Sally 4th Type 24 Pillbox.

At Salute 2017 I bought two pillbox kits from Sally 4th. The Type 22 pillbox was assembled and painted last year. I decided to assemble the Type 24 as a concrete box, so covered the outside with a thin layer of Milliput. If you went to Colours via Reading, you might have noticed a similar box near Thatcham station.

I used Rustoleum Rust effect spray to provide some texture. I used masking tape to prevent the roof from sticking to the walls. The metallic effect paint was then covered with Halfords grey spray paint.

The final base colour was Army Painter Stone Golem acrylic, brush painted over the grey. This was then washed with first with Citadel Nuln Oil followed by Citadel Agrax Earthshade. It was then dry brushed with Citadel Terminatus Stone.

 The door still needs to be painted.

Detail of the texture.

The roof texture.

Warbases Space Corridor - part one

Warbases have recently introduced their new Space Corridor range. This is a range of simple modular MDF corridor sections that can be assembled in many different arrangements to make up spaceships and planetary bases.

At Colours I bought one of their dead end corridor sections to see how they go together.

The kit is supplied in a plastic bag, but with no instructions. Here are the bits.

 I started by building up three sub-assemblies (the three walls). As you can see, the two side wall panels are identical, the how they are attached to the supports determine which is left and which is right

The right hand wall was glued in place first. The end wall then slots into place followed by the left wall.

 As you can see, the corridor is roomy enough for figures on 25mm bases, and their is sufficient space to put two figures on 32mm bases side by side. You probably could not get a dreadnought in their, but a Warlord Games M5 Jackal walker fitted both width and height wise (though it might have issues with doors).

William Killian inspects the corridor end.

View from above. As you can see, there is room for the figures and accessing them from above.

Not quite sure what the holes on the outside of the columns are for, but they do give it a nice stage set look.

Once the glue had dried, I gave the corridor section a good coat with Halfords grey spray primer. I then misted some Halfords black spray primer in corners, on the bottom of the walls on the outside and on to the floor. This was followed with some Citadel Corax white spray. The outside was given a further coat of Halfords grey primer.

A Soul Drinker Space Marine defends the corridor.

Certainly an interesting idea, I will be picking up a few more later in the year.

They could do with adding some rooms and a starter set.

Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago - Gripping Beast Arabs

Gripping Beast do a box of Arab spearmen and archers. The box contains identical eight sprues.

Two of the figures have separate pairs of arms and can be equipped with either a bow or spear. There is one arm with a straight arm and another with a trumpet.  There are eight heads and five shields per sprue.

Here are five figures from the sprue plus a sailor from the Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago sailors set.

Two spear men.

Two bowmen.

A swordsman and a Ghost Archipelago sailor.

Crooked Dice Interceptor

Crooked Dice have recently released their Interceptor Car for the forthcoming 7TV Apocalypse.

The kit comes with a large number of options.

 The options include three different bumpers, an exposed engine, supercharger, big exhausts, two machine guns, turrets and rear shield. Additional options are available in a stowage pack, plus there is a turret set.

The parts are generally well cast, there are a few "dents" and the remains of the gate on the underside of the rear of the car. The latter was removed with the aid of a large file.

 Though this vehicle is intended for use in a post-apocalyptic setting, I decided to build it as a =street car for the Cartwright brothers.

Not quite sure where the dust came from.

Comparison with Spectre cars: SUV; Interceptor; civilian car.

The Spectre cars are more detailed, however they do not have the build options of the Interceptor.

As you can see, they are of a similar size, and can be happily used together.

Protecting "Brenda"

Continuing a developing campaign, Brenda needed some additional support.

The inspiration was the officers seen providing armed security in the UK, still maintaining a more police heritage appearance rather than the military appearance of SCO-19. Sometimes you can find both guarding locations.

No one does armed police (that are distinct from the rather soldier like counter terrorist troops), So I fell back on one of my favourite figure ranges: Crooked Dice's X-Commandos.

In the X-Commandos II pack is a female trooper with an L1A1 rifle (in keeping with their 'seventies inspiration). The figure comes with a head wearing a beret, which looks a bit too military.

Crooked Dice do a period WPC (WPC Cathy Black) in the Tough Detectives range, so I thought that would be a perfect head.

Like most of the female figures, the WPC head has a neck socket in the head rather than a socket in the torso common to the male figures, however the X-Commando sculpted dd not get the memo and the female body has a neck socket. Both were drilled to take a 1mm brass rod and the hood detail on the back of the body armour filed off to allow the head to fit correctly.

Crooked Dice figures use slotted bases and this figure needed to be based on a 25mm diameter flat Renedra base. Due to the posture it was not easy to drill and pin, so a "low profile" slot base was constructed by drilling a series of holes and joining them with a scalpel blade.

The head was test fitted and once I was happy it was attached by putting a small ball of greenstuff into the socket and the head with the brass rod pushed in place.

 Any overflow was then sculpted into a collar.

The rifle looked a bit bare, so I added a length of 1mm plastic rod under the barrel as a laser/torch. I should have added a distinct sight, but I forgot. Greenstuff provided a more secure bond and a mount.

The figure was undercoated with Citadel Chaos Black  and a similar paint job to the previous Bobby applied (dry brushed black grey etc.). The hair was Army painter Skeleton Bone shaded with original Citadel Skin Wash.

She has a back up Glock 17 (okay no idea what the sculpt is supposed to be).

AFO Jenny Shaw, ready to protect the peace.

Together with "Brenda".

Now for the rest of the detail, and those Spectre Luxury SUVs.

The Walking Dead - Trucks

Crooked Dice have a new range of Post Apocalypse vehicles which includes the Tortuga truck.

It scales out nicely with the Mantic The Walking Dead cars.

I have not finished the Tortuga yet, but have found the wheels tuck nicely in the top of the cab which fits in the cargo bed cover.

Jeep Rollover - part one

Many years ago I bought a resin crashed SUV from Antenocitis Workshop.

It is designed to be lying partially inverted, hence the flat area shown below.

Here it is in the correct position.

I have glued and pinned it to a Renedra large oval base.