Dairy Lea?

A potential new model made from a heightened Dairy Lea Cheese box. I'm playing around with how to have an offset conical roof incorporating a balcony. This is as far as I got.

As always, this would be detailed with beam work, and entrance door, windows and a few other bits and pieces...

For those of you unaware of the chemical goodness that is cheese triangles here in the UK...

 

And it seems that LAughing Cow boxes are the same size...

 

Comments welcomed.

Houses

I'm looking to add to the rage of building kits with a couple of simple house styles. The idea is to use one kit with a few options to create a lot of flexibility for the modeller.

These are based on a McDonalds McFlurry Ice cream cup (its the ONLY reason i went into McDonalds - shudder).  Three different roof designs and three different doors give a range of options.

I would include in the kit enough beam work and windows so that the models fit in with the same style as the others.

Also by applying pillars similar to those on the watchtower you can also do this:

Views?

Hexapossibilities

 I've been playing around with some possible basic shapes for a new model, or perhaps an addition to the Pryn-Gul tower. The future is hexagonal I tell ya! I've tired to provide some random element by offsetting the cylinder of the tower to the hexagon, so its off centre. My thoughts would be to have the kit so it could be assembled either with a pointy roof (pic1), OR with the tower continuing through the slope of the hexagonal roof (pic 3)

What do you think?

Reopened

The Store is now OPEN!

Following a great reception at Salute 2011 and a number of sales, the store is now open to sell the post salute stock, and an order placed for re-stocks.

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Salute 2011 - further pictures

My thanks to Emberbreeze over on the World of Twilight Forum for these pictures. Especially the first one with some photoshop skulduggery.

"Almost Home"

He is also responsible for these 'snaps'. I particularly like the blurred effect from the long exposure times, it makes the board look as though it's stopped in time amidst the bustle of the show...

Thank You Emberbreeze for the pictures and to all on the Twilight stand that made me so welcome and helped me sell stuff, especially Mike and Jules. 

Super Secret Project - XIII - Done?

I think I may have finished...

Lighting isn't the best - will get some better ones taken when I have the time.

Now All I have to do is get the thing there!

See you all at Salute!

Super Secret Project - XI - Oooo Interesting!

I'm finally beginning to believe that:

1. I might finish this
2. It might not be an eye sore!

I "think" I have finished all the flocking. Just some touching up of the cliffs to do where flock has blown onto them and the dye run :( and then a couple more coats of sealer and some matte finish - but thats easy to to do with the spray gun - its just drying time.

Oh, and of course I don't have all the buildings lasercut and made yet, but things are mving on well there as well! You can see the black outlines where the walls and towers will go.  I do like the matt black finish on the surround too - am chuffed I took the time to do that!

And Finally a picture from safe behind the stockade walls looking out onto the barren steppe.

Super Secret Project - IX - Parcels!

Well i came back from my weekend away and finally got to see the parcel that arrived earlier in the week...  I opened it up and inside were 160 A4 sheets of laser cut styrene! 

Brandlin does a little happy dance.

That's Pryn-gul Towers, Haft-oob Stables, Shingles and Slates kits x20 which is starting stock for salute. So I have been spending the evening bagging and tagging and will have loads more to do during the week too.

That's just half what I need though so I'll be ordering the Walls, Watchtowers and Bridges and then its all systems go...

Oh, except I still have this pesky board to finish!

Harumph...

Super Secret Project - VII - Paint!

Finally I managed to get some paint on this!

Firstly the surrounding MDF frame was given an undercoat and a couple of coats of flat black to act as a frame.  Then I masked out the edges and covered them in news paper to protect them. I also marked out where all the buildings are going and masked those areas out as well, so that when I peel the masking tape off there will be black location points for each of the buildings.

Then I applied all the scree, and collapsed rubble at the bottom of the cliff edges and such like, and gave all the exposed rock a couple of spray coats of dark grey base.

Then a couple of layers of progressively lighter grey paint dry brushed onto the exposed rock faces and scree.

Finally a close up of the rock formation on which the fortifications sit.

 

Super Secret Project - VI

Ok, so I cannot pretend this is secret anymore.

I have finally finished the surround and support for this board which is amde from 12mm MDF and battening crisscrossed beneath - I'll provide pictures of the woodwork when I have someone to take the pictures while I tip the board.  In my normal manner this may be overkill, but I KNOW that I'll be able to transport the board without damaging it. On the other hand I am beginning to wonder just how strong the average war games exhibition table is?

Once the structure was complete I was able to put the board itself in, and then fill any of the gaps using - foam gap filler, (does exactly what it says on the can). You'll see that the MDF surround is cut to exactly match the contours of the edge of the board, providing very robust protection all around, and I hope a professional finish.

Having then cut off the extra gap filling foam I have been able to apply the plaster filler which will smooth all the surfaces together.

In the next picture you are looking from the smooth rolling tundra end of the board towards the fortified end.

The exposed yellow bits you can see are the foam insulation showing through where they will form cliffs, the grey areas are where I have smoothed out plaster to make rolling hills. You can just make out the smoothed road leading the length of the board and the right hand junction about half way down.

Due to the cold weather and the fact I am having to work in the garage, the glues and plaster are taking a very long time to set. So I am not going to touch this again until next weekend.

Next time - sanding, sanding, more sanding and probably a final plaster layer... and then yet more sanding.

Super Secret Project - V

You are NOT authorised to read this file - please desist immediately

There, that should keep the unwanted riff-raff out... now, just between you and me I thought i'd show you some pictures of the kind of effect I am looking to achieve on this board I am clearly NOT making - nudge nudge, wink wink!

Some inspirational pictures:

Maybe with a hint of:

Except without the deep snow, there may be a scattering or a frost. I haven't decided yet.

In order to do this I have the following flocks and scatters - all from Antenociti's Workshop.

Add in the usual scree and talus, along with some seafoam trees:

Super Secret Project - IV

I have no idea what this is, or in fact who is building it... in fact these pictures don't exist at all. They are clearly NOT of a game board being assembled and reaching the end of foam cutting and about to be glued.

There is no way that these pictures could exist, because anyone building such a thing would have to not be working 60 hour weeks and neglecting his family to try and finish this.

Shhh ... still nothing to see here, move along move, along now.