While being in Chile I also managed to start my Death Guard Terminator squad, and here is the first:
I just love painting Nurgle stuff, sooo dirty, fast and fun! ;-)
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Treasures from ebay (and discounter)
Hi everyone!
Look what new treasures I bought on ebay!
This was a big "suprise box" of old plastic models that was found "on an attic". The Chaos Space Marine is just for size comparison...
The best thing is surely the train! It is of plastic and has a perfect scale for usage in Warhammer 40k! No idea which company it is from. Anyway it will make an awesome gothic train in the dark world of Necromunda!
Ok the "Long Tom" is too large in scale, but hey who cares? It will make an awesome "Super-siege cannon"...
Also the Leopard tank (scale 1/35) is basically too large. 1/4something should better match Warhammer 40k scale. Let's see what I can use it for...
And this was a different auction: The Oshkosh HEMTT M985 A2. Manufacturer and scale unkown but must be smaller than 1/35. I found a similar model as die cast on amazon but for more than 100 Euros...
Anyway, this truck will also be perfect for Necromunda or any other sci-fi tabletop. Just needs very little conversions...
And finally found in a crappy discounter in my hometown: These awesome (and super-cheap) death skulls!
Ok one will have to work a little to remove this stupid lizard on the outside of the right skull. But then it will be perfect for some demonic or gothic terrain...
Look what new treasures I bought on ebay!
And this was a different auction: The Oshkosh HEMTT M985 A2. Manufacturer and scale unkown but must be smaller than 1/35. I found a similar model as die cast on amazon but for more than 100 Euros...
And finally found in a crappy discounter in my hometown: These awesome (and super-cheap) death skulls!
Monday, December 12, 2011
Mutant Joe becomes a gang member...
I am back from a 5 weeks stay in Chile, and it is really time for new posts!
So let's get started again: Here comes another Goliath ganger. This time it is not a classical model but a slight conversion of the "Mutant Joe" from Hasselfree. I painted him in Chile and under not optimal light conditions (and very dry air ;-))
Hope you like it!
C&C most welcome!
So let's get started again: Here comes another Goliath ganger. This time it is not a classical model but a slight conversion of the "Mutant Joe" from Hasselfree. I painted him in Chile and under not optimal light conditions (and very dry air ;-))
Hope you like it!
C&C most welcome!
Monday, October 24, 2011
Necromunda scenery sessions started & How to get surface structure onto your floors!
Hi all!
In the last weekends my friend and me started with building Necromunda scenery. In total we spend 3 evenings, the first mainly discussing what we want to do how, e.g., usage of a common height for the different levels (3 inch) and that we wanted to have some cover on each level. In addition, we plan to build barricade-like terrain pieces to add cover in various places for each individual game and get more variation possibilities. The same with bridges, we want to have many bridges to connect buildings in lots of different possible ways. So the buildings have to be open enough, also such that we could reach inside miniatures easily with our big hands! ;-)
In general, the idea was to encourage usage and battles on different levels during the games, in particular we want to avoid that everything is just happening on the ground-floor. This was my friend's experience with his Mortheim sessions many years ago...
So you see there is a lot to think about when building scenery for tabletop! I would be curious to hear of your experience and opinions about these issues, so let us know! ;-)
Anyway, during quite some time already, I was collecting lots of stuff, trash, everything that could be taken away and be used for cool scenery. Then finally we started, here are the first 2 buildings each of us has done. They are unpainted yet. Therefore you can see what material we have used...
And now 2 tricks to do surface patterns or structure on your floors of cardboard, wood or styrofoam or whatever:
1. As you can see on the picture above, I wanted to have a typical industrial floor, namely stud plates (?, in German: Tränenblech). Anyway, you can see how it looks like. Now, these plates can be bought ready to use in any good architecture shop (for the cute model houses they are building), but they are freaking expensive!!! 20* 30 cm for 20 Euro. That is too much for a poor student like me! ;-) Therefore I found this trick on a modelers homepage (sorry I forgot where exactly): You buy one small piece of this architecture plates and use aluminium foil. You imprint the pattern into the foil either with a press (as described on that homepage) or you use your finger nails! ;-) As I did below, and scratch into the 2 different directions of this structure...
