Another ruin rework

Hello and welcome back,

Apologies for the delays in posting, life has been frantic for some time now. Both blogging and hobby time has been limited. Between work, our Silver Wedding Anniversary and planning my Wife’s 50th birthday there hasn’t been enough time.

I have had a bee in my bonnet about updating my old models. I have a thing for overgrown ruins right now. Apologies, I haven’t managed to get some proper on table pictures.

This thing started out as a standard foamboard model for future war gaming painted in the usual Wargames table urban grey that I built years ago. At another point I decided to make it a little more suited to my post apocalyptic table. The corner was cut away to make it look more ruined. Some graffiti and posters was added. Sadly I forgot to take a picture of it before. 

I carefully peeled the old posters away and gave the exterior of the model a coat of Vallejo concrete textured paint. After a heavy white dry brush the model got a few brown washes. The lower levels then got a earth dry brush with a thicker coat towards the bottom. 

In one corner of a room I added a skeleton. You have to give the scavengers something to rummage about in. More brown washes and runs was added to the outside and interior of of the building. The floors got some washes. The first floor and roof had flock, plants and rubble added. 

Later I gave the model a thin green wash to give it the old algae covered ruin. The posters where reattached with many of them put inside. The graffiti was kept to a minimum. 

Finally the model got green flock and lots of green plant matting added to the outer walls. To finish up lots of plant tufts were added all over the model. 

Hopefully I can some more models up on the blog soon. 

Thanks for reading. 

Take care out there.

Mini painting help.

Hello, 

My blog has been a little quite of late. I am still alive and beavering away doing bits and bobs hobby wise. Work has been messing me about for the last couple of months regarding a job change which will hopefully provide a better work life balance. This has kept me a little distracted and not in the mood to hobby. 

Stargrave and 5 Parsecs from home has kept the hobby inspiration flowing. Plus I have been reworking some old ruins models. I just need to get organised to take pictures.

So the other day I cracked open the painting station for the first time in over a month. Five minutes into colouring in a miniature and this happened. 

And then when I got rid of him....shift change

Dixie and Toffee took it in turns to “help” me paint for the rest of the afternoon. So I only managed to get half done. Once I put the paint station away, the pair of them vanished until feeding time! Cats! 

Thanks for reading, hopefully I will have some hobby stuff to share soon.

Take care out there.