Bamboo Test Model #1, #2 and #3

 Decided to test of the basing looks just as good, better or worse by substituting plastic leaves for Dill, so #1 is 100% plastic leaves, #2 is 50/50 plastic/Dill and #3 is 25/75 plastic/Dill.So far it looks rather good, but won't be 100% sure till the lot is painted, but I think it will be ok.

LtR - #1, #2 and #3

Scale wise they work for my needs, 15mm and 28mm.

28mm Stargrave figure (that I REALLY need to finish) and 15mm Peter Pig Citroen Car

Storage is also sorted, a RUB 9 Liter box will hold quite a few

 

Bamboo test model #1

 Made 10 test bases of bamboo for Nam'68 and am now looking where I can speed up things for reasons of not going completely mental. I'm not stripping the stems, that might be fine for one or 2 bases if you want to use them for photography backgrounds, but not when I want 40-50 bases of these. Same goes for cutting off individual leaves, ain't nobody got time for that, so now looking for a suitable bunch or other workaround for something resembling the shape. Other than that, just dandy.

 

 

Oh (Scratchbuilt) Well finished

 And it is done. A nice mix of tufts and leaves, will look good on the table :)

Nam'68 Dice, Token and Counter bag

 Finished a little thing to keep it all sorted.

Patch I picked up from a collector, lower half of a old pair of green hiking pants reworked by a local seamstress, a button from a swapmeet and a bit of black marker.

Next up is glueing and revarnishing all of the Tokens onto old wooden Scrabble tiles and also finding my sets of dice I have set aside for the bag.

LAF BSC 2025 - Backwater Ferry - Framing the Ferry

 Just a progress shot. Sanded, connected and glued the framing together made from discarded fireworks, then sanded both sides a as flat as possible. Now I can start adding the plastic card decking, the extensions, the cabin, engines and the workings for the front ramp.

 

3 weeks for this and the paintjob, and I have 2 other projects running simultaniously. Better get cracking.

Oh (Scratchbuilt) Well WIP

 After visiting Ikea last weekend with one of my daughters I picked up a small cardboard tube in the plastic plants section. (I fought her for it and I won :P )

With a base, some card, a paperclip, aluminium tubing and some copper wire I made a Russian Village Well for Stalker. 3/4 with painting that I started at tonights online painting session. 2 hours well spent. 

Tomrrow (I hope) final detailing, weathering and plantlife.

Anything is a ... if you are brave enough.

 

Recently saw a post on the LAF with some nice scifi scatter that inspired me to make my own. I could not find any decent parts till I found this for 2 euros in the toy section, a nice hard plastic too.

After some cutting, basing and adding a few bolts on the inside for weight and some light detailing on the outside I got this:

The tops of the rocket boosters will be finished another day, I'm not happy with how they turned out. But the others are just lovely, so enjoy. I'll be dual using these for 15mm and 28mm.

Old statues and a Sarcophagus

 I had based and cleaned up quite a while ago a few of the old plastic GW LotR statues and thought it a good time to paint it up. Dropped in a Sarcophagus from Frontline as well, from their 25mm Musketeer Range, set MR6 Graveyard. Tufts are from a lot of different sources.

The advantage of graves and statues is that you can use them for almost all periods, from old to new and future even. Right, enough for today, on with the next.