Assembling an Etch-Master Chainsaw

Pod Racer Challenge on Trash Bash Bits Facebook Group.

John Lamb over on the Facebook Group has issued a challenge!

Welcome everyone! We are opening the garages, calling in the pilots, and gathering the scrappers!
From today until 01 Aug 2016 we are looking for a few good Pod Racers!


1) Build must be new for this challenge (though parts from other builds or pieces from other models are fine)

2) Each project must include at least 5 pictures; parts, work in progress, and 3 finished model pics (front, port side, starboard side)

3) Build must include Bits...Greebles...Pieces...Parts...etc. collected from your pile of goodies (there is no set percentage, just let your inner builder lead the way!)

4) For the final entry the model should be painted to a game play or table top minimum level

Let the games begin!



https://www.facebook.com/groups/143863162617355/

Making Micro-Scale Buildings with Plaster

A quick video showing how I use throw-away plastic bits as molds for plaster to make small scale buildings for games like Battletech and CAV.

Trash Bashing a Dralasite Observation Speeder

The Dralasite observation speeder, "Poogie's Punchline".
Shown are crew-members Poogie, Drizzyl, and Hamook.

Thanks to James Hall for his "Barrels and Bottle-tops" challenge on the Trash Bash Bits Facebook page. The challenge was to use the standard barrel shape created by gluing two bottle caps together in a new and interesting way.

My entry is a Dralasite Observation Speeder, a fast, long-range flyer designed to explore a planet's surface and to be able to out-run anything that might want to do it harm.

After first building the engines out of several types of caps, I then found a broken kitchen timer to use as the hull. The rest just developed organically as I glued stuff together.

I wish I would have had more time to add more detail to this and for a better paint-job but sometimes speed is of the essence.

The metal bits on the back are from Jeff Wilhelm at Dragon Forge Design:

http://www.dragonforge.com/…/for%20sale/conversion_parts.htm

The Kotobukiya Option Parts are available from Hobby Link Japan:
http://hlj.com/product/KBYP-115R/Sci

Painting A Reaper Bones Shoggoth

A very simple paint-job to become more used to the Reaper Bones material. Using a dedicated brush-on primer like Citadel Undercoat really worked better than standard black paint. Damp-brushing, dry-brushing, and washes make this a quick and effective project.

The miniature can be found here:https://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures...

Painting a Trash Bash Building Video

Four months later and I finally managed to paint the observation tower/power plant.

Unboxing the 30th Anniversary Space Marine Miniature from Games Workshop.

Managed to snag one of the limited edition Space Marine minis from my local Games Workshop store today and was really impressed by it. So I made a short unboxing video for it. Sorry about the hiss and static in the soundtrack, something I need to address with future videos.

I'm probably going to go with my own paint scheme for my chapter The Archangels of purple, black and silver. The image below is a Photoshopped version of the GW painted mini.