the beastman pack, but it depends on when and where I can get my hands on decent examples at a reasonable price.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPq88d4YnnAY47kqCN-4JiXHgGFg-M3aRnbDEV_MNgKeix9ChkMuRCrxvhf6rCqCKbGuqV2xP2_AyFAErfy_nrcTnsFxml-ZRgtT4vI1jhvSxnSq58Ek0lNsjkeWCAUoyFM4DOIMqEJwE/s2048/IMG_20201106_135129.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPq88d4YnnAY47kqCN-4JiXHgGFg-M3aRnbDEV_MNgKeix9ChkMuRCrxvhf6rCqCKbGuqV2xP2_AyFAErfy_nrcTnsFxml-ZRgtT4vI1jhvSxnSq58Ek0lNsjkeWCAUoyFM4DOIMqEJwE/s320/IMG_20201106_135129.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Almost everyone in the hobby must have at least one sprue of IG on their hands by now, and I was no exception, so these guys ended up becoming a Traitor Guard squad with the addition of new heads from Puppets War. The cultist leader made an easy conversion into a fallen Commissar too, with a Bolt Action head from a certain WW2 army once the incriminating badges were scraped off...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I see these guys as kind of an elite, a squad that's only recently succumbed to the temptations of the eightfold path and still retains most of it's focus and discipline, unlike the main body of rabble that are well on their way to becoming little more than crazed savages.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKmjBLClRjSOiVVJ6sKRLQT_bULObASiKhAOIHnpDtRoJHrwf4Ea2k8XiDPHWmuEpgdK4q8hIuWkXkE6xcb14tohle-MkzQYVUtm822LrDAD2mdF3FRt7eLAx-XhvZpxfPw19GaF56Z3E/s2684/IMG_20201106_133028.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="2684" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKmjBLClRjSOiVVJ6sKRLQT_bULObASiKhAOIHnpDtRoJHrwf4Ea2k8XiDPHWmuEpgdK4q8hIuWkXkE6xcb14tohle-MkzQYVUtm822LrDAD2mdF3FRt7eLAx-XhvZpxfPw19GaF56Z3E/s320/IMG_20201106_133028.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimbXDCX7FKC5jPOPk9PeUW9l7BAU3Q7G8HXQNhXjD74HVO9hCXpy66wsDRRsKa44HTT1cdfE0WWvgZzO2Tp0LdMyGZhOS2GhmKo1Hs7KZgu8LL_5GK5B9MOP5agZ4bbjc_sgbu37qKjkY/s2048/IMG_20201106_133126.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1101" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimbXDCX7FKC5jPOPk9PeUW9l7BAU3Q7G8HXQNhXjD74HVO9hCXpy66wsDRRsKa44HTT1cdfE0WWvgZzO2Tp0LdMyGZhOS2GhmKo1Hs7KZgu8LL_5GK5B9MOP5agZ4bbjc_sgbu37qKjkY/s320/IMG_20201106_133126.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAfV5zt7j6mkH1fa6-nNzou46tYMUtIQWg9ZIycHglgr61g4OM0TQL_pN33jAUVPiS3x-Qo6A_ticKW8Yrqv7vJDpKEFsvVhYCMIF1gyd2BMFQSSgSSo4q7hhCnTqvY6uD0mhAp8UrfpA/s2048/IMG_20201106_133157.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1061" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAfV5zt7j6mkH1fa6-nNzou46tYMUtIQWg9ZIycHglgr61g4OM0TQL_pN33jAUVPiS3x-Qo6A_ticKW8Yrqv7vJDpKEFsvVhYCMIF1gyd2BMFQSSgSSo4q7hhCnTqvY6uD0mhAp8UrfpA/s320/IMG_20201106_133157.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Of course the ultimate elite and the leadership of the warband lies with the Chaos Space Marines, who were a very rewarding experience to assemble and put together. They come from all over the place, brand new and recycled from decades ago. Some are even Chaos Warriors or Bloodbowl star players converted to add an even more unique aspect to the warband.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Chaos Lord in terminator armour was based on a pretty much ruined Abaddon carcass and the colour scheme was intended to show the sheer age and ground-in filth that a pack of ancient renegades would have built up on their armour over the millennia. I see them never removing it either, so they must smell delightful when you get up close.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So there you have it - let me know what you think, either here or on social media.</div></div>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-69440489835013315642020-10-22T14:03:00.001-07:002020-10-23T01:07:13.114-07:00Trash Terrain: Nerf Cooling Tower<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkCUFiK_5rvj-FCw9AisT5IQOhjRb8xUcXK01-228ybOpfyw-st2PQh7xPXPy6dwJ94T2U0bD2Vgei2EAma7xGwjbLXd6jjADQhB9NVrBGM6FlC-PKsITfcSnewgqda3A2_qm2TU2Y-TM/s2048/Untitled.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1145" data-original-width="2048" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkCUFiK_5rvj-FCw9AisT5IQOhjRb8xUcXK01-228ybOpfyw-st2PQh7xPXPy6dwJ94T2U0bD2Vgei2EAma7xGwjbLXd6jjADQhB9NVrBGM6FlC-PKsITfcSnewgqda3A2_qm2TU2Y-TM/w640-h358/Untitled.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Urban Explorers encounter Rad-Zombies within the Exclusion Zone</div><br />Nerf guns were never something that I personally owned, probably because I became old and fossilised by the time they were doing the rounds. Sure, I picked a couple up in charity shops at times and had a go at painting them up to look like something that you might find on the set of a Sci-Fi TV show. But I never actually set out to buy one, let alone amass an armoury of the things either.<span><a name='more'></a></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxSiBT7XitNNYu8SfUZYnNRfNiATNiVLQFaNaclSsRu1QEMrdLM55PHdEsKyIxLHEy1wmnPx4M7GPfY2mTdWPk76ke5rEEyBHTE-bMq1zAwdS9sXVkyO_t6ZEEq0FXdU83CXmx0cY2c8w/s2048/IMG_20200917_105918.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1249" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxSiBT7XitNNYu8SfUZYnNRfNiATNiVLQFaNaclSsRu1QEMrdLM55PHdEsKyIxLHEy1wmnPx4M7GPfY2mTdWPk76ke5rEEyBHTE-bMq1zAwdS9sXVkyO_t6ZEEq0FXdU83CXmx0cY2c8w/s320/IMG_20200917_105918.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A Nerf gun painted up as a Sci-Fi pistol, such as any normal person might happen to own...</div><div><br /></div>All of that changed when my friend Mike told me he was being forced to do a better job of pretending to be an adult and so needed to offload a ton of Nerf guns that he could no longer get away with keeping stashed in his house. Admittedly, most of these were supposed to be for my own kids, but some of the stuff he brought was too battered to function as an actual gun, and so it went straight into the queue to be made into terrain.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_F1UrGNUiizvASBYBtAKstIgk5cxqf06RR8cjqJGsGiiAt0Z00PR9i0edBpo1XO5bOrbMKtf2AW-ZIQg8hDwIFwoMzaWmlLzUKJDDDu44oD03fIcwyVz0AwP5SrE_w3RJhBXaEiYR0hs/s1121/IMG_20200930_121245.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1121" data-original-width="798" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_F1UrGNUiizvASBYBtAKstIgk5cxqf06RR8cjqJGsGiiAt0Z00PR9i0edBpo1XO5bOrbMKtf2AW-ZIQg8hDwIFwoMzaWmlLzUKJDDDu44oD03fIcwyVz0AwP5SrE_w3RJhBXaEiYR0hs/s320/IMG_20200930_121245.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Millennial Mike - last seen pretending to be an adult...</div><br /><div>One of these pieces was the barrel of a Nerf gun that immediately cried out to me as looking like something from an industrial wasteland, and so that was the exact direction that I took it in, knowing this would be a quick, but hopefully effective project to pull off.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFnyzDicHjC1chvOEiovnRGaKdN_-fO7xA3NhFx25i5QNg2oBOA1riMl6XzzMzBV87p_xgcobnf7PoXt5vLQwb8DOFaV6StVZXgv8h_FcUL9QanUH0Uh1RqV5peD5pD_m5L2DIncy2vK8/s2508/IMG_20201007_131526.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="1254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFnyzDicHjC1chvOEiovnRGaKdN_-fO7xA3NhFx25i5QNg2oBOA1riMl6XzzMzBV87p_xgcobnf7PoXt5vLQwb8DOFaV6StVZXgv8h_FcUL9QanUH0Uh1RqV5peD5pD_m5L2DIncy2vK8/s320/IMG_20201007_131526.