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KICKSTARTER!

27/11/2016

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I haven't been posting - or making models, or anything because I've been trying to finish the kickstarter project. And, I'm just about done. Here's a link to the preview page.
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Thanks to all of you who've joined the contact list, checked out my blog and videos or just had a chat at SMW or Warfare. 
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28mm buildings

20/11/2016

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I went to Warfare2016 in Reading yesterday. There was a lot of very cool stuff. Ostensibly I went there to check out the sort of terrain elements that would go great on the GAMEIN5D boards, but ... well, you can't help but get sidetracked can you?
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I met a load of great people playing a lot of cool war games, I've put a list of websites of as many as I could remember at the end of this post. And, of course, I ended up being tempted with the odd purchase. Here's a short video of me having a quick play around with a 28mm building I bought. I like it a lot and I think, with a bit more work it could be really awesome.
Here's a few photos of the building in question. It's mostly just taped together with a tiny bit of glue to keep a few loose elements in place for the photos. The kit went together really easily and I like the level of detail, check out the video if you're interested. The guy from blotz (link to his website here) had some amazing stuff on his stall in several different scales - I think I was quite restrained actually and only bought two. Here's the one from the video.
Like I said, I met a lot of great gamers and traders with great gear thanks again to the nice man from Blotz, Simon from S&A scenics, Chris and Pete from Tablescape, Pete and Graham and everyone from the Staines Wargamers and the very nice people from kallistra who have a really cool hex-based terrain system.

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Return to North Africa

15/11/2016

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Now that the madness of getting ready for the show has subsided (and ignoring for a moment the madness of trying to get something on Kickstarter) ... I think I'm done with the extension to the North African piece. The whole thing was supposed to be sparse because (a) it's a desert and (b) I wanted space to be able to add mobile elements and game on it.
Here's one of the trees - trees are hard.
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Why is it that superglue bonds skin  with gleeful enthusiasm but won't glue lichen onto a bit of dry stick? Now most of the superglue has come off my fingers I'm a bit more sanguine about it.
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I've also mostly finished basing the two buildings but I'll post about those later. For now I want to concentrate on the whole board. 
​Here's another of the little bedraggled trees though.
And here's the whole board, combined with the other. I've had to move out of my normal work space to take the photos, and there isn't as much light. The whole board is 1.08m by 0.72m - big enough for our dining table anyway.
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Here's a couple of images from across the board.
That poor little sherman's done some work. I've got more photos of it than my children.
Sorry, I just like taking these - here's the obligatory aerial shot. 
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And finally the whole thing folds up into a nice little set of boxes. Cheers!
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Scale Model World over for another year

13/11/2016

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Just a quick post to say thank you to the hundreds of people who came over and had a look at my stand and had a chat at IMPS2016. It was a pleasure to meet every one of you and thank you for all your positive feedback. If you're one of the many who took a flyer, don't forget to sign up to our mailing list on the kickstarter page. Thanks especially to Domi at Retrokit and the lovely people at Amera Plastic Mouldings who couldn't have been more kind. Thank you!
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Scale Model World

12/11/2016

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An awesome day at IPMS2016 which seemed even bigger, busier and better than last year. Just a quick thank you to everyone who dropped by my stand to say hello. It was so nice to meet you all and thanks for all the positive comments and feedback. Here's my two "helpers".
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A special thank you to the very nice people at RetroKit who were very nice to me as a total newbie to the convention scene. I'll be back tomorrow, looking forward to it!
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Textures revisited

6/11/2016

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Following on from a conversation on the fine scale modeller forum, I was ordered a tub of the vallejo grey sand texture. It looks like good stuff but at £8 a pop I couldn't use it on the scale of things I'm building at the moment. So ... I tried to recreate a similar thing myself and made a video of it.
I hope you like it, I'll be using the stuff myself on a build soon.
In the spirit of completion and fairness I should say that the Vallejo earth texture was fully dry by the next morning and gave a really nice finish. It's a bit spongy when fully dry but otherwise the texture (see below) if very good.
The final recipe was:
20g plaster of paris
10g water
15 - 35g of fine sand
2.5ml of pva glue

That said, as long as you have enough water to get the plaster going I suspect most mixes will work.
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All of the plaster-based mixes dried within about 45 minutes, even the last one which had a lot more pva in it. I took some close-up pictures (below) so you can see the difference between them. Personally I think I could find a use for all of these depending on what I was trying to make and at what scale - and it was some geeky fun getting it done too - always a good thing.
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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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