Radiation Signs

 A long, long time ago I made these in 20mm, then destroyed all by accident when the lids depressed down into the box. Considering the time spent with decalsheets, plasticcard and braswire I was a bit gutted. A couple of weeks ago I found myself going over some of the colour prints I have with lots of signs on them and wanted to give it a go, but cheaper and quicker.

20mm round MDF base, drill a hole, glue in a toothpick. Snip  off the pointy bit and smooth the underside of the base. Use a scalpel to slant the edges, add glue and sprinkle sand. Let dry, preferably not for 3 weeks like I did :P Snip the top to the required length and use a scalpel to get a nice flat surface where you want the sign. Cut out signs ( I use colour laserprints as those don't run and are very durable on regular print paper), add supeglue to the post and stick on the sign. Use a pointy toothpick to smear the excess superglue all over the back of the sign, this hardens the paper to make it really durable.

Then paint and weather to your desired needs.

Inexpensive to make and quick to replace if they have accidents.

Another bit of scifi scatter.

 Tonight there wasn't a online paint session but I painted anyway. I grabbed one of my primed sci-fi scatter bits and made this. Looks the part in 28mm as well as 15mm I think. 28mm figure and previously painted twin columns for scale.

 

And in case you are wondering....it's a upside down pencil sharpener that broke, with half a plastic 1/35 HEMTT tire glued on top and some other parts.

 

15mm Pacific (cause we all need more distractions)

 With the upcoming release of Battlefronts Pacific 42-43 (with a lot of dubious stuff purely put in there to sell tat) I've pre ordered the Marine and the Japanese army deals. I never pre order stuff but in this case it felt warranted.

I've been looking forward to the Pacific for a long, long time. I don't have much in stock for it, a couple of 70mm guns, knee mortars, LMG's and infantry for the Japanese. So, with a few child free days on the horizon, why not start cleaning and basing what I have. Fortunately, the 70mm guns are the old blisters, so they come with extra command and spotter figures that are perfect for Battlegroup. I'm guessing those figs will be sanitised in the new edition (higher cost, less figures....shrinkflation much) so I'm happy to have them. I'll look at Peter Pig for additional gun crews for loader teams, casualties etc.

I need to make something to hold these figures when I sand down the bases though, I've noticed my hands cramping up even quicker so I need a work around. 

And I thought my IG18's were small guns!

I need to get some detailing done, ammo containers etc but this photodump will help me with that :)

Let's pretend this weekend hasn't happend

 As there other things in life Hobby, I picked up a used door to replace the rotted out one in the 2nd shed, and to widen the entrance. It turned out to be a high quality back door, double glaazed, the works, for a tenner. It barely fit in the back of my, admittedly, small car, but I got it done.

It fits....sort of.

So in the early morning with a nice bit of sunshine, I set the door againt the house, removed the old one, the bottom part falling apart in my hands. I then started to remove the wood pannels from the side of the shed and was almost then when out of the blue a massive gust of wind scared the shit out of me....and blew over the new door.

....crap....

Bloody thing barely missed me. Fortunately, the previous owner had put plastic sheet over the glass so it did not spray glass all over me. Which I then did myself by using a crowbar to smash almost all of the glass out (gloves and eyeprotection were used). I could not use the door anway as it had fallen hinges down first and 2 of them had broken free from the door, splitting the door as well. Covered all the sides with scrap cardboard box and set aside. Old door as well.

Almost done with cleanup. So. Much. Glass.

Everything sorted now. Will load up all of the stuff on monday and take it to the municipal dump, so that is going to cost me more money. Brushed the yard again and then went over it with a vacuum. I must have looked like a nutter but I don't want my kids walking around here in summer and stepping in left over bits of glass.

So finally sat down, had dinner, put on the tv and then I heard a metallic sound by my right ear. The right leg from my glasses just fell from my head, and the rest just flopped to the side. The internal screw had just snapped for no apparent reason? Most of it is lodged in tight and I can't get it out. I "fixed" it with ducttape, of course.

Motherf......

On the bright side, I already booked an appointment next friday for more tests and a new pair, well 2 pairs, of glasses.

Anyway, let's pretend this weekend never happend, ok?

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 :)

Pripyat sign

 While cleaning out my storage I found my old Pripyat sign that I made out of plastic card back in early 2013. As those photos died in the Photobucketlypse I thought I'd reshoot them. Still a nice piece, made when I had no physical health issues. Ah, to be young and stupid again. 

Zitterdes 79086 Barrels on Pallet

 I picked this one up last week in a 50% off sale, gave it a good scrub, and after a tiny amount of clean up gave it a coat of black GW primer. A few hours ago I started with blue sponged on, then white, then brown and then weathering. Hit it with a blow-dryer, added the leaves and moss and Igor is your Uncle. It feels a bit big, more like 1/35 but for scatter and cover this is fine.

 No decals, markings or anything so it works for Stalker, Modern and Post Apoc equally. An hour we'll spent I'd say. 

Nicely cast, no major or even noticeable small defects. I believe now OOP as Zitterdes is defunct?

Entries for the 2025 Special Objective Build - Robert Poulton "Small Shanty Town"

  The contest is finished, and these are the entries. Name of the maker, name of the build, backstory and  details about the construction have been added, if available

(These are not presented in order of Alfabet or Publication btw, and each gets their own Blogpost)

 Robert Poulton "Small Shanty Town"

This is a small shanty town in the country of Democratic Republic of Kananga led by General Omar Gutsakillinme. as most people will know that just becuase the word Democratic is in the title means nothing at all as the General is an out and out Dictator. He rules the country with a fist of iron only redeeming feature as far as the west are concerned is that he he is stuanchly Anti-Communist and so his army is supplied mostly by western countries obviously the brown envelopes filled with cash help as well. The Army are well supplied and well trained with some of the best units being Mercenaries.

Thats all I got at the moment except the armies name: Kanangan Resistance Alliance Phalanx

*10 x 3 inches base - Check

*Must have a vehicle on it - Check

*Must have a name badge/sign on it - Check

*Can't just be a banana on a base - Check