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Hullo folks, after a brief internet hiatus due to various reasons, it's left me with an oppotunity to do a bit of gaming, painting and making. This time I wanna talk about a really great set of miniatures for those on a budget, and with a love of insectoid B-movies. Yes I'm talking about giant… Continue reading Attack of the 15mm Giant B-Movie Spiders and Ants from Poundland!!
So, since my kids broke the mobile internet dongle yesterday, I used my time wisely to get some more Oggam made up. this time I made a couple of league Of Anthracks troops as well, to see how they go. I really like them, so far, there will be a full set of them done… Continue reading New League of Anthracks 15mm Oggam Greens, plus engineer and trooper
So I'm back to doing my 15mm salvage crew HQ. So far I have done my main admin block/junkyard, and I had another piece part done that goes on the front of it, a section on road with odds and sods on it. However, a good examination of the model revealed it was bland. Hardly… Continue reading 15mm scratch built junk shuttle craft WIP
Ok, let me first say this. I have never sculpted anything in this scale. Yes, I have sculpted lots of bigger things, but never something this small. I know there is a few issues with this figure, but considering I haven't done this before. I messed up with the legs, I should have done them… Continue reading My first attempt at sculpting an Oggam in 15mm, WIP
It's me again, here with another installment of my model making tips for low cost or free materials to use in your various projects. Here I will give you some more ideas for stuff you may not have thought of before. Remember, this is not intended for the more experienced scratch builders out there, but… Continue reading Grim’s Modelmaking Tips 2: Another 10 Cheap or Free materials for scratchbuilding
So, I finally got the model finished. I can now tick it off on my "to do" list! I had thought it was a good idea to let everyone see what the end result looks like. I can take you through a few stages to completion, I do add that this is more for my… Continue reading The Black Dog Salvage Co. Finished at last!!
As you may have gathered, I tend to have many projects on the go most of the time. This time I'd like to share my part done castle interior, I plan on doing the outside later with some towers and such, so I can use it as a castle ruin on the battlefield as well… Continue reading Scratch Built 28mm Castle/Dungeon Interior WIP
I know this article probably won't be as useful to some readers here, already well into the scratchbuilding bug like me, but I would hope that some of you that may have little or no experience in this subject will find some or all of it useful in some way. I intend to put up… Continue reading Grim’s Modelmaking Tips: My top 10 Cheap or Free materials for scratchbuilding
This figure was an experiment and just messing about, I was short of riding beasts for my O&G army for WFB, so I decided to sculpt one to save on cash. The result was this strange squig type mount. I tried to keep the features orky, with its big stupid grin, I admit it could… Continue reading 28mm Orc Champion on Squog beast (Own sculpt)
Here is the finished model, I thought I would share the pics to show you how it's turned out. With a few rocks, flock and static grass and moss, I reckon it's a nice piece in the end! The skull were suggested to show that it had eaten previous, at first I was against the… Continue reading Finished Carnivorous Plant photos!
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