Adding to the list

Picked up some styrofoam @ work which will make cool dragon's teeth tank traps and gun emplacements.

so now the to do list looks like so:

• Build tank traps (would like to have done for Tuesday)
• Build gun emplacements (would like to have done for Tuesday)
• Pebble and sane building (would like to have done for Tuesday)
• Texture building (would like to have done for Tuesday)
• Spray prime building (would like to have done for Tuesday)
• Paint building (would like to have done for Tuesday)
• Paint tank traps (would like to have done for Tuesday)
• Paint gun emplacements (would like to have done for Tuesday)
• Paint Nob (fix primer)
• Paint Burna Boy
• Finish Modelling trukk

and here I was thinking i didn't have much to do.

I picked up some "textured" paint @ michael's yesterday and tested it out on a pice of scrap foamboard and then after it dried i went ahead and primed it black. it gives a great texture (particles aren't too big). it takes a primer well. i haven't tried drybrushing over it, but i think it won't be a problem as the texture looks like it's gonna hold real nice.

on deck for the piece:

• battle damage, wear and tear (bullet holes, blasts, etc)
• finish my crater:
• chop down and un-even the rim, round out the bottom, sand and rubble the outside and glue it to the base.
• sand and rubble the base
• texture the building
• prime and paint

More terrain

More progress on the terrain, built a bomb crater last night. Posted to The Waaagh! where i got the advice to chop down the rim a bit and uneven it. also to round out the bottom. i thought perhaps the crater may have been a bit big, but i was assured that it looked good in the model.



picked up some textured spray paint in order to texture the walls.



hopefully i will have it ready for next game club night.

Gaming Club and Terrain

So Friday night a group from Sunshine got together outside of Sunshine and played at a new place. Was a little warm to start, but after the sun went down we were much more comfortable. the AC should be fixed before soon which should alleviate some of this.

in moving venues we will not have access to Joel's terrain. we made do Friday with sheets of paper (being blown around by the fans circulating the one AC's cold air) with RUINS, HILL, FOREST printed on them. so I thought it would be cool to build some terrain to (hopefully) get some other people into building it for the group.

first shot with Barry, the scale ork:












and then the finished product:
























I think I want a blast crater in the center of the building in order to explain why the building is in shambles. thought about sandbags too a la' the Forgeworld piece Rudy did, but i think i would be over modeling it at that point. and i would like to add more terrain to our group.

FYI, at the moment it is all built from 1/4" foamboard.
glued with PVA glue
the base is 12" x 12"
to get to the point currently is about 3 hours.

foamboard - on sale at michaels $1.97
Forgeworld Resin piece - $50

hmm...