Amera Double Blast Craters

Hello and welcome back Wasteland Wanderer.

Back before Christmas I won a Amera blast crater in a competition ran by Amera Plastic Mouldings. I finally got them finished.

Z256 Double Blast Craters. 

These where super quick to paint up and I enjoyed working on them. 

I have a few pieces by Amera and think that their models are super value. Go check them out.

That’s all for now, thanks for looking and take care out there.

Amera Plastic Craters

Hello and welcome to my blog. 

For many years I have been a fan of the vac formed models made by Amera Plastic models. I must admit at first I was concerned that the plastic would too thin but I soon discovered that they happily take 28mm metal figures without any issues. Over time I have added quite a few of their models to my collection.

Recently Amera began a competition on social media on the run up to Christmas to win one of their new crater models. I was lucky enough to win one. It arrived in the post over the weekend.

The model should fit the three scales I game (28mm, 20mm and 15mm) nicely. The craters are nicely detailed. Now I just have to find the time to paint it. 

The competition is still going so give it a go, you never know you may get lucky.

They can be found on Facebook 

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Twitter: @AmeraMouldings 

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Thanks for looking. Take care out there.

More new ruins and craters.

Welcome back to my blog. I have been off work ill for a couple of weeks now with a virus which I cant shake. Damned mutated wasteland viruses. One great thing about our hobby is that you don't need to be too fit to do it. One silver lining is I have managed to do a little catching up on hobby stuff. 

This blog post will show off some more ruins & craters by Amera Plastic Mouldings that I managed to get finished. 

First up a barricade or wall. 

This is a set up crumbled ruin which can be trimmed to give three models. 

The posters are a book cover and promo are from the Unity series of Sci Fi novels by Jonathan Fletcher, who also does his own art. He kindly agreed to let me use his art work as posters for my models. 

Craters are a part of some post apocalyptic landscapes. Mattblackgod's world was a massive warscape before it got nuked from orbit. My modern settings are blasted by asteroid storms. This double crater is produced by Amera Plastic Mouldings. 

Giant craters are also a must in the wastelands. 

That does it for now with Amera terrain although that there is some bits to finish in the pile. 

Thanks for looking. 

New Ruins & Wrecks

Welcome back to my blog. Finally a chance to catch up with my hobby stuff.

I have been working on some ruins by Amera Plastic Mouldings and cobbling together some old wrecks from cheap toy cars.

Inspired by Across The Dead Earth's terrain and pictures from Chernobyl, I have decided that some overgrown ruins are in order for my post apoc settings. Starting with the Amera stuff and later on re-working my older models.

First up is Amera's Z211 Bombed out building.

I based the model on a cork floor tile. The model was painted with textured paint. The base areas where covered in sand and grit. Bits of cork was added to the base for the lumps of shattered concrete effect.

The ruin was primed with cheap grey car primer. Various shades of light grey was dry brushed over the ruin. The drybrushing was worked up in shade until a near white shade was used. The base was painted brown and dry brushed grey. Various brown washes where used to tone the whole thing down.

Graffiti and posters where added and they where given brown washes to make them look old and tired.

Interior parts where painted different colors to breakup the grey. Various bits of foliage and static grass was added.

Next up is Amera's F224 Building Ruins.

The ruin was cut out and trimmed before assembly. When assembled the ruin was glued to a cork tile. Rubble and sand was added. The ruin was painted as the previous one.

Foliage was added to make it look old and overgrown.

The inside. The floor had cork tile added too.

Next up is some wrecks built from cheap toy plastic cars. The where distressed and had the odd wheel removed & windows cracked. They where sprayed with red oxide primer. The windows & head lamps where then painted light grey. They where given black and grey washes. The windows got a green wash to give them that algae covered look. Static grass was added to give them a overgrown look.

The car park. 

This car was another cheap store find. It was too rubbish to use as a conversion. Various holes covered with stickers have been turned into battle damage. I painted the insides and painted the exterior the same as the others. Plant life was added inside too. 

That is all for now. Thanks for looking.