Then you just need some glue to fill the pattern as well as possible:
And voila! That is it, 24 hours later you have a nice industrial floor! ;-) Of course, there is one big drawback (as always): it is only thin alu foil, so it is quite easy to get stains and dents into it. But hey, it is supposed to look very old and used, no?!
Here you can see, the 2 buildings we have done (if you can look closely enough to actually spot them in this chaos! ;-))
And here comes the trick my friend "invented", so all credits to him! Out of scurity, his name will remain secret! ;-)
This one is really easy, much faster and with a sturdier result: when we bought potatos for dinner (as Germans usually eat! ;-)) we got them in a yellow plasitc net. So the trick: Just take this net, cut it to the right size and glue it with, e.g., Ponal onto the surface. And voiila!
Ah, ja and here the second buildings...
Can't wait to fight in this scenery (or better my gang)!!!
What tricks do you use to get fast and cool scenery in an affordable way?
In the last weekends my friend and me started with building Necromunda scenery. In total we spend 3 evenings, the first mainly discussing what we want to do how, e.g., usage of a common height for the different levels (3 inch) and that we wanted to have some cover on each level. In addition, we plan to build barricade-like terrain pieces to add cover in various places for each individual game and get more variation possibilities. The same with bridges, we want to have many bridges to connect buildings in lots of different possible ways. So the buildings have to be open enough, also such that we could reach inside miniatures easily with our big hands! ;-)
In general, the idea was to encourage usage and battles on different levels during the games, in particular we want to avoid that everything is just happening on the ground-floor. This was my friend's experience with his Mortheim sessions many years ago...
So you see there is a lot to think about when building scenery for tabletop! I would be curious to hear of your experience and opinions about these issues, so let us know! ;-)
Anyway, during quite some time already, I was collecting lots of stuff, trash, everything that could be taken away and be used for cool scenery. Then finally we started, here are the first 2 buildings each of us has done. They are unpainted yet. Therefore you can see what material we have used...
And now 2 tricks to do surface patterns or structure on your floors of cardboard, wood or styrofoam or whatever:
1. As you can see on the picture above, I wanted to have a typical industrial floor, namely stud plates (?, in German: Tränenblech). Anyway, you can see how it looks like. Now, these plates can be bought ready to use in any good architecture shop (for the cute model houses they are building), but they are freaking expensive!!! 20* 30 cm for 20 Euro. That is too much for a poor student like me! ;-) Therefore I found this trick on a modelers homepage (sorry I forgot where exactly): You buy one small piece of this architecture plates and use aluminium foil. You imprint the pattern into the foil either with a press (as described on that homepage) or you use your finger nails! ;-) As I did below, and scratch into the 2 different directions of this structure...
Then you just need some glue to fill the pattern as well as possible:
Here you can see, the 2 buildings we have done (if you can look closely enough to actually spot them in this chaos! ;-))
And here comes the trick my friend "invented", so all credits to him! Out of scurity, his name will remain secret! ;-)
This one is really easy, much faster and with a sturdier result: when we bought potatos for dinner (as Germans usually eat! ;-)) we got them in a yellow plasitc net. So the trick: Just take this net, cut it to the right size and glue it with, e.g., Ponal onto the surface. And voiila!
Ah, ja and here the second buildings...
Can't wait to fight in this scenery (or better my gang)!!!
What tricks do you use to get fast and cool scenery in an affordable way?
Friday, October 14, 2011
Classical Goliath Gang -- finished!
I have managed to finish the first 8 members of my Goliath Necromunda gang. They are the classical old models from the box... And the are eager to see blood!!!
You can also vote for them on CMON:http://www.coolminiornot.com/artist/Xcorac
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