Sarissa Ruined Village - adding Chimney pots

 I found a H0 scaled file for various Chimney pots, enlarged them by 155% and printed them off.

I think they work fine!

I'm still waiting for my Sarissa delivery which PostNL insisted would be here last wednesday....thursday....friday....saturday. And they now plan on delivering tomorrow. Uhuh. Famous last words?

It's only 4 buildings and only 2 are ruins. I plan to build one a day, 2 of them are 3 stories tall so they involve a wee bit more time. I'd love to have the lot done by sunday evening though. I'll try to do a testfit then to see how they all line up. 

WIP power line poles for Zona Alfa

 Technically something I've had in my WIP box for ages, but in parts and unbuilt.

1/35 Italeri Power Line Poles glued together and liquid plastic slop added to fill the seams and removed the insulators. Took a 40x40 base and glued a square washer on them but just off center so I could drill a hole for the toothpick to go through. I cut sections of the smaller kind of firearrow and drilled those for the toothpick, and glued them on the bases with superglue. I took zero care to alingn them at exactly 90 degrees. It's a shithole overthere. This will be a set of 12 which should be more than enough. 

Tomorrow add wall filler to cover the base and metal and let that set, and sand the poles smooth. I'll be using the crossbars that has the insulators on a metal pole (cause more fun to weather).

Once these are done I'll make the same set of 12 for WW2, so less weathering and more splinter damage. 

Then the set I have the parts for for 15mm as well as that is one I have postponed for ages as well. 

Burning Rubber

 I picked up some gates useable for Gaslands cheap, and they should be arriving next week. To keep me busy I picked up some stuff to re use the wheel as bumpers for the track.

 I feel like it is time to play Gaslands again. 

LAF BSC 2026 "Wheel" - Crane done. Now comes the rest.....

 Calling the crane done. Johann standing as a size reference. Yes, she is a big girl!

My dinner table is a disaster zone, so tomorrow clean up so I can do the next set of drawings and vacume a gazillion small bits of wood from the floor. 

 My estimated time for the crane build was 3 weeks, same for the cargoes. I'm actually 1 week ahead which is nice for a change. 1 week per cargo is doable, and then paint all of them combined so I'm ready ahead of time.....cause I have a lot of other things to do, like take a ton of photo's of all of the 20mm stuff I need to sell. Ugh. 

LAF BSC 2026 "Wheel" - Wheely good now

I managed to add extra support inside so it now turns as it should, without a wobble or magnets. Pressure fitting wood for the win. Used scrap MDF rounds from the scrap box for the rollers, then used lollypop sticks for the guides. 

Keeping parts seperate for now will help with painting.

Tomorrow fine-tuning of the angle of the wheel and adding most of the iron banding.

Extra strength, but these will trimmed back to about 1-2 mm before painting.

Justifying the reason whey I have a MDF scraps box.

Lollypot sticks added, and those got sanded down so it sits flush with the crane beam.

Slowly getting there...

LAF BSC 2026 "Wheel" - Wood gets longer and stronger

 After a long hard day installing another cabinet and prepping my display cases for pick up tomorrow (as I sold them) I fell asleep on the couch till SJors rang the doorbell for hobby night. Oops.

Tonight I used up all of the fireworks wood I had left, so I need to search my attic for the remaining stash to finish this. The balsa I have won't cut it as they are way too thin.

But progress is good.

LAF BSC 2026 "Wheel" - Wood gets nailed

 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. 

 Recycle kids! The future crane arm, double thickness wood now.