Battlefleet Gothic: Red dwarf

Produced by Corgi, it's perfect for space games, and even has a perfectly balanced games workshop flying base sized hole. As seen straight out of the packet, no painting by me. You can still find these if you look around.

See the rest of the Tau fleet

Laserburn project WIP14 - prefab telecoms station and cars

So I've done some more work on the telecoms station from warbases...

I added plastic rod scaffolding to the surfaces of the building

Then I cut equal sized pieces out of this sheet of translucent plastic.

After this, I tidied p all the white borders on the panels, and drilled places for rivets. These were then filled with tiny balls from a Brita water filter.

There's still some work to do on this side, the pile of stuff by the door is going to be more 3d, with maybe a canopy.

ism... Is a fictional telecoms operator. I saw this building as something that is easy to erect for their purposes.

Also finished or nearly finished are most of these cars, which as you'll recall came from Kinder eggs. I wanted lots of vehicles to populate my streets - these were pretty easy to do, I still have several left that need a lick of paint though. A captain scarlet key ring crept in there too, as it's perfect scale wise. Here they are so far.

More soon.

Laserburn project WIP11 - finished buildings, started buildings.

These astoundingly cheap Amera buildings have been a joy to paint.

In this post, I'll run you through how I did them, start to finish:

1: Purchase buildings. These are vac-formed, £1.50 for the small ones, £1.75 for the larger.

2: Raid your bitz boxes for suitable add-ons. Halford's grey primer.

3: Drybrush white all over, then follow that with a yellow ochre wash (Americana yellow ochre, thinned)

4: Brown ink wash. (Vallejo Game Color Smokey ink). Black inks pin washed into the windows and painted into shadowy areas (Chromacryl Black).

5: Highlight/drybrush with a mix of yellow ochre and unbleached titanium (Liquitex Heavy Body unbleached titanium)

6: More brown washing with smokey ink. Further highlighting with unbleached titanium

Paints I used in this process so far

7: Yet more inking

8: And here's the selection of paint markers I used to finish off the detail. I also scoured my decal envelope and added a selection of further details. Most of the decals are from old 1:100 Macross kits, the numerals by each door are from an original land raider.

Here's Building 1. The doorway effect is black and two brown tones. The paving slabs are all done with markers. The water effects is clear granular gel with an ink wash. The aircon (?) unit is from an old USS Grissom miniature

Building 3. I wanted the buildings 'the same but different'. Turning into a bit of a motto for me, that.

This building sports an alternative roof protrusion, and an odd solar panel thing with branding in an alien script. The alien decals are from Macross Zentraedi models.

Building 5 has something industrial going on at the top of their steps. The 'No step' decal is from some aircraft kit.

Building 7 is fairly bog-standard apart from that massive unit strapped on the side. It's an old Klingon d18 that got cannibalised at some point. The rear stairs feature a raised fin for some reason.

A view of the home improvements

Compare the stairs, the hilarious new game show.

Side walls

That's the finished buildings, now for the one I've started, you saw it flat packed in the second photo.

Phase one, make it, and stick more bits on.

Not sure about the green cap. I haven't stuck it yet, and I may mount something else there.

Phase 2: grey undercoat, ready for a similar treatment to the others.

Whilst we're on a Laserburn tip, some of the decals I got to complete my vehicles

So, four things off the painting table, which is looking a bit crowded at the moment.

More soon, lilliputian aficionados.

15mm Industrial transporter

First up, The transporter. It's from Ainsty, though a quick scan of their new site doesn't seem to show it still being sold.

Hm, looks like I'll need to dust/vacuum these old miniatures more thoroughly before photographing them in future.

Extreme close-up

These two shots show a) how poor my hand drawn lines are close up and b) the detail on the route board. Old transfers from 1/72nd aircraft, Mecha and a numberplate for a 1/76th WWII Wehrmacht vehicle.

More close up detailing, showing crew entrance and more markings

"Cap'n, we cannae see for all the dust!"

Here's a side/top view

Front/left markings detail

Take it from the top

Underside of nose

Underside rear

Tail detail. The decal is from a Crusher Joe spacecraft kit

Tail detail

Rear view

 And there it is. Next up, a 15mm SF police/military wagon.