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Nerf gun barrel in it's original colours</div><br /><div>All I needed to do was attach the barrel to a CD for a base and add some bits to make it look a little more part of the environment. A bottle cap on top gave the look of a vent and a boom from a Micro Machines Action Fleet set helped to break up one side, while a sprue fitted the other perfectly. The base was just coated in PVA and then covered with Budgie grit before the whole thing was primed black and then hit with layers of grey and white.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZAR_ShyphenhyphenpU3Ym6-89VdbOJITGAQHPU4YSwnssnPLMR7vcTbMb5iTnKbHY7HDe6XJKyabuprfsOBJV-tFhN4B4jxxHHMwu6HNVlG8I1VY_gu96OufMEWLW2mBaPE-wBqXnRCStifcavtto/s2508/IMG_20201022_162409.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="1254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZAR_ShyphenhyphenpU3Ym6-89VdbOJITGAQHPU4YSwnssnPLMR7vcTbMb5iTnKbHY7HDe6XJKyabuprfsOBJV-tFhN4B4jxxHHMwu6HNVlG8I1VY_gu96OufMEWLW2mBaPE-wBqXnRCStifcavtto/s320/IMG_20201022_162409.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnievslkkvccQgpnHOX3DdxcmNM2taZGYI3IsO68SqB3Qf2MJDzyKolmKQrANEI4IVtUU94YIFZwn7rZzjmeatxZnN90Q2O00BLwQG4HMo_nJPj5i3mULsF0o2hY0XVuey5D_T4TsCsiU/s2508/IMG_20201022_162418.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="1254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnievslkkvccQgpnHOX3DdxcmNM2taZGYI3IsO68SqB3Qf2MJDzyKolmKQrANEI4IVtUU94YIFZwn7rZzjmeatxZnN90Q2O00BLwQG4HMo_nJPj5i3mULsF0o2hY0XVuey5D_T4TsCsiU/s320/IMG_20201022_162418.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><p>Last of all I weathered the entire thing with a sponge, using black and brown craft paints and then washed it with the same paints watered down. The base got a coat of slate grey emulsion and then a highlight with a light grey to finish it off and I sealed the whole lot with matt varnish.</p><p>Not the most exciting of builds, but the result was a large piece of terrain that will work in a number of settings and situations, and which cost almost nothing to put together in terms of the components used and the materials required to get it to the tabletop.</p><p>As always, let me know what you think, either here or on social media.</p></div>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-48187814764364258482020-10-06T06:25:00.003-07:002020-10-06T06:26:59.949-07:00Battle Report: "Double Tap" from One Page Rules<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgORI_XYmb27EVKVR8yoFwPoP-yfnSfVD-G7muNMsVxcebqikQwZSw9g53Gif7McwbVya6jq0y1U8FAnTjte2nBPY-nCgoa-nCfHArHDfPfa5zPt7HIFbYL04bze7j8xrBxQxLSc9FXAsQ/s2048/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1117" data-original-width="2048" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgORI_XYmb27EVKVR8yoFwPoP-yfnSfVD-G7muNMsVxcebqikQwZSw9g53Gif7McwbVya6jq0y1U8FAnTjte2nBPY-nCgoa-nCfHArHDfPfa5zPt7HIFbYL04bze7j8xrBxQxLSc9FXAsQ/w640-h350/1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Double Tap - the battleground, the gangs and the opponent...</div><p></p><p>I got a message from a fellow gamer and friend a week or so back, letting me know that it was his birthday coming up and asking if I was free to host a quick game on the actual day, and seeing as how my schedule was pretty flexible that week, I said yes and began to haul out some terrain in anticipation of his arrival.</p><span></span><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGf1qSUGqP8vrB0YfjADBovjbzC3NEc3JdLfV7St9MHug4Ymdq8K_vvnVI2fWT93xeEv9XofNQ9vwzajleWvPR0Kszw9SONUKHMivbGoUWjSc5PP9cYskqPenr8dnsEsrXnhJDfFL7gp8/s2048/IMG_20200930_0932252.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjVuHk-uVsR8LkX4aDGVfFsK5qe1BcpGdc69S2qfhKmtFpcVKNMlTyOPsVwekI3aeT5_aFXJOa3ItRVtLhtNMOmHY0dCURSJ744EuntvP0VpWJFb-1KoJ2MYj8cMrrnjkMGTtqrfKgEFw/s2508/IMG_20200930_101227.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjVuHk-uVsR8LkX4aDGVfFsK5qe1BcpGdc69S2qfhKmtFpcVKNMlTyOPsVwekI3aeT5_aFXJOa3ItRVtLhtNMOmHY0dCURSJ744EuntvP0VpWJFb-1KoJ2MYj8cMrrnjkMGTtqrfKgEFw/s320/IMG_20200930_101227.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I tried my best to make the board interesting and provide a number of awkward obstacles as well as spots for the gangs to hide and snipe at each other from. The it was just a case of breaking out a couple of likely gangs.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAHM-jUxEFgujAV9Ydeh3aXmd5m00QcOUf7m5uONA89XtcyfumHEIddXqMhiiAa05SM4amGnXoFIYcUn9PLjQO6brAk32HOZy3423tMoIdoLQ-uRxRvdRd1IOKsmQMw3D8n9983CncCfc/s2508/IMG_20200930_102311.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAHM-jUxEFgujAV9Ydeh3aXmd5m00QcOUf7m5uONA89XtcyfumHEIddXqMhiiAa05SM4amGnXoFIYcUn9PLjQO6brAk32HOZy3423tMoIdoLQ-uRxRvdRd1IOKsmQMw3D8n9983CncCfc/s320/IMG_20200930_102311.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv-ND8TaZ5vJTPV0eYnlq2Rvuu_WEY2xRw6_siqINMrWKu3DEyQ4GqBl8j8oIVtvo28LcGmrKuYF19m4Vvje4OSs65Pl7ObfMb58skAgcV1XfQ-IKSQtnGiE3Ytzqe1F-KBFab7TODjD8/s2508/IMG_20200930_102330.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv-ND8TaZ5vJTPV0eYnlq2Rvuu_WEY2xRw6_siqINMrWKu3DEyQ4GqBl8j8oIVtvo28LcGmrKuYF19m4Vvje4OSs65Pl7ObfMb58skAgcV1XfQ-IKSQtnGiE3Ytzqe1F-KBFab7TODjD8/s320/IMG_20200930_102330.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Bikers versus Punks seemed to be a natural fit for such a gritty, urban board and so I settled on the Future Wars minis by Copplestone Castings, with the option of adding a heavy to each. When Mike turned up, he had the rules for Double Tap from One Page Rules, and we quickly began putting together a couple of gangs.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfZb2SeBjoHQ3rMOCcCzAy-dgo0PVtAhSDLl4a_YfeDPFwAr8oljhv7J1Rjgerd9lno0ODoE6xCyi7ntc1zZo0r62I-hzWkNgDt1QIpRyecuBcaqlbeWg0dHzU3tybB2udCHhq2mw9tGY/s2508/IMG_20200930_113411.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfZb2SeBjoHQ3rMOCcCzAy-dgo0PVtAhSDLl4a_YfeDPFwAr8oljhv7J1Rjgerd9lno0ODoE6xCyi7ntc1zZo0r62I-hzWkNgDt1QIpRyecuBcaqlbeWg0dHzU3tybB2udCHhq2mw9tGY/s320/IMG_20200930_113411.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIEabyJ70k-P8z9qf_DSer1gxreH5fyU2hVD7QezZfaJCr_qKNImO2n__PchzMCcF64G_CC-bAJtgj_nsl_AOhC5BUGvbiT0Yj-bot_RGaVICQGnvaB3iLuBbF5NvdBqhH342X8U0l7aM/s2508/IMG_20200930_113401.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIEabyJ70k-P8z9qf_DSer1gxreH5fyU2hVD7QezZfaJCr_qKNImO2n__PchzMCcF64G_CC-bAJtgj_nsl_AOhC5BUGvbiT0Yj-bot_RGaVICQGnvaB3iLuBbF5NvdBqhH342X8U0l7aM/s320/IMG_20200930_113401.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Mike chose to play as the Bikers, adding his own leader in the shape of "Mike the Combat Data Analyst", which left me with the Punks. Six gangers a side and with a pretty balanced roster, we set about actually playing the game.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8_zvjD7qTP6vaUlODS9h7AdRmrYogT_wbbpC5chgJ_jvwo1l6-B_Tc3M3H2MJ17cItUXH1psn41GbSkbb78R3RbchzAkHjPWI9HVpp1H3hm1UYeRsjufJHoTgWuzDFvYJVxsSGUF0TdU/s2508/IMG_20200930_114519.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8_zvjD7qTP6vaUlODS9h7AdRmrYogT_wbbpC5chgJ_jvwo1l6-B_Tc3M3H2MJ17cItUXH1psn41GbSkbb78R3RbchzAkHjPWI9HVpp1H3hm1UYeRsjufJHoTgWuzDFvYJVxsSGUF0TdU/s320/IMG_20200930_114519.