Some work in progress... for the sisters

Its been a little time since the itch needed to be itched. Its long over due . Been on the back burner for a while and on the want to do list.... got myself on ebay and seen some sister of battle theme bases... and just got seen some poor efforts.... and felt like I needed to have my own shot and making some bases myself..... so I've started work on a flagstone sheet.... this is ro form the starting point for the bases... 

Will take a little time to get to making the bases bit 1st stage is getting the flagstone tiles made and then master cast to then use baking some bases .

pen to paper to start.

Next stage is to start engraving the details onto the master pvc sheet 

Now on retrospect I should have chosen a softer material to carve... my wrist it taking a bearing... seems only fair to suffer and feel the pain for the sister .... but ouch ouch the more I carve and sculpt 

Still more to keep doing to get the full stone effect and extra detail 

Turn Table arrived today

New turntable arrived today and thought be best to take it for a spin... ( no pun )

with luck the first thing that was handy was the webway as its been sitting on my desk looking at me for a bit, so some Eldar love today and thought I’d tease you all with preview of it in all its video motion goodness..

WebWay travel may be closer than you think.....

WebWay travel may be closer than you think.....

The day may soon be close for you to get your hands on your very own inter planetary / webway / warp gate / star gate thingy. This project started a long time back and has gone through a good few phases and injections of enthusiasm. 

In my past of wargaming I have played the Eldar and so it’s always been a piece I wanted to do and think it would make a great objective or scenery piece for the table top. 

It’s started off looking a good deal different and very happy that it’s evolved into the current shape and look.

Above you can see an early attempt, not too clear from the old photo but it was very chunky , at the time was happy but as time went by didn’t like the back of it and as luck would have it  I happened to brake the master so gave me the opportunity to give it a fresh start. 

I liked the look and feel but just thought it should be a little slimmer and being carved / grown out of some alien material should be solid piece. So on to version 2. Below basic shape carved 

The original base was going to be massive so reduced it down to a more acceptable size. And then left the scenery for a bit to do some other models and things

TIME PASSED…..

Got my casting hat on and made a master cast and then moved to test casting. All seemed well and a test cast produced (some tinkering needed air getting out little issue but nothing major).  Played around with the rune stone position and number needed can got the model stuck together and ready for painting , good old spray undercoat and base coat all done. Then it got left for a while well…. Maybe a little more than a while…… started a few other projects and then started on the reactor 

And took some pictured of the progress shots, noticed the webway sitting all half painted and that just wouldn’t do.

 Painting hat one and some real progress made as I’m sure you can see.

 

The Webway will be all resin and will need some assembly. So time for some vital stats  

The base is approx. 12cm long x 10cm wide x 2cm tall

Two types of rune stones:

 Large rune stone  1.8cm long x 1.5cm wide  x 0.5cm high

Small rune stone 1.5cm long x 1cm wide x 0.5 high

The webway  the base is the base is 8cm long x 1.5 wide and the height is just under 20cm when attached to the base.

So with any luck all you pointy eared, pointy helmet army leaders can have your very own webway access.

 From what I hear from the space monkeys they are rather rare so you better guard them with your life.

 Obviously I’m not going to be exercising any race discrimination so other alien races may acquire some for their gaming tables too. 

Now if you feel the need to go and spread this news all over the net and tell as many gamers as you feel fit I’m not going to protest.

Sneak peek at...... Web-way Gate  scenery 

I have been toying with various ideas and shapes of my very own Web-way. This has now been completed and in its very final stages. Its been made with 28mm table top wargaming in mind.


 I'm sure if you look through the blog you will see a post now and again about it. This one has been test cast and now painted, its been a an idea I had for so long and now happy with the final design and feel , only took 2 versions. 


It will come in a few parts all cast in resin, the main web-way , base and separate gems/rune stones (6 medium size and 2 large) so a customisation is possible and being separate from the base should make it more adaptable to your gaming scenery needs / conversion.


The scenery once att to the base stands 20cm tall , the base has a footprint of 12cm by 10cm. so should make an impressive centre piece / objective to the gaming table


well its now time to show some pictures ....

Webway / warp portal work in progress

Its been some time now that I have been working on the webway / warp gate ( Eldar style ) scenery. been a side little project for a long time and its now getting to a point that cant cat some test cast done and painted up very soon... 

This has always been a bit of scenery I wanted to get done but never really got to the point I was happy with it, but now it looking very nice and ticking those Mmmm nice scenery boxes ( well i do think so myself ) 

rune stones two different sizes 

the finished product will be cast in resin and with its own base separate so you can make the choice to have the base or make your own .so easier to use . also there will be separate rune stones to add some detail to the gate itself. 

size wise the webway will stand a little under 20cm high  

The webway started off looking a little different from the look it has now and over time the 1st version became damaged and started not to like the look of it so thought would start from scratch  and glad I did , once its ready will be looking to get it out in the shop soon as i can , just need to gets the molds done and get some cast. then its time to get one painted up and  get it out there ... and hopefully see some money roll . ( now that would be nice )

and this was the old one ( cant tell from the pictured too well but when the two are next to each other the old one really did show its age ) 

R.I.P vr1 (old) webway 

Been a while for me getting some news on the blog , but once I'm closer to getting this fished will be posting more updates . but the best place to catch news is via my twitter

new resin bases out.

Rubble bases now been added to the shop section .

have already 25mm rubble bases and been a long time coming for these bases to add to the range so now can get 25mm 40mm 60mm round rubble bases.

60mm round rubble base below 

40mm round rubble bases below 

click on the picture to take you to the shop section with the new bases in