This weekend it has been swedish national holiday and it is
called Midsummer. The weather was lovely and offered the
chance to celebrate under the clear blue sky.
I have also managed to acquire some left overs from grey/black-
desktop. This material is ideal for making desktops and
5mm thick with a mesh of threads underneath.
The material is easy to cut and the surface almost feels like
paved road. I have also made templates and converted them
to pdf. When I printed the templates I made a first sample
but this was not accurate and I adjutsed the pdf-print to 101%
and then it was spot on. The width of the road is 95mm and
my modelcars are 35mm and this offer the road to have two
lanes. Next step is to cut all the parts clean from leftovers
and after that I will stripe them. I am also planning to make
small parts with striped pedestrian-crossing-points.
To outline my templates on the desktop I have used a
simple whiteshaded-pencil.
Feel free to contact me if you want me to send you the pdf-
templates by E-mail. This is the first report out of two about
the manufacturing of roads. To be continued.
Now I have based and also built my Siberian
brute squad from Westwind games. I think they
look a lot better in reality than on the inspirational
pictures from the manufacturer.
With some paint and a worn-look I think these
figures will really "shine" on the gaming table. :)
I have made some rocks to make the "feeling"
more rough and "brutal" and I am planning to
paint the bases to look like snow.
I also publish some pictures of my now based zombies.
I am also planning to paint the bases in white.
To make the zombies more individual I have used
some heads from Zombie-horde made by Wargames
factory and also added necks(handmade).
The Mecha-ace, Samokhin, is a favourite and I really
like this figure. Next step for making scratch-built
mecha-platoon of my own is to cut out the frames and
I am now finished in the planning how to make these.
I also want to send a big thankyou to Andreas that gave
me the Siberian brute squad as a gift.
Next report will show all the figures painted.
Enjoy the pictures!
Today it is my birthday and I can´t think of a better way
to celebrate this than publish a new report and say a big
hello to my fellow figure-gamers outthere. :)
Last sunday I played a game of SoTR with my friend
Andreas. As always it was fun and intense but this
game was short and never completely finished because
I was forced to withdraw because of tasks at home.
The points were set to 35points each and to me this
figure was ideal. The goal of the game was to decimate
the opponent to 75% casualities but we only reached
40% before the bell rang.
I also tried to test my combat engineers but they never
got contact with the enemy but I really like them both
for the stats and the look. :)
The americans won this game and next time I will also
use my Siberian brute squad and maybe my new zombies
with explosives. :) To summarize this game it was fun and
fast but also short. I am really looking forward to the next
game. Enjoy my pictures!
Last sunday I played a game of Secrets of the third reich with
my friend Andreas. It was great fun as always and even more
fun this time because I also got a gift.
The gift was a menacing group of a Siberian brute squad from
the company West wind in the scale of 28mm.
A very nice addition to my russian force and very useful when
storming the position of my opponent.
In the game of Secrets of the third reich these mutants are
creatures that has failed in intelligence when breeding in
the laboratory but are very powerful as cannon-fodder and
very fanatical in battle.
I am looking forward building and painting these and also
to test them on the gaming table.
Thankyou very much Andreas. :)
Today I managed to convert three figures to make
my russian engineer-squad complete for my game
of SoTR tomorrow.
I have primed and basecoated the figures and I
will paint all the details later but for now they
are ready for the game.
I am quite pleased with the conversion and I hope
that I will inspire others out there to start play
the game Secrets of the third reich (weird WW2)
After a quick visit in Athens I am now back home again.
I have managed to start making cobblestone-roads out of
simple materials. I use mdf(6mm), blue polystyrene,pva
and sand. I have made som pictures to show the phases
to make one of your own.
I am planning to use these roads when playing primarily
medieval-skirmish but I could also be used in several
other kinds of settings.
To finalize these roads I will paint them and put on some
small green just to get the feeling right but this will be
published in my next report.
