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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Vanvlak on August 02, 2021, 04:23:37 PM
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August in Malta IS hot - temperature over 40 in the shade yesterday. Ouch.
And the painting hole is in the top floor, so it is rather hot. I could move down to the cellar, where it's cool - but it's so humid that paint never dries!
And it's not really a vacation either, I have a dungload of work stuff to clear - bah. But I will try to get at least a week of rest. Which means that in spite of the heat and all the other problems, I might just manage a tiny little project.
I have my 'rubbish' scenery project running, but I really feel like getting a force painted up. And if I want to have any hope of completing it, maximum 10 models. Ideally small, easy-to-paint ones.
So it's off to the cellar to see what I dig up which strikes my fancy. I already have a small lot of Daleks in queue, but as they are all identical I was hoping for a little more variety.
Beware: chances are this project will fail after a few posts (possibly because of heat stroke, if I'm not careful*).
*Then again, that didn't happen during our excavations out in the sun hauling wheelbarrows of soil in a heat wave a couple of weeks ago, so... ;D
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...so... GOOD LUCK to your project!
Greetings from Athens, with similar temperatures, over 40o C, it will last all week through.
Staying tuned. Cheers!
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...so... GOOD LUCK to your project!
Greetings from Athens, with similar temperatures, over 40o C, it will last all week through.
Staying tuned. Cheers!
Same as us, then! Thank you :D
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Well, here are the happy winners of the find-a-small-force-to-paint lottery:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PyPUiOzgvVc/YQgrgrgc1XI/AAAAAAAABRM/Vm41hG_8Ji49srYg5fNYnd70i1wkstqvwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/DSCF2168.JPG)
Two sets of winners actually, couldn't resist getting those two old Epic vehicles out too.
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A spot of progress at last:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cHeH3kmCJ1Y/YQwysJBaF0I/AAAAAAAABRk/u5_LZIGRuVU7oL2nch-O7PahuTNUYFMYACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_5753.JPG)
I know it doesn't quite look like the Androids (or even the Epic vehicles) in the earlier image, but it fits in there - I'm not off track, see.... :?
And that's how my projects go awry. It's an old electrical circuit breaker box which dates back to when we were replacing the electrical supply in a lab. It's now a room in a spaceship (well, it will be). I had in the past stuck the strips of plasticard with some aim in mind - I think it was somehow related to Necromunda.
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Undercoated models at last -
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-npmj3QfbDUk/YQzq4jlCl9I/AAAAAAAABRs/wLDRAKB06x4ozJzZmELFDgM2y5eKvcQ1QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6436.JPG)
- except that these aren't the androids you were looking for....
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Ooooh!
Looking forward to seeing what you do in the oven.
:D
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Ooooh!
Looking forward to seeing what you do in the oven.
:D
It's back to Mother Hydra....
Progress - here's a mock-up of the box which is now a processing room (of what though?).
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NwCAFV370hg/YRJVqIrZgxI/AAAAAAAABSQ/hz3ehjPLJkYQfx5GVbYykPU7bVXu_sy5wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6440.JPG)
I have take two decisions this year:
(i) don't hold back - I have some stuff which I keep saving for a better, future project and never using. I am now to old for this, so I am using bits and pieces which have lain idle for years.
(ii) sometimes, you can make it up as you go along: the circuit box was something I dug up from the cellar when looking for models for a bite-size project, and it's a nice little project to which I can add passages and other rooms when I feel like.
As for the androids, they - and their bases - have been undercoated, and now they need painting before they populate the processing room (which obviously needs paint too!).
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Great work on the room, it’s looking really interesting even before you add some paint
I have take two decisions this year:
(i) don't hold back - I have some stuff which I keep saving for a better, future project and never using. I am now to old for this, so I am using bits and pieces which have lain idle for years.
(ii) sometimes, you can make it up as you go along: the circuit box was something I dug up from the cellar when looking for models for a bite-size project, and it's a nice little project to which I can add passages and other rooms when I feel like.
Funnily enough I’ve reached a similar conclusion on both those points, and am enjoying myself more as a result :)
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Great work on the room, it’s looking really interesting even before you add some paint
Funnily enough I’ve reached a similar conclusion on both those points, and am enjoying myself more as a result :)
Exactly - and since the winner of the 2021 Potato Cup is in agreement, I have to be right :D
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The room looks great, and still accessible enough to move figures around in.
8) 8)
I am with you on the 'don't save stuff' argument, as I have loads of bits that I may as well have used earlier for all the use it is sitting in a box in the loft!
;)
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The androids are done - surprisingly, I finished off what I set out to do in the first place, in spite of the other stuff I started in the meantime. They turned out to be a C-3P0 tribute group:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pzckxyTt65w/YRPh04wgtlI/AAAAAAAABSo/RMnza-1J4jgyZonXmcQwLqVmhW27paEzwCLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h640/IMG_6445.JPG)
That's them in the background. In the foreground are a couple of bits of decaying terrain I had finished a couple of weeks back. I don't even know what I'm using these for, but they look ok I guess. I went along with the rubbish dump theme which was supposed to come after the BSC.
