[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourg¶

Some progress, more rifle squats, .30 cal machine guns and 60mm mortars:

Published 2015-10-13 10:12:09

15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | US Army | WWII

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[Kickstarter]¶
2000AD: Rogue Trooper Miniatures Game¶

Yesterday, the next batch of troops arrived, Souther Troopers.

Not much missing now:

• 3 Rogue Troopers ✓
• 2 Souther Soldier sets ✓
• 4 Nort Soldier sets ✓
• 2 Nort and Souther Officer sets ✖
• 1 Souther Staff Car ✖
• 1 Rulebook ✖

Published 2015-10-16 08:57:44

2000AD: Rogue Trooper | 28mm | Mongoose Publishing

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[Frag]¶
Board and Miniatures¶

Blue team is done as well, next up are the bases. I am still pondering whether or not to replace the bases from the Steve Jackson models...

Published 2015-10-16 10:15:32

EM-4 Miniatures | Frag | Steve Jackson Games

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[Terrain]¶
Modular Fence System¶

I prepared all the edge bases, cutting them into shape and bevelling the edges.

Published 2015-11-14 10:49:48

28mm | Fantasy | Linear Obstacle | Terrain

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[Tools]¶
Figure holder¶

With all the metal bases I use recently, I thought of an easy way to hold my models while painting, when I saw on several places on the nets fellow painters drilling pins into the feet of their models and sticking them on cork cones. This way neither the model nor the base is touched during the whole painting process.

With the metal bases, I do not need pins, but jsut something magnetic. So I build the following devices. I ordered wooden discs and rods from Spielematerial.de, 1cm magnets from MagnetShop.net and screws from the local DIY.

First I drilled a small hole through the center of the disc to guide the screw. The center I found by drawing to random lines across the disc, then a vertical from their exact center. The intersection showed the center of the disc. On side I drilled a hole some mm deep to the screw head into.

On the rods the diameter was too small to use the same method to get the center, so I build a small helper tool - which was not that precise as it turned out later :-(

Here are the rods screwed to the discs:

The final step was to drill a 10mm hole...

... and glue the magnets into place.

Published 2015-11-15 02:37:52

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[Kickstarter]¶
Mantic Dungeon Saga¶

The next Kickstarter I invested in arrived. Another bunch of miniatures for quite a good price - as always with the Mantic Kickstarters. I just need more painting time...

Published 2015-11-21 10:49:48

28mm | Dungeon Sage | Kickstarter | Mantic Games

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[Christmas Present]¶
Finance-Zwölfe¶

Recently at work, I was walking down the corridor towards my office. Some meters in front of me, a colleague left hers and walked in the same direction as me towards another colleague's office where she had some business to do. She looked over her shoulder at who was walking behing her and said hello. Two seconds later, she started to dance down the corridor, flinging her arms and singing "Ich bin eine Elfe, ich bin eine Elfe!" ('I am an elf, I am an elf!') which made us both laugh.

Some minutes later, when I was sitting at my desk (I face the door), she passed my office on her way back to her own, and again danced across my field of view, this time singing "Ich bin eine Zwölfe, ich bin eine Zwölfe!".

The translation of that is not so easy as the first. In German "eine Elfe" is a female elf and at the same time "elf" is the word for the number eleven. "Eine Zwölfe" is derived from the German word for twelve (zwölf) as Elf is from eleven: 11 -> Elfe, 12 -> Zwölfe.

So on her way back, the colleague had accumulated enough XP to advance her character one level ;-)

She then said something along the line of working long enough where we do (I am not sure if she meant the company as a whole or just the finance department) makes everyone a bit nuts.

Some days later, while browsing for miniatures, I came across an elf miniature and remembered that episode, I then thought this would make a nice christmans present for her, referencing back to that funny moment.

This is the miniature:

I cut off the spear, and drilled holes to allow me to insert a key ring for the "Kontenschlüssel" she will be carrying - it will be a Finance Zwölfe after all. Kontenschlüssel (literally: account key) is called 'account determination' in english as far as I know - so again, works only German. I used paper pins to help strengthen the joints.

Left-overs from the kit I will not be using.

Published 2015-11-22 11:43:46

28mm | Diorama | Present

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[Terrain]¶
Modular Fence System¶

The connecting posts and one of the edge posts are glued to all the bases.

Published 2015-11-26 10:49:48

28mm | Fantasy | Linear Obstacle | Terrain

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[Christmas Present]¶
Finance-Zwölfe¶

I glued the hand to the arm, the wings I left off for now for easier painting.

The gaps at the wrist and one air bubble I found were hidden using grey stuff from Gale Force 9 (sorry, hard to see grey stuff on grey resin...)

Published 2015-11-26 11:47:03

28mm | Diorama | Present

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[15mm]¶
Corporate Marines¶

Today I primed the cabin insides in 73.601 Grey Surface Primer through my airbrush. When the inside is painted, I will seal the openings with tape and glue the cabins to the hulls - the outside will then be painted with the rest of the VTOLs.

Published 2015-11-29 11:22:04

15mm | 3d Print | Brigade Models | SiFi

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