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agreed on parsnip wine except I can never manage to leave it long enough to give it its full delicious flavor.

I think you might have an idea there von dom - making scenery from ceramics. but only for smaller peices.

Heres the walkway. I'm happy with that now and will make more.

Also here is a truely monumental possible building - I would give it a few floors inside and scaffolding on parts of the outside - the big hole in the front could represent and enourmous smashed window with reminants of glass around the edge. It would be very very gotham city gothic I think

Cracking on nicely
might have to borrow the tower idea at some point for variety to the horizontality.

and by nissed your mean? p...ished?
there are so many things out there to try...

by the way this is my 2000 post....hurray^^

vik


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the stained glass idea i had also from time to time, do it please...i fear i will never get down on that ...

Hey Weety , so your back in the gaming saddle , proverbially speaking. nice to see you building things as well as painting, good luck with the city ,you can make huge and easy bulidings with polystyrene , but the best thing by far is the fact that they are free and completely bizzare shapes that you couldnt design on purpose, i also have a load of polystyrene hanging about the house waiting to be made into something usefull , so i will be watching with intent to steal.

I discovered today that even the mildest spray primer has a slight melting effect on polystyrene - Its not completely ruined though, just a little weathered I would say. I will paint with pva first next time! It will be fun to have a bit of a game here and there and the nice thing about necro is it shouldn't take all day to play. More updates tomorrow I hope - going to finish the apartment block.

Before you spray (sorry if im a bit slow been on the cider) water down some wood glue / artex and cover the poly and when dry them you can paint.

Lol. I'm just stabbing in the dark when it comes to terrain. I had a feeling that polystyrene would be trouble, Anything else I should know? But not to worry, its free and like neil said it comes in some cool shapes!

To continue with the theme of stabbing in the dark a friend suggested that I should try cutting up drinks cans with my jewelery snips and bend them into scenery. I can see myself getting a fair few lacerations...


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knew a guy in uni who used to make little machines out of cut up cans

Use no nails type glue for sticking it together.

I have been skimming/plastering with a pva/universal thinner/acrylic paint mix.
The latter is added so I can see where it has been applied more easily.

That is the problem with cans.
It would be better for dioramas imho
You probably would make the edges safe but there is always a chance in gameplay of someione damaging the scenery while slicing off a finger!

shameful self promotion

Golly, I could use a bit of that wine about now. I think the cityscape stuff is great, reminds me of the old days where terrain had to be improvised and created from scratch. Way more interesting than any readymade kit stuff.

Every once in a while we'll order some gear at work and I spend a moment or two longingly looking at the styrofoam shapes, considering how awesome they could be on a games table, with a lick of paint and some extras added on.

As a note, acrylic paint through an airbrush won't melt your expanded polyfoam.

--B.

cool - I have a car paint sprayer which I use for glazes on pottery but it would serve equally well for acrylic

But for now I have just covered it in a thick layer of black acrylic paint as I couldn't get pva on a sunday - I think it will do the trick as its a very thick layer

Should be fine as it would isolate the polystyrene from the active spray ingredient.

Night lords mug.

Ooooooooooh nice mug mine, mine, mine!!!

Lol yes it shall be yours. I felt good having done those which has shifted my creative block - Heres the latest progress on the building - I just need to paint this balcony black and then I can start the spray highlights. then windows, then some kind of scalfolding on one side

building structure looks a lot like some of the more filthy blocks of our neigherhood...mark you we live in older houses and have nice stone on stone walls but the other fellas just live in these cheaper blocks, so your really mimiked the real world here^^ cool stuff, specially the columns on the balconys looks really good.the only thing missing is cheap satelite discs now and lots of that...^^

vik

if I happen to come across anything tht size and shape then I will have satalite dishes - rusty ones. The block is based on real life - out of my window I have a view of an increadibly ugly block of flats. I wish all the windows in my flat looked out to sea. Not that my tenement block is much better to look at but it at least has a pitched roof and is longer than it is high

Dice just arrived in the post - might have to have a little practice game later. Also I havn't painted a miniature for a while - the ceramics is distracting me.

speaking of ceramics Von Dom I will have to start from scratch with your mug as its just not quite right. Updates soon

