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New update - this is the start for the next competition run by Panda and Papa Nid... The Brotherhood round. Really struggled to find inspiration for this one but flicking through the Hasslefree website I came across this little motley crew - in case you can't tell from the poor picture it's the Studio Miniatures Dorothy and Gang zombie survivors. Very much a WIP at the moment...



http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=dorothy-%26-the-gang~smhwiz&category=miniatures~studio-zombies-%2F-survivors

full marks for that classy literature meets anti zombi infestation reaction gang!

i want to see this done so badly! (i mean i really want to see this finished... and finished good not the other way ´round)

and with lots of grafitti on those walls too!!!!!!!!!

display board looks spiffing!

Wow! That's awesome! Such lucky kids!
Can you get onto the roof?

I had to make do with a fort out of a woodpile

Viktor von Domm wrote:full marks for that classy literature meets anti zombi infestation reaction gang!

i want to see this done so badly! (i mean i really want to see this finished... and finished good not the other way ´round)

and with lots of grafitti on those walls too!!!!!!!!!

display board looks spiffing!

Cheers Vik, yeah, I want to do this justice so will take my time. Graffiti, posters and blood stains are planned for the back wall... plenty of litter also for the road / pavement...

dsteingass wrote:Wow! That's awesome! Such lucky kids!
Can you get onto the roof?

I had to make do with a fort out of a woodpile

Best we used to have was a pile of cardboard boxes to make into forts and tunnels. The kids of today don't know how good they got it !

There's a ladder and hatch that leads up to the turret, and plenty of room, in fact it's a real sun-trap. I've ad a few summer evenings sitting up there with a beer in hand Here's an old photo back in the construction period of my kids, swords in hand, protecting the tower...

Very cool! the can even water baloon the neighbor's cat from over the fence!

or the yappy dog (sorry Dave I know you like dogs...)

Yea, or the neighbor lady, whatever mischief they prefer

LOL... Plenty of mischief can be had from up there

Plenty of mischief can be had from up there

i am green with envy... if my kids would know... or my wife... i´d be in plenty of trouble now^^...

Update time (of sorts). RL is really getting in the way of hobby fun. The sun is shining and I've been banished into the garden to get it finished. Managed to get a sneaky bit of hobby time though so worked on the bases for Dotty and her mates. Cracked paving is the order of the day...

[picture to follow - forgot to upload to the Dakka gallery!]

and here it is...



BTW, still have no laptop of my own Hopefully that will be resolved soon though...

I'm really digging the sidewalk/curb motif! That is very Cool Ruglud!

Very cool, excited to see what you come up with piece. Also really unique minis always are the start of a really cool project.

that pavement looks very good!

really like the work!

So been playing with flame effects and thought I'd share the results...

FIRE...

Nice flame contrast, but the tower needs weathering and some OSL work from the fire like the trashcan thing to the left

hmm... i think you overdone the wind effects on the flames a bit... but the tower looks really cool

Haha, yeah, could do with some added realism I think...

How's about flaming brands?



Heath and Safety be damned !

You, sir are doing parenting the right way.

Haha- What's up with the hex rivets everywhere?

@ killykavekommando - yep, gotta teach them about FIRE, just have to remind them occasionally that hitting me with the glowing end is not fun...

@ Dave - well, I think that's the smoke particles caught in the flash, or it could be my nod to the League

Camelot?
It's only a model.

Shh!

ha! your kids are as crazy as mine... if i would let them play with fire my head would be getting bald even quicker^^... they can kick their dad even now as good and hard as any mule^^

at dave... hex rivtes...

Camelot? Did someone mention Camelot? Well seek no more, here it is in all it's (slightly ruined) glory...




Actually it's Bodiam Castle in East Sussex. It's a Bank Holiday today in the UK so we took advantage of the strange ball of fire in the sky surrounded by a blue ocean(?) still trying to work out why the sky wasn't grey... Bodiam Castle is amazingly picturesque, a classic ruined castle and made for an awesome day out with the family...

If memory serves, which it usually doesn't, is that the castle that Monty python used for holy grail. I've got Toget a new copy of the movie, my old copy was on laser disc. Yes I'm that old. It was great, it was in English on track 1, track two was English translated to Japanese with a running commentary throughout the whole movie by some of the pythons, and track 3 was English translated to Japanese and the. Back to English. You got great lines like "your mother was a small woodland rodent, and your father smelled kind of ...off." It also mentions all the castles were the same one shot from different angles, and they had a person who had all their limbs amputated due to an accident who was going to play the black knight, but because they drank their production budget they had to cancel the amputee, and could only afford to shoot at the one castle.

Are amputees that expensive?

I love your castle in the garden, do a tutorial!

@ Theophony - It was the location for Swamp Castle

"All the kings said it was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same! Just to show 'em! That sank into the swamp; so I built a second one, that sank into the swamp; so I built a third one, that burned down, fell over and then sank into the swamp; but the fourth one... stayed up!"




Not sure about the rest, but knowing Monty Python, nothing would surprise me

@ Randy McStab - A tutorial? That would entail building another, which I neither have room nor money for - plus I built it on the fly and not sure I can remember all the stages !!

Next time a do something like this I'll document it ... My son wants me to build him a TARDIS next - now to persuade the wife that a big blue box would look good in the garden - did tell her that it would be perfect for garden furniture storage given the impressive interior dimensions She didn't fall for that one...

if we had visited that castle with my kids... they would have wielded their wooden swords and worn their full camo suits... and beheaded all the other visitors...in memorandum to lancelot´s great storm to the castle^^

Haha, yep, the Castle of AAARGH was just the same castle shot from the waterfront LOL, the DVD special edition has all of those extras, including the famous LEGO rendition of the song.