Chainsword for sale

Just saw this in my Museum Replicas catalog.  Its supposed to be for steam punk and listed as a "Airship Pirate Cutlass".  Me thinks it resembles something else.

Overall length 37". Blade length 25".  $75

On Vacation!

Sorry, no posts since I'm galavanting around interesting places.

More time to paint!

I finally have time to paint!  I'm glad I work in a place that if you do bad, they stick you in place to forget about you; if you do good, they send you to the same place but for a rest.  This means no supervision (especially when you are the supervisor) so I can paint as much as like.  Now I can finally finish another one of my armies (hopefully).  The best part, I get paid for it too.

Two New Buildings for Mordheim

Just finished two new buildings for my games of Mordheim.

First is the bridge house.  A small wooden bridge connects one large house with a smaller, destroyed house.

The ladders were made from wood skewers, then dipped in a wood stain.
The next building is the Inn.

Didn't notice it when I built it, but the building is leaning.  This was a mistake that actually made it look more like a ruin.

I found using just ladders to connect the upper floors boring.  To make it different, I made a couple of bed sheets out of tissue dipped in white glue.  I imagined the unlucky occupant on the third floor had no way to get down after the building partially collapsed.  The only way to get down was to tie two bed sheets together and lash it to the bed to escape.  The bed is from a Lego castle set, primed, painted, and with another bed spread made the same as the other sheets.  The gold accents are hand painted.
I'll be adding some tutorials on how I make my buildings at a later time.

My New Toy

 

I just got this off E-bay the other day.  Its the One Shot Photo Studio by Merax. Now I can take those really professional pix of all my mini's and post them.  The nice thing about this is I got if for half price and it comes with software similiar to photoshop to spruce up those pix.  The lights are very bright (and hot) and the whole thing folds up into a very slim briefcase. 

Now I need to take more pix and play around with the software to get those really cool shots of my minis.

New Tomb Kings!

With the new armies coming out with bigger and badder nasties, how will my favoured Bretonnians fare?  (Or, when will their new army book come out?)

Tip of the Month

An easy one of April. 

Got mold lines that need getting rid of quickly?  Instead of using files or the your hobby knife,  use the back of the hobby knife instead.

Hold the back of the blade at a 90 degree angle and scrape off that mold line.  Works like a charm and gets the entire mold line off.  But be careful, too much pressure and you'll shave off more than you needed.

TTFN