Great balconies le corbusier would be proud of your utiliterian block house , atcually really great , vik is right tyou have captured a very realistic style building, somewhere between the cold war and mexican flat houses. So are the mugs in production completely now? becuase i still have my eye on that scroll one ;-)

cool was afraid to ask after recent missunderstandings...

yep to live at the sea...that would be wonderful... i often dream about that...well maybe one day when the kids are own their own then me and my wife will look out for a flat or a house at rügen, a nice and not to big german island...

as for scale satelite dishes i say do you happen to have those lids or screws of bottles or something from milkcans? tehse days nearly everything comes in tetrapacks and i collct them in the masses...^^ these would give you a good size and also they tend to have built in texture to give it a good wash or two^^

vik

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miss dee i cant see your blogs, the server doesnt want to show peoples signature line today

victor - dont feel like that about it - I was just venting. I can highly recommend the sea air and it is nice in summer to go scuba diving or just snorkeling. I feel richer this year maybe I will buy a kayak canoe.

Niel the mugs are in production - I am a bit swamped with work and commissions but I would love to do you a mug - or you could just buy the one I've already done - nobody has baggsied it yet. If you do want to commission me the some scetches of what you want or a photo is always helpful, and it will probably take a while to be finished - it really has been years since I did ceramics in uni and I'm only just getting back into the swing of it

OOo bagsy prototype mug ;-)
commision can wait, glad you have plenty of orders!

right so I will PM you momentarily!

Done spraying - looks very good, concrete. Took long enough though. might leave the details for now and get started in the next one which will be similar but justa bit bigger. Gotta do some more scafolding and walkways and then I can play a game just to get used to the rules again

Spend a couple of weeks without t'internet and weety builds a city I've actually managed to wean myself down to about 3 pieces of interestingly shaped polystyrene blocks over the years, otherwise I'd be drowning under the stuff. Really want to see what the terrain looks like once you've added a bit of graff to it. Maybe a little Banksy hidden away somewhere?

Mugs are looking good, love the glaze on the night-lords one, and glad to hear you've got plenty of orders. I'll get those cars off to you this wekend, and I'll stick an order in with them.

Looking good weety! Are you going to start playing necro/rpg with these now?

monkey troll you may be a genius...banksey!!! I think I know what I will be doing in may day off.

yeah I've got a friend who used to play w40k back in the day who said he will play a gang. Although as thereare only two of us I'm guessing we might have two gangs each and take it in turns. I've got a complete goliath gang half painted, the space eunuch will make a good leader for them, the orlocks just need a heavy. I only have 5 eschers 2 delaques and 4 redemtionists / cawdor so I was thinking of using the RT mercenaries as a gang - they can have some special rules. They all have mesh armour an autogun and maybe a few other bits of equipment - nose plugs and eye filters etc, maybe grapnels. This must be included in their base price,
the gang has no juves and the loot must divided up as equally as posible after any battle which earns credits - this money is only to be spent on this ganger and if he dies the credits are lost. Leader gets double share. If it cant possibly be made equal the leader gets any spare creds. Territory creds go to a communal pot as normal.
This will make it harder to recruit new members so I probably better think of some special rules to give them an advantage. Maybe they can have 2 heavys right at the start and pay less for them thna other gangs.
And maybe they should always have reloads to represent their proffesionalism
Might make up some special games for them where maybe they get hired to fight off alien raiders and get paid for it. Or they can get paid to head out into the badlands to retreave archeotech and kill zombies

Wow there is some great stuff on dakka this morn! the building looks grim and depreesing with not enough light and too close to your neighbours.......or is that my childhood ;-)
i lived in the top story of a block like these growing up , and we use to play footie on the roof until the ball blew away and chuck our toys down the trash chute , and catch them at the bottom , ....arh innercity sqaulor those were the days...

Your rules sound fun. i have never actually played necro , but i do like the idea of rpg miniature gaming , be sure to post a battle report etc.. when you start.

graffiti so far, only one small banksey reference:

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When will my mug be posted sweet?

As im of to exeter for the day on the 2nd and dont trus the posties to put it any place safe.