Something a bit different, a post that showcases my wife's amazing work completing the Tyranids from the Leviathan box, bought over two years ago now.
Monday, 23 June 2025
Warhammer 40,000: Hive Fleet Behemoth
Saturday, 31 May 2025
Multi-Scale: Sci Fi Industrial/Post Apocalyptic Scenery
Yep, old plastic containers, bits off of bottles, a massive raid through a giant bits box, and the use of a scenery kit purchased nearly 20 years ago. Nothing was held back over the last year as we feverously built up a table's worth of Sci Fi terrain.Having been inspired by the motto of the 131st Pi Orionis Mechanised Hover Infantry, I thought a table's worth of run down, weather beaten terrain from one of the mining planets in the Pi system would be perfect.But having a large collection of 15, 28, and even 25mm sci fi figures and vehicles, I really wanted to make the scenery usable with all these scales.Its definitely worked with the 40k stuff and the terrain scales well with both the Tyranids and Ultramarines.
In fact I don't think I'd do anything more to this stuff before being happy having a game with it at 28mm.
The 15mm stuff on the other hand, while it works reasonably well, I think it will need some additional scale pieces done in the same style before it sits well.
Earlier this year my brother moved into a smaller house and donated a giant box of spare parts collected over the last 40 years of modeling.
Suffice to say that greebly time is now made a lot easier and the box was used extensively with this terrain. I think there's some EVA foam on some of the pieces as well.
These ash/tailings piles were made by first bending cardboard into cones, gluing them on the base, then covering them in ground cover.
But this was done old style without printing a single part - although there's a couple of printed bits on the piles. And a further thanks to my wife who decided she wanted to finish off at least half of the pieces and patiently matched the style I'd started off with.
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
D n D: Props to Set the Scene
I know its not meant to be about the props and minis, but I've been trying to entice some beginners (a.k.a. my wife and stepson) to give DnD a go for about two years.
I might have been a little too enthusiastic to be fair, generating an entire world and set of scenarios... possibly... probably... and despite my stepson reading and retaining just about every monster stat in the book, things have gone cold.
In the meantime we've be building up quite a lot of stuff to play the game, including a small village of hovels, playing grid - to scale for 28mm, and collecting minis as we find them.
I ordered in some Reaper Miniatures from Ausy and we've been getting monsters and characters from our local Wizkids suppliers Wizards Retreat and Iron Knight Games.
The Wizkids stuff sure does paint up nicely and really enjoyed painting the Beholder and Gricks.
Got carried away with the raptor painting, dabbing away down the sides with different colours, and I think the Orc on the end was free with a Reapers purchase.
Its not the same without some town guard to suck up some attacks, think these are Reaper Minis and the dragon born are Wizkids.Hopefully we'll get a game in at some point in the near future 😆
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Warhammer 40,000: Ultramarines
Primaris Veterans
Primaris 3rd Company Flamers
Heroes of Macragge
First Born Tactical
Chapter and Setting
Painting
Sunday, 23 August 2020
Sci Fi Terrain II - Battle Systems
I couldn't find any on the site and emailed to see if they were still available. Unfortunately my set is pretty old and not really 'supported' in current range. But I have to say Wayne from Battle Systems was awesome.
He sent me the links to the old DLC files and from them I was able to retro-engineer some walls and gateways. Just excellent service from these guys.I tried to be careful in the design as I wanted to use these with 15mm and 25/28mm. Think they came out OK, made from card, printed at the local printer.
At 15mm, with the external walls in, the Battle Systems stuff looks like awesome hangers.

For 25mm, more of the Battle Systems interior goodies can be used.
And a couple of (ex-GZG, Wombat) Daemonscape Hover APCs also make fitting additions inside the interior.And a heavy hover tank to boot, inside the vehicle bay, awaiting a final spraying of paint.
Mostly happy with how the walls came out, some of the gates didn't quite fit together as expected, but should make for a lot more interesting gaming.