Hi,
Being a few days at home sick, allows me to continue this project mush quicker than I anicipated.
Here are the figures, which are the rocket troops from dustgame, and a panzer commander figure from TANK, which was cut in half to accomodate him in the turret.
The heads are all Hornet's apart from the TANK one which still has the original head. I had to fill some holes using green stuff, and primed the figures using gray car primer straight from the can.
As my original scheme to build a giant town square with all the figures didn't pass my wife inspection (she still fuss over the 120 cm long Leopold rail gun base I built), I decided to cut the scene into two separate bases. The smaller will hold two officer figures, and the larger the Gunther and the three other figrues.
Building the bases:
- pick a suitable picture frame.
- build a box of foamcore.
- for the crater: replace the corner with a styrofoam block. and spray it with strong thinner.
- glue Kancali latex cobblestones with cyano cement.
- use instant pappier mashie mixed with cat litter and dirt from the garden for the walls of the crater.
- add dirt and crushed dried plaster.
- the broken cobbles are cut rectangular cobbles bought at an arts and crafts stores.
- the broken pipe is a pen cut to shape (I was too lazy to get a straw in the middle of the night), and broken with pliers.
- apply a layer of water thinned wall filler to bring everything into coherency.
- for the small base: The base for the monument was cut from cork and glued with contact cement. The monument itself was designed with powerpoint (I guess this is the most lowtech way to design anything
), and cut from Evergreen plasticard sheet.
I think it's turned out not bad. I still have time to improve things, so please, tell me what you think - I appreciate it.
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/5434/0qq7.jpghttp://img225.imageshack.us/img225/9945/1hd1.jpghttp://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4765/2sx3.jpghttp://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2135/3bt1.jpgAnd a link to Kancali:
click here
