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Written by Aric
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009 |
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Just a quick pic of the nearly finished tower. I plan on doing a post on the process, but here's the result so far. I'm pretty happy with it. Behind it are the walls made for my castle project using Hirst Arts molds. Those are great, but they're very heavy and fragile compared to this result, may have to abandon that route... I've also started a couple walls using the same process, they're about 1/3 the height, and about as wide as the tower is tall. They're also based on a cardboard "core" - more on those later! The figures are 28mm Rackham figs, for scale.
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Written by Aric
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Friday, 13 February 2009 |
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This is the other project that I've (re)started. I had the basics of it started a while back - the base. I noticed I had that, plus a lot of foam bits to use up from older projects. So I started with a simple wall on the base. That looked decent (better when painted) so I decided to build a removable tower that I could put inside the walls. It's made with your standard pink insulation foam (1" thick I believe) - I bought a sheet of this years ago and I'm still using it up! The tower is built with a cardboard box as its core to keep everything more or less straight. There's no ground level entrance - the plan is to build a wooden stair going up to a 2nd/3rd level entrance - apparently this was fairly common, in an emergency everyone could go into the tower and burn/destroy the stair behind them.... Still have to put another window in it, and figure out how I'm going to handle the roof - you can sort of see the supports I put in for roof floor, just haven't decided what to make it out of yet. | | No comments for this item |
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Written by Aric
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Wednesday, 11 February 2009 |
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Here's a couple quick pics of some Rackham Crossbowmen that I picked up at Origins last year. They've been sitting on the workbench since then, and I finally decided to make some progress on them!
I apologize for the quality of the pics - I've misplaced my good camera so these had to be taken with my little point and shoot.
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Written by Aric
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
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Cardboard seems like a pretty good building material for wargame terrain - it's dirt cheap (or free), fairly sturdy, and even comes in useful shapes (i.e. boxes -> buildings). But it also has a nasty tendency to warp when exposed to too much moisture, and the corrugation itself tends to make the edges a problem.  This is just a test - I took two pieces and glued them together to get a little more strength. I glued a couple bricks cut from thin card on to break up the plane of the wall a bit. Then, to cover the ends I took a piece of normal paper (from a notepad actually) and soaked it in watered down white glue. Once it was good and soaked, I applied it to cover each end of the wall. It worked pretty well to cover where the corrugation shows through. I think I'll try using masking tape for this in the future. I then mixed some light grey craft paint with some textured craft paint and coated the wall. Then, to get a little more texture, I mixed the light grey paint with some black, and sort of dabbed it on with a cheap foam brush. This made a dark-grey texturing effect, that helped break up the colors of the wall. The "bricks" are painted one with a thin brush. I thought of using a sharpie permanent black marker, but though it might not work well on the texture, and of course I couldn't find it either... I think it turned out ok. I need to come up with a way to make the brick "courses" straighter and more even. | | No comments for this item |
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Written by Aric
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Thursday, 24 May 2007 |
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This walker was actually started by a friend of mine, who never completed it - so I've decided to finish it. He put on all the cool looking battle damage. I believe it's by Armorcast (it's resin) but I'm not totally sure. Still have a ways to go, but it's getting there.
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