Some scenery

Hoi,

It has been a while since my last post but I have at least had opportunity to paint some stuff. Today I'd like to show you some scenery items I have been busy with.

Let's start with some silo's, these are basically the legs of a plastic cabinet for the garden shed. You can build it in two ways: in a big high cabinet or two small ones, I did the former and thus had some sets of legs left over. I thought they'd make some nice LOS blockers.

Next up some TTCombat Venice groundworks and a harbour pier.

Some of the nautical scatter on the terrain is glued on and some of it is left separate, it's also from TTCombat, from their resin range.

All these terrain pieces are meant to give a more modern look to the Venice set I have gotten a while ago. I still have loads of the base modules to create canals for Venice or a different canal-filled city to do.

Cheers for now!

A little piece of Venice

Hoi,

Some time ago I had my birthday, from family and friends I got contributions to buy a long time wish of mine: a part of Venice...
TTCombat makes a fabulous range of Venetian themed scenery and I have wanted to use it with Mordheim, Heroquest, GIJoe and other skirmish games for some time.

So I ordered and have received their "Venetian Set" a huge bundle of MDF to create some lovely city terrain.

Some painted mini's will be shown on the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge blog soon.

Cheers Sander

Hero Quest Part III

Hoi,

Some scenery for you all to look at today. I have tried to get some paint on the HQ weaponrack from the box, I painted a gate from the Warhammer Quest box game that I got in my Starter box and the tomb which I remodelled to have a Renedra plastic side instead of paper.

Some more baddies are awaiting me now.

Cheers Sander

Scatter scenery

Hoi,

Taking a break from Hero Quest, I have painted up some scatter scenery for different skirmish games. The first of these are TTCombat Back Alley junk stuff, in this case a washing machine and some mattresses, mostly for the modernish themed games of course.

These boxes and foodstuffs are from Ristuls Market and will feature in my Indian Mutiny and other games. 

So on to painting more Hero Quest miniatures.

Cheers Sander

Rubbish...utter rubbish!

Hoi,

Today I'll be putting up a few pictures of some of my modern scatter terrain. Most pieces are from the TTCombat resin scenery line. These are little gems even if they do suffer from some flash. The flames in the oil drum are rubbish, I know, but well I have to get me a decent tutorial on doing those than I guess.

This model was a toy-car my eldest son got but which broke down the second day he was playing with it. I painted it using the excellent tutorial done by Gunbird at his blog. Now I know there's quite a lot wrong with this one such as the lay-out of the debris and the area's of rust pattern I applied, but it is my first attempt at anything like this and I like it!

Cheers Sander

Ascloha revisited...

Hoi,

Well Hugo is settling in fine and since he's rather quick falling asleep in the evening I get a little downtime then. So here's the promised post about the MDF buildings I am currently working on. I basically have two projects: one is a Dark Age project, which will feature in today's post, the other is a Victorian/ Modern Day project.

Since I started doing the Dark Age 28mm project I have been steadily beavering away on some buildings made by Timeline Miniatures. These are very good value for money and sturdy builds at that. At the moment I have 6 buildings from their DA line: 2 Viking houses (one of which you have already seen), 2 Saxon or regular DA houses, a (Saxon) longhouse/ drinking hall and an Anglo-Romanic church/ minster. This will suffice me for some terrain and more specifically the small hamlet of Ascloha, modern day Asselt in the region where I live, where a rather cool Norsemen drama evolved. This will form the basis for my Dux Brit. campaign.

Now for some pictures!
The last finished dwelling:

While the longhouse and Minster are only based and not yet finished I thought I might show you the progress anyway.

The Longhouse:

The Minster:

When these are done I still need to do some scatter terrain to spruce the board up but this will be fine since I already have some Renedra wattle fences and more DA animals lying here.

Next up will be some stuff for the Modern terrain project.

Cheers Sander

Somewhere in the desert...

Hoi,

In my post on Crisis 2015 in Antwerp, I commented that I had been given some adobe buildings made by Johan. These were part of a deal in which I gave him some bitz he needed and he made me some scenery I cannot make myself. The only thing needed is some paint.

The buildings before painting:

The buildings are made of plastic-card, foam-core and lots of bobs and bits, but they really do look the part up close. They are also very versatile in that they can be used for a huge range of different periods and even worlds as I guess they could double as Tatooine's Mos Eisley at a pinch as well.

The smaller buildings can be added to the large square one in order to create a bigger storey building or change the look of the place. I think the amount is just right. More buildings will clutter the tabletop too much and less buildings would not feel like a true village. I still have Italeri's big Arabian house lying around to build and that would be a great addition as well.

After painting was done the result is this:

The big square building has a more elaborate door-frame, with the dome added, it could function as a Mosque or rich person's dwelling. Therefore I decided to give the frame a bit more colour by painting it like it had patterned tiles surrounding the door itself. The inspiration was this picture:

The building without any of the additions:

A close up of the door-frame:

With the additions:

When time permits (and it doesn't) I will add small walls, awnings and other stuff to make it look more like a village. I am looking for cheap palm trees though, can't seem to find any over here. I have looked at aquarium plants: way TOO expensive, cake decoration firms: they don't sell them nor do they have columns for that matter, so I am a bit hampered in this regard. All in all a great set of brilliant little buildings so thanks Johan!

Cheers Sander