Red Shadow Hyena WIP

a GI Joe HISS Tank toy hacked and cleaned up a bit

the battery compartment (it had electronics and a guns - which I removed as they were oversized), was removed and the surround plastic cut back so the tank had a bit of ground clearance. the g/s'ing for the resultant holes isn't pretty, but is serviceable...

Mad Mummers WIP

some quick WIP pics of the Mad Mummers - two heavily converted from Warlord plastic ECW sprues and 3 from metal minis...

DIY dice tray

getting arty again - DIY dice tray - picture frame from poundland, red felt 50p, some foam for the base so the screws don't scratch anything 80p, paint, glue and card kicking about, so princely sum of £2.30 - will have to see how durable it is...

but don't panic, the Mad Mummers are getting greenstuffed and the newest house is halfway painted, so some proper Folky updates coming soon....

paint

sigh.... problem with not having painted for over a year - paints are fecked... does not help but soldiering through...

and again...

ok, finally have a new laptop and got most things working.... sadly, little progress has been made as I need to pick up a couple of items to get going again, and obviously finances have gone elsewhere at the moment.... something resembling normal service will resume shortly....

... ish.

ok, so that didn't work out as I'd planned

so, partial mojo renewed at least... however the wonders of Norovirus and then my PC crapping out on me have not helped. So, despite pissing out of my arse for a week, having no PC for even longer and then loading a new operating system (and every little program or plug in you needed - seriously, never had that happen before, bloody Linux, back to Windows for me...), I still haven't been back on form modelling wise, partly a rediscovered love of boardgames is to blame, but also mainly Borderlands 2... but, I have been doing stuff (besides trying to remember every reference photo or pdf or link I lost in the crash), so viola:

just a tease for now, as the inside is trying something new (which looks great, but I want a big reveal)... ok, so another building, literally another Old Timber Frame Cottage from 4ground, but I've tried to vary it a little bit - hence the shift of the overhang being all at the front and, if you're sharp eyed enough, the ground floor is a little taller - so it doesn't look too identical to the other one. This one will have a tiled roof, so should be sufficiently different when finished. The chimney is bluefoam with random bricks etched in and then toughened up with liquid g/s. Splits in the chimney for the floors are similar to the big chimney in the Manor House, but I'll do close ups of those another time.

Now the overhang was originally going to take the wonderful Gothic Corbels from Antenociti, but I simply cannot find the damn things, I've looked everywhere and I know I had some somewhere... I would buy some more (£2 for 6), but postage would be £4 - I may yet cave in, as that overhang needs something to offset it and I'm now commited. Another building will be worked on next and then hopefully both will be painted together (with the Manor House, if I can decide how to finish the Gate House upper floor), but will need windows, lots and lots of windows...

EDIT: finally found the Corbels - which was a double result as they were in the same bag as the GW Green Man wall sconces, which would have been annoying if I'd realised that...