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVlTyJX82qqysfmpb8-xVlX1RZa6qs31gS1xwLUJ9pbfSbGIAupcWCSmj_VGHMYEzuF_LAecocDOvgl5DJyuRG3iAOM7vJZqvcx4gNQu41NsUSUzbL4iFWFwOhkXVPVgri0SCiINbqO0/s2508/IMG_20200930_114529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVlTyJX82qqysfmpb8-xVlX1RZa6qs31gS1xwLUJ9pbfSbGIAupcWCSmj_VGHMYEzuF_LAecocDOvgl5DJyuRG3iAOM7vJZqvcx4gNQu41NsUSUzbL4iFWFwOhkXVPVgri0SCiINbqO0/s320/IMG_20200930_114529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>With us both placing one of the objective markers atop a building (the petrol station and the brownstone respectively), both gangs immediately split into teams of three and began to make dashes towards their targets. Mike lead his troops onto the roof of the petrol station and sent his other guys towards the brownstone. My guys countered by sending a trio to the petrol station too, squatting behind a camper van and another three towards the brownstone, using a bendy bus for cover.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXY5bxkd-cu9B3Cwvr2xUW-T22BVsQfzgrfhaJQUGmZTjMxBsUtSY2aKtAiCGmf_KLDdHdp5T6gB2PGqtDwrGIDUKup2Cw3aOedxi0XnJIvjZsHt9cw03iCfYUqsxRgl8Obsatkwewhx0/s2508/IMG_20200930_115246.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXY5bxkd-cu9B3Cwvr2xUW-T22BVsQfzgrfhaJQUGmZTjMxBsUtSY2aKtAiCGmf_KLDdHdp5T6gB2PGqtDwrGIDUKup2Cw3aOedxi0XnJIvjZsHt9cw03iCfYUqsxRgl8Obsatkwewhx0/s320/IMG_20200930_115246.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUNvAIK_TQNqa1hhfJa_gO84-fp4Lj892_bk-JZ2ZhQXo16brxxufHrX_IS_2gSdqo_hrkyGlQ9Pm-RLHHiJ-5oCQQ7Jr6k8OatNHDDx7KZGuVLBVnmoFlkxoHtqwO4eY6ekCE_xnQZj0/s2508/IMG_20200930_115303.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUNvAIK_TQNqa1hhfJa_gO84-fp4Lj892_bk-JZ2ZhQXo16brxxufHrX_IS_2gSdqo_hrkyGlQ9Pm-RLHHiJ-5oCQQ7Jr6k8OatNHDDx7KZGuVLBVnmoFlkxoHtqwO4eY6ekCE_xnQZj0/s320/IMG_20200930_115303.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The start of the next round saw Mike's guys clambering onto the roof of the petrol station to secure the first objective while the rest of them climbed into the brownstone via a back window. My first trio made it to the front of the petrol station too, ready to pop up next round. But the three punks making for the brownstone came under heavy fire from the top of the petrol station, bullets ripping through the windows of the bus to finish off the punk with the SMG.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4VcVmsXW5xujZL5BzadYnYq1c-cLQa7qB3zC9yV_gUc2HJvZcVGqoidR1prSpA6E1fwjeWsRaMPBJAYmnDyWaGB4u9qAMdtmv0rmmrpEYQiDPJ0IcQCx48s5N5JLxDl5Z1MAQxTovA_4/s2508/IMG_20200930_115946.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4VcVmsXW5xujZL5BzadYnYq1c-cLQa7qB3zC9yV_gUc2HJvZcVGqoidR1prSpA6E1fwjeWsRaMPBJAYmnDyWaGB4u9qAMdtmv0rmmrpEYQiDPJ0IcQCx48s5N5JLxDl5Z1MAQxTovA_4/s320/IMG_20200930_115946.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHGY_SPrElpA3RN6U89tOIipCjab10bZ_y2w-fEan59VUEJaC7EbKRCah9k7RluLi_II14-yC2AKzXp1sta9qTr0kdBFza_w9e100BfjOQ4owy3_RqogBUHBDPISFC9scnn1JfkqY3ypM/s2508/IMG_20200930_120002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHGY_SPrElpA3RN6U89tOIipCjab10bZ_y2w-fEan59VUEJaC7EbKRCah9k7RluLi_II14-yC2AKzXp1sta9qTr0kdBFza_w9e100BfjOQ4owy3_RqogBUHBDPISFC9scnn1JfkqY3ypM/s320/IMG_20200930_120002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Though Mike had already drawn first blood, things didn't go as well for him as soon as my guys climbed up onto the roof of the petrol station. In the vicious firefight that followed, two of his bikers (including his leader) were cut down and the last guy chose to dive off the roof to escape a similar fate. Meanwhile, in the stairwell of the brownstone, his guys had a two storey lead on mine in the race for the second objective.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHqP6rSH2NmHSQDorEVHVFiwdbrwUGTEL5iXpgsRpXhq2k1kZdS1znvzWzdHeQ3aEoWO8FsQvnIFy4SD9eRy5KPWDkBaC_X23emKG08qhy_Pc_MiqmaNfGk9HXo68QrO0W2VhlZJsS1Qs/s2508/IMG_20200930_120716.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="1254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHqP6rSH2NmHSQDorEVHVFiwdbrwUGTEL5iXpgsRpXhq2k1kZdS1znvzWzdHeQ3aEoWO8FsQvnIFy4SD9eRy5KPWDkBaC_X23emKG08qhy_Pc_MiqmaNfGk9HXo68QrO0W2VhlZJsS1Qs/s320/IMG_20200930_120716.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI2gXjKPrB24DtY2DsQw_nKqQQySQhYWx8ozpANJAW9PNoUuGSPRJQYliq3xz0kvcWAK2hIjEycuu_ahWkRdw6Jp4aji4ptP_PxM0U8kD48qUjX1TMn7uehfNnJUsHVJM5muxYF6Eq1fM/s2508/IMG_20200930_120721.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI2gXjKPrB24DtY2DsQw_nKqQQySQhYWx8ozpANJAW9PNoUuGSPRJQYliq3xz0kvcWAK2hIjEycuu_ahWkRdw6Jp4aji4ptP_PxM0U8kD48qUjX1TMn7uehfNnJUsHVJM5muxYF6Eq1fM/s320/IMG_20200930_120721.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Although it felt like the tide was shifting in my favour, the next round saw a disastrous reverse of fortunes for the Punks, as Mike's guys in the brownstone split up, two of them bursting out onto the balcony and gunning down my guys across the street. The other, armed with a flamethrower, stayed to hose the stairwell with flames, killing off the last of my Punks on their heels.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTcH8D1_flMc8Uz4cpyx2f_Fh0Vfz5-3GeAM59WMqxv72ptkxee1b4v0ZJ3mUMSBr-lb8vbnheBRqQpRI5QBLUhUw9J-6hexKAAmhCjlZcd03Ujuwr-kAYPL_AUtvIUBctP-ypzXbiT8U/s2508/IMG_20200930_121028.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2508" data-original-width="1254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTcH8D1_flMc8Uz4cpyx2f_Fh0Vfz5-3GeAM59WMqxv72ptkxee1b4v0ZJ3mUMSBr-lb8vbnheBRqQpRI5QBLUhUw9J-6hexKAAmhCjlZcd03Ujuwr-kAYPL_AUtvIUBctP-ypzXbiT8U/s320/IMG_20200930_121028.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmKBBvLvDJ5cOt6OYODQ1sKxhblaCqaYUu59PhyXBZN9kTZIhG1-PQ34mTZSYk4A7tbD8Oim8-_X9AmPOsAHWJpGN5Pxd8P-CQGkuUorMa1KalEcuC7zJ4R2_RPijR5cKRanJ-H4c8H_4/s2508/IMG_20200930_121148.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmKBBvLvDJ5cOt6OYODQ1sKxhblaCqaYUu59PhyXBZN9kTZIhG1-PQ34mTZSYk4A7tbD8Oim8-_X9AmPOsAHWJpGN5Pxd8P-CQGkuUorMa1KalEcuC7zJ4R2_RPijR5cKRanJ-H4c8H_4/s320/IMG_20200930_121148.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Of course, as soon as the coast was clear, the biker that had fled the roof of the petrol station came crawling back out like a vulture to reclaim the objective marker. And that was it, game over - I was probably letting Mike win on an unconscious level, what with it being his birthday and all. But I'm sure there'll be a rematch in the near future, one in which the Punks can win back some of their glory from those greasy Bikers and their pen-pushing leader!</p><p>All in all, this set of rules was a hell of a lot of fun to play and very quick to learn, with the few issues we encountered able to be resolved on the fly with a small application of common sense. To say that Double Tap is so easily available and speedy to get a game going with, you'd be mad not to have a copy saved somewhere, just in case someone wants a game at short notice.</p>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-22097787517069223642020-09-14T05:11:00.000-07:002020-09-14T05:11:23.562-07:00Far Corfe: Chthonian Horror<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_SW2epHJtkdQZDIKV6KLFRAbKxXQLFI2QF8SEJP-CTjYIsbf423tp9hUjEa56HJoGFevNdEU78f0nBoyjji8DtKM7osqdxo2h95X8QyGcXFS0HGAWACkpIPk8iguT0Djvybm_eV_lBOM/s2048/IMG_20200914_093256.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1259" data-original-width="2048" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_SW2epHJtkdQZDIKV6KLFRAbKxXQLFI2QF8SEJP-CTjYIsbf423tp9hUjEa56HJoGFevNdEU78f0nBoyjji8DtKM7osqdxo2h95X8QyGcXFS0HGAWACkpIPk8iguT0Djvybm_eV_lBOM/w625-h385/IMG_20200914_093256.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Even though they outnumbered it six to one, the Punks couldn't help thinking this was not going to go their way...