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You'll be pleased to know that the Penraken annual painting comp officially starts today, and as you can imagine there are some great incentives for taking part, loads of prizes and potential bragging rights up for grabs! I'll be entering in a few categories (hopefully if I get it all sorted in time) and I… Continue reading Pendraken painting Competition 2013 starts today!
So you may recall me going on about a sculpt that I did last year being cast up. I thought that I would show you a first paint up of my new figure. Its a Criat Mercenary in 15/18mm scale for sci fi battle games. As you can see from my scheme, I chose a… Continue reading First Look: Finished 15mm Criat Alien Mercenary miniature
Beyond the Gates of Antares by Dark Space Corp — Kickstarter. Well we see that Beyond the gate of Antares has started over on Kickstarter, and me for one am not sure whether I should be in on it? It's not that I think it's going to be bad or anything like that, just that… Continue reading Beyond the Gates of Antares- Will I like it?
Every time I walk past the HQ model of the Black dog building I made, I get the urge to start expanding the scenery how I had intended to originally. I do then, realise that this kind of thing needs time devoted to it. Yesterday, I had a couple of hours spare to get something… Continue reading Black Dog HQ landing pad scenic WIP
I finally got to sit down and finish my Irregular Miniatures 15mm US marines to go with my zombie game. This way I can add a few different scenarios to my campaigns. I guessed that if I just got enough for a decent squad for now, it made more sense than a whole load of them,… Continue reading 15mm US Marines to battle the zombie hordes…
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
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
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