Gunbirds S.T.A.L.K.E.R. project (17/8 - Crossed out)

[mikedemana]

Love the vegetation growing up the side and the weathered look to the green paint. Great job!

Mike Demana

[Michi]

A cosy little place to be! 

[Spinal Tap]

A great addition to any post apocalyptic settlement, much better than crapping in the woods.

[Michi]

A great addition to any post apocalyptic settlement, much better than crapping in the woods.

IT'S A TRAP!

If there ever was one, it's the shithouse with a bottomless shaft underneath...

[carlos marighela]

Or snakes. I once killed a three foot Eastern Brown snake with a shovel in an out door bog. Redback spiders also seem to have a certain fondness for outdoor loos. So much so it became immortalised in song hereabouts.

[CapnJim]

IT'S A TRAP!

If there ever was one, it's the shithouse with a bottomless shaft underneath...

You ain't kiddin'!  One modern game I ran several years ago featured a porta-potty that ended up being a bad guy spawn point.  It spawned several bad guys.  Musta been a disguised tunnel entrance...

[carlos marighela]

Dirty job but someone has to do it.

The thunderboxes we had on exercises usually covered a hole that would fit an infantry section, so I guess it's possible.

[Gunbird]

Thx guys, that all sounds very......get it away from me

More a proof of concept than anything else, printed these crosses off yesterday and just finished them within 24 hours, varnish and all. These testers came out fine I think. The rough finish at the back is from the buildplate and works great for rough concrete, as does not using the iron fucntion on the front so you get a tad more detail that pops out when painting.

[Kourtchatovium104]

A good idea to add some white flowers at the rear of the biggest cross: a litte bit of melancholy... Very atmospheric in a STALKER way!

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Excellent.

[Maceface]

Thx!

You could try asking Paul if he has some for sale? It's the only one I own so I'm not selling it

While clearing out parts of my storage I stumbled across my old scratchbuilt Pripyat sign, back in early 2013. When I could still easily cut out plasticcard letters, in my pre car crash days. As none of the pics survived the Photobucketlypse I might as well do a quick reshoot and put the sign in the Stalker box. I made it for 20mm, so it is underscale, but it still works. Back then, all I had to go on was a single picture so the back is pure fantasy.

28mm figure for sale reference.

Love this sign! How did you make it? Lasercut?

[Gunbird]

Hi Maceface,

No, I made this when lasercutting was still a rich engineers dream. Back then I printed off a photo of the sign (having no clue on the dimensions) and used carbon copy to transfer it onto plasticcard, cut it all out, sanded it smooth and just glued into place.

You could almost call it Old School now or just call me old

[Daeothar]

Hey; Old's cool... 

Also: I've always loved that sign of yours; it really suits the setting and always takes me right back to the exclusion zone... 

Did't you also do this MIG-15 memorial thing, with a plane 'flying off' on a concrete structure?

[Ragsta]

Lovely stuff, mate. I remember that old sign and still love it! Hope things are going well at your end.

[Gunbird]

Lovely stuff, mate. I remember that old sign and still love it! Hope things are going well at your end.

Been pretty sick for the past 4 weeks after switching to new meds, so besides printing and staring out the window not much is getting done. Up side is that I have all this free time to get new ideas....wait, that's not really a bonus.....

Hey; Old's cool... 

Also: I've always loved that sign of yours; it really suits the setting and always takes me right back to the exclusion zone... 

Did't you also do this MIG-15 memorial thing, with a plane 'flying off' on a concrete structure?

MiG-21 in 1/72, yes, still have it in my stash. Thinking of making a 1/100 MiG for it as well, or maybe a 1/48 MiG-15 for my current project, but even a 1/48 MiG-15 is quite a beast! But at least that way the base gets used.