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Whenever you get a new film dropping for a major franchise, you can guarantee that there's going to be a raft of merchandise released on its heels in order for the biggest possible cash-in. And you can also guarantee that a certain amount of that stuff is going to end up being sold off at a discount too.<p></p><p>Recently the three inch scale Rathtar (the squidgy thing that Han Solo has aboard his ship at the start of The Force Awakens) started turning up on the cheap in some stores, and seeing as how some people hasd already used it in 28mm to 32mm builds, I picked one up to do the same myself.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKpmfxJOVa5alI60BV34geA2K9XmCIV8gz5ghimTBuFVCi-as9_okccU4Q0x9bIE95nJ7vhKqtRSEjyRjvF8GAIC3vcQFHhuew79r670e6t7m0Ey3yYeMU5yvEJyWpiADoLq9InlXDaYM/s2508/IMG_20200717_192220.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKpmfxJOVa5alI60BV34geA2K9XmCIV8gz5ghimTBuFVCi-as9_okccU4Q0x9bIE95nJ7vhKqtRSEjyRjvF8GAIC3vcQFHhuew79r670e6t7m0Ey3yYeMU5yvEJyWpiADoLq9InlXDaYM/w500-h250/IMG_20200717_192220.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Rathtar languishes alongside various other projects in the noontime sun.</div><p>Though I'd seen the thing chopped in two and made to emerge from a magical portal, I decided to keep it intact and have the thing free to move around on its own base. So I mounted it on a wooden dowel and used an old CD for the base itself.</p><p>Luckily for me, I had some pieces of expanding foam left over from another project, and so I used one of these to make the bulk of the base, figuring that I could use the strange, random shape it had assumed in some way.</p><p>I primed the Rathtar black and then gave it a zenithal highlight in white, both from pound-shop rattle cans, followed by a basecoat of Vallejo Hull Red. I picked out the spots with Nazdreg Yellow and the fleshy parts of the mouth with Voluptuous Pink.</p><p>Last of all, I went over all the areas of red with Army Painter Purple Tone, in order to give the impression that the entire thing was slick and dripping with extruded fluids that most likely stink to high heaven and burn like battery acid too.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFHyH-lKKeqFocZxVx1HS-99sD-vt4xCHXxds35-4AppyOJT3ZTsFLWr0DtzJUNRyOk5Q8iHIMCtcryEylz-Az6nvQCoMlskNwWesFAbkxmU7QPqJ7IoCC0UpW6POHXZSYsineYydqgQ/s2048/IMG_20200914_093803.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1247" data-original-width="2048" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFHyH-lKKeqFocZxVx1HS-99sD-vt4xCHXxds35-4AppyOJT3ZTsFLWr0DtzJUNRyOk5Q8iHIMCtcryEylz-Az6nvQCoMlskNwWesFAbkxmU7QPqJ7IoCC0UpW6POHXZSYsineYydqgQ/w500-h305/IMG_20200914_093803.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFq6KA-btPbNzqLC42ZM2uwq9GEicshbP5IYi9_pImtk-Zzbk02ZbMMQI7S0XvMIjEjXAbhhSd4rdNN4pkNci4IwLV-k23XAHK8hq-Qn9cAyc4dVIVhhWTYbcN05qa5erE4ePAFWPng3M/s2048/IMG_20200914_093754.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1145" data-original-width="2048" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFq6KA-btPbNzqLC42ZM2uwq9GEicshbP5IYi9_pImtk-Zzbk02ZbMMQI7S0XvMIjEjXAbhhSd4rdNN4pkNci4IwLV-k23XAHK8hq-Qn9cAyc4dVIVhhWTYbcN05qa5erE4ePAFWPng3M/w500-h280/IMG_20200914_093754.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><p>There was a weird shape on the foam that looked like a tentacle of some kind, and so I tried to work it in as looking like the monstrosity was somehow manifesting itself from the ground below, which I think I kind of managed to pull off.</p><p>So, short post this time round, but what do you think?</p><p>This disgusting thing could easily serve as an alien creature, summoned demon or any number of unpleasant things in a table-top game.</p><p>Let me know what you think in the comments below or on social media, and I hope to be back soon with some shots of the Chaos Warband that I've been working on recently.</p><p>Here's a sneak peak:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsnbrzuBWHLfehvNd5XeY3ZA9VES-u1iQklfBl_FcKyouSL9Xd6iJL4IW3cK9qmJzsikZPSYop0YTXuPD6s8Kp_3MLarK94gNOrZBCTtbM1e6LGdqdI8kgZ5VfUIVkbgVXRK6wXQZPUY/s2508/IMG_20200911_221018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsnbrzuBWHLfehvNd5XeY3ZA9VES-u1iQklfBl_FcKyouSL9Xd6iJL4IW3cK9qmJzsikZPSYop0YTXuPD6s8Kp_3MLarK94gNOrZBCTtbM1e6LGdqdI8kgZ5VfUIVkbgVXRK6wXQZPUY/w500-h250/IMG_20200911_221018.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8LDNNHzJUkb9bQ0b5kcCk7NWCzNIG_nvJmgE6rTHIDB1DG4DFK7ZPclasSrDrybh3B3qlzGN-bNqkAAO8q03_3MwQ6uIRDooHzzwMno2BU8o6ToTWxXSlVWSDrlJipGsKfiwW4chgX_o/s2048/119427923_321809532229048_8033394051342276216_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1024" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8LDNNHzJUkb9bQ0b5kcCk7NWCzNIG_nvJmgE6rTHIDB1DG4DFK7ZPclasSrDrybh3B3qlzGN-bNqkAAO8q03_3MwQ6uIRDooHzzwMno2BU8o6ToTWxXSlVWSDrlJipGsKfiwW4chgX_o/w250-h500/119427923_321809532229048_8033394051342276216_n.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-18063165008777414672020-09-04T02:39:00.002-07:002020-09-04T02:39:39.296-07:00Trash Terrain: Hostile Environment Hab-Pods<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX_y-_XlPogV2YfJyGIRxz26986ozwIdTMWbg72NZv4_oyyKEg4hK7K0NFv66JIrKHWyXBG_R-6slcFMNQy4Vba6NzV_td98PKoBglTO_t46As9dhSXDSt2OCoKL1K2QRq4NwxYjqVPCk/s2508/IMG_20200903_194831.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX_y-_XlPogV2YfJyGIRxz26986ozwIdTMWbg72NZv4_oyyKEg4hK7K0NFv66JIrKHWyXBG_R-6slcFMNQy4Vba6NzV_td98PKoBglTO_t46As9dhSXDSt2OCoKL1K2QRq4NwxYjqVPCk/w625-h313/IMG_20200903_194831.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A tense mercenary band scopes out an abandoned scientific outpost...</div><br />I'm always seeing really nice stuff that other people are building on their blogs and social media posts, often out of the most unlikely and ingenious things that they find lying around the place. And to be honest, it makes me jealous and gives me the kind of itchy palms that can only be relived by doing the same thing myself.<span><a name='more'></a></span><p></p><p>This means that whenever I'm out and about, I'm always on the look out for a potential new project or something that might look good stuck onto something else. An while in Wilkinson's recently, I came across some cheap plastic dishes that were being sold to be used as a drawer tidy, and as they were pretty cheap, I grabbed four of them.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzRzmCDmvWesg2IxC3eRF9unw9MD-mvnZaLNBujHe-_sqoLtLncjfesOTicZFW3VWpk-tBnEJwSiA6PuObK-XM95DxqcC-OXWl_wP72AHqusPqEMkcicG8S5ZAu55P4j4cBkM6htgR2Pg/s2048/IMG_20200815_213032.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1184" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzRzmCDmvWesg2IxC3eRF9unw9MD-mvnZaLNBujHe-_sqoLtLncjfesOTicZFW3VWpk-tBnEJwSiA6PuObK-XM95DxqcC-OXWl_wP72AHqusPqEMkcicG8S5ZAu55P4j4cBkM6htgR2Pg/s320/IMG_20200815_213032.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gathering the basic materials</div><p>I'd seen a hamster home turned into a hazardous environment pod kind of thing by the ever-talented Iain Wilson over at Maelstrom's Edge, and I just so happened to have treated myself to some of their wonderful <a href="https://www.maelstromsedge.com/medge/store.jsp?acr=default&fbclid=IwAR3j8UgkDgs4mK9jISdGaav24lhoxmzMa4e9VLMtSNL-Rjh9fGynOV95H9M">Terrain Sprues</a> not long after. And so I decided to use these to do something similar, rather than just using salvaged bits and pieces like the tight-arsed bugger I normally am.