Sarissa Precision Lantern

 The Sarissa Precision Lantern and Ruler set contains parts to build four Japanese Lanterns and two nine inch rulers in the shape of a Katana.

These function as street lights in thermal world, and will provide cover in war-games.

The lanterns are fairly easy to build, but do take care with the bottom of the corners. There is a tendency for them to move out of alignment due to the narrowness of the connection at the top.

For ease of painting, the bases were not glued in place.

They were sprayed with Plasticote Rust effect, followed by Halfords Grey Primer. They were then brush painted with Army Painter Stone Golem (inside and out).

Once dry, the bases were glued on.

They were given a wash of Citadel Nuln Oil. The bases were washed with Citadel Agrax Earthshade.

Sarissa Compound Wall Set

 A while back Sarissa produced a secure compound set for Warlord for their lamentable Project-Z game. Sarissa later released it and the walls separately under their own branding. I bought the full compound set, but have only built (some) of the walls.

The kit comes as one of their about A4 sized packs. It builds seven wall sections and one section with a gate.

The wall sections are in laser cut card, as is the facing for the gates (though I used Slater's 7mm corrugated sheet for this build).

The bases for the walls and gate sections. Note the right hand end has holes for the gate sections in all three sections.

Lamps and gates.

Here are the posts assembled and the base chamfered.

Assembled but unpainted. I did add some Milliput to fill in any gaps on the top of the wall where it is folded over.

Here are three wall sections and a gate section in use as a small compound. Empress US Army figures for scale. One of the other sections is at the back (and the other three sections are in various stages of assembly, which will quadruple the area of the compound).

The bases were chamfered with a half round file - the idea is that the posts are fitted to a concrete base.

The walls and base were sprayed with Plasticote Rust Effect paint to add some texture. This was then sprayed with Halfords grey spray primer, then a light dusting with Halfords black primer, a dusting again with the grey and a final almost zenithal  spray with Citadel Corax White.

The base was washed with Citadel Agrax Eartshade and the walls with Citadel Nuln Oil.

The gates were painted separately. Halfords grey spray primer, an "anti-zenithal" spray with Citadel Chaos Black followed by washes with Citadel Agrax Earthshade and Citadel Nuln Oil.

Empress Cadillac Gage Commando V100 leaves the compound.

No scale sequence of photographs is complete without William Killian.

Entering The Zone with their new Tigr. 

Empress Tigr, and Russian and Universal Soldiers.

Resupply time.

Crooked Dice Tortuga truck

It will fit through the gate without the hard top, not wit it installed.

Sarissa 40mm Western Store - work in progress

Sarissa Wild West 40mm store . 

Zona Alfa Zombies

 One of the Zone Hostiles encountered are "Zombies", it is not clear if they are flesh (or brain) eating corpses or deranged survivors transformed by The Event.

Vladimir chooses the wrong moment to change magazines while investigating a dacha.

Not sure what happened to Vladimir, but they are coming this way!

Studio Miniatures released a box set of plastic multi-part, multi-pose zombies  a number of years ago. There are sprue shots and a review here. 

I found one of the sprues (I had used one of the figures) so built three of them for Zona Alfa. Unlike previous builds, I left them on their integral bases and blended it onto a Renedra 25mm diameter base with Milliput.

Here are the three of them.

Now to build a lot more (though this Corporation Exploration Team will not be happy).

Desirable Property - Medium Dacha

At SELWG 2019 I ordered a couple of the Sarissa Precision Russian village houses.

The Russian Village House #1 is slightly larger than the Russian Village House #2 in the previous post.

The kit comes as two sheets of laser cut MDF and one sheet of laser cut greybeard, plus instructions.

Once again, as this was going to be a "modern" dacha, I plated over the roof with plain plastic card, and then added ribs from plastic strip. This roofing style is similar to the dacha in the photograph here. It also covered up the gap where the chimney should have gone.

I probably should have increased the overhang a bit to hide the double thickness roof.

The walls are painted Citadel Zandri Dust (spray can). The roof is Army Painter Chaotic Red (spray can again). The window frames and door frames are Army painter Skeleton Bone. The door is Army Painter Oak.

It needs weathering.

 Sarissa Precision Picket Fence (27mm tall) provides some cover.