Re: Lost Jaffa City! Moderator please delete this thread! Malcybogaten

[MalcyBogaten]

Really like your use of beads.  I used the same or very similar beads when I did my Darkest Africa collection.  Great job on this.  Richard

Thanks!

Excellent! 

And again!

Great stuff!  You have some definite hints and tips for the gamer on a budget.

The whole point!

Thanks guys. It means a lot to me!

Here are some real budget items and photog skills! (As in Terrible focus!)

Palm trees and rocks for the budget gamer. 99p shop army men palms, that came with some of the other bits you will be spotting later!

For now though?
An attempted wide shot of 5 in progress! Plus Babydoll for scale!

Closer for the look of it!

Higher and nearly missed shot!


The rocks are stones grabbed from the back garden and whacked with a hammer! (Wear goggles and shin pads and gloves and get behind something and probably get someone else to do it to be safe!) It is dangerous don't mess about!

Superglue to a suitable base the sharp shards of pebble! Milliput them as well as the trees! I have yet to paint these bases and darken the tree trunks/palm trunks. Smoke by Valllejo 70939 Model Colo(u)r.

More trees that you can never have enough off!

[MalcyBogaten]

Sorry a bit dark!

Salt and Pepper Anyone?





Cost me £1 for both then gave them the Jaffa treatment.

Sorry.

[MalcyBogaten]

In Lieu of playing any games yet again??

Some Piccies!!
Artist Canvas bases. Diecast 1/50th scale vehicles and Artizan and Westwind minis!






Army men barbed wire and guard towers again always useful as props!

[MalcyBogaten]

More inspiration hit me the other day!

I had an absolute load of Domino Pieces left over from using the boxes for Containers in my other projects.

Rather than waste them or make more steps out of them I decided to do this for Jaffa.

The blocks can be added under and next to the other modular bits of Jaffa as extended steps and platforms.

The 2 Bridge sections as you can see here add a little bit of extra umph!
Making a low bridge on their own!

And again.

Or connecting high rise sections.

Spacers

Spacers place together.


I do have a lot of these bits, so covering gaps and giving more egress points to raised bits of Jaffa are now solved!

[d phipps]

Very cool! What a great idea. 

[MalcyBogaten]

I think He may count as an "Extreme Peril!"

The Mighty Bong! Guarding his Treasure.

Crashin through an old wreck!

Closer in.

This Plane has seen better days!


We have used the plane wreckage as plot points. (No I didn't wreck a model on purpose!)

It was an accident that I couldn't fix. So I put the much mangled bits to another purpose. The Weathering is a form of dust from my spare room!

Giant ape by Reaper. (I know he's the wrong colour )

[Jambo]

Nice ape. Did he bring down the plane? I really love the use of household objects as terrain pieces. I didn't even recognise some of them until I read the comments.

[Muzfish4]

This is a fantastic thread - so many great ideas! The domino bridge is especially superb.

Thanks so much for posting.

As an aside, I am delighted to see that "Sports Nutritionists" endorse Jaffa Cakes. One may speculate that this fine product assists competitive darts players achieve the physiques for which they are justly renown.

[MalcyBogaten]

Nice ape. Did he bring down the plane? I really love the use of household objects as terrain pieces. I didn't even recognise some of them until I read the comments.

That's funny! I was going to say, "Bong wasn't a very good pilot!" In my initial comments but left it out in the end. But having him stand on the higher temples of Jaffa fighting Bi-planes is an idea....

This is a fantastic thread - so many great ideas! The domino bridge is especially superb.

Thanks so much for posting.

As an aside, I am delighted to see that "Sports Nutritionists" endorse Jaffa Cakes. One may speculate that this fine product assists competitive darts players achieve the physiques for which they are justly renown.

Hey I play Darts! (Now and again when I'm not wheezing!) Yes! Jaffa cakes are a fantastic source of the vitamin, "Smashing Orangey-bit in the middle!" Well known for aiding "Wheezing" on an Olympic level!

Thanks for the comments both. More stuff as and when I can.
Currently working on some "Souffle" ramekin bits I found cheap. Don't really know what to do with them other than more plinths or raised bases. But when I've done something more productive with them. I'll post!

[Duke Donald]

Great stuff throughout, but the use of dominos for the bridges is particularly inspired!

[Cymril]

Amazing stuff! And the use of dominoes for walkways gives me a new idea for my own project. Thank you for sharing!

[MalcyBogaten]

As I said before. Got these Ramekins 3 for £1 from Poundland!!

Gave them a paint and made bridge pillars out of them. (Or anything else that needs a quite large column base to it?)

A truly mighty long thin bridge!

As above.

Closer in.

Again.

Again.


I have another 3 Ramekins to do and at the moment one more piece of Domino bridge to paint.
I feel like a kid playing with building blocks again.

[d phipps]

Excellent ideas! 

[MalcyBogaten]

Here's some bits I thought of to add twists and turns to my bridging!

Made from the left over dominos? (How is that spelled?)













Basically, cut a piece of cardboard just a bit bigger than the two flat dominos? Then superglue them in place and add two more standing on edge. I added a necklace bead in the corner and an off-cut piece of aquarium plant for a bit of colour.

Hey presto! Turny corner bits!

[Vindice]

Fab.