Another look at the blue device:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g2aJZB9GQKk/YRPh0Ui30-I/AAAAAAAABSk/iCUh12U1BCILrNXqX1g-4cNs8dr-DLoGgCLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h640/IMG_6444.JPG)
And the androids. The bases hark back to my first set of androids and the white and green patterned bases. The bow tie chap is trying to comprehend a doggie drop on his base - pooch has got a bit of diarrhoea, it seems.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uVpBbn3gfoQ/YRPhw66ZuhI/AAAAAAAABSc/NAE--m2lPcIsgtKSEH8jKVSkpaRILY4ggCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6441.JPG)
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That scenery looks great and should prove very versatile.
8) 8)
As for the tribute band....C-3PO and his Boss approve!
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/52/4805-110821185105.png)
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That scenery looks great and should prove very versatile.
8) 8)
As for the tribute band....C-3PO and his Boss approve!
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/52/4805-110821185105.png)
!!
Thank you. :D
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The room is in progress - together with a second smaller one - but here's a small landing pad I produced. The pad itself comes from a broken satellite dish component found on the archaeological dig (no, it's not Roman). The colourful Deaque lends scale.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_pNEEck8BA/YSUKVq-s6gI/AAAAAAAABTc/3HD-sUYjxgIroF0694HZPRoljskk1W3_ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6446.JPG)
Something I rescued from a box getting mouldy in the cellar! A Captain Scarlet Spectrum transport. It's a model kit trying to be a toy, with awful tricycle-like wheels, shooting missiles, a passenger deck which can be ejected as a hole, and lots of buttons and levers sticking out of the thing! First thing to go was the undercarriage pod, horribly incongruous with the sleek fuselage. I need to patch a load of holes, and probably design engine outlets, as the inlets are there, but the outlets aren't!
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-if3uVFu-5XM/YSUKV-DNgdI/AAAAAAAABTg/TuqrZBvrJjAVlzCDy9eXVmh13FA7KW-tACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6448.JPG)
Close-up of the offending landing gear pod - reminiscent of those old friction drive toys.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XIqTQZoKQV0/YSUKVs4wS2I/AAAAAAAABTY/36x2SBl56QEE_TmIIiUVxgWJ2nV-WZkxACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6447.JPG)
This will not be ready any time soon - work is picking up again already.
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This old Ad Mech Onager conversion had been waiting for years for a lick of paint.
This is a cargo handler version, a.k.a. the Fiddler Crab.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-veej_nDPfaI/YSYhWVPtwPI/AAAAAAAABT8/28Y0_0XebWUNmgjRP1in5RF-HrD8RRsWQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6450.JPG)
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jw2a5yErj1s/YSYhWFrjRwI/AAAAAAAABT4/rvR3dgT1TOcxrH35TTzFIdWo6AMG2ONCgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6451.JPG)
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Ooooh!
I love what you did with that.
:-*
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Awesome and original! :-*
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Thanks guys :D
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Nice job you did on that.
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Nice job you did on that.
Thanks - the holiday is over (I still worked through most of it, pah >:( ) and I managed to start over 50 models and finish 13. Not quite how its supposed to work!
Some of the WIP:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ckSLGODHWp4/YTiUPi-ybXI/AAAAAAAABU4/L1St8i9_j1osdilaq84HztWtNo8bgyP5ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6458.JPG)
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Some finished stuff I had not photographed previously:
Ad Mech tractor (it's seen service on Ultramar, hence the colour - that's my excuse, anyway, Ultramarine contrast is a nice colour and I wanted to try it out!), with an old 1980s Eldar Harlequin and a Mars Attacks! Martian spidery thing. A bit eclectic.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ij9DwWv84Xg/YTiUHdllQeI/AAAAAAAABUo/MHlggYsqEbUd5FTltmkOlod0L7JP_lPSACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6452.JPG)
The hover vehicles are part of a lot which I had purchased from someone on LAF, no idea who, no idea of the range. The colour scheme is a tribute to a Matchbox Rescue Hovercraft https://harveys-matchbox.de/02C-Rescue-Hovercraft-4/en (https://harveys-matchbox.de/02C-Rescue-Hovercraft-4/en), one of my favourite toy cars when I was a kid, which had (roughly) similar colours. The sole figure on a single base (!) is one of the Andrayada range of 6 mm scale models, a defunct range, I think. I am using these as single models in a sort of Kill Team scenario based on two rival Andrayada forces, Yellow vs Orange - no prizes for guessing this chap's team. :D
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Ae5TwQSue0/YTiUHdrqt4I/AAAAAAAABUg/u9gtF-pTZhYbw1AUUotA9ycCl_eIVm01wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6453.JPG)
His friends and enemies, and a rather big mission objective for these guys, still in the black vs black stage:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8kQkz13HvIw/YTiUM96sgCI/AAAAAAAABUs/IGSJztxyXfAU8Emf2xEQk8GFXNWvKVa2wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6456.JPG)
Their intended battlefield - an old sculpted backdrop for an aquarium, still work in progress - they have a bit of a climb to get across the deepest section:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OR5ejhNd2iU/YTiUNOnhhdI/AAAAAAAABUw/8ynnv00iu7cEZbnfx6AEHwGB2m7k00Y-gCLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h640/IMG_6455.JPG)
This is a Project Destined to Fail, or PDF - bits of a rescued student's architecture model, to be converted to a 2' square small game area for sci fi - all the card walls are warped, the doors and windows need to be improved.....lots of work! Might never get done...
