Here ends another lengthy hiatus for The Mini Kingdom blog! No serious reason, just a combination of things. No need to bore you with the details. But now that 2014 has been spinning it wheels for a little while it's well and truly ready to motor on.
I have a great number of projects underway and commissions ongoing, perhaps more than I can chew. But as I get back into the blogging swing I will certainly be sharing as much as possible. Partly due to this rather shiny new iPad Air, which eases the process no end!
So first up for the year is terrain. I have dropped a few pictures on my Facebook, now for a few more.
Looking to involve myself with my local game store and the avid Warmachine/Hordes community. I have volunteered myself to construct some terrain to enhance the gaming at the store and local events. I didn't have the funds for materials myself but the urge to build stuff is strong.
After rifling all the hardware, craft, models stores I could find, most of what I needed was gathered. MDF boards, foamcard, mounting card, fillers, sand, paints, glue, assorted balsa wood, and aero board (handy polystyrene boards in usable thicknesses). Lastly not forgetting the holy grail of terrain building PINK FOAM, aka "extruded polystyrene", "XPS". This seems near impossible to source in Ireland but I was lucky on this occasion with winter stock. Although, it was only available in a hefty 60mm thickness I could not pass it up
Much power tooling ensued, followed by hacking up the pink foam.
With this basic structure work done I took some time to coat the pieces in a mix of PVA/filler/masonry paint to give them a robust surface for gaming. Once this was done they were painted over a few stages with mixes of poster paint. Lastly with the flock scatter glued and set this was heavily coated in watered down PVA, again to ensure robustness.
To conclude this lengthy post; the first of my buildings for this project, which is shown below in its 20mm prototype form. Next post I should have the "full scale" version complete to show you.
