Next stop: Bus stop - Building it

 I had my foamcutter out to make concrete foundation blocks for 2 power line pylons I need to paint, and I had a bit of scrap foam and some time, so why not make a bus stop for Stalker. Nice bit of cover.

The idea, a old Ukranian Bus stop image I found online from someone who photographed a lot of them. This one is nice and colourful. Most aren't. Mine won't.

Grabbed a base from my big box of bases, cut it down a bit and assembled it. Since added sand and filled in the cracks and weathered the foam a bit. Also added 2 small blocks so it has a seat of 2. if I don't trash the bench. I compressed it a bit as this is just a try out. I have another one in mind but that will take a bit more work to get done someday. First things first....

....like not making promiseses to not make new stuff. Oops. Call me inspired instead of Gunbird I say. I have a weekend without the kids, but I have yard work planned, so not sure yet how my hands will be tomorrow. Might get some paint on it, who knows. 

Trying to figure what name to put on top. This is not from Chornobyl or Pripyat, and I would prefer if it was one that somewhat correlates to the facility. So maybe just a number or something. 

Final steps for the Radio Bunker.....I hope

 Had a pleasant hobby night with friends, lots of chatting and I made some progress on the Radio Bunker. Needs a bit more weathering, foliage, debris and the tower itself needs to be done. The newly magetised top is working fine, chuffed with that. The removable insert needs some extra sanding on the bottom as that is flaking a bit, these new MDF seem to do that a lot. Otherwise, with some luck, maybe done by the weekend? Who knows. 

Progress on the Radio Bunker

 Getting to the final stages of the transmitter or radio bunker. Insert with cut off cables is ready for priming, glued a big magnet in the top of the mast and drilled a nail into the side of a round MDF base and glued stars on both ends.  Nothing earth shattering but the end is in sight!

 

Just a few more lines and the backstory is done as well. Stay tuned!

=I= 28mm back on the menu?

 

I picked up the Blood and Zeal box (84 euros) and found a seller on the used group that wanted 28 euro per set of the Inquisitorial Agents so grabbed 2 of those as that gives you 90% of the build options.

 At first I felt the box would not be that interesting, I could just sell the Chaos dudes and the statue and come out ahead. But after (just) opening the box that changed.

The statue will be stripped into parts. The wings into the bitx box, the lower parts will come in handy for ....something Imperial, the skulls built as a pile and usefull for a pile of dead Fantasy ogres? The candles etc will come in handy as well and the statue will get a new base.

The Chaos dudes actually make nice Techno Barbarians. I might tone down the weapons a bit cause carrying the equivalent of a 3 metre chainsaw in one hand etc is a bit much even for me. 


Will this go somewhere? I hope so. My health took a big knock in the past 2 weeks, I got a painkiller upgrade for 4 days that worked really well but isn't sustainable in the long run (liverdamage being one which I'd rather not add to my long list of "Stuff that is wrong with Gunbird") and I'm not feeling painting....well, I want to, but my left eye is still being a downright b*tch. Several visits to the hospital planned in the next weeks-months for more checks, but I'm not holding my breath. Thus far every test this year had come back negative.

Anyway, enough negativity. I'm getting more and more inspired by Peachy to get stuff done, so let's go :)