Finish it! - 2nd Stargrave Pirate finished

 Started: September 2023 for the painting, unknown when I built it.

Another one down thx to the impetus from Scrapjacks.

Stargrave Soldier body, grenades and flashlight on the helmet are from Space Marines or Guard. Drilled out the face and put in a Necron lower chin. Oxygen backpack is a Adeptus Mechanicus piece, shoulder guard is a old Chaos Warrior something part? The rest is stock Stargrave. Decals: Star is from 1-94, Screaming Eagle from Warlord and the marking on the front of the redcap is a fuel filler marking from a German aircraft kit. 

Background is that these are Pirates from The Numberd, they all carry a yellow shoulderpad with a number on it and they only refer to themselves as a number. Unknown is how many there are, and if it is just a ruse to appear more powerful. And the why, who knows....dead men don't talk. 

And together with his buddy, finished in 2021.

First crew for Scrapjacks done!

 And Team Skittles is done!

 Stargrave bodies, Anvil heads and GW bases and Votann decals. 

 

PATCH

 

RIGGER

TORCH

 

YARD DOG

 

 

Sarissa Precision P041 Drive In Entrance WIP

 My Black Friday purchase arrived today, so instead of chucking them in the later box. I decided to build all of them this week. Good thing I only bought 4 kits....so starting off with the Drive In Entrance.

This is what it is supposed to look like >>

But you know I have a very hard time keeping anything original, so....

I trimmed off the nubs for the big and long sign, reused just the Drive In section and glued that to roof. Reinforced that with some spare MDF strips on the base and behind the letters cause you know those will break asap. Added 2 supports as well. I snapped the part above the front door cause I was talking to the girls and not paying attention (so that is all on me) but that too was easily fixed with some spare strip of MDF. Then I snipped off the 4 nubs it had for the original sign, and added rim all around the edge (even if only to mitigate warping once painted) and now it is sorted.

Tomorrow I'll try and work out if it is worth the effort to use some soldering wire to weave around to make it more of a Neon sign.....but we will see if that will be worth the effort.

 

Otherwise, nice kit. No fitting issues that I noticed, will look grand once painted up.
 

And the whole reason I bought it in the first place....I already have the movie screen I made in the week(s?) after I got ran over 10 years ago, and it will be nice to close that. 

 

 

 

 

28mm Undead Gargoyle....something

 Last year I bought this model from a local models reseller. It is officially a, <checks notes>, Aviarch Harpy from the Teratic Cohort from Warcry. Cause sure, why use normal names that you can't copyright ey?

Did not like the head so tossed that into the bits box and used a Beastman skull from GW's most excellent Citadel Skulls box (now that is a box that is worth its price if you ask me). The model arrived broken (missing wingtip and minor bumps etc) so fixed that, only the wingtip repair failed so I thought, wht bother. Added some rocks to the base and glued big ol washer underneath for support and to stick to magnetic sheeting. And as usual, it stayed in the todo box for almost a year?

Primed it bone, gave it a good drybrush, tried some glowing eyes (it's passable) and sprayed it gloss for protection, then matted all the bone and did the bloodwork and tufts. 

I'm not sure what I made tbh. While working on it, it feels it can work as a generic undead enemy or a boss level figure for Silver Bajonet, Horror Games, maybe Deth Wizards, Mordheim, be a Necromancers pet. So I'll just call it a Undead Gargoyle and call it a day.

15mm Mooring Pontoon

 Mooring pontoon for the future harbour. Metal hull boat is a 15mm resin cast from The Scene in the UK (now defunct I believe?), with a bit of scrap H0 roof to cover it, and the gaps and sides filled with superglue and flour. Rusted it all out to heck.

Should also work as a floating bridge support or a towed barge with cargo. Heck, mount a AA gun on it, why not. 

Marine Woodpecker WIP

 No, not some weird mythical creature. Would be fun though :)

No, for the 2nd Scenario in Battlegroup Pacific the USMC get's a Captured Type 92 HMG with 3 man crew. Right...no one makes that. But I can :)

I picked up a pack of USMC 30 cal teams and a pack of Japanese HMG's. That gives me 1 spare team each for later, or to rebuild into loader teams. Who knows.

I removed the Type 92 from the gunner but kept his hands and feet (sounding like a slasher movie now) on the gun. The hands cause they will need to connect to the USMC gunner cause those have to go, as he he has his hands on top and behind the gun on the paddles instead of the lower grip.

Yes, I know it's a 15mm model, but hey, it's what I like. And I only ever will need 1 team.

I removed the hands and gun from the USMC gunner, saving the gun for later. Sanded down his base a lot cause there is a difference in size between the 2 models.

That brings me to the Type 92. The model is very compressed compared to the original, so I took off the the rather short barrel and replaced it with a longer bit of paperclip after some very dodgy drilling. Sadly I can't fix the back end. Well, I could, but then I might as well build a full new gun

Hard Sci-fi civilian vehicle WIP

 Saw this basemodel early October as a sci-fi vehicle and thought, I can do that. So found one on sale and made it my own with some old (and very old) GW and other parts. Basemodel is a 1/48 Tamiya 7ton Armoured Car MK. IV

Went with a abandoned Redneck in space look. Plenty of scope for weathering. Minor cleanup tomorrow then primer.

Will work for any hard Sci-fi I suppose.Alien, Rogue Trader, Stargrave

A little depot for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (WIP)

 

I felt I was lacking a small depot building with a few small rooms, but no one makes what I want. So I ordered a Small workshop from the Gangs of Rome series from SP and that arrived this afternoon. I just finished cleaning up the table and the tools and I'm calling it 99% done, will add some electrical switches/cabling when I have some free time again. I've added a pic for reference to see how it scales with the rest. Roof will be fibreboard with a smashed section on the right side, the awnings will be tinned sheet so I can have a go at rusting, especially the section on the right. The extended baseplate will be painted as concrete slabs. No idea when I have the time for it but hopefully this year.

Oh, as a mate pointed out....great to change into workshops in a Vietnamese or Chinese alley as well. Might make another one someday in Cyberpunk style. Just sell that kidney first for funds.