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Busy making bases - and lots of craters

31/8/2016

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So I've made a load of bases for the buildings, arranged some of the broken wall elements into a ruin and based that and built a load of bomb craters. I don't know why but I love making bomb craters. Might have got a bit out of hand. I just flatten a ball of modelling clay into a chubby disk and start squishing the center outwards forming a ridge. Eventually I start pinching the ridge to give it some sharpness and finish by adding a bit of text by pushing some rough surfaces gently over the whole thing.
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I also felt that a well was needed, so I built one of those too. I think it's come out ok. All these elements are made from that Das paper-based modelling clay. It's some mix of papier mache and clay I think. It shrinks and takes too long to dry (unless you nuke it in the oven), but it's pretty cheap and easy to use. Notice one of the many exotic tea towels in use here. Present from the in-laws, they get cruises, we get tea towels, lots of tea towels.
Here's a quick close up of the well. I just formed a circle around the top of a bottle and used a cocktail stick to mark out the bricks by pressing into the clay. The timbers are balsa wood, roughly cut from a larger piece and snapped of at the ends to create a rough looking surface.
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All these bases are dried out now (because I nuked them in the oven) and so they've all curled up a bit at the edges. I'll sort this by using the gentle and sophisticated method of gluing them to death and leaning on them until they capitulate and stay flat.
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GAMEBOID Diorama - North Africa WWII

30/8/2016

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I am starting a new big Diorama. Going for North Africa, 1941(ish), I'm thinking small skirmishes as part of operation Crusader. Got a load of Panzer IIIs and IVs and at least 2 Airfix Matilda's in my stash (most of which remains untouched). Working in 1:72, so I'll end up trying to paint some of my sons big variety of DAK and 8th Army troops. But they'll need somewhere to battle in as well.
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Got a couple of my prototype GAMEBOIDs ready to go. W-configuration because they make the best storage boxes and eventually my chidren will steal these from me. All primed with Halford's grey primer. The finished area will be about 0.72m by 0.54m. In the back ground here you can see a little stack of buildings, I made these first (and ages ago) but I'll try to post on how I make them at a later date.
Here are the main building elements, three ruins, one intact dwelling and some wall fragments. I'll give all these elements bases because I haven't decided whether they're going to be moveable pieces or fixed in place yet. Still stuck between a true diorama and a gaming board. Keep making decisions, keep moving forward.
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We all have to start somewhere.

27/8/2016

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Hello, never blogged before, or twittered, face-booked or dipped any kind of toe into the social media world for that matter. And here I am, trying to build a website, and write a blog, oh blimey! It's not that I'm a technophobe or particularly socially awkward (or even possibly Canadian), I've just never had anything much to say to potentially everyone. But, "hello" seems a fairly safe place to start.

​Thankfully, this blog isn't really a lot about me, more about what I'm trying to learn to do and get better at. And that is: make models, gaming boards, dioramas - anything like that. In particular it's about me using GAMEIN5D, an invention of my own (patent pending) which is a system of folding and interlocking gaming surfaces that also make pretty robust boxes.

In short, I wanted a way to build as much model stuff as I liked, as big as I liked for me and my two boys, but they had to be able to be tidied away after. So with one imminent birthday approaching the GAMEIN5D was born.


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    Hello, I'm Jon. 

    I'm very much a learner model maker, especially dioramas, gaming surfaces, models and toy boxes for me and my children.

    I also invented the GAMEIN5D base boarding system which I'm trying to develop into something more.

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