A Blast from the Past

 

Apropos of a post on Facebook about resin buildings, I made a few buildings back in the day for running demo games. The owners of Fantasy Forge saw them at a convention and asked if I could make a few more for a range to use with BattleTech.

I said yes, of course I could, and I rumaged my spares box and made what you see here for them.

Above, the two smaller buildings, are the same model, just showing the back and front. Made from Eagle Transporter pods cut to fit, with Plasticard corrugated sheet for the roofs.

The center building is a repurposed air-freshner. My original master was taller, but Fantasy Forge couldn't get consistent casts from the moulds, which meant they cut it down in size you see here.

Below, the building on the left was built up using four Eagle Transporter modules, with some Airfix Panther tank wheels, a bottle cap and sundry spares. Finished off with corrugated plasticard, filler, and a dome from the Plastruct range.  

Above, the one on the right was a cap from something and a elliptical dish from the Plastruct range who are makers of components for architectural model makers.

Below, the building on the left is made from two Apollo Lunar Lander halves, two Enterprise hangar doors, and sundry Plasticard gribblies.

Above, the building on the right was made from two Panther tank turrets, and jet engine cowlings from whatever I had in my bits box. Plasticard gribblies, and another dome from the Plastruct range to finish.

I made these when I had a serious spares box collected from the days when I worked in a hobby store and could get my hands on spare sprues.

Hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving day. Catch you all later.

Warfare 2025

 

I almost didn't go to Farnborough for the show this year, because of side effects from my medication, what the British National Formulary call a skin reactions. Anyway, enough of the grumbling.

Above on my right is Jon from GZG, long time friend, and on my left is Tim from Gomi Designs who I hadn't seen for 20 years. So just going and meeting up with my two friends made my day.

Below is what I scored at the show.

Decals from Pendraken, Some Rosemary & Co drybrush brushes, a pack of small needle files, and a packet of leaf scatter to try out. Still have a bunch of trees to finish.

We got there and had a good mooch around and found Daleks! I was excited! They're 3D prints from The Madman's Workshop, and come in a range of sizes. I asked about 1/100th sized Daleks for 15mm, and plan on ordering some to try out.

 How can one resist the power of the Daleks!?

Lots of games to see, and a lot of the competition games had real nice tables set up, going beyond the usual green mat and some lonesome scatter terrain dotting the table.

And then there was this.

 

On its last outing, Joe Bilton's What a Tanker Operation Charnwood, Caen 1945 table.

That's it. That's all I've got. Catch you all on the bounce. 

OMWB: Newten Town New Direction WIP 3

More progress with refurbishing my buildings. Above is a repaired long building, which had suffered a break at one end. I rebuilt the missing wall with Milliput, and carved in the brick courses.

To repair t roof I added a plasticard base to reinforce  the damaged roof, then added filler. After this had set, I carved in the roof tiles.

The end result is a bit sloppy, but should suffice for a damaged building.

Below you can see where I've glued Mulberry rice paper to line the walls, because experience tells me the resin tends to break if knocked. And building are easily knocked.

And again below, you can just about tell that the far resin wall window post has broken. I shall rebuild it with Milliput, repeating what I did with the building at the top of this post..

 

Not shown are the reworked floors for both of the buildings above.

One of the floor's lacked any detail, and the others were a tad shallow, which is probably accurate, but these are building for wargames, so I scribed them all to make the planks stand out more when they're drybrushed.

That's all for now. Catch you all on the bounce.