Finished another two Reiklanders last night, the second Youngblood and an Archer. That’s 6 of 14 painted.
The balsa ship is completely primed with masts and simple rigging completed as well. Might have to drybrush the hull tonight.
May 172005
May 152005
Here’s a great article about scratch built 15mm buildings. The author uses a similar technique to this other article I linked to in the past.
If I ever get around to finishing my NZer FOW force I’d be tempted to try using this technique to build some suitable North African terrain like this.
May 142005
Damn, Games Workshop have re-re-vamped the Tyranids and now the Tyranid Carnifex is a plastic kit. Here’s the sprues. Kind of ironic considering I have a half painted Tyranid force from the last re-vamp still gathering dust in my garage.
May 132005
I’ve finished detailing the balsa ship and I’ve just primed it black ready for drybrushing. Here’s a detail photo of the bow with plasticard ‘basketwork’. I used plasticard because hopefully it will prove more hard-wearing than cardboard. Attaching it to the balsa was a pain hence all the dress-maker’s pins. I think the bow still needs a figurehead, but I might scrap my original plans of trying to create a full 28mm figure to go there and aim for something a lot smaller – say a 15mm lady of some sort. That means I’ll have to sculpt her from scratch which will be a challenge.
The stern windows are hand made from balsa and blister plastic for the glass. I used blister plastic to provide a flat smooth surface for paint some kind of glass effect over. I’m not entirely happy with the results, possibly the rear windows should have been ‘overhung’ like the side windows are. Ah well, I’ll keep that in mind if I ever create another ship like this!
May 122005
Trying to get more of my Reiklander Mordheim warband painted up before the next game against Brent. Finished two more gentleman last night, the captain (with pistol) and the swordsman with the breastplate. My painting style hasn’t changed much over the years – I’d classify it as ‘workable but nothing fancy’. I used to drench everything in chestnut ink (the two figures on the right suffered this fate) but recently I’ve taken to applying more subtle washes and painting over them as is evidenced by the swordsman with the breastplate.
All in all I’d say I get more enjoyment out of creating and painting terrain these days – but you’ve got to have figures painted to play the games! It’s not a great photo but these figures are deliberately rather dark and dirty.
May 112005
If you’re after really tiny nuts and rivets check out GrandtLine’s ‘augmentables‘. Their rivets look particularly useful for sci-fi modelling at approx 0.8mm, 1.0mm and 1.5mm diameters.
May 112005
Here’s another way to bend balsa wood that the creator of Antenociti’s Workshop pointed out: use a scoring tool.
I must say this looks like the easiest way to get curved balsa planks. Acorn models here in Auckland sell a similar tool for around $19NZ, the Artesania Plank Bender for wood. Might have to pick one up!
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