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.
Another N610 ready for paint, but this one will be painted as something that has been destroyed years ago. We will see if I can get that done tomorrow evening.
I picked this up in last years Black Friday Sale (I think....could have been the year before?).
Comes with a 1x MDF sheet and 1x card sheet with parts. Cleanup is quick as always, minimal nubs. Assembly is quick, you can't really go wrong here tbh. I left off the ruined 1st/2nd story roof rathers/floor/whatever it is (I really don't know) that you can assemble hanging down into the open floorspace. I just put that into the spares box for a future project and snipped down a few of the planks that extended a bit too much for my liking.
Currently retails for 9,99 Euros. Destroyed Small House - 15mm
White primercoat, sponged another wite coat, grey coat and dark washes, details in red, last ashy highlight and she is done for my 15mm AK-47 and Vietnam collection. Went for the "This just burned down"-look. Might make another in a "We don't go there anymore...." look, not sure if I have more of these.
It's good enough. All of the bases have now been Thymed. I ordered a big bag of the stuff for future needs as it is pretty good scatter.
41 bases done. Once it has all dried and the excess removed, into the box they go and grab the next unfinished project and repeat.
A nice mix of sizes so they work for a lot of things. I am happy it is done. I have way too many things languishing in a box cause the enthusiasm is gone. But if I push myself just a little bit and sit at the table while the girls are doing their homework, an hour here or an hour there gets shit done. The 2 a week hobby nights are the cherry on top.
As I want to get a lot of semi finished stuff done this week, I grabbed the unfinished set of Bamboo, covered the bases with Thyme and will coat them again tomorrow.
Then I grabbed more bases, and realised I am out of the ones I used before so just grabbed whatever I had on hand and just got on with it. I don't often tune out but oh boy I needed all the tuning out for this.
Tomorrow I'll do some more work and hope to have this lot finished by Wednesday.
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| Built a Sarissa ruin as well that I would like to get done this week. |
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| And now my entire house smells like Thyme |
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| Top right is the original lot, I grabbed as many bases as I still had left and just started making more. But I'm running out of long stems of bamboo, but we will see how much more I can make. |
I want to keep my mats as close to my gaming table as setup as keeping them in the attic where it gets hot as well as really cold ain't the best place I think.
I modified a Ikea Billy cabinet by not assembling the centre section in the designated location but a bit higher so rolled up 4 feet mats can stand upright in their carry cases, and I keep using the shipping crad containers as well as I put a big sticker on it with what mat it contains. I drilled extra screws in the sides to make sure the newly located middle section stays and it is all done. This way I can fit round 10-11 mats of various sizes with ease. On the floors above (that I need to sort) I'll put down my folded fleece mats.
A bit bright, but it is 3mm and they will get a wash etc, so I hope it will work out. Once the tanks are painted I'll do the bases, add black trim, put the white stripe on front and maybe some sort of marking on the back.
This MiG-19W as flown by Polkovnik Abdelmajid ar-Arkoub against the <redacted> in 1973. This aircraft was assigned to the 2nd Fighter Bomber Interceptor Recce squadron "The One and Only" of the Wadiyan Airforce.
12 of these were donated as a goodwill gesture by the NVA of the DDR, with 11 arriving in December of 1971 as deck cargo on the MV Käthe Niederkirchner (1 fell off after a unfortunate incident involging seagulls). They were quickly repainted in Wadiyan Desert Camouflage and updated to their standards, giving it the "W" moniker. After a 6 month workup the squadron became active in mid 1972, and quickly beloved by the population surrounding of the Base aérienne 3 "Capitaine El-Raffiki".
Highly rated by their pilots, the aircraft flew several succesfull missions against <redacted> and racked up a impressive kill list. Many enemy fighter aircraft and installations were destroyed, and any UN claims about destroyed hospitals, goat farms and orphanages are pure propaganda.
