Scale Model World 2015 - part four

Part Four and this time my favourite subject the 'What-if' and Sci-Fi models. Enjoy.

The first three images show a huge and I mean HUGE model that I photographed in the competition room - the gun is nearly a metre long!

These two images show more 'what-if' models this time Weird WW2 Russian armour.

Tony

Scale Model World 2015 - part three

Part three - Post WW2 or modern aircraft. Enjoy.

Tony

Mushroom Turret - 2015 OITW Advent Calendar

Day three of this years Advent Calendar details the construction and painting of a Gnome Mushroom Turret for Panzerfauste. The article was inspired by the recent Panzerfaust Kickstarter which has featured on these pages over the last couple of months.

When I was asked by Craig Andrews to produce a Panzerfauste article for this years Advent I was not sure that I was ready to write some Panzerfauste fiction. Instead I produced this piece of scratch-built terrain. I hope that you like it.

Details can be found on Orcs in the Webbe - The 2015 Advent Calendar, for full details please go to this link.

Tony

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.....

I have throughout this year tried to have a new piece of scratch-built terrain as the first post of each new month, December is slightly different; as you can see - my first post was detailing the Orcs in the Webb Advent Calendar - something that I have supported with articles and submissions since it was conceived.

However - here is a terrain gallery image, showing how I have added snow to one of the scratch-built Frostgrave terrain models.

First a warning -

DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME - IT DOESN'T WORK

As Sue and I were browsing the shelves in the Christmas isle at Poundland, I saw this MAGIC SNOW POWDER and thought - that should work!

I mixed up some snow powder with acrylic paint, uPVA glue and a tiny (I do mean tiny) amount of water and applied the snow with an old paintbrush.

The snow powder says that it will expand up to 100 times! And it did. I have been sparing with the powder as this was a test. I thought that it looked OK, that is until it dried out. As when it dries it contracts back to it's original 1/100th of the size leaving a horrible mess.

I had read that using bicarbonate of Soda can damage the model - well it can't be any worse than this. So I will be re-snowing the base with soda or proper snow sometime in December.

You have been warned.

Tony

Orcs in the Webbe Advent Calendar 2015

Image taken from OITW

Today sees the first of this years Advent Calendar posts on Orcs in the Webbe. Day one is a print and play board game by Matthew Hartley. For full details go to this post.

For anyone not familiar with the Advent Calendar, Craig Andrews (the editor) publishes a story a day over the 24 days of December. Pop by and check out the content each day for loads of free content.

Orcs in the Webbe

Happy Advent.

Tony