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoo3gx1CSNX0UVLMpJjd2U6m64eLWHUtmGH1lJiwlEB20xIuK67JLEJL1JKZpobJF8IUYdW-AGEdkUSujo_XaLEqoivk7HxSDIXMSROLE3exRyIb5S3UhUAF1XR-bczOPcdD_P3zCgPkk/s2048/IMG_20200815_172135.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1494" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoo3gx1CSNX0UVLMpJjd2U6m64eLWHUtmGH1lJiwlEB20xIuK67JLEJL1JKZpobJF8IUYdW-AGEdkUSujo_XaLEqoivk7HxSDIXMSROLE3exRyIb5S3UhUAF1XR-bczOPcdD_P3zCgPkk/s320/IMG_20200815_172135.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWSsiOMbMrCnM6uvPK7tTT2pldbrwX7haFnafr_vFzTKNrtXJggUi7C6TcxFWZQSbqVZeCc0A9pTXWrIT_ax-lOG8VubgGx6PaWgwYpPs9ba7EANICNHn9e-zmkc-QwL5YRb1hyphenhyphenyzT3NI/s2048/IMG_20200815_172143.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1565" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWSsiOMbMrCnM6uvPK7tTT2pldbrwX7haFnafr_vFzTKNrtXJggUi7C6TcxFWZQSbqVZeCc0A9pTXWrIT_ax-lOG8VubgGx6PaWgwYpPs9ba7EANICNHn9e-zmkc-QwL5YRb1hyphenhyphenyzT3NI/s320/IMG_20200815_172143.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Just by adding a couple of elements to the basic shells, I could already see where this build was going, and I was inspired to press straight on with this first pod, as well as making some more with other details and taking the idea in slightly different directions.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgba1hy8b7OmepriBAuwyNs3B4tkA-qh2eVnRJkh99zjRNQGCez5iRVlZHY3FB1di-_qttSDDsIMhF8E4gPLPzsy9J3HjDLJG6UB_V3g5NsYoW2yZ7Fhm0ZalhJqwMXrZaI-OGDkvAgG3w/s2850/IMG_20200817_131813.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1103" data-original-width="2850" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgba1hy8b7OmepriBAuwyNs3B4tkA-qh2eVnRJkh99zjRNQGCez5iRVlZHY3FB1di-_qttSDDsIMhF8E4gPLPzsy9J3HjDLJG6UB_V3g5NsYoW2yZ7Fhm0ZalhJqwMXrZaI-OGDkvAgG3w/w400-h155/IMG_20200817_131813.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Most of the pods I was sure could get away without being based, as they're very sturdy and are supposed to look like they've been plonked down in the middle of the setting, rather than being left there over a long period of time to have stuff build up around them. I also put one of the pods on legs and added a base to it, just for the sake of having something a little different in there too.</p><p>I base-coated them in black and then gave the pods a heavy zenithal highlight in first grey and then white, wanting the look to be something like industrial grade plastic or a similar synthetic material. After that I picked out the details in Vallejo Black Grey, dry-brushed the same with a light grey and washed the entire lot with a mixture of black and burnt umber craft paints watered down with some washing-up liquid mixed in as a flow-agent.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-xjNPBpbx_StS6LkqbH_i6bAOc3e9gEO1gRvJFfsEA95OsyVXnrNY6q0YYctA-lZ5GCU17VqobqapQi4aW6Uw2wK86XKkBP9bIs3h3jIAbAiji6163r81iJGT6Y34mOP-nrF2eKnZaA4/s2048/IMG_20200903_202313.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1515" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-xjNPBpbx_StS6LkqbH_i6bAOc3e9gEO1gRvJFfsEA95OsyVXnrNY6q0YYctA-lZ5GCU17VqobqapQi4aW6Uw2wK86XKkBP9bIs3h3jIAbAiji6163r81iJGT6Y34mOP-nrF2eKnZaA4/s320/IMG_20200903_202313.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioUq4D94aisDLfEQKty9YtipFu6HaNkU3GC-2Y6Umdmdi_4PbXirkroN5gqgql4INTcnDF94MmjkAr4shCoUWcO2NjM1SOf4lJ3wdz_w7_jQ2w1oGEjL_-aBHbNKRHC2XLgxEAsp7X3gw/s2048/IMG_20200903_202351.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1643" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioUq4D94aisDLfEQKty9YtipFu6HaNkU3GC-2Y6Umdmdi_4PbXirkroN5gqgql4INTcnDF94MmjkAr4shCoUWcO2NjM1SOf4lJ3wdz_w7_jQ2w1oGEjL_-aBHbNKRHC2XLgxEAsp7X3gw/s320/IMG_20200903_202351.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6MtgL91NE3o3thpn4nAgTlhA45NZHQtt_5kYccDqvNfwApb-FEpl0yQ3SHFfSCQ4nWUpVAZBwBZddbF1FemShe5lDaN9xBnpPj13AOpDrYQH9edOe-HliN3C85DpIFW9SLR0JbH1fa8w/s2048/IMG_20200903_202416.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1506" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6MtgL91NE3o3thpn4nAgTlhA45NZHQtt_5kYccDqvNfwApb-FEpl0yQ3SHFfSCQ4nWUpVAZBwBZddbF1FemShe5lDaN9xBnpPj13AOpDrYQH9edOe-HliN3C85DpIFW9SLR0JbH1fa8w/s320/IMG_20200903_202416.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpqr4rO2Pk98NutJeoq8TROGp6ps_rsjuy6NKiAdVbzG-jpXUJOSL7vrFfeWDW-1QHFA4Pd0wiWObqAd3OTW2Kl9Roz4iaeseZGKkMQ6GDsSTE5a_hncTL8wOMmnWaRSW5rFbaIWz19Rs/s2048/IMG_20200903_202450.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1519" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpqr4rO2Pk98NutJeoq8TROGp6ps_rsjuy6NKiAdVbzG-jpXUJOSL7vrFfeWDW-1QHFA4Pd0wiWObqAd3OTW2Kl9Roz4iaeseZGKkMQ6GDsSTE5a_hncTL8wOMmnWaRSW5rFbaIWz19Rs/s320/IMG_20200903_202450.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLR_wmyDCEBapFeN24FtpKhBAhegG1DDp3vP51bR1JI91AoFytF5AChRp2bIwdO1kmtjIPLtFGT0LZzin2VpoNfR_Siqp4tCh0N9cfedkIfojaYwAi8AWF84xoMNpCaKRpatMNWr2nLo/s2048/IMG_20200903_202500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLR_wmyDCEBapFeN24FtpKhBAhegG1DDp3vP51bR1JI91AoFytF5AChRp2bIwdO1kmtjIPLtFGT0LZzin2VpoNfR_Siqp4tCh0N9cfedkIfojaYwAi8AWF84xoMNpCaKRpatMNWr2nLo/s320/IMG_20200903_202500.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I think that the end result is quite impressive, especially based on the cheapness of the basic materials used and the speed with which I was able to get these pods completed. They'd probably work in most environmental settings too, be it arctic, dessert, jungle or event he vacuum of the lunar landscape.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI9L6HnVkV7E9BlyZJmujZloB6Hr5H_7I3DBFbWHcVOZ_JtlV_z35fjITPWqZH-tp0msmUrCOQj6Eg8tDzSUMYQkaZQPAKW-jt71wlDU_eGPO1k_VqxDHRhecMd-RsN_NY7pj2F32tXSU/s2508/IMG_20200903_195004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI9L6HnVkV7E9BlyZJmujZloB6Hr5H_7I3DBFbWHcVOZ_JtlV_z35fjITPWqZH-tp0msmUrCOQj6Eg8tDzSUMYQkaZQPAKW-jt71wlDU_eGPO1k_VqxDHRhecMd-RsN_NY7pj2F32tXSU/w500-h250/IMG_20200903_195004.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><p>So there you have it, a nice little build that's completed and ready for the gaming table in no time at all and looks pretty good, even if I do say so myself.</p><p>As always, let me know what you think, either here or on social media.</p>Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-68188872138718099802020-08-26T07:09:00.000-07:002020-08-26T07:09:45.514-07:00Far Corfe: "The Junkfood Dogs" - or a Bevvy of Beautiful Bikers<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1130" data-original-width="2784" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB_xX0lcW9KgaaX2aN4DdBQInf70kjXgxhsj508EFdpguVhVUNBH98dkebYphOUWql7ULgTnxeZACxqCFbP3UL5KC731rK_SDEhZgU1ZSlZhnca-clgahdFcnjA1mARpEkLJ7t1m6gLL0/w625-h254/IMG_20200628_193828.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Copplestone's Original Bikers" width="625" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copplestone's original Bikers</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Whenever you're getting into collecting and painting minis with a near future, post apocalyptic or survival horror theme, there are some classics of those genres that you can't avoid wanting to get your hands on sooner or later. Alongside punks, mutants and the crazed followers of Elder Gods, the biker gang is one of those staples that always look good shooting it out with cops, zombies and crazies of every possible description.