New Ruined Gate Entrance for Jaffa WIP.

I was digging through my Wooden bits box. I keep bits from wooden brain teaser puzzles, Jenga, Balsa, Dominoes and other useful shaped things in there.

I decided I wanted a Portcullis gate for all of my ruined wall sections. So I dismantled a Domino box as I had done before for my Graveyard Mausoleum model and used one side of the box. Using the grooves cut into this section. (Originally made to slide the lid in and out of the Domino box) I cut the section in half. Making two opposing sections to stick a grill between. Then just used other bits of wood to complete the supporting walls. I made them on two "Dinosaur Domino" bases. Available from Poundland. Useful for basing as well! Ideal for those who like to use an element base in smaller wargaming!

This is what it looks like so far. The Portcullis is merely a stand in part. I need to get some more hard plastic grill or Needle Point Canvas plastic to cut to size.

I have started using pre-mixed filler to fill larger gaps and skim over to roughen smooth surfaces. Other small balsa bits are glued with PVA. The two cap stoned sections are resin left overs I have had for a while. So in they went.

Zorpazorp youtube channel. Great Resource!

I recently was introduced to this guy on Youtube.

A friend told me about him. I watched one video and was hooked.

Mainly LOTR. But absolutely brilliant terrain. Great Painting techniques.

Watch loads guys!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdxp7iFqgMwEf9GqWEGJ0oA

Another Adventure 2000 vehicle conversion.

And yet again! More conversion work on these really useful vehicles from my childhood.

The Missile Variant 6 wheeler is probably the most useful.

 I added Lego, Calculator buttons from a cheap calculator. Bits of left over plastic figure gear.

 The Gun is a Paintbrush bristle protector which is no longer needed. Add from spare parts a radar dish and lego smooth flat piece again.

 The turret still goes up and down but rotation is limited. No real problem there though.

The spares box and new Lego discoveries for me! Great way to make a vehicle more interesting.

Doug Mcclure. Famous Navigational Explorer.

Here is my Crooked Dice Adventurer and Guide. Doug McClure.

As I am sure you will know. He never really ended up where He wanted to be in his films.

At the Earth's Core, Warlords of Atlantis and The Land that Time Forgot!

Never let him drive!

Here we see Doug arrive!

 I am sure He will be here soon!

 Finally!

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He took a left at Albuquerque! 

I have wanted this Miniature for a while. Crooked Dice did a great job.

Xmas Chuffa Train. Kids toy. About the right scale?

I got this from a shop called Bargain Buys. For 12.99.

Main thing that attracted me were the Wagons. The Tender is awful! Needs loads of work.

The colour scheme was very Festive! Green, Red, Silver and Gold. Even the bogeys as you can see were all Red.

I have repainted the open wagon to a more muted colour scheme. But I still want to do more to it.
The Brake/Freight box car was bright red with "Merry Christmas" in white on both sides.

That had to go!

The Engine itself is salvageable and very Wild West. Pity that the drivers section is solid and a main part of the structure. Holds the batteries that make it ring the bells and make "chuff chuff "sounds.

But none to bad overall.

Piccies.
Figures are Heroclix Bioshock and a RAFM Cthulhu Paranormal Investigator for scale.

 The two painted wagons. I just painted the bogeys black.

 I don't know why they made the stack of clear red plastic. It doesn't light up.

 The Coal Tender. Awful! Needs work.

The tracks did have 4 straight sections. Unfortunately they don't fit with my earlier train track in this blog. Connections are not the same. But I can modify them with a knife. Also known as "Lopping them off"

Halloween Spiders and Ping Pong Storage Vessels

Finally done some of my Tesco Halloween Spiders.

All I really did was glue them to a wooden base in 1s and 2s. Then pva and sprinkle the bases. Finally red and orange paint on joints and down the backs to give them a Tarantula look.

Loads of giant spiders.

 I did this Point of Interest out of some more spare buckets and crates while I was messing about.
Lead and plastic spare bits from various kits. It allowed the glue to dry on the spiders.

These are Ping pong balls I stuck on more of those Toxic Refinery plastic parts from Urban mammoth/Pegasus. Would love to get my hands on more of this stuff. I am running seriously low.

New refinery bits. Rough LOL.

These are more PDQ credit card rolls of various sizes.
Mix in some sprues from old kits as pipework. Plus some Capacitors from old circuit boards..
The sign is an army man accessory with decals.

 Bits of the Toxic Refinery from the Platformer/Urban Mammoth/Pegasus range added in.
Useful kits if you can still grab them!

 The Small table looking item came from a craft knife that I only got because it had spare blades that fitted my favourite knife. Finding replacement blades is starting to get hard.

Figure is from Heroclix. Another Scientist.