I've grabbed decals from a old Robotech truck, a British Chinook helicopter, a 1/24 Formula 1 car and a German 1/35 tank. The last one sadly disintegrated as soon as it hit the water, but the rest worked fine. After a day of drying I've just hit it with a coat of clear varnish, so next week I can start pinlining and the cockpit and engines.
I've had a few ideas for the base but I'm limited by what I can do atm. Printing off templates to sponge didn't really work like I wanted, so back to the classics. Using the template and a pencil, then proper painters tape and a sponge. Like back in them olden days. <cough>
Hey, it works :)
Decided to forgo to extra lift engines as I just could not find any couplings to mate it to the hull in a nice way. I cut the base, sprayed it and just finished the basic striping. And primed the shuttle after adding some tiny greeblies.
Another bit of interactable scatter scenery that can be many things. H0 truck part and a 1/35 TOW launcher control box. 20mm plastic Renedra base. And another 50 cent challenge finished (well, 25 cents this time).
Been cutting bases with my left hand for the plots and the buildings. Glued on the buildings meant for Baron's War (which in a pinch can work for Pillage as well, for someone more affluent) and 4 garden plots for their waddle fences.
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| Houses Tabletop Workshop left, fences Renedra as is the small hut, and the right middle is the new Victrix one. |
3 repaints later this is my best apparently. Oh well.
Edit: Apparently they are ok, just that my flock is not green enough. In my defence, when flokcing that was the only bag I could fine, Late Fall Grass. Of course, today I found the box with all of the other colours.....
Grabbed my box of greeblies and picked out a few bits that should work. Plated over the hole in the back with a bit from a Tie Fighter, got some bigger engines courtesy of a 1/72 T-62 tank, used half a gastank from a PSC M3 Stuart to insert into the front opening, I might add some greeblies to that as sensors....or keep it as is. A hubcap from.....something is now on top for the power...thing. Some 1/35 shells are now on the sides of the cockpit.
Still need to find something suitable for the hole on top of the cockpit. Lengthwise it fits nicely within the builds confinements, but on the sides I have a lot of space. I might scrounge up some parts to give it VTOL like engine pods or something? I think I have stuff for it somewhere.
Found this set for 50 cents at the Goodwill and with some alcohol wipes and paint changed it into more Tractor Parts <wink wink, nudge nudge>
7 more pieces added to my cargo stacks.
Cause I want some distraction from screaming at the clouds (hand = pain) I'm going for it with another build over at the LAF.
The theme is Mark - Marker - Marking - Marked.
After a stroll through the goodwill looking for parts I grabbed this little thing from the 25 cents bin (so this is a 50 cent challenge as well, woohoo!).
With my right hand out of comission (again) I've started cleaning up, sorting out and doing other hobby related stuff....so anything but paining/building.
A few doors down one of the roving hairdressers was getting rid of a unused trolley so I picked that up and started transferring the stuff I do use a lot, like paints etc.
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| A great way to get rid of the last remains of bone and orange from last years Halloween prints. And it looks stylish too! |
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| Bases for the pots of Vallejo Washes, no need to print anything for the paint stirrer or the blowdryer. |
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| Yeah, need a few more of these and a small box for my sandpaper squares |
So why am I bothering with this? Besides keeping all of my most used tools in one place, I want to get out a bit more and not just have hobbyevenings at my place. Go visit other gamers and hobby there. A trolley like this is just what I need for that.
Well, that is the plan anyway. We will see if that survives contact.
I made a pre order with May '40 for the Starterset of Pillage and tacked on some other items. Order arrived today after Sander received a ton of stuff on Saturday. Only missing a extra set of wattle fence (was in Backorder) but I will pick that up at Crisis this year.
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| Starterset with extra animals (dead and alive) |
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| Armed ladies for Pulp and SCW/WW2 and a Windmill that should work for Silver Bayonet up to modern times. |
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| Miners for Backwater Hicks, from Western days up till today, mostly Majestic 13. "The Good" is purely for my own amusement. |
For my Zona Alfa collection.
I left off the post office box and the handle, filled in the holes and used a valve from my sparesbox instead. I reversed the top part to the paving effect isn't visible.
I tested out Greenstuff Worlds washable paint but it keeps bleeding through everytime I added another coat of varnish, so not likely to use that anytime soon.
Nice little thing to build, builds quick, paints quick. Only 9,95 Euros on the website atm: Sarissa Precision Fallout Shelter Entrance
I grabbed a free one off of the bambu site, sliced it so it tilted a bit in 2 directions and printed that off. gave it a prober base, sand, primer and got cracking. While painting I notice pretty quickly that I had managed to download someones shitty AI project as it makes 0 sense when you look at it, but hey, I was halfway already so lets go. Waste not and all that.
Finished these scatter pieces for my 28mm collection.
The 2 1100 liter Wheelie bins are from Warlord (Cast by Skytrex), decals from a Miniart kit
The 2 Dumpsters are from Greenstuff World and are 1/48 scale (and seem to be OOP as the ones on the website are slightly different). Decals on front are both from Greenstuff world and I just realised I forgot to paint text on the yellow stickers....oops.
