Getting to the final stages of the transmitter or radio bunker. Insert with cut off cables is ready for priming, glued a big magnet in the top of the mast and drilled a nail into the side of a round MDF base and glued stars on both ends. Nothing earth shattering but the end is in sight!
I picked up the Blood and Zeal box (84 euros) and found a seller on the used group that wanted 28 euro per set of the Inquisitorial Agents so grabbed 2 of those as that gives you 90% of the build options.
At first I felt the box would not be that interesting, I could just sell the Chaos dudes and the statue and come out ahead. But after (just) opening the box that changed.
The statue will be stripped into parts. The wings into the bitx box, the lower parts will come in handy for ....something Imperial, the skulls built as a pile and usefull for a pile of dead Fantasy ogres? The candles etc will come in handy as well and the statue will get a new base.
The Chaos dudes actually make nice Techno Barbarians. I might tone down the weapons a bit cause carrying the equivalent of a 3 metre chainsaw in one hand etc is a bit much even for me.
Will this go somewhere? I hope so. My health took a big knock in the past 2 weeks, I got a painkiller upgrade for 4 days that worked really well but isn't sustainable in the long run (liverdamage being one which I'd rather not add to my long list of "Stuff that is wrong with Gunbird") and I'm not feeling painting....well, I want to, but my left eye is still being a downright b*tch. Several visits to the hospital planned in the next weeks-months for more checks, but I'm not holding my breath. Thus far every test this year had come back negative.
Anyway, enough negativity. I'm getting more and more inspired by Peachy to get stuff done, so let's go :)
While cleaning out my storage I found my old Pripyat sign that I made out of plastic card back in early 2013. As those photos died in the Photobucketlypse I thought I'd reshoot them. Still a nice piece, made when I had no physical health issues. Ah, to be young and stupid again.
I picked this one up last week in a 50% off sale, gave it a good scrub, and after a tiny amount of clean up gave it a coat of black GW primer. A few hours ago I started with blue sponged on, then white, then brown and then weathering. Hit it with a blow-dryer, added the leaves and moss and Igor is your Uncle. It feels a bit big, more like 1/35 but for scatter and cover this is fine.
No decals, markings or anything so it works for Stalker, Modern and Post Apoc equally. An hour we'll spent I'd say.
The contest is finished, and these are the entries. Name of the maker,
name of the build, backstory and details about the
construction have been added, if available
(These are not presented in order of Alfabet or Publication btw, and each gets their own Blogpost)
Robert Poulton "Small Shanty Town"
This is a small shanty town in the country of Democratic Republic of Kananga led by General Omar Gutsakillinme. as most people will know that just becuase the word Democratic is in the title means nothing at all as the General is an out and out Dictator. He rules the country with a fist of iron only redeeming feature as far as the west are concerned is that he he is stuanchly Anti-Communist and so his army is supplied mostly by western countries obviously the brown envelopes filled with cash help as well. The Army are well supplied and well trained with some of the best units being Mercenaries.Thats all I got at the moment except the armies name: Kanangan Resistance Alliance Phalanx
The contest is finished, and these are the entries. Name of the maker,
name of the build, backstory and details about the
construction have been added, if available
(These are not presented in order of Alfabet or Publication btw, and each gets their own Blogpost)
Dex McHenry "Mimi's Parlour"
The parlour stemmed from a couple of billboards I'd designed a couple of years back. It's a bar, casino and general hangout. Model is a 3D print and lights can be placed inside.
All my factions are based in a country I call Zamibia. Madam Mimi's Parlour is the hangout of one of the factions, the Zamibian Independence Party.
The contest is finished, and these are the entries. Name of the maker,
name of the build, backstory and details about the
construction have been added, if available
(These are not presented in order of Alfabet or Publication btw, and each gets their own Blogpost)
Johan van Ooij "Red Herring Fish Factory"
Situated in in the coastal city of Aladinea, Republic of Wadiya, the factory supplies the beautiful people of Wadiya with work for 20 men and a few children. Most of the cans are exported to the Sovjet Union, where they are used to stock up air raid shelters with delicious and nutritious seafood. It is not exported to Western countries due to biased claims and market protection schemes. Listeria never killed anyone in Wadiya, so it is 110% safe. Very Aladeen.The original factory was started in the early 1900's by the French in their colonial days. This factory later burned down.In WW1 a new cannery was erected to supply the French army during the war. The building was finished in 1919 and subsequently burned down in the riots during the coup d'etat of 1927.A new factory was built shortly before WW2 and this supplied canned fish to the Axis powers. This was then bombed by the British Royal Air Force in 1944 and burned down.In what can only be described as sheer tenacity, another factory was built a few years after the war and as mentioned, supplied canned fish to the Sovjet Union.Shortly after taking these pictures, a unfortunate incident happend and the factory burned down. Again. The resulting explosion of fish pulp and oil flung the massive Red Herring sign across the bay and right onto the yacht of the Admiral of the Wadiyan Navy, Abdel Ranka, killing him and seven of his mistresses.Admiral Abdel Ranka was posthumously declared a Hero of Wadiya and mentioned in the Guiness Book of Records as the man who caught the biggest herring on record. Again, very Aladeen.
The contest is finished, and these are the entries. Name of the maker,
name of the build, backstory and details about the
construction have been added, if available
(These are not presented in order of Alfabet or Publication btw, and each gets their own Blogpost)
Jimmy James "Uncle Albert's Scrapyard"
In the Republic of Zumo, “Uncle Albert” is the avuncular public face of scrap baron Albert Musonda, a hard nosed businessman who’s made an absolute brick from hustling all sorts of commodities in his time though most recently profiting from being…directly awarded…a contract by President Bernard Dairey to dispose of military scrap and unwanted equipment. It has been rumoured that some of this is not scrapped and recycled at all, but instead sold to local militias who then make use of it in their ramshackle armies. However attempts to investigate have been quashed by the President’s Office, and it has now come to the attention of African Union peacekeepers who regularly descend on the yard to raid and find evidence of untoward activity. None has yet been found.
The
main shed was built from a Wills model railway kit (which went together
really nicely and I highly recommend), the sign from some plastic
letters (the sort you used to see used with a pegboard to lay out the
menu at chippies) and coffee stirrers. The scrap car is a cheapo
special, 20p from a charity shop - and the corrugated/concrete walls and
most of the scrap chod within are from a KORE resin barricade set
(again, lovely to work with). I put odds and sods of other rubbish in
too to clutter up.
