Sort of!
So I got this far. I need to add the biohazard signs etc but there is still something missing.
Dirty down rust came out and was squirted with a pipette to get it to run along the cracks. I really need to do the section next to the control panel.
I will sleep on it, but if you have any ideas then let me know.
Although a little achy after going splat whilst gracefully (yeah right) leaping across a flooded drainage ditch. I did manage to achieve a bit of painting…
Still a long way to go, but getting there.
Hot glue for gunky stuff coming out of the tank. Biohazard signs and at least one skeleton.
Ohhh and lots of rust and crap around the place.
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…
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 it came as a little bit of a shock to realise that basically I had only until Thursday to finish the stone hot water bottle.
I wonder why they call them stone, they were made of clay, but I digress…
We have progressed from this…
Through this..
Into this
It will need a couple of coats of varnish on it, but for my first attempt at a foam stone hot water bottle it will have to do.
I will need to improve my sanding and glueing. The bottle was an awful less forgiving than this…
Well, the end of the bottle bugged me so much that I took the knife to it. It certainly looks better now.
The next time I make a stone bottle out of foam then I shall certainly do some things a different way. For a first attempt though I am ok with it. I still have a couple of weeks to get it finished.
Tonight my daughter and I worked on some different upper arm armour. We used the shoulder piece from yesterday and added some extra plates.
The extra plates were increased in size to match the original increase. We also decided to make these plates from rough leather. So using the old ball of tinfoil we roughened the top layer up a bit. In the case of EVA foam then we needed to heat it up a bit first and then when it was warm push the foil into it. Now as I write this I suddenly remembered my soldering Iron tin foil roller. This was a loose sleeve of foil over the heated end of the iron. This was then passed back and forth across the foam to make it textured.
This fits my daughter really well. A third plate would make it too long for her. I could manage a third or even fourth plate.
While I remember, this is what the vambrace looks like outside…
Tomorrow I will get the bits sprayed and then onto the painting tomorrow evening.
Regarding painting, I did manage a bit more colour on the Ork and on the cultists…
Tonight, I thought I would fiddle around with some colours for the armour. I wanted the leather to look a bit worn and scuffed. I didn’t exactly achieve scuffed, but I did end up with something sort of leather looking.
I will try and get a better photo tomorrow as the towel it is on is turquoise!
I also had a go at adding a curve as well as increasing the size from a pattern. I did better with the latter, than the former, but we all have to start somewhere.
I also had a bash at texturing the EVA foam. To be honest I did the same as I would with XPS, but in this case I heated the foam a bit and then attacked it with a ball of aluminium foil. Voila… rough leather…
I reckon a heat gun would assist me in my endeavours, the one I had, well technically it is a paint stripper with a temp dial, seems to have packed in.
I will get these looked at tomorrow and see what I can do, if anything to fix them.
