Terrain: Bunkers, a quick weekend project with kids, part 1

 I started a quick terrain project last weekend with my kids. The goal was to craft somekind of terrain pieces with the kids. I got these cartboard boxes from some computerpart package. I dug around my bits-box and found some un used Ork-looted wagon sponsons (the white boxes), some lcd-tv-wallmount-spacers (the black circles), some pvc-pipe bits, straws, plasticard and Mantic-bases.

 We decided to make some scifi bunkers. We made the doors from plasticard and hot-clued some bits and pieces on to the boxes.

 Here some of the Necromunda Enforcers for scale.

 The kids wanted to make them grey, so slammed a coat of grey primer on them. This weekend we are going to finish the painting.

Random hobby update #560934052

 The mailman delivered me 36 inches of green stuff, nice.

  Fell Bats and uncle Kemmler primed, nice.

 Fixed a missing arm on a Blood Dragon vampire. The arm made of green stuff, used another Blood Dragons sword arm as a model, then attached a Black Knight lance to it. Riding Lord Von Carstein's barded Nightmare, he is just borrowing it, Lord Von Carstein will get it back.

Then a sneakpeak of my border patrol armylist. Also Black Knights have their shields already, not shown in the picture.

WIP: Vampire Counts: Bat Swarms

Started painting these Bat Swarms. Trying to make them look a bit like Myotis lucifugus because the models just resemble them.

1. Primer: Maston 518 grey
2. Snakebite leather for the body
3. 50/50 mix of Chaos Black and Scorhed Brown on wings and ears
4. Washed with Devlan Mud
5. Bleached Bone for the teeth
(6. Chaos Black for the "support-sticks", not shown in the pictures)

WIP: Vampire Counts: Black Knights, part1

The HexWraith/Black Knight box comes with 5 mounts, the hexwraith got them. But as I got bunch of old miniatures from some awesome people, I also got some old plastic Skeleton Riders. That was good news to the Black Knights because they got their mounts stolen by their ethereal brothers-in-arms. Everyone is happy now, the old skeletal horses fit the new Black Knights well. Next up: the paint!

I took the pictures before glueing  them together.

Is it christmas already?

Happened to get a lot of awesome minitarures from some awesome people. Just awesome, pure awesome, look at the loot I got:

The paintjob needed some work, so now I have a somewhat large paintstripping project on my hands:

I used Fairy Power Spray and a old toothbrush, the results were good:

WIP: a terrain project starting up

I had a lot of SIM-card "shells" laying around, these were on their way to garbage, so I might have scavenged them. Being plastic they would make nice material for terrain crafting.

First I needed to sand out the images and text on them.

Then I cut them up in nice wood plank like pieces. The are now good for crafting wooden plankfloor or walls. I'll make something out of them soon and will keep you updated on the progress.

WIP: Vampire Counts: HexWraiths, part1

I am taking part in a 1200pts Border Patrol tournament at my local gaming store. The rules allow 150pts worth of ethereals, so I wanted to take 5 HexWraiths on my list. The assembly took a while but now they are assembled. Next comes the primer and then a ghostly paint scheme.