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I came across Mark Copplestone's bikers in a number of places, picking up most of the original sculpts that he produced for the Grenadier Future Warriors range from the websites that still stock them, and then another couple from the newer stuff that he has sale at Copplestone Castings. I loved the beards, shades and beer bellies that made up their look, and so they came to form the core of the gang I came to call "The Junkfood Dogs", on account of the fact that, while they look pretty fierce, they're obviously fond of a burger or three.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyXrlArnu2vaB6soFbXtNghkEQCZh0PyMgPIDOI9dB2DgYQSRuEKzedRo1j0OliOa2YsSUVU5K43C7VhLkTHM60loG_datvSJs8R-MwdzCK1ljVOqs18zWw_NqmEE0YiLqtmqQayP24_I/s2714/IMG_20200628_194044.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1159" data-original-width="2714" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyXrlArnu2vaB6soFbXtNghkEQCZh0PyMgPIDOI9dB2DgYQSRuEKzedRo1j0OliOa2YsSUVU5K43C7VhLkTHM60loG_datvSJs8R-MwdzCK1ljVOqs18zWw_NqmEE0YiLqtmqQayP24_I/w512-h218/IMG_20200628_194044.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Some more exotic members of the gang...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Once I'd managed to collect all of the Copplestone bikers, I started to think about adding some more options that would allow the gang to work in a more sci-fi oriented setting too. I had a Hero Forge miniature that looked like his tommy gun and biker jacket would be a fit, and I converted a couple of first edition Orlock gangers to serve as his more futuristic crew. A Heroclix mini became Tyrone, the gang's muscle and a Chaos Cultist leader became a wiry elder figure, perhaps the overall leader of the entire gang.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSH7LExFDIYkBVHQbRHHJhwpOWS2KDAbUipvOq5x4VZszpmEF0GXG9BuGgscqY_gI8L1-_qEB6wLcVDm15T040s7r921yBj7ATxN66xQJeJVtaWcZ1Q4BDOHGx4DG7l3SwqQYFH-lIylo/s2645/IMG_20200625_210346.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="2645" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSH7LExFDIYkBVHQbRHHJhwpOWS2KDAbUipvOq5x4VZszpmEF0GXG9BuGgscqY_gI8L1-_qEB6wLcVDm15T040s7r921yBj7ATxN66xQJeJVtaWcZ1Q4BDOHGx4DG7l3SwqQYFH-lIylo/w512-h230/IMG_20200625_210346.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The core of the sci-fi bikers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I'd also had some Catachans sitting around, doing nothing but gathering dust for a couple of years, and I figured that their bandanas and badass haircuts could be a good fit for this part of the gang too. So after a few beards here and a couple of head swaps there, I had another six bikers to add to the swelling ranks of the Junkfood Dogs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWlYWWFPOvcCv8Seo7ITGZOLOziiYYvmoafNBUAHPQVCWfRJy76VXTP9dzv9CxvCpgbxPThOPD8FkHHP_M_rzsqyIfssr_qyC5e2J9Bz6ypBih9P4PZmR-QCnc8R3oO5RjiWNwOXUJ1Jk/s1969/IMG_20200626_211611.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1969" data-original-width="1611" height="411" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWlYWWFPOvcCv8Seo7ITGZOLOziiYYvmoafNBUAHPQVCWfRJy76VXTP9dzv9CxvCpgbxPThOPD8FkHHP_M_rzsqyIfssr_qyC5e2J9Bz6ypBih9P4PZmR-QCnc8R3oO5RjiWNwOXUJ1Jk/w335-h411/IMG_20200626_211611.jpg" width="335" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyUSLlOzm-kj201Pu-q2BkOMzNfTCSjJATnIGkRW5APUDJPO7ai5wgFtBeQbQPXme-lCk2xC7CPOplk9y7JqZV-RvT2SbmrlH4wDKQ08WAGh7-Kw_W4LNWf7v3Mk3XTDm1idMw_wK82s0/w400-h200/IMG_20200628_160332.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>I hacked them in half with a jeweler's saw, as the legs that belonged to the original minis always looked kind of stunted and lacking in dynamics to my eye, almost like the gangers were too dumpy and cumbersome to be able to get up to a run.</p><p>Genestealer Hybrid legs lent that kind of utilitarian look that works so well with these kind of scavengers/nomads/scoundrels, and backpacks from the Tempestus Scions sprue help to give the impression that they're rootless and wandering in search of prey and pillage.</p><p>Of course, they're actually a mix of first edition Cawdor and Redemptionists, but the sculpts are so similar that there's hardly any disparity between the two, all are wearing leather masks and sporting hoods that I wanted to look like waterproof material made ragged by their harsh environment.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I'm a terrible one for buying stuff off of eBay or a magazine for the sake of a sprue that's stuck to the front cover, all because I think that the bits "might come in useful" one day. And having been doing this for around thirty years now, my collection is getting to be quite large and diverse, as you can well imagine.<br />
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Needless to say, when the Age of Sigmar: Mortal Realms piecework appeared on the shelves of newsagents everywhere, I was more than eager to get my hands on a copy. The 40K one had been an insane steal for the price of the first issue, with miniatures, paints and a brush for a fraction of the cost of the same stuff from a GW store.<br />
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<br />And while there were less of the paints and brushes in the ROS version, there were a LOT of really great minis up for grabs, including some of the best Stormcast Eternals for conversion purposes and a large number of very interesting undead that I learned were called Chainrasps.<br />
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When I finally got my copy, I loved the detail of the Chainrasps, but I thought it was a shame they basically lacked bodies below the level of their arms. I began to wonder if I could do something about that, and thinking of the chaos rabble that I'd been making with WWII Bolt Action sprues given away with issues of Wargames Illustrated.<br />
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I found some Whermacht troops that were going spare and then cut the torsos away from the legs before setting about sizing them up as lower-halves for the Chainrasps. I found that I didn't have to cut away too much of their shrouds to make this work, pinning them together and filling the gap with Milliput.<br />
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Next came sculpting over the joins with greenstuff and detailing the bases. I chose to use the origianl bases that came with the Bolt Action Germans, but also to build up the mass with lumps of Milliput, adding broken gravestones and spikey-looking bits of metal.<br />
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I had no clear plan of what the feel of the conversions should be, but as I've always loved the crazy aesthetic of the Zombie Army games, I started to see them as phantoms that stalked a WWII battlefield in search of living souls upon whom to take out their eternal torment as damned spirits trapped between worlds.<br />
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This was why I tried to model them as looking like they were clambering over uneven, crater-strewn terrain, howling and screaming at any potential victims they might see. I also snapped any blades that they held, trying to emphasize their ragged and broken nature.<br />
