Death Guard Land Raider

I was cleaning out the hobby room on the weekend and discovered, as part of an old chaos army I bought ten years ago, a land raider.

It was already made up, everything was glued shut and every single possible piece from the chaos vehicle sprue had been glued on. It had been painted as a khorne vehicle.

The only additions I made was putting some cardboard bio-hazard symbols on the doors

I gave the whole thing two coats of matt black spraypaint, a coat of dark green from the airbrush and then managed to paint the rest of it last night.

In keeping with the blog ethos of "good enough is good enough", the entire paint job took about an hour. It looks great from tabletop distance but obviously won't stand up to close inspection.

But hey... it was "free" and now it is ready to hit the table.

Packing Crates

These are a project I am working on for LaserCutCard... cardboard packing crates and pallets. I got these painted up on the weekend.

The great thing about building multiple copies of something is that I easily identify the parts that are irritating or difficult to build and get to modify the design of the template before they go into full production.

In this case, the pallets were a little too fiddly to build so the production version has been changed to make them easier and faster to assemble.

The set below is in the web store here: 

http://www.lasercutcard.co.za/scenery/packing-crates

There also is a bundle pack (buy two, save 15%) here:

http://www.lasercutcard.co.za/packing-crates-value

Art Deco Corner #1

This is the first of the four art deco corner ruins that I am making (test versions of the other three are in the background of these photographs).

The idea it to make four sets of corner ruins from the same building master template so that if you want to put them facing inwards, it will be immediately apparent that this is the ruin of one large single building.

All the architectural detailing on the four corner pieces will be identical  - only the size of the ruins will be different.

This is a single level ruin (i.e. it has one floor). It will be the smallest of the four.

After this I will make two corners that have two platforms and then a final one that has three.

WIP Shots

This is what the building looks like straight after assembly.

All I did was add some white glue and sand to the edges to hide the layers.

It is available from the store here: http://www.lasercutcard.co.za/buildings/art-deco-corner-1

A herd of rhino

My nurgle marines are complaining about having to walk everywhere. The solution was to dig up an old cardboard template, make a few copies and slap on some milliput.

I also used some of the plague base toppers and cut some nurgle sigils from card

Art Deco Corner Ruin

This is a project I have been working on for some time - to produce wargames scenery that is art deco rather than gothic. This is the first test cut (full of bugs but anyway...) and I decided to paint it up to do a colour test. 

This palette is a little too art deco for 40k (in fact it is this building's original colours) but with a slightly more concrete look I am sure it could look as depressing as any gothic spire.

A plague upon your houses

This blog was intended to force me to paint all the stuff that I have that is unpainted. Over time though it has been somewhat hijacked by my new project, LaserCutCard.

For the first post of 2013, I thought I should try and go back to the roots. I am hoping to have a game soon where I can use my entire nurgle army and these are the last unpainted models in it. These were finally finished last night.

Now - on to organising that game...

The Rhino of Rottenness

"Honour the wargear of the dead" - thus it is written in the Codex Astartes. And so the ruinious powers will take every opportunity to do the opposite.

The Rhino Of Rottenness represents a fallen mechanical beast of the Grey Knights, turned now to the production of noisome and nocent plagues by the followers of Nurgle.

The motor in the drive compartment now pumps liquids in and out of the brew tank (the crew compartment). The still outside brews the secret ingredient that has to be handled with copper buckets on account of it being so dangerous.

The sandbags were added late in the project as the piece was looking a little sparse. They will justify giving anyone inside the area terrain a cover save.

• The rhino is made from cardboard. 
• The base is a piece of expanded polystyrene covered with white glue and then sand. 
• The barrels, buckets and jerry cans are from a Tamiya set. 
• The wooden bucket is scratch built, as is the still (from a Guiness widget). 
• All piping are flexi straws. 
• The valve control wheels are press studs. 
• The sandbags are Milliput.  

The original version

The updated version

I got some feedback on the original version from friends on Terragenesis and so decided to make this a tad more nurgly

Here you can see the extra goo that has been added:

• top left... added resin inside the bucket on the top
• top right... added overflow from both sides of the barrel
• bottom left... tipped over barrel creating a new puddle
• bottom right... spilled bucket creating other puddle

WIP shots

I started with a cardboard rhino that I had never finished and had lost interest in finishing.

I found an old sheet of expanded polystyrene  and hacked an oval into it. I also dug out a shallow hole for the rhino to sit in so that it would look like it had been there for ages.

I then covered the whole piece with watered down white glue and sprinkled it with fine sand and potting soil.

While this was drying I did a Google image search for portable whisky stills and found this image over at

http://www.whisky-pages.com/stories/sma-still.htm

I made my own version from some thin strips of balsa glued to the plastic tub that comes with an aerosol can and wrapped insulation tape around it to represent the copper binding. The still itself was the widget from inside a can of Guiness, plus a drinking straw.

I made a cross brace from some card that I had lying around.

After that, the whole thing was assembled. I used the Tamiya kit for barrels, buckets and jerrycans. All the piping was made from drinking straws.

For detailing, I added rivets made from plastic rod and rust made from superglue and baking soda.

The still was painted up separately as it will not be attached to the model (it will make it easier to store)

The sandbags were made from Milliput. The seams were made with a craft knife and the texture added by pressing a piece of cotton onto it once it was starting to harden.

I think my Nurgle table is just about finished :)