Not very exciting to look at I admit, but quite time consuming... also experiment with some small scale pressmolding, the results of which I will hopefully manage to show before Christmas... the main need for that is also the library (42 units of 3-4 shelves equals a fecking lot of books), however my experiments are with something very very Who-ish which should also prove useful in time...
Sunday, 19 December 2010
the library at Cthluedo Mansion part 1
December has been mostly tiling the floor for my part of the Salute 2011 game, the library...
Not very exciting to look at I admit, but quite time consuming... also experiment with some small scale pressmolding, the results of which I will hopefully manage to show before Christmas... the main need for that is also the library (42 units of 3-4 shelves equals a fecking lot of books), however my experiments are with something very very Who-ish which should also prove useful in time...
Not very exciting to look at I admit, but quite time consuming... also experiment with some small scale pressmolding, the results of which I will hopefully manage to show before Christmas... the main need for that is also the library (42 units of 3-4 shelves equals a fecking lot of books), however my experiments are with something very very Who-ish which should also prove useful in time...
Monday, 29 November 2010
The Giant Robot!
well... not that giant really... big bugger, but some of the BTD Invasion Cybermen are the same height... barely a head taller than a normal 28mm figure... anyhoo, Professor Kettlewell's K-1 robot:
bit of a bugger to paint for a quickie really... the living metal (and that's as far as the writers got to naming it) it was made from was nice and silvery and shiney... which is a bugger to shade and still be nice and shiney and there are a lot of nubbins and bits that give shading... I quite like the darker finish mind...
essentially a quick pj (red stripes were a git) to get a November post, still plodding with several half arsed projects, still payday tomorrow so will get the fresh g/s I need... of course that won't change much as the Salute build has started so I really need to start knuckling down and actually doing stuff...
bit of a bugger to paint for a quickie really... the living metal (and that's as far as the writers got to naming it) it was made from was nice and silvery and shiney... which is a bugger to shade and still be nice and shiney and there are a lot of nubbins and bits that give shading... I quite like the darker finish mind... essentially a quick pj (red stripes were a git) to get a November post, still plodding with several half arsed projects, still payday tomorrow so will get the fresh g/s I need... of course that won't change much as the Salute build has started so I really need to start knuckling down and actually doing stuff...no one hold your breath...
Friday, 22 October 2010
October update...
well... bit of a bugger of a month - summed up by Woody on Frothers describing my super power as Glacial Slowness... he's not wrong there you know...
got my longed for Warlord plastic Germans and the top secret armoured heads are undersized, so will need to do my own - for 20 of the buggers... that was one project that got stuck pretty quick...
so... started on jazzing up my Wirrn, hefty bit of g/s'ing done, but need to work on the legs and had problems with the g/s around wire, tried using brass rod, but that looked too regular - after a call out for help on Frothers I think I can move on it, but to eliminate any problems I need to get some new g/s as my batch isn't the freshest...
so then returned to my hedges, finished off some flocking on that and picked up some trees - but need to get some bases sorted out for those...
and then back to the quarry... finished off the 'something extra' piece and did some test fitting and things aren't quite as good a fit as I'd first hoped... so plenty of filling, plenty of sanding, one bit of rebasing and some major restructuring to one side it should almost be done - this I intend to get painted in November... just need to texture the base, add rubble and... oh bugger...
in the meantime, if you haven't seen gamerMac's Zeppelin, do check this out... most frothworthy pics on the bottom of page 34 - makes me want more space...
got my longed for Warlord plastic Germans and the top secret armoured heads are undersized, so will need to do my own - for 20 of the buggers... that was one project that got stuck pretty quick...
so... started on jazzing up my Wirrn, hefty bit of g/s'ing done, but need to work on the legs and had problems with the g/s around wire, tried using brass rod, but that looked too regular - after a call out for help on Frothers I think I can move on it, but to eliminate any problems I need to get some new g/s as my batch isn't the freshest...
so then returned to my hedges, finished off some flocking on that and picked up some trees - but need to get some bases sorted out for those...
and then back to the quarry... finished off the 'something extra' piece and did some test fitting and things aren't quite as good a fit as I'd first hoped... so plenty of filling, plenty of sanding, one bit of rebasing and some major restructuring to one side it should almost be done - this I intend to get painted in November... just need to texture the base, add rubble and... oh bugger...
in the meantime, if you haven't seen gamerMac's Zeppelin, do check this out... most frothworthy pics on the bottom of page 34 - makes me want more space...
Sunday, 19 September 2010
Crooked Dice Astronauts...
the soon to be released Astronauts from Crooked Dice, painted for Karl and Graeme @ CD in a Space:1999-esque fashion...
Melody Lake and not who you might think it might be from a certain library... no spoilers...
Karl wanted them all to be part of the British Rocket Group, but after an entire evening trying to get the one Union flag right the air was very very blue - Melody managed to be British (just), but the other two became French and Chinese...
the bases need a finishing touch and they need a dullcote - the base is shiney, but looks much better from above... sigh...
the bases need a finishing touch and they need a dullcote - the base is shiney, but looks much better from above... sigh...Sunday, 5 September 2010
Windmill 123...
UNIT helicopter...
1/48 Corgi diecast Bell 47 that was one of many bargains from Salute (cheers Karl)... basic repaint over the existing job - made easy as the plastic/metal used the same olive green as me (although have noticed a blip in the pic on the top of the skid which stands out, may have rubbed some paint off without realising...), the danger sticker was on the original (carefully painted around) and homemade UNIT decals were added...
couldn't for the life of me remove the bubble canopy to paint the interior (the single screw did nothing when unscrewed) so it was either paint it or have a crappy plastic interior... on the plus side, it matches the Mobile HQ and Lanny windows and will never look like it's piloted by the invisible man...
speaking of which a flight stand is in hand...
1/48 Corgi diecast Bell 47 that was one of many bargains from Salute (cheers Karl)... basic repaint over the existing job - made easy as the plastic/metal used the same olive green as me (although have noticed a blip in the pic on the top of the skid which stands out, may have rubbed some paint off without realising...), the danger sticker was on the original (carefully painted around) and homemade UNIT decals were added...couldn't for the life of me remove the bubble canopy to paint the interior (the single screw did nothing when unscrewed) so it was either paint it or have a crappy plastic interior... on the plus side, it matches the Mobile HQ and Lanny windows and will never look like it's piloted by the invisible man...
speaking of which a flight stand is in hand...
Sunday, 22 August 2010
the 'what every good Doctor Who story needs' project part 4
right... basic build done... need to do the gravel/dirt transition at the top which I'm hoping will be successfully achieved with torn cork tile...
the eagle-eyed amongst you may notice the promontory is now longer than the earlier shots, it looked too stumpy and is now a full length of A4 with the end piece now seperate... still fits in two boxes though with space to spare so I need to come up with something a little extra...
still a few kinks in the joining edges which need fixing (really do need plans when I do this sort of thing) but basically that should be that... have run out of filler and sandpaper though...
the eagle-eyed amongst you may notice the promontory is now longer than the earlier shots, it looked too stumpy and is now a full length of A4 with the end piece now seperate... still fits in two boxes though with space to spare so I need to come up with something a little extra...still a few kinks in the joining edges which need fixing (really do need plans when I do this sort of thing) but basically that should be that... have run out of filler and sandpaper though... also had a thought - quite random and may not do anything with it, but do some high security fences and it could do service as somekind of animal enclosure... raptors maybe?
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