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I primed the models in black using a cheap rattle-can and then hit them with a white zenithal highlight before blocking in the metal parts with Vallejo silver. Then they received an all-over coat of Aethermatic Blue contrast paint for that essential ethereal look, followed by a wash with Drakenhoff Nightshade. When this was dry, I finished off the minis with a highlight of Vallejo Light Blue and then Ivory.<br />
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I painted the bases with a slate grey emulsion paint and then dry-brushed with Vallejo Neutral Grey and Ivory. The gravestones were painted Neutral Grey and then dry-brushed with Ivory too. The metal was blocked in with Citadel Leadbelcher, washed with Fuegan Orange and then edge-highlighted with Leadbelcher once again.<br />
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Overall, I'm pretty pleased with the way these turned out. I was aiming for the smooth kind of look you get on the GW examples of these minis, but the more gritty and dirty way the paint scheme worked out seems to fit better with the idea behind the minis themselves.<br />
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And hopefully I'll be back before too long to show off the mess I manage to make of these guys:<br />
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<br />Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-16828193679332426622020-07-31T17:01:00.001-07:002020-07-31T17:01:24.167-07:00Far Corfe: The Great Yuzzem Giveaway Part 2 - Giving it Away<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Quick post today, not much more business than announcing the winner of the Bob Olley customised Yuzzem that I mentioned in my last one. I'm grateful to everyone that took the time to read that post, and even more so to those that left a comment and entered the competition as well.<br />
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I was seriously tempted by some of the reasons that people gave for why they thought they deserved to get their hands on the Yuzzem, and I almost chose to give him (or her, as I have no idea how you'd even begin to sex a Yuzzem) to the guy who wanted to add him to an Eldar army with a Harlequin style wax and perm.<br />
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But in the end, I had to choose to give the mini to Axiom of the Magpie and Old Lead blog (which you can find <a href="http://magpieandoldlead.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>), as he mentioned adding the guy to his already interesting and varied collection of alien mercenary scum that he regularly showcases there and on social media.<br />
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Axiom's work has been a constant source of delight and inspiration to me in the time that I've followed his blog, leading me to choose to work on several of the projects that the posts on my own have showcased as well. And in addition to that, he's almost always positive and encouraging when interacting with his fellow hobbyists as well.<br />
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So consolations to the other entrants, and congratulations to Axiom, whom I hope will share the paintjob he does on the Yuzzem as soon as I can get it in the post to him.<br />
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And in the meantime, here's a couple of shots of what I have on the table and ready to be painted...<br />
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I've been planning a series of skirmish games in anticipation of being able to do something fun once the dangers of the Covid Pandemic have lessened to the point where it's possible to get together with friends that I haven't seen for many months now.<br />
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The system that I settled is Fistful of Lead, by Wiley Games, a very reasonably-priced and adaptable set of rules that should allow me to make use of the miniatures and terrain that I've been stacking up for the past couple of years and have a good laugh at the same time.<br />
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But while flipping through the pages and admiring the shots in the rulebook of the writers own minis in action, I came across a shot of a large, hairy alien that looked rather interesting - a Yuzzem from the WOTC Star Wars minis game that was around a couple of years ago.<br />
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Hopping on eBay, I managed to bag one of these for a reasonable price and set about customising it to my own particular tastes, and the result can be seen below:<br />
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I gave this guy a more chunky weapon from Cromlech, a knife and various other additions to make him look more tooled up, and painted his coat white, as I have a strange aversion to painting almost anything in that ubiquitous shade of brown that furred creatures always seem to end up with.<br />
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I wanted to add a couple more after this to make a squad, and I just happened to stumble across a couple being sold on eBay, then realised that they had actually been converted by non other than GW veteran Bob Olley himself!<br />
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I nabbed myself a couple and proceeded to base and paint them to match my original efforts.<br />
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Although it's pretty obvious which of these were the creation of Mr Olley, I'm still quite pleased with the way that they fit together as a unit of hairy mercenaries from beyond the stars, just looking for their next job and willing to accept payment in cash, guns or the right to eat the bodies of their targets.<br />
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At the end of all this, I found that I had one Yuzzem left over, and rather than add it to the squad, I've decided that it'll be the prize in the first ever competition that I've attempted on my blog.<br />
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So if you like the look of the big, hairy guy in the shot above, then all you need to do to be in with a chance of winning him is comment at the bottom of this entry, telling me why you think you should get your hands on him and what you intend to do with him when you do, along with an email address for if you win the competition.<br />
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There's no specific criteria for me picking a winner, I'll just choose the one that sounds best to me, makes me laugh or want to see what you do with the lone Yuzzem once he's yours.<br />
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Based on how many takers I get, I'll probably announce a winner on or around the 1st August.<br />
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So let me know what you think, either on here or via social media - and you will need to comment HERE to be entered into the competition.Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-85875410534666419752020-07-13T03:15:00.002-07:002020-07-13T03:15:54.308-07:00Far Corfe: Confrontation Elite Gang<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I don't know about anyone else, but ever since I saw the page of them that survived into the Citadel blue catalogue in the early 90s, the miniatures from the Confrontation range (the predecessor of what we now know as Necromunda) always manage to make my palms sweat.<br />
