Shedding

 My Warbases order from the tail end of October arrived, after sp-ending 2 weeks in Customs limbo. Their MDF scenery is a bit different from Sarissa, the doors feel smaller (still have to measure) and their floor pieces don't nock into the walls on the 3 items I've built today.

In this case it's Large Concrete Hut, Small Concrete Hut and Lean-to Greenhouse. They are ok, nice detail. While taking everything from the panels of MDF I noticed they had used the empty spaces to cut bases out of, so you get less weight and they get more bases to sell. This also means you have a lot less waste.

As I said the bases on the Huts are not keyed so you just glue the walls together around the base. Just make sure the working surface is flat and you should be fine. The details of the door and windows are seperate MDF parts you glue in. I left out the door on the smaller one and left out the MDF section with the window as well and just glued in a bit of left over MDF sprue, Works just as well. Then added windowsills to both and a doorknob to the Large Concrete Hut door. The Greenhouse is lovely if a bit ....barren? 5 pieces including the door and that is it. I've added a bit of scrap MDF as a ledge to put plantpots on (I'll cut up some beads for those) and left the door off for now, but I will glue that in tomorrow.

Now, I've run into the slight issue that what I intended to use the Greenhouse for....doesn't work. The door opening is on the wrong side. I've asked Warbases if one of my friends can pick up some more of those at Warfare this weekend. He should be back from the UK somewhere mid January and then I can build one mirrored. The brickwork will be on the inside, but the outside can just be weathered concrete. No issue there.

Oh, I did add card strips to the small of the 2 huts. Will do the same with the big one tomorrow, it really helps with the look and the paint job.

A few more weeks and all the renovation of the house should be done, I'll be out of the noise and back to peace and quiet and back to more painting.

Only the Greenhouse is...well, was, meant for Stalker, the other 2 are more generic. But more about that once they are done.

Doing the right thing

While looking around the web for deals on Sarissa in the EU I ran across a cloned website of Sarissa. Looked really well done, but in an older format, with current pics and oddly high discounts. Thought I had run in to the testwebsite for a potential upcoming sale at first, but after some online checking (like using the Wayback machine etc) I concluded It must be a fake.

Reported it with screenshots etc to Sarissa and this was their reply.

Hi Johan,


Thank you for taking the time and directing us to the fake site. We’ reported it through various channels and it has now been taken down thankfully and I hope that no one was tricked into using it.


As a thank you for your assistance please accept this £5 voucher code which will give a discount of £5 on any order of £20 or over.



<nope, not showing that, sorry...>


Many thanks,Steve

After being scammed in Agugust by a real shop (losing out 160,77 euros in the process cause www.minigamers.nl just keeps your money and does not send out any stuff) my faith in humanity is a bit restored.

(And then Trump won so now it's shaky again.....<sigh>)

Hard Sci-fi civilian vehicle WIP

 Saw this basemodel early October as a sci-fi vehicle and thought, I can do that. So found one on sale and made it my own with some old (and very old) GW and other parts. Basemodel is a 1/48 Tamiya 7ton Armoured Car MK. IV

Went with a abandoned Redneck in space look. Plenty of scope for weathering. Minor cleanup tomorrow then primer.

Will work for any hard Sci-fi I suppose.Alien, Rogue Trader, Stargrave