robbo007":2mkudxay said:
1. I'm just about to start painting my Mighty Fortress I manage to locate. Whats the best product to apply to the joins as a filler? The rest of the joins are so small that once painted they won't be noticed, but the tower joins are pretty big and I don't think the paint will fill it.
Good stuff, one of my all time favourite models! Do you mean the diagonal joints on the top of the towers? If I remember correctly on mine I cut out some of the Citadel dungeon floor plans to create inserts to cover up the joints. I seem to remember cutting out the hole for the trapdoor!
Were I doing it again now I think that kind of approach would still be my choice rather than filling. I'm thinking it will be hard to get a good finish on the filler given the battlements getting in the way. So I'd probably cut out either plasticard (or just card) inserts and then texture those with some glued on flagstones, then drop them in place. You could also use a textured plasticard (for example there is a Yorkstone one that would work well- plenty of places you could get something like that. (
Hattons,
Model Railways Direct,
Rails of Sheffield)
robbo007":2mkudxay said:
2. Also any recommendations on scenery paint? The 17ml miniature pots will turn out to be pretty expensive to paint the entire thing as its pretty big.
If you are brush painting then cheap art store acrylic craft paint is often an option at least for basing. I've got quite a few
Crafter's Choice paints which I think are
Royal & Langnickel that are okay for terrain. Paint shops that do mixing will often have colours matching services - so if you've got a favourite 17ml pot you could get a similar sample tin of household paint mixed up to at least base coat with. To be honest I tend to mostly use my airbrush for terrain so use less paint anyway and have therefore just been using my Vallejo acrylics.
robbo007":2mkudxay said:
3. Do they still make scenery to scale with the 1987 old hammer style minutares and fortress? Things like siege towers, Houses, trees and stuff?
Some more modern terrain has crept up in scale to match the larger modern miniatures (for example the amazing Tabletop World have both their
Altburg (32mm) and
Midguard (28mm) range), but to be honest other than newer MDF and plastic kits most will be fine as it'll probably be 25-28mm, so I'm sure stuff like the hardfoam from
Ziterdes would match. Even the newer stuff isn't likely to look out of place as terrain tends to not be true scale anyway - otherwise it'd be huge. Generally it's more the doors and so forth that betray the "scale".
However this being oldhammer - break out the old White Dwarfs and start
building. Some great inspiration on
The City of Altheim thread. I must confess I keep feeling tempted to start building again!
