Finished: Walkways for Judge Dredd

 

After, errmmm, a few weeks the walkways are finally finished. Putting the three extra sets together for a few photos was fiddly enough, so I didn't do another arrangement with the original set added in.

I included a few figures to show the scale...

There are a couple of bits from the three sets missing from the photos as there wasn't space to include them in the arrangement:

That's two upper stairs and one long railing. With different arrangements they will get used.

With the terrain finally finished, I will be switching back to painting figures once I've given my airbrushes a good clean - they've seen a lot of use over the past few weeks.

Finished: Mega City One Buildings (and some other bits)

 

I finished painting these last night, but waited until today for photography so that I could make use of the lovely daylight that was forecast. Luckily, the forecast was good!

That's enough of the scene-setting, onto some glamour shots!

Pre-Fab Beta

Pre-Fab Alpha

The extra complete ground floor:

The extra ground floor with doors from Blotz:

Extra cantilever and two bridges:

Large Crates

Street Lamps

Five new ones:

Four originals, now with acrylic lamps:

Original and new, side-by-side:

Having been a little disappointed by how the OSL effect turned out on the originals, I decided to try applying it after airbrushing a thin layer of white. I think it turned out much better.

Tomorrow I will start priming the extra walkways. Having learnt my lesson, I'll be doing them as sub-assemblies.

Paint Table Sunday 15 May 2022

 

I got distracted again. As a result, I ended up not doing any painting on Friday and Saturday. I was still a bit distracted today, but managed to get the block colours laid down on the buildings.

Tomorrow I'll begin the detailing work. Allowing for further distractions, I'll guess at finishing them on Tuesday!

Paint Table Saturday 07 May

 

I know, I know - I didn't do my usual "Wednesday Workbench" post this week. Well, I did write it, but forgot to publish it. I think my brain had clicked into AHPC-mode and I saved it instead.

What you would have seen on Wednesday was this set of photos:

Six road tiles

One road tile and six "plaza" tiles

Everything packed away

Yes, the tiles from Multiverse Gaming got finished. The road markings were done using the card stencils that came with the bundle; I used white and yellow craft paint applied with a stippling brush.

Repeating the opening photo:

I finished the initial airbrush stages this afternoon. Now I've just got to do all of the detailing - I suspect that might take most of the next week given my current tendency towards procrastination and distraction.

Wednesday Workbench 27 April 2022

 

I was making good progress on the tiles, but then I ran out of one of the paints on Monday. I've ordered some more, but work has temporarily stopped on that project.

Luckily, that afternoon I received some MDF goodies from TT Combat:

Six of those are new orders. The other two are replacements for the two that I'd had problems with - they very generously sent me full kits rather than just the sprues.

To make use of the down-time on the tiles project, I decided to de-sprue the kits and start assembling them. Here is everything that has been assembled so far (including the ones I'd assembled a week or two ago):

PreFeb Beta

PreFab Alpha

Having been sent a complete kit, I was able to assemble a standard ground floor piece:

...and also a two-door ground floor piece (using some doors from Blotz):

Cantilevers, bridges and connectors:

Tri-Walkway

I bought this one to see whether it would work with the PreFab units. The "roof" is the same height and width, so it should work with them for layouts. They also do Tri-Building kits - I might get some of those (and more Tri-Walkways) at some point.

I've de-sprued the other kits as well, but won't assemble them until the buildings have been painted:

Large Crates and Streetlights

I only de-sprued enough parts to make up five streetlights as I only have nine acrylic "lamps", four of which I need to the original kits.

Walkways

There are three kits' worth of parts in the photo above!

The parts which haven't been assembled yet have also not had the "tags" sanded. I should be doing that tomorrow (hence the bundle of emery board nail files in the top photo).

Paint Table Saturday 16 April 2022

 

There's nothing on my paint table right now as I decided that next up would be the two extra pre-fab buildings I'd ordered. I spent a couple of hours this afternoon popping all the bits off the sprues. Tomorrow I will sand down the tags and start assembling them. 

However, there is a snag with one of them. It appears that TT Combat have made a mistake with their sprues as instead of three long window walls and one long door wall, the kit came with two of each. I've sent them an email, so hopefully they will sort it out.

Finished: SciFi Terrain

 

And they're finished! I even got the final airbrushing step done yesterday. Luckily, once split down they only take up three A4 boards rather than the three A3 boards they are filling in the photo above.

Walkways

I think I need to get another three packs of these for what I want. My plan is to do one of them like this and to reverse the heights of the small and large platforms for the other two. The small red bits are connectors to join platforms together.

The annoying thing with these is that there aren't quite enough of the railings.

Streetlamps

there was an annoyance with this kit as well. The MDF sprue has enough parts to make up ten lamp posts, but the acrylic sprue only has nine "lamps".  There are two packs shown here. You may have counted sixteen of these with lamps, rather than eighteen. That's because the acrylic sprue that came with one pack appears to have had something wrong with the cutting template leading to two of them being unusable - I'll be emailing TT Combat about that.

I attempted a bit of object source lighting on these. I should perhaps have airbrushed a paler shade of the base colour first on the areas that would be hit by the OSL effect.

Bus Stops

Security Gates

Fast Food Stalls

Fences

There was a further annoyance with these kits (two packs again). There was clearly enough space on the sprues to make up enough connector pieces for each join as I had eight spare uprights - they could have easily replaced two of those with the cap pieces (two would fit in the space of each upright).

All the kits here are from TT Combat. I'm quite pleased with how they turned out.