I've been spending a bit of time every day snipping the heads off of dress pins. This is very taxing on my hands so I do about 20 or so and then call it a day and insert them in the desired places.
Right now I have made a platform and nailed that and got the main beam glued up, as well ad the crane arm laminated but not yet stripped or sanded. Need to do some more eyeballing to see how tall I really want it to be.
Finished building and modifying a N010. I sawed out the corner and extended the roof remains on the other side. Also some other detail changes but more about that some other day.
I've been a bit busy this weekend.
That is the Destroyed Town Scenery set done bar 1 Bombed Out Terrace House. That will be done this week, and maybe the other 2 I found in my stash (oops). For this lot I need to do the detailing, and the finishing toutches like tiles on the roof of the corner house, magnets for the shop (and I could use another 1 or 2 shops if I am honest). Fun little project this. All of the to be built extras will theme the board. Posterwalls for the Netherlands, UK, Germany etc. Old cars or Modern cars. Telephone poles or modern street lights etc. You get the idea.
All of the kits are easy to build and I even got the roofs now down to a quick process.
Received some World War Europe 28mm buildings from Sarissa, enough for a single street side. Would like to use these for VBCW as well as 1944 Holland (and probably other stuff as well).
Nice kit, tight fit in places. Changed the insides a bit and added a doorway in the top floor as it had none. Ruined some of the shutters, knobbed the doors, changed the chimneypots and extra tiles to the roof. Ready for primer.
Started - Well, bought in this case, June 2015. When shipping from the USA was still affordable and not a spare (tariffed) kidney.
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| Thats 2 moves ago and 10 years of my life. Was about bloody time I painted these. |
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Kevin kicked the now smoking little droid, the 10-gauge slug having removed the large central eye and most of the upper part of the little body. Its shiny black casing went flying and crumpled into a corner with a bang. He looked over to Fran who was taping up the puncture in the left leg of her suit, where the droid has sliced right through the suit but missing her leg. While that was going on, the scanner started pinging again. 3 more little lights came running around the corner. Kevin racked in another round for a aimed shot at the nearest little shit. This was costing too much time.....
Glued and pinned more wood together to get the basic frame together and started adding the iron bands (aka card and pins) and that will take a bit. Once that is done I'll work on the platform and the top of the crane, and after that tie in the wheel.
It's a real bodgejob but it works.
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| Old Fireworks for the win. And yes, I can't cut a straight edge to save my life.... |
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| ....but we are getting there. Ignore the wheel. It thought it was Obi Wan and wanted to have the high ground. |
Stripped the last tape from the roll and used my trusty The Chopper to cut swizzle sticks to size. Clad the roll with it, inside and out, and after drying sanded the sides smooth-ish. Made 2 crosses for the axle to go through and glued those on by 1,5 eye. It sorta works, but I never intended this to be a working crane anyway so no problem.
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| Making the cross in the most high tech way possible |
