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[Terrain]¶
New Basing Sand¶
After around 10 years, my bucket of sand I used for bases and terrain was nearly empty:
As you can see, there are also left overs from various projects mixed in, like the plastic sprues you can see - these fell off terrain pieces when I shook off the excess sand. The larger pieces are glued together lumps of sand that formed over time.
Back then, I took this sand from some childrens sandpit in the neighbourhood. When out shopping this week I came across some deco sand in the 1,- EUR shop, and I thought for 5,- EUR worth of risk I will not go rogue again ;-)
I choose two different grains. I like to paint bigger grains on bases in grey as rocks, to break up the monotonous brown not only with the green sand, but with a second colour. So I choose one tube of bigger pebbles, and four bottles of fine grade sand. To help with painting, I choose the colour brown - that way, if I miss a spot it will not be so obvious.
I managed to get three bottles of the fine sand and the larger pebbles in my bucket, with one bottle of fine sand left. If my sand consumption continues unchanged, enough for another decade and only 5,- EUR :-)
Published 2014-08-30 22:35:00
[15mm]¶
Corporate Marines¶
Having seen a news item on The Miniatures Page, I thought these would fit perfectly well for the door gunners of my VTOLs. So I ordered the gatlings and machine guns from Brigade Models:
Now I need to recreate them as 3 models in OpenSCAD and play around with them on my cabin model.
Published 2014-08-30 22:16:00
15mm | Brigade Models | OpenSCAD | SiFi
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[Kickstarter]¶
Militia Miniatures - 28mm Modern Mercenaries!¶
I succumbed to spending some more money on yet another kickstarter, a rather small one though:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1056922531/militia-miniatures-28mm-modern-mercenaries
Published 2014-08-27 22:06:00
28mm | Kickstarter | Militia Miniatures | PMCs
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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourgh¶
I painted all the skin areas on all the models.
I then painted the ammunition belts on all the models. I used 70.801 Brass and 72.059 Hammered Copper for the shells/bullets, 70.821 German Camo Beige WWII for the belts themselves.
Published 2014-08-26 00:05:00
15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | Wehrmacht | WWII
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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourgh¶
I painted all the metal parts of the weapons on all the models.
In reality, the metal areas were mostly black, with only worn off edges showing 'real silver' metal. But painting the weapons black would have been too drab on the models. So I decided for 71.073 Gunmetal Metalizer, a very dark, blackish metal colour.
After the all the models are fully painted, I will add some washes; then the Gunmetal will receive a black wash probably.
Published 2014-08-24 22:40:00
15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | Wehrmacht | WWII
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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourgh¶
I painted all the wooden parts, spades and grenades in 70.876 Brown Sand, rifles in 70.940 Saddle Brown.
Next step is painting the metal parts.
Published 2014-08-23 21:48:00
15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | Wehrmacht | WWII
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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourgh¶
I painted the boots and the gaiters on all the models. For the boots I went roughly 50/50 with 70.994 Dark Grey and 70.879 Green Brown. The gaiters were also Field Grey according to the Osprey book I use as a reference, but that was not really visible on the models, so I went for 70.821 German Camo Beige.
Published 2014-08-23 16:59:00
15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | Wehrmacht | WWII
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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourgh¶
After some while another update. It is not that I did not continue on the models, it is just the fact, that with the Wehrmacht models every piece of equipment has another color... which is time consuming.
Here you can see the finished Zeltbahnen.
For all the leather straps and pouches, I first tried a dark grey (model on the right), but this is hardly discernible this close, there is no difference to the uniform from further away. So I went with black (left model).
This is the current status of all models: bread bag, canteen, gas mask/blanket canister, Zeltbahn, grenades, spades and mess kit painted, including all the straps. The wooden part of the Stielhandgranaten and spades are still missing.
Published 2014-08-17 23:42:00
15mm | 1940's | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | Wehrmacht | WWII
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[6mm]¶
A gaming board in a weekend¶
The buildings were finished by painting the windows Extra Dark Green and the doors and hatches in German Grey.
The smaller hill I cut into two:
I also removed one arm from the river:
To finish the hills, I added static grass:
It is now 11:43 pm and the board is ready for gaming (well, except the varnish drying on the hills and buildings):
Mission accomplished :-)
One gaming board done in one weekend, and that although we played BattleTech yesterday and had visitors with us today.
Published 2014-08-10 23:43:00
6mm | SiFi | Space Marines | Stargrunt 40.000 - Rogue Rules | Terrain
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[6mm]¶
A gaming board in a weekend¶
I cut the felt and placed it on the board together with the other pieces. The island in the river was cut out of a whim.
I still need to add some static grass and paint the windows, doors and hatches of the buildings.
The smaller hill is too big, it does not allow the Orks to advance on the Imperial position from behind it too much - and over it puts them in the line of fire. I think I will cut it in half, allowing more manoevering space behind it.
I am also not sure yet if I will leave the river with the island... at the moment, having to cross two arms is slowing them Orks down further... Either I will cut the left one away or I need to paint more items on the Orks red... because Woz red wunz go fasta!
Published 2014-08-10 20:04:00
6mm | SiFi | Space Marines | Stargrunt 40.000 - Rogue Rules | Terrain
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