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Stamps Again’

I tried out a stamp on foam board. Sadly it isn’t Dollar tree stuff. This the paper won’t come of style. Sadly I couldn’t find any black or grey card to test it on. By the looks of it, it does work well in the table 🤪.

There might be something in this… However I am not really sure what I would use them for. A few things I have learned from this is to make sure the paint goes on thick enough to leave a mark. I am using extra thick paint, I might see how a thinned down version works.

It looks better if there are no large splodges of colour. I tried colouring individual stones, but to be honest it doesn’t really work.

I painted a dark background and to be honest it looks much better.👍

I am pleased with the results so far.

Thanks DMScotty!

I blasted off another stamp which can be seen at the top of the photo below.

The advantages of the 10mm blue foam is that it is waterproof and can be washed under the tap. It is a bit sturdier too being twice the thickness of the foam board. It also has the advantage of not having to have the paper removed.

The advantage of the foam board is that I can get it locally, it is easier to put even pressure on too.

I will have to make a 3×3 tile and compare the two types.

I do particularly like the planks.

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Tile Printing.

I had a bash at printing stone work. Not sure why, well apart from diverting my mind. I found my normal higher detail blue foam wall with lots of texture didn’t work (not in this picture)basically I make a wall out of it. I blasted off another rest tile out of scrap and it was much better. Initially I have used some 10mm blue foam. I have got some foam board so I might give that a go tomorrow on some black/grey card.

My blue foam walls normally look like this.

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Bring Out your Dead

Coffins R Us!

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I decided to give a couple of coffins a go. They are really just test pieces to see how I get on.

Both are made out of thin corrugated card. I am still not sure on which size to do. I decided to break up the smaller one . The figure is one of my Flintloque casualty ones.

I might also have a go with some thin balsa wood that I have and see how that works too.

I got the idea from DM Scotty. (His look loads better than mine)

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10mm skirmish Games

I do like my little stuff lots

I am a big fan of small scales and due to the size of my house small scale games are a lot easier as they take up less room.

I present a selection of pulp figures and a fantasy selection. These are all 10mm Pendraken figures.

I also can manage a bug hunt using marines and a strangely familiar xenomorph.

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Undead Forces

I decided to have a look at what I had painted compared to what I do not.

This is not a bad little force of undead nastiness.

Back right we have 2 units of eight Militia with an associated Liche and wolf. Mounted general with his Lancer bodyguards

A unit of zombie infantry with another vampire. In front of them some Cossacks and other similar troops. A unit of axemen with another vampire A selection of KGB officers ready to keep this lot in check and then a unit of artillerymen.

A number still need basing properly.

I still have to paint:

A unit of ghouls of the Kryptofski regiment.

A unit of Werewolves

5 wraith cavalry

My re-animator

A large werewolf of the Visthowla legion

And some more Militia.

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Two Minute Craft

As work has been hectic of late and I just about have time to eat some lunch I decided to do something speedy.

Basically some more potion bottles like the ones on the right above.

Not quite sure what I am going to do with them all, but I am sure I will come up with something 🙂

 

 

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Dice Tower Part III

Managed to get some paint onto this thing.

Base coated black from a spray can (top done with a brush)

Layers of dry brushing from the black…

Chocolate brown (basically a tester can of house paint)

Additional layers of a tan mixed into the brown with more tan added as the layers went on.

Ivory mixed into the tan/brown mix.

I painted up the top separately

The white tube cap pretty much disappears inside the tube. I might add some Black around the rim to make sure it is completely hidden. (The two dry brush colours can be seen in the picture above).

The nearly finished tower…

Still the gratings to dry brush gun metal as well as flock around the base as well as get a green wash around the lower parts of the tower to simulate damp. I might even go so far as adding a climbing plant up the side.

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Accidental Art

I now know how ancient sculptors made their sculptures. They squooshed up loads of marble plaster and Voila…instant sculpture.

I was cleaning out the r3mains of my filler and I noticed an arm. How wierd is that!

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The Tower Part IIi

Well I managed a little more on the tower.

I was unsure what I wanted to do to add texture to the tower. I came up with lots of ideas, some a lot more time intensive than others did.

This ranged from cutting individual card stones to wrapping the whole thing in tin foil.  I remembered my old GW building Wargames Terrain book.

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I had a mooch in there as I remembered they had a round tower. They had added filler to theirs. I therefore decided to do something similar. I mixed filler, PVA and sand together and brushed this on with a 2 cm brush. Once on I stippled it to get some form of rough texture.

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It will get a light sand to knock off any of the peaks that may snap and I may actually sand off some of the texture on the individual stones to make them stand out a bit.

I am using the plastic end cap to attach the top to the walls. This was superglued and hot glued into place. This allows it to be removed if needs be.

Next stage…Painting the thing.