"1-358" was lost after the Crew Chief had the bright idea to speed up the roasting of Shawarma by using the exhaust of one of the engines. This worked like a charm, till he accidentally kicked off the brakes and slammed his head on the gunsight, knocking him out (allegedly). "1-358" then sped up between the semi closed shelter doors, ripping off part of the wings, speeding across the airbase before coming to a halt at the local goat farm next to the base. And exploding in a pretty spectacular fashion. Shame about the prize goat Fatima II and her many, many offspring, but she was great with some hummus and garlic sauce in the end. To this date that area still smells like delicious grilled goat.
Quite a bit to so, but I needed another teaser pic for the LAF.
I wanted to grab my airbrush....but I can't find them.
Fine, I'll use spraycans....but I can't find my AK Putty.
Fine, I'll order some online so it is here tomorrow. None left in the entire country.
Fine, I'll use masking tape and just get very annoyed. And then the first spray came out powdery.
For the love of.....
Anyway, much frustration later the basics are done.
Only final cleanup is now left, and the hope that tomorrow we have more agreable weather so I canprime and maybe get the first layer of camo on.
Took the girls and a friend to Crisis 2025. For some reason, this year parking was even worse than last year, but after a few ever increasing circles we found a spot in the local area. We arrived around 10:30 so and we could walk right in (after paying of course. Fee was 15 per person but kids under 14 are free, so next year it will be the last time the girls are free, after that I'll have to pay up).
Basically the same layout as last year, and shops in roughly the same location as well. Lots of familiar faces, some small chats here and there. Shops could be shorthanded to Paints and Tools, Kits, 3D Prints and a few shops with mixed stuff. Focus is, as usual, mostly on 28mm, so lots of Warlord etc.
Plenty of bargains to be had....Battlefront was 40-50% off in a lot of places, even relatively new plastic boxes. But that is what you get for not listening to your buyers, retailers etc and thinking you know best. Great for me though as I picked up some items for AK-47 and other 15mm projects.
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| 50% discount so 45 euros for 9 T-72A's, 2 Hinds and decals. In hindsight I should have skipped this one, though I'll turn some of the T-72's into blasted wrecks for TW:2K someday.. |
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| 16 euros for a entire Kompanie. Should work fine for a Socialist backed yet unnamed African country to oppose Wadiya |
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| Mortars for either AK army, and Belgians that will end up as UN or better quality troops. Both again 50% off. |
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| Only 10% off, but 2 BTR-152's and 4 Saracen Armoured Cars. The BTRs can go with the East Germans, the Saracens will go into the Apartheid faction box for later. Might use one though for the Wadiyan Police to go with the police jeep I made (but never finished) for another Group Build. |
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| More Vallejo washes as I have been using these a lot and Russian Uniform spray primer for the 3mm tanks I need to prime. I also added some washes I did not have yet to try out. |
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| Just for the artwork and background. Could not pass up for a fiver, bandnew. |
Back home, I crashed out. I was totally spent, but it was a good day. Tomorrow a short trip to my folks who are babysitting a friends house and then back home again for some proper rest. I have a very busy week ahead of me with deadlines
The printed version of the rules arrived today. Time to make a few test bases for it in 3mm.
I have an open house 2 nights a week. One week it's board games on tuesday, and hobby night on thursday, the week after tuesday and thirsday are both hobby nights.
Tonight was a hobby night. Mirella is making nice progress on her H0 scale church, Sjors has decided to stop buying GW stuff and move to Gunpla as he just doesn't like painting, and I planned out next week to get my group builds done in time. With 3 days of just not being here I'm cutting it really, really close. Even more so as I've hurt my wrist, again.
The flight stand insert hardend during the night....but of course not before tilting. Luckily with my method that is not really an issue. All the externals are on except the mounts for the rocket pods, and I need to grab those pods from one of the kits in the attic. Needs to be done and primed by monday evening so I can bluetack it and do the rest of the sprays, then decals and detailling. Update the decals, etc. Fun.
The New Life teaster shot of where I am now:
