00 My first finished piece of terrain for the Jurassic Park demo game. I made the sentry box a week or so ago but put it on a base last night and painted it up. It can be used for any WWII game in the European Theatre since these sentry boxes were found all over […]
00 I did these over the past few days… I’ve also made a master model of a 6″ x 4″ section of rough stone wall, which I will make a mould from and cast up several times to do the wall surfaces of the castle. It’ll save me an enormous amount of time and effort […]
00 I have been asked to post some pictures of the game table I did for the 2008 Little Wars convention in Melbourne. It was for the first official outing of Pax Limpopo (a very neat set of rules for Victorian Wargaming by Greg Hallam, set in one of the funniest ‘alternate’ visions of the […]
00 Nope, it’s an enclosure for dinosaurs in the game of Jurassic Reich. I thought I might get some of the small models out of the way first so I can concentrate on the castle and landscaping and not have to rush these other things at the end. So last night I started working on […]
00 … but I hope I don’t offend anyone by these: Had a bit of fun with Photoshop over the past couple of days. I just thought it might be a cool idea to do some promotional images for the game using actual wartime propaganda or war bonds posters, but with a dinosaur theme. What […]
00 Been working on the main gatehouse over the past few days and it’s really starting to take shape. I’ve merged elements of Teutonic medieval architecture into the original Corvin Castle design to try to make it more German than Romanian, but still keeping its essential spookiness. The strong vertical lines and deep shadows are […]
00 Took delivery of some more Incursion models: 3 APEs – the flamer, a grunt and Sarge, as well as the German Blitzhund and a stack of Sturmzombies (thanks Jim, excellent service above and beyond the call of duty). That just leaves Slugger Murphy and Ilsa and Otto von X from my collection. It’ll be […]
00 Got some diamond plate today from Spectre Hobbies ( www.spectrehobbies.com ) and immediately set to work on some more floor tiles for Incursion. The two on the left are using the diamond plate, the one top right is using some stuff I got from a model railway store. Different patterns, but I like the […]
00 I had a play with Google’s SketchUp program ( http://sketchup.google.com/download/gsu.html ) last night. As a 3D rendering tool, it’s very basic – but that’s ok, it’s supposed to be. If you’ve never used a 3D package before, then it is worth taking the time to do some of the online tutorials until you get […]
00 Day 2 of construction saw the extension of the stonework on the gatehouse and the addition of the overhanging window thingy (a ‘machicolation’ for the architecturally minded). I’ve cut the rear panel out as well, but at this stage, I haven’t decided exactly how the interior of the cast will look – need to […]