Merlon's not quite 40K SF thread

[voltan]

One tip I learnt a long time ago, when doing resin casts, always have other moulds available for the excess resin.

It's always a good tip that one, though it does mean I've got way more craters sat around than I need because that's the mould on the top of the pile. 

[Merlon]

It's always a good tip that one, though it does mean I've got way more craters sat around than I need because that's the mould on the top of the pile. 

I try to avoid that, but I still have more doors, windows, wheels and fans than I will ever need.
Whilst watching Dr Who "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" over Christmas. I got the urge to start building some kind of Chinese style fastfood place for Greenhaven.
A sort of Ramen / Lamian cafe. Basically just some corrugated iron eaves on an adobe building. Real hodgepodge of media; Extruded foam, hard styrene, resin casts and lasercut mdf.

[Ragsta]

Always enjoy your posts mate

[Merlon]

Thank you for the kind words.
Actually put some paint on the building and associated ticket machine, ready for next week.
Ramen restaurants can operate in a way alien to most westerners.

The semi anonymous meal transactions allow for a number of plot devices.

[Merlon]

So I started this thread a year ago today, so totalled up what I have done.
One shuttle.
Eleven vehicles.
Eleven buildings
Eighteen trees.
Sundry scenic elements.
Basically enough stuff to make a six by three foot table quite busy.
55 figures built and painted, including the seven below.


I need to start padding out the population of Greenhaven and its surroundings.
Needed a fat old noble, together with a treasurer / seneschal.


Some lifeguard figures for the noble.


Lifeguards on warbirds, because why not.


Onwards and upwards.

[Red Orc]

Lovely and awesome stuff!

[Inso]

The lifeguards and warbirds are the cream of the crop . Cool minis and paint .

[anevilgiraffe]

where are the lifeguards and birds from?

[Merlon]

Thank you for the kind words.

where are the lifeguards and birds from?

The models are the Caravan Guards from the Colony 87 range by Crooked Dice.
https://crooked-dice.co.uk/collections/colony-87?page=6

[HerbertTarkel]

Thank you for the kind words.The models are the Caravan Guards from the Colony 87 range by Crooked Dice.
https://crooked-dice.co.uk/collections/colony-87?page=6

They are super cool; I just placed an order with CD (Ninja Turtles!!!), but next round, these are on the list.

I miss good ramen. Spent two weeks in Japan in September ‘24. Hiroshima, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo. My second time there. Never disappoints.

[Merlon]

I miss good ramen. Spent two weeks in Japan in September ‘24. Hiroshima, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo. My second time there. Never disappoints.

Never been to Land of Nippon, that long on a planes does not appeal to me. But the idea of anonymous food service seems so SF / Cyber, I wanted to build something a bit different  for Greenhaven.

Added to the population of Greenhaven
Pilot and passenger do a final check with groundcrew.


Rest of the passengers seem a bit quiet.

Wanted to add some of the techmarine servitors from the early 2000s. Bought one of eBay - turned out to be a bad recast, so I shall create some more of my own using Catachan in due course.

[Merlon]

Plodding on, making clutter for the table. Having found an interesting reflective tape on Amazon, made up a number of solar panels to grace the roofs in Greenhaven.
Also made up a number of pipe stacks from aluminium tent poles, most reenactors end up with a large number of old poles from obsolete tents.


Was going through all my old models to see what I could resurrect from my youth. Found a thud gun, which I always had a soft spot for. Problem being I had only one wheel, there are some on eBay for outrageous money. So I thought I would have a go at copying the one in my possession. Reasonably successful, unless dropped on the floor all will be fine once it has a coat of paint.

[Freddy]

Great progress, I really like the ground crew!

[Merlon]

Great progress, I really like the ground crew!

Thank you. The ground crew came in a Colony 87 Kickstarter from Crooked Dice back in 2021(?).

Done a number of resin casts over the last months and as previously stated, it is always a good idea to have extra moulds available to deal with excess resin. One mould I use is for barrier wall blocks, quite a number have been accumulated over the years. So I started to build some sections of wall. This is a test section to see if I could figure a system for painting them.
Grey primer, then stipple with a dark grey, mid grey and finally a light grey seems to work.


Meanwhile the population for Greenhaven continues to grow.
A pie maker from the market, a jobbing welder, two Astropaths, an old staff colonel, last a woman in a big frock with sword and pistol.


Being "organised" I made a large dropper bottle up of the terrain colour  I had mixed for the figure bases. Of course now that bottle has chosen to hide itself, plenty of choice words this morning. So either mix up a new batch or maybe be more sensible and choose a ready made colour and buy off the shelf.
Onwards and upwards

[Freddy]

Colony 87 minis are really cool, shame I missed the kickstarter.