Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread | More buildings for the Building God!

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**Theophony**

The building is looking fantastic dave, especially the floor.

Also It's a bit pricey, but have you seen the new bridge set being put out by Bolt action and Pegasus?

BrookM wrote:
Freitag, Freitag, heute ist es Freitag.

Whatever, another week, another newsletter, another slew of WWII shinies!

First off, MOAR PEGASUS BRIDGE PICS.

New: Armies of France and the Allies

The wait is over for our new Armies of France and the Allies book. This supplement for Bolt Action covers the armies of France, Poland, Greece, Norway, ~~Holland~~ NETHERLANDS and Belgium that stood against the German Blitzkrieg, as well as the resistance forces that sprung up in the aftermath of occupation.

All copies of the book ship with the free and exclusive figure of the decorated French resistance fighter Simone Segouin (also known under the nom de guerre ‘Nicole Minet’).

Paul Hicks has sculpted the miniature and I am sure you will agree he has done a cracking job to capture her likeness as seen in the photograph below.

New: Wehrmacht & Waffen-SS Licence plates decal sheets

In our continuing mission to bring you historically accurate details for your Bolt Action models, we’ve created these license plate decals for your German vehicles. These waterslide transfers have been carefully researched to bring an authentic look to your Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS models.

Pre-order: Perry Miniature’s Afrikakorps 1941-1943

Storm across the deserts of North Africa with this new Afrika Korps boxed set, designed for Bolt Action by Perry Miniatures

The Afrikakorps formed upon Adolf Hitler’s personal orders in 1941, with Erwin Rommel as their commander, to support the Italian army in North Africa. They conducted a hard-fought desert war against the Allies for control of the southern Mediterranean coast.

The box contains 38 Hard Plastic multipose figures – enough figures for a platoon or Zug plus command. There is a choice of head gear (steel helmets, tropical cork helmets or field caps) and arm postions and weapons including MG 34′s, anti-tank rifles, 50 mm mortars, MP 40s, Kar 98s. The box also has individual round bases and 40mm square bases for the weapons teams as well as information on historical organisation.

Can I have a feth yes? Finally we can have our El Alamein games going!

**dsteingass**

Thanks guys!
That's a beautiful bridge! I love the Bolt Action stuff!
front sidewalk

and bottom floor, with some Dr. H-esque sprue beams

**Dr H**

Nice work on the tiled floor, pavement and the sprue beams

. Really looking nice.

**dsteingass**

Thanks Doc! I cheated a bit, I only textured/grained the parts that would show

**Camkierhi**

Looks brilliant,

The internal walls, etc. are they black pc you cut to size yourself?

Loving the tiled floor. Did one recently myself, but like a numpty I cut all my tiles myself, didn't know about the textured board. I cut up the tile I took out and jigsawed them back in the hole to look all cracked up.

This is going to look amazing.

**dsteingass**

There's no shame in doing it that way Cam! I did that with the sidewalk. It's black PVC foam, the miracle material I call it. Cuts with a knife, glues to styrene perfectly with liquid cement.
I find it best to mix methods for variety.

Here I brushed on wet drywall mud (all purpose joint compound, filler) letting it congeal into itself a little bit, creating texture

Then take a dry makeup brush to it with a stippling motion to vary it a bit

**Dr H**

dsteingass wrote:
Thanks Doc! I cheated a bit, I only textured/grained the parts that would show

That's pretty much what I did for the hut, it's just that it was all on show, so I did all of it... The roof was the only solid part of the hut and that was removable.

How'd you find the wood technique, I'm interested to find out what people think once they've tried it?

Ooo, wall texturing looks ... textured.

Interesting technique and I'll look forward to how it works out when painted.

**dsteingass**

Well, like I said..I cheated a bit. I started by using my clippers on the ends, indenting several end-grain parts on both sides, then I used my knife to etch the grain from there. I can see where your curved scalpel would be more beneficial than my pointed x-acto blade. Otherwise, it's quite simple to keep producing.

**Dr H**

It's not cheating, it's thinking outside the box...

Yeah, I used clippers on a couple of the broken ends when they weren't looking broken enough on the model.
I did wonder what a pointed blade "wood" be like. Glad it still works though.

Now just imagine doing that for at least 100 more pieces of wood and that's your hut done...

**dsteingass**

The clippers gave me the splitting look I wanted as the angle of the blades bent out

**shasolenzabi**

Ah, ruined wallpaper or paint effect eh?

**dsteingass**

Yep! 200 year old wallpaper, paint, water damage, rot, you name it

**GiraffeX**

I always love catching up on your blog Dave you have some really random stuff going on some times, the Scooby models did make me laugh...although I feel the strange urge to get them as well for some reason

The building is coming along really well, very inspiring, well it would be if I had a creative bone in my body

**dsteingass**

Yep! I'm random

Thanks GiraffeX!

@Theo- did you see this part?

Pre-order: Pegasus Bridge battle set
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Availability: In stock
$280.00

**Theophony**

dsteingass wrote:
Yep! I'm random

Thanks GiraffeX!

@Theo- did you see this part?

Pre-order: Pegasus Bridge battle set
Add to Wishlist or Email to a Friend

Availability: In stock
$280.00

I saw the pricetag

, then I saw you get the bridge, pillboxes, troops, buildings and everything else in the picture. They also have a special edition which comes with

tons of troops, tanks and stuff.

I'm not getting it, just saw the pics and thought that would make nice necromunda stuff for morons else.

**dsteingass**

The big set is $450, but really, I think that's a deal compared to retail for all you get!
Primage

**Scarper**

Beautiful weathering, Dave! Did you do anything else to the walls after the stippled spackle? Or is that just white primer over what you already showed? I'm really looking forward to this one - it looks amazing already!

**dsteingass**

Nope, I just let it dry to the touch, then sprayed Vallejo grey primer over everything. I'm deciding on other colors as it sits in front of the fan

Oh, before the drywall mud dried, I used the airbrush (just air) to blow any mud globs out of corners, but left some of it on the chair rails and corners and such where I thought a collapse would leave a pile of dust. I'll add more rubble and such on the base before I glue the completed building to the base.

Thanks a lot Scarp!

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Lots of lovely filth over 'ere

Soaking it with inks/washes

**Casey's Law**

Dyno! That's a really great texture, very inventive.

**shasolenzabi**

Grimy Dave, grimy!

**Camkierhi**

Beautifully yuk.

You must use a lot of paint dude?

**Warboss_Waaazag**

This is really cool! More progress! More pics! I want to see more!

**Valhalla130**

That looks great!!!!

**dsteingass**

Thanks guys!
Yes, Grimy Pre-war habitat ruin

**shasolenzabi**

"I don't want to set the world on fiiiiiiire, I just want to kindle a flame in your heart"-GNR

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That's it! I have the urge now to go kill stuff in the wastelands! time for power armor and weapons of crass destruction!

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**dsteingass**

See? The Inspiration goes both ways!

**Alpharius**

You are an artist!

Incredible work at an incredible pace!

**dsteingass**

Thanks ALph!

**nerdfest09**

Dave I am in adoration of that wall weathering technique! looks awesome, I had a surge where I saw it and then tried to convince myself I needed to start a project just to try it :-)

**dsteingass**

Thanks Damo! you should try it!- just not on your Ork skin