Modest but satisfying progress 2

I had some flying butress bits left over from the pegasus gothic building kits. So, in a sort of brain fart kind of way I threw this together and topped it off with CoD walls. Now, as a building, this could have a conceivable purpose (a ritual purpose, for fans of time team). I could put a ladder up the inside and a hatch in the floor, but it'd sort of spoil the aestetic.
So despite it not really having a purpose in a normal building sort of way, it will make a great place for a unit in a city fight. So, I'll fill the holes, mount it and it'll join the painting queue. This is the pegasus building I was looking at a few weeks ag0. Now that the weather is better and it's light a little longer my Monday night is not confined to splashing paint over the little men. All of these 'modest but satisfying progess #' posts were the work of one Monday evening. And when the light did go, I was able to watch two episodes of "Firefly". One of the apoc generals has loaned me the boxed set and it's really similar to our old traveller adventures.

This is it with the large peice of foam core from the picture above trimmed down to fit. Two more peices have been cut to fit around the columns at the end and fill the gaps. The balsa (firework tails) has been cut to reinforce the floor. Another peice of old firework has been drilled and pinned to provide an apex for the roof. This beam means that I don't have quite so much jiggery pokery to do when I make the roof. And the sides could be seperate...

This is it with the floor the correct way up. You can see from the angle of the gable end that the roof is supposed to come down to the wall on the inside of the lugs for the top of the columns. Fortunately the Pegasus and CoD sets have enough gargoyles to decorate the column tops, bit I suspect that I shall have to cut the lugs off.

Modest but satisfying progress 1

Here's the roof for the tower. Now I have the shape I can use this to cut the plasticard tiled roof to the right shape. I plan on leaving the roof removable, in case it gets shot off during a game. So the tower will obviously be needing a floor for the snipers/devistators/pathfinders.

The floor wasn't particularly co-operative when it came to staying in place. So I drilled holes in the walls and pushed a couple of lengths of wire through for the floor to rest on. The masking tape and block on the left of the photo are just there to retain the wire (and glue) when the section is on its side waiting for the glue to set.

So the tower is nearly done. Looks like it'll need painting soon.

And welcome to the Cadian 127th.

An end to my constant moaning.

I have purchased a compressor.

blogger

OK. It appears I cannot now paste into blogger from my clip board at all. Not links nor documents. What has changed ? I'm doing exactly the same thing.

Death to the IT Geeks !

It's let me paste the word.doc in the comments bit, of course. How silly of me, from now on I'll just put headlines up here and expect everyone to read through the comments to see what I actually wanted to post. >aaaargh<

(Pasting into the comments box has upset the formatting so it won't actually be in there.)

I'll keep trying.

New shopping opportunity

Pegasus models are made in China or somewhere, which means that they are often out of stock in wargame emporia. But they are good stuff, by which I mean that they are easier to build than DIY foamcore buildings/ruins and much less expensive than GW's CoD kits.

Anyway, I've found another supplier

www.wonderlandmodels.com/brands/pegasus-hobbies/?page=3

Who appears to carry the whole lot. Which is nice. And a lot of their stuff is aimed squarely at WH40K and it's peers/derivatives.

New shopping opportunity

I was browsing through blogs and saw daughtersoftheemperor's exorcist WIP. Which included an ornate, victoriana-like missile launcher. Which she obtained from here:

www.quantumgothic.co.uk

There appear to only be 15 products there at the minute. And I have sworn off spending any more money myself, at least until I've had a bash at all the stuff I've already got. But there's some nice looking stuff out there.

What was I thinking of ?

Prompted by an e-mail from Ron, I sort of laid out why I'm simultaniously building four armies and planet for them to fight over.

Y'see ? When you say it in one sentence, it's over quick and doesn't hurt at all.

Breaking it down into bits gives names to the pain/plastic crack mountain:

4x BMP
60 ish cadians to be assembled as Bloodcoats (FW & Pig Iron Productions bits)
four rear turret Chimera
four LRMBT
three Valks
The tower (two posts down) and the attendant Chapel
Aqilla Shrine and banner displaying wall
two foam core ruined buildings
two cobras
three falcons
three prisms
twenty avengers
three wolverine armoured cars
sundry other pits and character models that I cannot remember at the moment. (at least two Strakens [one for each side])

And that's without all the painting let over from last year.

Small steps eh ?

The first step is to stop buying any more. I have four more LRMBT and three more Valks on order (sort of). And some more Eldar to pick up. It's money that I've already spent. So no more purchases. Except maybe a copy of Battle Missions and the next IA book when that comes out. But taking a leaf out of other FTW blogs, they can be stage rewards perhaps.

And I need a regular slot in the week to spend painting and gluing. Monday night looks like being favourite - double Corrie. I can spend that in the garage.