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Tuesday, 27 December 2022
The Lord of the Rings Radio Play
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Sunday, 25 December 2022
Sunday, 18 December 2022
Grand Manner Pantile Bread Oven
Monday, 12 December 2022
Vines, vines, vines!
Sunday, 4 December 2022
Refurbishing Trees with Geek Gaming Scenics
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Craters
Wednesday, 2 November 2022
Legion Priority Supplies
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Making the most of your palms
I’ve had a collection of plastic palm trees for my North African tables for some time now and they looked fine, but after seeing some excellent jungle terrain pieces recently, I decided to try to pimp my palms a little. Here’s the first batch!
I began by pulling the palm fronds off the trunks and temporarily sticking them on cocktail sticks (or kebab sticks for the larger trees). Prime them with a dark or mid green spray. I used AP Army Green, I think. Then I gave them a very heavy dry-brush of CdA Army Green, followed by a lighter dry-brush of a VMC green (833 whatever that is). I also dry-brushed a few of the lower fronds with a light brown.
I primed the trunks with either a light brown or mid brown spray (AP Skeleton Bone and Leather Brown). The smoother ‘banded’ trunks were painted in a range of light browns whilst the more gnarly trunks were painted darker brown and washed with GW Agrax to bring out the texture, followed by a quick highlight of a light brown.
This is a WIP pic of the leaves. Highlights in a range of greens and yellows would look best. Appears quite shiny mainly due to the lighting, although I did give the finished articles a light dusting of AP matt varnish to remove any residual shine.
Here’s the new and the old side by side. Definitely an improvement I reckon!
A couple of evening’s work but worth it.
Saturday, 15 October 2022
74-Z Speeder Bikes
Monday, 26 September 2022
Episode I: Clash of the Noobs
Thursday, 15 September 2022
More ACW Extras
Tuesday, 30 August 2022
Galactic Empire Starter Force
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Mini Mos Eisley
These buildings are ready to use straight from the box. However I do intend to jazz them up a bit with some weathering, foliage and so on. But they’ll do for now whilst I focus on getting figures painted.
They’re from the “Battlefield in a Box” range, more specifically Galactic Warzones, and are often available from bigger retailers like Firestorm Games or Goblin Gaming, etc. There’s also a huge range of stuff available via Etsy but some can be very expensive. I got these buildings at a bargain price.