Off on my holiday this week, heading to Austria and the Red Bull Ring MotoGP on Sunday, followed by some relaxing and drinking for a couple of weeks.
Will not be much to see here until I am back from the Silverstone MotoGP and life returns to normal.
I took my daughter and her friend to see the new Ant Man And The Wasp movie tonight, I had to talk them into it, but I think they enjoyed it as much as I did.
Michael Peña has some great comedy scenes, the dude sure can talk fast, I will have to see it again on TV one day to take it all in.
This is yet another cheap eBay purchase that I thought would make either good scenery or a good flyer for a game, an Avengers Quinjet. I did not buy it new in a box, but this is how it was originally sold…
The shape is good, I am not planning to do anything much with this model, but I did want some undercarriage as I did not like the way the fuselage just sat on the ground.
I have cut some mdf wheels so I thought I would make some chunky undercarriage.
It was a bit too chunky for my liking, so I added some bodywork to cover most of it up.
I am going to add some magnets inside the wings for weapon mounts and then I need to decide if I am going to add any flying base mount before I glue the two halves together.
So it may be too hot to paint, but as some fellow gamers have mentioned, it is not too hot to make stuff ready for painting. I spent some time in the garden removing zombie bits from sprues and cleaning up the mould lines, just about as much as I could manage in the heat. Every now and then a bit would ping out of my sweaty fingers and land nearby. But as there is no grass worth mentioning, any errant bits were very easy to find, I did not lose a thing!
These are Wargames Factory zombies, not the most detailed of models, but that is fine as I will be speed painting these. Twenty more to go…
Here in Bedfordshire, it is too hot to paint models, the paint dries on the brush and the model too fast.
I am never satisfied, it is either too cold and damp to undercoat models in the garage in the winter, or too hot to paint in the summer.
But it is great weather to drink cold beer.
How many years after the first one? Too many. But worth the wait, has some good laughs and amazing action for an animated movie.
I reckon Jack-Jack should get his own movie!
Jim from Products For Wargamers suggested I make something for the industrial range using the smaller snack size Pringles tube. He even gave me a snack size Pringles tube, but it was empty, which was a bit disappointing, even so, without the prospect of free nibbles, I said I would have a go.
Anyway, I thought about it for a while, just making a very small tower seemed like a waste of time, may as well just have a single height square tower and leave out the tube. So a spiral staircase seemed like a good idea and here is the first attempt. Actually it is the second attempt, the first version need slightly higher vertical supports so I did not even try to build it.
It is difficult to build but it does look good, I think I can alter the build process a little to make it easier.
