So, after an age not updating anything and, indeed, not modelling much, I decided to devote some of my holiday to getting some models off the ground. The ship has sailed off to its new owner in Germany and I am free to begin new things!
I decided to base lots of models and undercoat lots of things ready for painting. I like base making (indeed I love base making), I don’t enjoy cleaning and assembling models (unfortunate for a modeller) so the more I can get out of the way the more likely I am to paint! So I cleaned and prepped 20 models (photos to follow) and then started on some larger ones and some display bases. I tend to work on lots of things at once as if I wait for something to dry I am apt to find something else to do entirely! Attention span of gnat.
All photos are clickable thumbnails, so click if you want to see more detail.
Bases first
I’ve been working on a few bases. The first is for my Black Troll (Troll Noir) from Rackham. I’ve decided on a dockside base with some water in it, which should lead to some two part resin fun. I built up the base in cast bricks (some from Hirst Arts, some from a rubber mould I made myself using pink foam as bricks) and balsa wood, plus some handy plastic rivets from Anteonociti’s workshop. I’ve bought a hole punch for making cheaper ones, but these look rather nice. Obviously a work in progress with no paint or extras on yet.
The second is a base for a FW figure I picked up at salute, which I am sure most people have seen, its an Ogryn holding a DKK soldier. I’d always wanted one but baulked at the prices, so Salute seemed a good place to get one. For this I am going for an industrial platform base with some murky water (seeing a theme here) and a grim rusted look. Hoping to use some of the techniques I’ve been studying lately on weathering and aging and rust. This is plastic card, foam board, mesh from Halfords (car repair mesh, 99p, very useful) and wooden cocktail sticks and reels. The pipe is a plumbing part, looking at the prices of cast ones for modelling I decided to venture to the DIY store and found lots of useful accessories there. Lots to do but it at least has the elevation I am after.
The third base is for an Enigma figure in 54mm named Jareck, a really fine cast. I wanted a wooded, dark autumnal feel for this one, no water (shock). This is a wood offcut base which I hacked at with a knife, with foam, procreate rocks, cork, milliput tree roots and some handy twigs (the larger one is from a treated wood bundle for budgies I found in a pet shop). Still got the groundwork to fill in and make it ‘whole’ etc.
[...] 17, 2009 by captainsprout As well as making some bases, I have been assembling some resin cast models from JMD Miniatures, a fantastic French company [...]