A bit of soldering wire, scrap card and MDF and enough superglue to make you cry.
30 minutes well spent and a little 3D effect added to a otherwise flat kit.
A journey of a man trying to fight his Ooh! Shiney! addiction while painting interesting things at the same time....
A bit of soldering wire, scrap card and MDF and enough superglue to make you cry.
I had been cleaning and sorting today and these set aside for later. DHL was supposed to arrive within an hour or so so I thought I might as well set at the dinner table and build. These will be for Zona Alfa.
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| I picked these up last year I think. Yup, 2025. So slow.....disohonorable. |
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| I cut off the sides of the door so it looks like an open door on one of the garages. |
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| On the other one I did the same thing with the garage door and set it ajar. |
Tonight I'll do the roofs and plan out the paintjobs.
Oh, and DHL showed up 3 hours later....while I was out picking up the kids and almost home again. Cause of course.
Well, considering I have a couple of kilo's in the attic (MDF, not the powdery stuff) I really should not order anything, buuut....
I only picked up 4 kits this time.
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| 28mm City Hall is a new release. This is for my 28mm Post Apoc collection. I already picked up some wooden dowels to replace the columns with. |
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| Also a new release is the 28mm Drive In. This will go fine with the screen I made shortly after getting run over in 2015. I think it is time for it. Might change the name though. |
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| I spotted the 28mm Marshport Refinery in a battle report a while back and I had it on my list for Stalker, so in the order it came. Will get a new roof and the top frame will be removed. |
And that is it for this year. I don't expect to receive any of this before Christmas, the Post is pretty swamped as is. And I have plenty of other stuff to build before these....
That was fun. These little ones build and paint up so fast compared to my 28mm stuff, but I really should get cracking on finishing one of those soon. Maybe next week.
Anyway, same kit, different kind of weathering. In this case pretty damp and not cared for for a very long time.
And a quick comparison to the previous one.
Assembly is simple and quick. The shutters on these are rounded at the top which is nice. The footprint is the same as the ruins, and the roof and first floor lift off quite nicely. Think I'll got for a weather yellow wall and green shutters this time. Also need to cut a add on roof out of foam so it fits Vietnam better, and then tile that.
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| Same footprint as the ruins, with a little concrete pad for the front door. |
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| Just realised this would work as a burnt out shell as well, if you leave out all of the card bits. Hmmm... |
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| Maybe add some planters in front of the open windows? |
Plenty of ideas, but for now, it can dry so I can coat all the card tomorrow.
A lovely (albeit solitary) hobby evening, and all of the weathering is done on the new (well, is it really new.....) house ruin. Let it all dry and tomorrow evening it's time for the leaves, debris and other plantlife.
15mm can paint up really quick if you stop (over)thinking about it.