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. 

 

 

 

 

Warbases Brick Garage WIP x 2

 I had been cleaning and sorting today and these set aside for later. DHL was supposed to arrive within an hour or so so I thought I might as well set at the dinner table and build. These will be for Zona Alfa. 

I picked these up last year I think. Yup, 2025. So slow.....disohonorable.

I cut off the sides of the door so it looks like an open door on one of the garages.

On the other one I did the same thing with the garage door and set it ajar. 

Tonight I'll do the roofs and plan out the paintjobs. 

Oh, and DHL showed up 3 hours later....while I was out picking up the kids and almost home again. Cause of course.

Sarissa Precision N610 Extra Weatherd and Damp....finished

 That was fun. These little ones build and paint up so fast compared to my 28mm stuff, but I really should get cracking on finishing one of those soon. Maybe next week. 

Anyway, same kit, different kind of weathering. In this case pretty damp and not cared for for a very long time. 

And a quick comparison to the previous one.

 

Sarissa Precision N605 - Small 2 Storey House - WIP

 Assembly is simple and quick. The shutters on these are rounded at the top which is nice. The footprint is the same as the ruins, and the roof and first floor lift off quite nicely. Think I'll got for a weather yellow wall and green shutters this time. Also need to cut a add on roof out of foam so it fits Vietnam better, and then tile that.

Same footprint as the ruins, with a little concrete pad for the front door.

Just realised this would work as a burnt out shell as well, if you leave out all of the card bits. Hmmm...

Maybe add some planters in front of the open windows?

Plenty of ideas, but for now, it can dry so I can coat all the card tomorrow. 

Another N610 - But now a lot more weathered WIP

 A lovely (albeit solitary) hobby evening, and all of the weathering is done on the new (well, is it really new.....) house ruin. Let it all dry and tomorrow evening it's time for the leaves, debris and other plantlife. 

15mm can paint up really quick if you stop (over)thinking about it. 

Sarissa Precision N610 and N613 WIP

 Another N610 ready for paint, but this one will be painted as something that has been destroyed years ago. We will see if I can get that done tomorrow evening.

Also assembled N613 Single Storey Souk. This can dry tonight, tomorrow magnetise the front so I can add signs so it fits Afrika, Vietnam and any Arab speaking country. Just swap signs when needed. I'll leave the roof bare so I can add water tanks or little gardens on top, again when needed. 

Sarissa Precision N610 - Destroyed Small House - 15mm

 I picked this up in last years Black Friday Sale (I think....could have been the year before?).

Comes with a 1x MDF sheet and 1x card sheet with parts. Cleanup is quick as always, minimal nubs. Assembly is quick, you can't really go wrong here tbh. I left off the ruined 1st/2nd story roof rathers/floor/whatever it is (I really don't know) that you can assemble hanging down into the open floorspace. I just put that into the spares box for a future project and snipped down a few of the planks that extended a bit too much for my liking. 

Currently retails for 9,99 Euros. Destroyed Small House - 15mm

White primercoat, sponged another wite coat, grey coat and dark washes, details in red, last ashy highlight and she is done for my 15mm AK-47 and Vietnam collection. Went for the "This just burned down"-look. Might make another in a "We don't go there anymore...." look, not sure if I have more of these.

 

 

Bam? Boo. Done!

 It's good enough. All of the bases have now been Thymed. I ordered a big bag of the stuff for future needs as it is pretty good scatter. 

41 bases done. Once it has all dried and the excess removed, into the box they go and grab the next unfinished project and repeat. 

A nice mix of sizes so they work for a lot of things. I am happy it is done. I have way too many things languishing in a box cause the enthusiasm is gone. But if I push myself just a little bit and sit at the table while the girls are doing their homework, an hour here or an hour there gets shit done. The 2 a week hobby nights are the cherry on top. 

Bam? Boo!

 As I want to get a lot of semi finished stuff done this week, I grabbed the unfinished set of Bamboo, covered the bases with Thyme and will coat them again tomorrow.

Then I grabbed more bases, and realised I am out of the ones I used before so just grabbed whatever I had on hand and just got on with it. I don't often tune out but oh boy I needed all the tuning out for this. 

 

Tomorrow I'll do some more work and hope to have this lot finished by Wednesday.

 

Built a Sarissa ruin as well that I would like to get done this week.

And now my entire house smells like Thyme

Top right is the original lot, I grabbed as many bases as I still had left and just started making more. But I'm running out of long stems of bamboo, but we will see how much more I can make. 

 

Editing files to get more bang for my Euro

 I wasn't quite happy with the lack of damage variants (Pristine, damaged or destroyed, that is it) so trying out new things and learning on the fly. 

I wanted more broken side columns for the latter 2 bases, so snipped the original down to size and added 6 cylinders of various lengths for the rebar. 

Original on the left, my version on the right

 

I need to testprint a few to see if it prints ok, and start editing the other colums as well as I want one fallen one that snapped off at the base, but that is for later today.

I also remoddeld the roof trusses, starting with the destroyed one and slicing less damaged parts into it. for variation.

Literal factorylining

 Glued the spans, glued the legs, now superglue squares of paper over all of the seams (bolt plates) to give it extra rigidity, and then calculate out the base distance so everything is centered. After that glue in the longtitudenal beams. Once that is done check for cleanup and dremel some pieces for extra wear. 

This is enough for 4 bases. The other 2 bases will be much more knackerd. 

Working a a large factory frame - Ctrl+C > Ctrl+V and slice the night away.

 I picked up the Large Hall Construction from Patrick Miniatures last week and I started printing. After finding out it really is a bit massive.....I started printing more. 

But with 1 intact, 1 damaged and 1 destroyed part for each part it started to get repetevive quick. So I started with just cutting the lengthway beams down the middle and adding a mirror copy of the sliced side to it. Nothing rocketsience. Then I raised the bar a bit and spliced the underside of the broken column onto the top of the damaged column, to get that fine quality Russian concrete work feel that makes you eat a OSHA book. And then repeated that for the side columns. 

They printed off fine, and I just got back from picking up some MDF sheets 40x23 so I can base it up 2 spars at a time, going from ok to knackered. The slots in between I'll use a marker mould to drill in holes for putty and magnets so I can click in the lengthway concrete beams. If I place down the full set you cover a space over a metre long and 40 cm wide.....a table all on its own tbh. 

It was meant for Stalker....but tbh, should work fine for Historical, Necromunda, other Post Apoc etc.

BSSCF2025 - Sign me up!

 After a nice week with the girls and focussing on family time, the final details for the house.

Magnetised two 15x30mm MDF bases from my bases box so I can make a Afrikan and a Vietnamese sign, added a card square for the streetsign and fixed up the chimney. And that is it, she is ready for priming. 

 

BSSCF2025 - Nest Egg

 Decided to forgo electrical work and add more nests. Bird and eggs are oversized to help with painting, and the Storch nest will get extra foliage once painted. 

 

And somethimes it just doesn't work.

Multi part in 15mm and 28mm are coming out fine, the 15mm with a loss of detail but nothing terrible.

Starship engine printed at 15mm and ready for cleanup.

Scifi trams at 28mm and 15mm, ready for cleanup

Scifi train reay for assembly and cleanup, for the Stargrave scenario the Heist. Might add a passengercar to the list, the flatcars end up too thin on the sides to print safely so I will need to mod those a bit. 

But then I try one of the WoW files again and it fails (again) at the 2nd layer. 

Oh well, such is life