Rusty Clunker

I'm packing all my models tomorrow, so I thought I would build one last thing. Instead of throwing out some old crap models, I cut them apart and into an improvised armoured truck. It's made with parts from Airfix, Pegasus, Dragon, Tamiya, and plasticard. It's from as varied a birth as what it represents. I don't have the time or materials to base it and crew it.

Winttrix Out.

New Period- Rhodesia

Hello!


While it may not fit with the "ultramodern" title of this blog, I am taking on a new period, the Rhodesian Bush War. I am starting with the terrain, and as I hate doing terrain, I want to get it all done before even any figures are ordered.

I started with these native huts. I based them on photos of huts in Zimbabwe, but they could probably work for other African countries as well. They are very simple, being made mostly out of a 5-8mm cardboard tube (which was beyond a b**ch to cut and required liberal application of power tools). The bases are thin hardboard with sand glued to them. I have two other huts like these about halfway done, but since my scenario only requires four, I'm putting them off.

The bases are painted with a brown artist acrylic and drybrushed with V. Iraqi Sand. I used my homemade "mig" pigments on the huts and added little yellow flowers to the static grass.


Less talking more looking...

Winttrix Out!

Guild Build- "Decrepit, Urban, Abandoned"

This is my entry for Group Build "Building." It is made from my standard cork board construction, paper, coffee stirrers, heavy card, popsicle sticks, various parts from an Airfix kit, and styrene strips. It was painted with a mix of DIY paint, cheap artist paint, Vallejo, and oil paints. I spent all night working on it and was pleased to find it dry and ready to be photographed this morning. 

It will be used in my urban warfare games. The figure is there for scale. 

Winttrix Out!