Yesterday Daniel, Laffe and I met for a day of winter warfare, or rather preparing for
one of Daniels huge games, scheduled of April or so. Somewhere in the
borderlands between Germany and France, US vs German troops.
What
is needed is a lot of houses and a railway, and snow.
We
are well supplied with ordinary houses, but needed some winter-ish.
Daniel
had bought a lot of H0 building on e-bay. We set up a workshop in my basement
and started repainting and weathering the houses. We used drybrushing, washes
and pigments to remove the plastic feeling.
Production in full swing
What was originally a building under
construction was demolished to get a newly bombed house
Daniel
mixed a secret snow-receipt (plaster, at least two different snow-effect
powders, white paint and wood-glue – we essentially used what we had and mixed
it. We will never be able to reproduce this…)
Sloshed it on roofs and ground.
The
result of a days’ not very hard work: 15 buildings ready for war. (actually,
two of them need some weathering as we didn’t have time for them. That will be
done by me tomorrow.
Don’t
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followers. Three to go for the 100-followers stretch goal.
Welcome
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Koen De Smedt, gaming pal, and with a somewhat infrequent blog named Ramblings of an insane mind…. that should
be him, all right J
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russ g, I haven’t found out if you have blogs or not.
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Sonsoftaurus, with Sons of Taurus
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Samuli Salovaara with the blog Engineered Gaming. He’s got
the first box of Winter War stuff, I’m envious…he’s even had time to paint a
batch – nice!
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David Bromley – with (I think) Darth
Brom’s Mini Minions.
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Dave Docherty with Blog-Con, A Town Named Serenity about Old
West and where I’m already a follower and One Man and His Brushes.
Also
welcome to Chema Sanchez, as you have no profile shots your pics disappear to
the back-end of the follower queue, and I might have missed you earlier.
Haven’t found any blog of yours.
If
any of you do have blogs I’ve missed, then put a link in the comments below and
I’ll link to them.
Looking good, gents! I am so annoyed I I could not attend. Next time, though.
ReplyDeleteLooks great, I guess I should do this for the Winter War but I don't have any buildings...........yet!
ReplyDeleteIan