Fimm McCool
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Looking good. I do have a fondness for Battlemasters plastic monopose armies. They're so regimented. Once you're looking at them en masse on a tabletop you don't see the soft details or requisite 'in-fills'.
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Brother Meredith
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Have a fairly complete box somewhere if you would be interested? I have to say the monopose plastics don’t really do much for me…
Fimm McCool
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Don't tempt me! I have projects enough!!!
@ManicMan may be interested though if he's building a mighty empire contingent.
Brother Meredith
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Haha! No problem.
ManicMan
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probably not right this moment. Need to sort out what I have and what I want, though I must say, batch painting stuff which is all the same can be a bit refreshing when you mostly paint stuff which requires more thinking ^_^ and I get worse and worse at deciding things as the years go on.. My giant is still awaiting one shield colour really ¬_¬
ManicMan
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time for some more not very great photos of random bits ^_^
first up, something which has taken over a year cause... erm.. not being bothered maybe.. a set of 3 Banner/Totem objective markers
This first one was made from a bit of wire, a plaster rock, some Slannish plastic banner (I know the colours aren't really right) and a plastic rams skull. This is atleast a year old if not more.. cause i'm very slow and.. ah, whatever..
again, plaster rock, they make a good base for banners to free stand in.. even if you need to stop and think why they must have brought drills with them.. the banner is probebly skaven as it was in a bunch of bits I got a while back. Tried to make it kinda genertic with just a bunch of primary colours matched together. Top is a banner pole top I got a bunch of.. a horse skull I think..
now this is recent, like last weekend. Cocktail stick pole, plastic banner, plaster rock, a Skaven banner topper. I decided to paint it based on the cover of 4ed Skaven armies book. Not perfect but not bad.
now a rustic barn well.. no.. techinally the shed/Dwarf Cabin/Store from townscape/Terror of the lichmaster. Decided to try using the card as a template and just built it out of coffesticks and machsticks mostly. Bit uneven (some was what I intended to give it a more basic and rustic feel) and some little gaps, but that makes the whole 'rundown' and rustic feel.. kinda works.. bit of a problem with glue in the bottom so a bit of green and it's a bit of moss ^_^, was gonna add more to places but didn't really work in my tests..
just a side shot showing a litting rat I put there to give it a bit more character. I'm thinking, the door and windows (which you can't really see) would have been better being cut OUT of the wood, where I just placed them ontop but it does the job well enough.
Hoping to get another building done soon when some stuff arrives.. a bit more fancy.. and maybe I'll get around to trying a few more things.. I think converting some templates to laser cut and then work on bits is probebly a good route for me as it worked best for my cottage... but I'll be trying out different things.
first up, something which has taken over a year cause... erm.. not being bothered maybe.. a set of 3 Banner/Totem objective markers
This first one was made from a bit of wire, a plaster rock, some Slannish plastic banner (I know the colours aren't really right) and a plastic rams skull. This is atleast a year old if not more.. cause i'm very slow and.. ah, whatever..
again, plaster rock, they make a good base for banners to free stand in.. even if you need to stop and think why they must have brought drills with them.. the banner is probebly skaven as it was in a bunch of bits I got a while back. Tried to make it kinda genertic with just a bunch of primary colours matched together. Top is a banner pole top I got a bunch of.. a horse skull I think..
now this is recent, like last weekend. Cocktail stick pole, plastic banner, plaster rock, a Skaven banner topper. I decided to paint it based on the cover of 4ed Skaven armies book. Not perfect but not bad.
now a rustic barn well.. no.. techinally the shed/Dwarf Cabin/Store from townscape/Terror of the lichmaster. Decided to try using the card as a template and just built it out of coffesticks and machsticks mostly. Bit uneven (some was what I intended to give it a more basic and rustic feel) and some little gaps, but that makes the whole 'rundown' and rustic feel.. kinda works.. bit of a problem with glue in the bottom so a bit of green and it's a bit of moss ^_^, was gonna add more to places but didn't really work in my tests..
just a side shot showing a litting rat I put there to give it a bit more character. I'm thinking, the door and windows (which you can't really see) would have been better being cut OUT of the wood, where I just placed them ontop but it does the job well enough.
Hoping to get another building done soon when some stuff arrives.. a bit more fancy.. and maybe I'll get around to trying a few more things.. I think converting some templates to laser cut and then work on bits is probebly a good route for me as it worked best for my cottage... but I'll be trying out different things.
Eric
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Those are really nice. I've been thinking some banners / objective markers would be a cool thing to do. Yours look really nice, maybe the rat that can pull the inner from the stone will be the rat king! (all my flying beasties are inexplicably flying over the top of rocks ...)
The shed/barn is very nice, looks good. A bit of moss is always good. I'd actively add some myself, Woodland scenics "burnt grass" mixed with some PVA and painted on makes excellent moss. I've always found a few bits and pieces around the edges of buildings helps tie them into the ground so I'd be tempted to add some bits round the bottom, just a couple of tufts or something.
Lovely work (and like the little rat!)
The shed/barn is very nice, looks good. A bit of moss is always good. I'd actively add some myself, Woodland scenics "burnt grass" mixed with some PVA and painted on makes excellent moss. I've always found a few bits and pieces around the edges of buildings helps tie them into the ground so I'd be tempted to add some bits round the bottom, just a couple of tufts or something.
Lovely work (and like the little rat!)