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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
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 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
So, stage two, painted and drybrushed with with a few washes, billboard added and extra light on post. still plenty to do, but on the home stretch. Pics: Incidentally, the scrap in the scrap yard is made from a broken R/C mini helicopter as well as loads of bits from electronic stuff broken up,… Continue reading The black Dog Salvage company WIP shots, Stage 2
I am in the process of creating a established colony set of terrain for my specific sci-fi 15mm games, the piece I'm going to show you, is a large piece, a similar size to the 28mm zombie ghost town I did (see earlier posts) and represents my HQ for the Salvage crew game. We play… Continue reading The Black Dog Salvage Company HQ, WIP stage one shots
I got bored one day and decided to make a tank from junk bits and cereal box card. I thought I might make a small merc force for 40K, just not spending much cash on it instead of forking out a wedge of cash from GW or similar, so as I usually do, set to… Continue reading 28mm Future Tank, scratch built from junk and card!
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