Ammo Dumps and Tarpaulin

Awhile ago I mentioned I had found some cheap little plastic stoppers at the hardware store that looked like ammunition crates.

I finished these off last night and since they are so cheap and easy to make I thought I would share how I did them.

To make them all you need are your crates, white glue, some tissue (for blowing your nose, not wrapping paper) and maybe some string.

Start  by doubling over the tissue and then cutting a piece big enough to mostly cover your scenery. So if the tissue is double-ply then this will give you four layers.

Next, take some slightly watered down white glue and, starting at one end, dab it on to the tissue, pushing it on to any surface detail and trying to get it to hang naturally (tarpaulin is quite heavy)

Near the end, fold back some of it so that you don't cover up all your hard work.

Finally add some string to represent tie downs. The best stuff I have found is this wax cord that you buy at beading places.... anyone who makes necklaces will know where to get it. I glued it down with superglue.

After that, it was just about painting. I painted mine olive drab and then drybrushed up by adding tan.

Simple, fast and cheap.

Hot Tank Action!

I don't get to play that many games so when I do I really like them to try and look good. Part of this is normally "politely requesting" (the rest of my gaming group would probably say "be totally anal about") my opponent having a fully painted and preferably WYSIWYG army.

Fortunately Steph, down from Johannesburg for a year, has a beautifully painted IG mech army and so I hauled my IG - the 24th Romanov Rifles and tarted them up a little.

The main reasons for playing though were:

• the baneblade
• the table

The baneblade is a scratch-built kit I made from plastic card when the forge world kit was first released. In all that time it has never been in combat.

The table is something I have been working on in dribs and drabs for the last two years. Some of the pieces on it (the container terminal) are quite new, others date back a while.

I'm going to be making a lot more terrain for this table and it is all going to be art deco rather than gothic. Watch this space...

I have put up a few pictures here but the bulk of them are at the Laser Cut Card facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/LaserCutCard (if you are on facebook then please "like" the page - I generally will update it a few days before the blog.

Steph's army: 2500 points of mech IG

My army: 2000 points of Romanov Rifles. I gave Steph a 500 point advantage as I thought the baneblade would be overpowering in this relatively small battle. Boy was I wrong.....

The table in all it's glory. The centrepiece was the skyscraper that also saw the bulk of the fighting.

The container terminal, made up of these parts:

30mm containers

security fencing kit

site office kit

Steph's warlord tank in the ruins of the furniture factory

The baneblade near the ruins of the other factory.

R&D November 2012

Here are some of the other projects I have been working on this month. None are ready for production yet - there is always a lot of testing, fitting and recutting involved.

There are more pictures on the facebook site and I generally will update that first so please go "like" it? Something magical is supposed to happen once I get 30 likes... some stats package is unlocked or something... sounds thrilling.

This is modular security fencing. The bases and posts are MDF and the fencing itself card. The MDF parts are fine, lots of problems with the card parts.

This is the base for the chaos ikon cannon but it can also be used as a chaos statue plinth (the kit will have both options). By far the most detailed kit I have done so far but having the concomitant high number of design flaws that have to be addressed. 

This is a site office to go with the containers. This has some minor bugs but nothing hectic. It is the closest to going into production. It has been sent for another test cut. One thing that worked well was the stairs.. you can slot the bases between them so that the models can be posed half way up.

The door opens on the landing and the roof is removable. There is also a removable trapdoor in the roof.

There are more pictures on the facebook site.

Facebook

I have set up a FaceBook page for Laser Cut Card here: https://www.facebook.com/LaserCutCard

It's not going to replace the blog, only complement it. It will only have content relating to Laser Cut Card but it will have more pictures than I put on the blog. I will also be putting more R&D pics on the facebook page for feedback.

So please "like" the Facebook page if you are on Facebook.

Chaos Barricade Set (Complete)

This weekend I got some paint on my chaos barricade set.

This started with the basic chaos barricade set from Laser Cut Card.

I was originally going to paint it totally nurgly but in the end I toned it down and went for a more generic rusty  chaos look. I added some 100s&1000s to some of the pieces to represent nurgle growth and I also added a few rivets made from shavings of styrene rod (Evergreen styrene).

                                        

The painting was dead easy and took all of an hour. I followed this extremely handy guide on painting rust:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Et19MNKkY

The only thing I did differently was add a final very light drybrush of light tan to bring out some of the details.

The top one is my favourite... the detailing really turned out better than I hoped.

I am now working on some sort of gun mount so that I can have the option of a quad cannon.

Chaos Barricade Set

 Exciting... dare I say "chaotic" times! I got the final production test cut back from the laser people today and have spent the last hour assembling it.

I am extremely happy with how this has turned out. I have changed the design three times since inception and  it has been worth the effort.

The barricade has the same number of pieces as the GW kit in the same lengths (4 short, 4 long)

It can be arranged however you want.

What is cool though is that there are now six different designs (two of each) incorporated and there is detail front and back.

Some of the designs are quite intricate and I am looking forward to painting this up.

These are the joining pieces that are used to create the long sections.

I am still waiting for the invoice to come from the laser cutters but I think it will be only slightly more than the cyborg one.

It should be in the shop (www.lasercutcard.co.za) tomorrow.

Cityfight table - complete

I managed to put in a few hours this weekend and am now the proud owner of an 8' x 4' modular city fight table.

Obviously it needs some scenery but I am very happy with how this has turned out.

Storage space is at a premium at my house so this board has to be stored stacked. This means that  no surface detail (like piles of rubble) can be permanently attached to the board.

Rather, as a separate project, these will be modeled on their own bases so that they can be added when needed.