Well back to work with a bang, 7 hours of training and after a little lie down I got the top of the tank done as well as a little control box on the side. Greebles help break up the outline and give a little more visual interest. Well that’s what I believe anyway.
Once the Mod Podge has dried then I will get the foam covered ready for undercoating tomorrow.
I actually spent more time looking for stuff than actually building anything. I did however get this far.
Luckily the copydex at the front plinth hadn’t dried so I managed to straighten it up a bit. The one bit you can’t really see is the cereal box card glued to the bottom of the blue foam. This will give it a bit of strength and also protect the corners a smidge.
Next will be the top. Part of me is wanting to do a bit of a ladder and another part of me says sod it, I can’t be arsed.
The smaller pipes are cardboard drinking straws covered lengthways in masking tape to hide the spiral pattern.
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 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…
I worked on these a bit today…
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.
So I added the card ‘wood’ beams to the first house and made a start on the second.
With the second one I am going for the card walls but adding in a bit of foam… It isn’t glued down yet. I’ll do it tomorrow.
Now the beams are a bit thick on house one so shall be rectified on house two.
Can you tell I am making it up as I go along?
Well I was browsing a certain Social Media Platform at 06:00… Thanks Dog!
And in one of the groups someone posted a picture about when they started D&D they were skint so made their terrain out of cardboard, glue and Sharpies.
Now this got me thinking. When did the shift from dry wipe mats and Chinagraph pencils to a table full of terrain for one session.
Now cards on the table here, I never got into D&D. I was more MERP. And to be honest pretty much have avoided it since.
I have some old starter boxes, the one I could find straight off was Dragon Mountain. An AD&D Dungeon, comprising maps, Cardboard miniatures etc. This was published by TSR in 1993. I picked mine up cheap of Facebook a few years ago. I actually bought it for the maps.
Yes I am a bit of a sucker for a good map.
So 1993 we seem to be moving away from draw your own to printed maps for the adventures. So when was the shift to full terrain boards or 2.5 instead of 3D.
The problem is I went into wargaming so therefore terrain became an integral part.
Some people still go for theatre of the mind, so no terrain needed at all. Maybe a picture to help people get into the zone.
I would hazard a guess that YouTube has a part to play in tables full of buildings etc, but maybe I am wrong.
So does anyone know? I am sure I don’t as in reality people differ.
This evening I was on puppy duty, This is basically following each other around waiting for one or the other to need the toilet. Quite a bit of it was Maggie was asleep on me so I couldn’t move.
I therefore didn’t get as much done as I wanted, but managed more than I expected…
Still a bit to go but definitely getting there.
Now doing a bit of research into what the thing was called I found out some new boring facts.
Firstly they are sacred spaces and offerings are buried in the centre. I knew they had a link to shinto but not that much. Secondly, I never knew women were forbidden… now I know why there are no female Sumo wrestlers 🤼♂️. Thirdly, knew they threw something white around before the bout, evidently it is salt.
There you go, boring facts that may help you win a pub quiz or trivial pursuit.
Well I picked up some filament in a charity shop really cheaply, I wish I had got the other three rolls, but didn’t. By time I got back they had gone.
Sadly they weren’t in grey, I hot the most staid of them with green.
Here is my first print with it
It’s just shy of 7 inches tall and printed in four or five bits. I cannot actually remember.
Well I have gone a bit bonkers printing things. I am certainly running through my resin backlog.
I eventually managed to print the large chemical mixer thing…
I also did the walkways and a leaky drain.
The drum above is the second attempt… the following shows us boys and girls why we need to ensure that we fasten the build plate properly!
The following are a couple of pipes. They were part of four things on the plate. The chemical barrel pallets both failed, which led to a lot of swearing. The vat was full so it took a few shenanigans to get the cured lumps of the FEP.
