Final Goblins and another trebuchet

Hi there!!

This is the final picture of the Gonblins. Not finished as I would like, I wanted to add some grass and rocks to the base but I had no time. Just added a bit of flesh tone to the heads since the last photos... I think I got good (enough) result. 

 And this was the 3rd trebuchet, here with the crew (a small crew). Not the best pictures but I couldn't get better ones.

...and this should be the last post for a while, as I had to move to Canada for a while and the figures were left behind.

Cheers

stone house DIY

This week's little project is a two in one: build a piece of scenary and recycle some stuff while doing it, in the way I suggested in the previous post.

 The main material - sometimes we buy meat packed it this material. It's light and easy to cut (along the longer side).

 I made a simple shapes house, one door and two small windows. It's not to be open, just to lay on the top of the table. 

I made all the stone patern. Such a small amount of surface and I still got bored.... Imagine a castle wall!

 In the junctions of the walls you can see what happens when you have to cut across. 

I painted the space between the stones black, then grey, then another black wash and some highlights on some stones.

 The roof is made of K-Line but I guess I could have done it with the same material as the walls. Again, black, then red, orange next and black wash to finish. And some brown here and there...

See the space between the two sides?!  

 The solution was miliput...

 Size? 16x10 cm - It's meant to be used with 1:72 stuff.

 The final result. Simple, light, easily breakable...

Wheels with Shrink plastic

You may think I went back to the 80's, but the truth is that it was the kindergarden's teacher who showed this to me a couple of weeks ago. If you don't know what is ti, just google by "shrink plastic". I recommend the Youtube videos.
Some possibilities came to my mind right way! Making wheels was one and the first result is here.
It's not a quality result, but it may be usefull.

 I made 2 sizes: 2 of them about 4,7cm and other two were 5,5 cm. They... shrink.

 Those were too small, and I had one problem with that other wheel...

You can compare the result of the 5,5 wheel with a cannon wheel from an Italeri napoleonic set. The cannon wheel is bigger.

And the final "product". The process of "baking" may distort the wheels, and all parts will get the same thickness. So, if you want something with detail, forget it!

Hope you like it.

Stargate SG-1 dio 1/72

Hi there!

First, thanks for the nice words on the previous post.

I now strongly believe movies give a bad idea on modellers! I've "met" so many great people but in cinema, most modellers are sociopaths trying to rule or destroy the world! Well, most are, but just one tabletop at a time! :D

Anyway, I am back into action. Among other things (stay tunned for the next few days) I finished this little dio about SG-1.
January was the month to start new groupbuilds at Modelismo na Net and one of them was Sci-fi (in movies and TV shows). Excellent works already done!
These are my final photos. Figures from Caesar (US Modern Army) and Italeri's NATO pilots and ground crew. The result was not what I intended at first but, hey, I had to try!

Trees and all other stuff from my own making, including that crude DHD...

 The side of the base, small flat rocks (Chlorite schist, I think) from a recent trip.... 

Hope you like it!