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tcs1uVd3w7A/YTiUHYTC6dI/AAAAAAAABUk/FhnJ1jNFw1sdpkQA33lCZP46dSi_2OFgACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6454.JPG)
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Great stuff, mate.
8) 8)
I have just used some parts from that AdMech tractor myself...and I think I have your favourite old toy hovercraft in my 'to-do' pile for my Outland vehicle collection.
;)
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Enjoying this all. Nice painting.
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Thanks guys :D
The vacation (if it was at all) is over (has been so for 11 days), and I only added another two models to the tally - photos still to be taken.
But in the meantime, I seem to have at last settled what sort of terrain sets I want to build using the stuff I have. There's quite a list, many of which I have mentioned or tentatively started previously.
The Warhammer/AoS board - a GW prefab board, 'just' needs painting....
The Space 'board' - easy one, it's just a printed sheet! But it does need a few asteroids and stuff.
The Sea 'board' - same as the space board, except I only need to paint the stuff, and come up with models for some of the hazards in Man O'War, such as the clashing rocks.
The Marsh 'board' - a large roll up mat; but this is more complex than the space and sea ones, and will include a range of stuff permitting scenarios from Bandits of the Marsh all the way to post-apocalyptic and sci-fi - including Necromunda, with a completely different set of scenery.
The Egyptian board - the inside of some underground complex, good for pulp stuff - or ancient adventures with Sea People too.
The architects' board - the one photgraphed above for sci-fi small skirmishes.
The spaceship board - there's a pic of one room at the start of this thread, a 3D Space Hulk sort of thing, but more generic.
The 6 mm skirmish aquarium back board - pic above, a nice old aquarium backdrop with 6 mm sci fi models individually based. Not wide enough for battles.
The modular board - parts of this were entered in the BSC 2021, but many more are in progress or planned - a variety of 28 mm-ish sci-fi, post-apoc and possibly also WWII with some of the bases.
The modular plain - good for 6 mm - 15 mm battles, made of cork tiles, easy to store and lightweight, used for my practical sessions for the wargaming lectures - this one is actually complete, although I will add more movable scenery eventually.
The delta-block 6 mm board - at concept design stage, a somewhat 3D 6 mm set of structures. This could be a fun one!
The Dropzone Commander board - another discarded architect's model, needs some repair and paint, ideal for this scale.
The To The Strongestboard (divided in squares) - still a concept.
13 projects, better get cracking, I'm not any younger - 12, if I don't count the complete one, so that's already sounding better!
The trick will be working on ONE AT A TIME! :D
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Dr Who (3rd Doctor) robot - this was the very first episode of Dr Who I remember seeing.
And a WWWII Italian Bersagliere - the plumes should be black, but I liked the contrast with the dull paintjob I chose, so I left them white.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UxyycDLaKDU/YT3OCpQi27I/AAAAAAAABV4/cTFt8U0rH7gF-wF2L7OGqclh1ZoYNe19ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6517.JPG)
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And now for something not too large, but not too small either.
Here are the ingredients - this is the stage the project is in at the moment, hopefully by this evening progress will have been achieved. Can anyone guess what is intended to become?
Plasticard:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WgjEnzbVGHA/YT3N8K09q6I/AAAAAAAABVo/Ct7Eb9mqw0wcWKZ8LBtxr47QZbVRgXDzQCLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h640/IMG_6513.JPG)
Small triangular PVC offcuts found in a workshop at Uni:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-unu-bsPG2lM/YT3N_YFzp4I/AAAAAAAABVs/wxyFZzc2gvQYbpggs7z-SMErC7_x02ivgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_6515.JPG)
Unwanted souvenir table mats:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aCdVVcsQwMg/YT3OAjfyajI/AAAAAAAABV0/DqC6XPqlg501DEJW_Pf1-OzqH5YJnbluwCLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h640/IMG_6514.JPG)
Journal or magazine retainer:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BvLJTlMcSZU/YT3OApE37lI/AAAAAAAABVw/nOAkTDd1_Dc22iDmaaPUC9Vxmt0sVfEBgCLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h640/IMG_6516.JPG)