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Unfortunately they're not a cheap thing to try and collect, so I tend to find that I can only get my hands on them sporadically and in small numbers when the chance to grab a bargain presents itself on eBay or a similar platform.<br />
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It was only when I managed to land one of the Marauder Elite Gangers that I was struck by the way that his studded doublet and headscarf reminded me of the WHFB Empire Militia minis, and from there, the wheels began to turn...<br />
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I was lucky enough to land a couple of similar minis along the way to making a gang out of them, including a Brat and Bounty Hunter, both of which were dressed in a way that was similar enough to have them fit in with the Elite Gangers quite easily.<br />
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Raiding my bits box, I was able to find enough Empire Militia and other parts to cobble together a couple of specialists and some pseudo-elites that would serve to make up the numbers and flesh out the ranks of the gang.<br />
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All in all, I think that the whole thing worked out quite well and the kit-bashed members of the gang blend pretty well with the actual minis from the old Confrontation range. I have no idea what they'd class as in the modern version of Necromunda, but then I've never been one to let the rules constrain me when it comes to making something that's more for the sake of being creative than a slave to the rules.<br />
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Passable solution to wanting a Confrontation-era gang?<br />
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Let me know, either on here or via social media.Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-64700018047011041712020-07-07T04:28:00.000-07:002020-07-07T04:28:37.897-07:00Trash Terrain: Sci-Fi Garage/Pit Stop<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I openly admit to stealing ideas that appeal to me when I see them online or plastered all over social media, and when I saw what one of my favourite bloggers had done with a playset from the Micro Machines Action Fleet range from Star Wars Episode I, I was intrigued.<br />
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As usual, he'd done an excellent job of making it into something to be proud of, and so I started searching Ebay for something similar, finally settling on the Pod Racer Hanger Bay, which can be found going pretty cheap second hand.<br />
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The basic set is fairly open-plan, and the scale is a little too small for 28mm, but there seemed to be a great deal of potential, and so I almost immediately began to remove what I didn't want and add onto it what I thought would make it more serviceable for my own purposes.<br />
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I started out by adding a roof and then blocking off the back of the main bay area, but decided to keep the little room/passage at the side open to allow access from either side as well as into the bay too from the internal arch.<br />
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From there, it was just a case of covering the ground with budgie sand and PVA glue, waiting for that to dry and then hitting the whole thing with an undercoat of black car primer and then adding more subtle passes with a grey and white can from above to create the impression of shadows.<br />
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Next came the process of picking out the finer details and adding a couple of small points of interest to make the whole thing pop, followed by a dry-brush with a light grey and then a homemade black/brown wash to tie the lot together.<br />
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I was more than pleased with the way that the whole thing turned out, and I think that it'll work well as both a piece of functional terrain and a potential backdrop for photographing minis in the future too.<br />
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Let me know what you think of this build on here or on social media.Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335509110649916940.post-3836953276509852362019-09-25T09:21:00.000-07:002019-09-25T09:30:46.470-07:00Trash Terrain: Giftbox Sci-Fi Dwelling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my first blog entry in literally months, mainly because my day-job as a full professional writer has also been full-on over the past couple of months. So this is a short and sweet little entry to let anyone that cares know I'm still alive and trying to find the odd hour here and there to paint and model.<br />
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Whenever I get a box, I always size it up for its potential to make into a model, and this one was made from a box that a gift came in for someone, and meant that I had to ask them some time after the thing had been unwrapped, if I could have the box back again.<br />
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Once I had it, I turned the box upside down and glued the lid to the bottom to create a walled roof space. The air-vent/hatch was made from a square of granny grid surrounded by bits of plastic sprue and the chimney/aerial was a piece from a broken Playmobil toy.<br />
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The upper storey windows were cut from a ventilation grill and those on the lower (as well as the doorframes) have frames made of sprue and card detailing or corrugated card for shutters. The awning above the front door was made from the cap on a disposable razor, and the intercom from the top of a Tic-Tac packet with a Plymobil cog added for visual interest.<br />
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The structural braces were made from packaging used to secure a kid's toy in the box and the other details were either from more Playmobil bits or taken from the rather excellent Maelstrom's Edge Terrain Sprue.<br />
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The model was based on scrap EPVC and the base textured with a mixture of budgie grit and filler, then the building was painted in texture paint and sprayed a dark grey. After that it was dry-brushed with successively lighter shades of grey emulsion and the metallic parts painted with artists acrylics and weathered using a sponge.<br />
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This building might not look like much, but then the aim of the build was to make a relatively quick and cheap piece of terrain that was almost entirely composed of bits found around the house and would blend in well with more fancy and expensive scenery on the table-top.<br />
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Knocking out three or four of these and mixing things up with only slight variations to the detailing and basic shape of the box should be pretty easy and can help to fill up a sparse table of terrain with little outlay in cost.<br />
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Let me know what you think of this in the comments below or on social media.Carminehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07234077976376999013noreply@blogger.com12