This evening I decided to do a bit more terrain and as such instead of the more Medieval style of the last two I went for the good old Pringle tube and made a storage tank.
By made, I mean started… I got this far…
Still a fair old way to go but definitely getting a feeling for it. The thinner pipe is actually from the shower installation which actually fits really well. This was an offcut, strangely the height of a mini Pringle tube. I wrapped the pipe in thin brown paper.
I needed to have a little snooze this afternoon as my DIY shenanigans kind of wrecked me.
Well the shower is in and wired up. Gave it a test run earlier. Works fine 😁.still got to get the tops on the trunking and tidy up my mess then get stuff back into the loft
I am now knackered and will get on with more building tomorrow.
Nope not me, today I set up the pipework for a new shower and as I haven’t done any plumbing for a few years I was a bit rusty.
I turned the water on and I got a shower, well several cold showers… Evidently I forgot to push harder than I thought I needed to. After a lot of swearing, raging and blasphemous ranting I sussed the problem.
Then later on I tried to drill though the ceiling for the power…ye gods the bloody thing was twice as thick as I thought it was.
Got there on the end…After all of the shenanigans I thought Sod it…night off.
Actually I did some more on the houses this morning…I will show photos tomorrow.
Well I couldn’t leave it looking like that so I went and found more dipping inks and had a faff about.
Believe it or not, the internal walls of the blue house are actually a cream colour. The same colour as the flagstones. I actually went back to check after looking at the photo. At least you can sort of see the sign this time!
Well I covered the polystyrene in PVA and then when dry I gave both buildings a blast with a rattle can
I covered the floors with the PVA too and lost a lot of the details I painstakingly put on it.
Oh well, such is life!
I did consider leaving them at the grey stage with just the wood bits painted…
But I had Mordheim Vibes and ended up colourful. The blue one is a shop or inn, you can’t really see the sign in either photo. I actually had to check it was still there 😂.
Been doing DIY today so leaving it there tonight… If the urge takes me I may start adding some colour to the stones…
Ground floor and first floor now have… errr…. floors.
Parts of my class equipment orders have started trickling in….
Today this arrived… Technically it’s a toothpaste tube squeezer or some rubbish like that. We all know its main role in life is to make corrugated sheeting for miniatures…
I shall carry on in a bit and get more done. Hopefully tomorrow will be undercoat time and then onto painting.
After that…who knows.
Does anyone have any ideas…I have too many. I am going to make plaster rocks, as well as using expanding foam for hills… But I reckon how to make Wargames Terrain by GW will be coming out soon lol.
What’s a country that’s at the top of your bucket list?
Fart bags, I need a bath not a bucket…..
Buuuuut I will shorten it to top three (possibly).
Number One…
Canada:
I actually want to travel along the trans Canadian Highway…4860 miles. Vancouver Island to the Labrador coast. By travel I mean motor vehicle. Not walk!
Number 2…
Japan:
Always had a lovely of all things Japanese so would really, really love to visit.
Number 3…
Norway:
Must be my Viking Blood, which is a bit weird because I have more Breton than Nordic countries in my DNA.
And in No particular order…
To Sudan up the Nile… historical interest
China…a bit like Japan, just an interest in the history of China.
Australia…lot of family moved out there…
New Zealand…a bit like Australia, family moved there in the Great Depression. Also nearly moved out there to teach, but my dad became ill.
Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Brazil.
America: Especially-Texas, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, New York (as I want to go to Fort William Henry). Oh yeah and all the Places the City of New Orleans train route goes through. Basically Chicago to New Orleans…aka on a train. (Just love that song)
