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BS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 7
Greenstuff all over the place this time! Base greenstuff work – on the troll, the barrel, and the base itself. More to come! Click for larger. I’ve started on the heavy leather harness that the troll...
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In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle…
Several years ago now I did a whole banker’s box full of jungle terrain, but it was all fairly low-lying stuff, thickets and bushes and that sort of thing. I’ve always intended to add some bigger trees...
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BS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 8
Blomping along… Primer! Got the gondola spray-primed grey and the balloon envelope brush-primed black. All primed up, except the base. Click for larger. The LAF Build Something 2017 contest rules ask...
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More Jungle To Rumble In
Scored another big paper towel roll from our recycling bin, so I decided to make a fallen tree instead of another upright one. Like the other trees, the fallen tree started with a paper towel roll,...
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Half-Timber Barn, Finally Finished!
Way back in June of 2011, I started a fairly small half-timber barn for 28mm, for either my ECW/TYW stuff or early 20th C pulp gaming. I’d gotten most of the painting done on the building six years...
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Half-Timber Dovecote, Dampfpanzerwagon Style: Part One
As I mentioned in my last post about the things I brought home from Trumpeter Salute, one of them was a copy of Issue #87 of Wargames, Soldiers, and Strategy, their ECW special. One of the articles in...
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A Quick And Simple Pond
I’ve been wanting do some more area terrain – mostly flat pieces to serve as rough ground, forested areas, and the like – for a while now. With the move back into ECW skirmish and terrain building for...
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Half-Timber Dovecote, Part Two
When we last saw the dovecote, the halftimber detailing on the walls was done, the roof was just started, and it lacked paint. Here’s the current state of the beast! Waiting for paint! Click for...
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Half-Timber Farmhouse, Part One
After getting the dovecote constructed (although not yet painted) I decided the next building would be a bit more substantial, and that a farmhouse would be the obvious counterpart to the dovecote....
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Half-Timber ECW Buildings, 11 May
I’ve been painting the dovecote and farmhouse together, so rather than separate updates I’ll just do combined “state of the ECW scenery” update today! Both buildings have had most of their painting...
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Stone Outbuilding/Hovel
With the farmhouse and dovecote progressing well, I wanted to move on to a few smaller buildings to the mix. This little stone outbuilding is the first of those. It’s a few random scrap pieces of pink...
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Stone Outbuilding Finished
Glued down the towel thatching, slapped a coat of paint over the small stone building, added the door, and declared it done! The towel got cut into a rough rectangle, big enough to hang an inch or so...
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Warbases Church In Progress
Not much activity on the wargaming front in the last couple weeks, for a variety of mostly-irritating reasons, but I have made a bit of progress on the Warbases church I first mentioned in a post a few...
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Review: Warbases MDF Vehicles
Warbases started doing vehicles in lasercut MDF and cardboard (greyboard) a few years ago and I was intruiged right away; a lot of 28mm vehicles are fairly expensive or (especially for World War One,...
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Warbases Church, Part Two
More progress on detailing the lasercut MDF church from Warbases that I started previously. Stonework & Doors Buttresses and a double row of foundation stonework have been added with pink styrofoam...
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A Small Stone Circle
Not every stone circle is a gigantic trilithon monument like Stonehenge. Some of them might be barely recognizable as stone circles, in fact, until you realize that plants grown in strange patterns...
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A handful of links I thought were worth sharing this week. Historical Enterprises, Inc are a historical reenactors garb/costuming company with all sorts of great articles on their website. If you need...
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Modular River, Part One
A relatively large modular river setup has been on my Things I Want To Build list for years. I went through the excellent set of scenarios that come with Pikeman’s Lament recently with an eye toward...
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Modular River, Part Two: The Bridge Begun
Realized I forgot to include the photo of the river modules with the air drying clay banks in place, so let’s start off with that! I rolled clay snakes out, mushed them into place, and left everything...
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Modular River, Part Three: Paint & Sand
Last time we saw the river modules, they were bare white plastic with clay banks. I’m happy to report that progress has been made! Sand and paint on the river modules, and paint on the bridge. Click...
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