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Phone camera (6 year old phone) - not good at macro, and no manual settings. Real camera is in shop getting a 10 year service.

I finally got around to adding the electronics to light up the warmill building.

It came with a bunch of laser etched acrylic "holo" signs. I figured I could "edge" light them and get them to glow.

The ad-cube was also illuminated, and puts out a substantial glow.





The electronics themselves are simple LED hookups.
Someone in their first year of electronics hobby should be able to do it. That stage for me was 38 or so years ago. I was an electronics hobbyist before I discovered minaiture games.




The ad-cube was the more complicated due to having to fit it into the space.

Photobucket kicks the bucket - came to see again some of Your photos and now they are just placeholders. Sad times. But these laser-engraved acrylic plates do illuminate pretty evenly with several LEDs - good execution!

Some of my infinity terrain that was lit up using LEDs.

So, continuing the pattern of "fits and starts" that pretty much is my oeuvre for miniatures terrain ...

A new building appears.

In 2020, I started playing computer games due to the pandemic and not being able to get real games in. Enter Deus Ex (OG version). Then I found my DC copy of Human Revolution (which was bought for the previous computer. Finished it then discovered the Steam sale and got the followup game, Mankind divided. That's where I saw a building like this - and got the idea to make one for my infinity table.

So, I present my WIP LIMB (Liberty In Mind & Body) augmentation clinic (abandoned).

In the game, it looks like this:




My version:




I've still got to add the corner trim to hide the edges and do the weathering.

Pretty sweet looking building!

Two sides mostly done.



Pictured are Adam "I never asked for this" Jensen and Alejandra Vega, my two "Authorised bounty hunters" for my Infinity.

"Limb" stands for "Liberty In Mind and Body", a chain of cybernetic augmentation clinics in the Deus Ex computer game series.

New post. Not terrain, but it's related.

Late last year, a friend upgraded his airbrush compressor to a tanked one, and gave me his non-tanked one as a freebie.

I figured I should at some point make a spray booth for it, so a couple of weeks ago, after watching a couple of DIY spraybooth videos on youtube, I made my first prototype.
I present Von Fronkenshteen's spraybooth. It's most definitely not pretty, but it performs its tasks well.




120l (30 gallon (US)) approx tub.
90mm plumbing downpipe (used for gutters to stormdrain) and elbow. A short length of timber board to hold it all together. 90mm 12v fan and a spare 120mm fan grille I had laying around (which holds the filter material in place over the hole - which in this case is a 100mm wide pot scourer). The fan is only rated for 54cfm of airflow, but it runs at about 20db. My last spraybooth extractor did 65,000cfm and howled at 120db but needed 3 phase power (415vAC at around 300A.)

The turntable is a cake decorating one with a smooth bearing and a brake (the red lever). The airbrush stand is the clamp sort, that also holds the tub to the workbench. The desklamp (above the airbrush holder, top right) is a 12v one that runs from the same power supply that runs the fan. As a bonus, the compressor, light and airbrush all fit into the tub when I'm done, and a lid clips over it making it a doddle to pack away.

During testing, I had some plain paper taped loosely over the fan outflow while I sprayed some coloured paint (rattlecan) into the booth with the fan running. No paint splatters on that paper, so that filter did its job.

The booth can handle projects up to about 12" (30cm) tall. Which means my next few buildings will be able to fit inside it and get the airbrush treatment.