Trukking on...

First trukk has been built, primed and basically painted - I am deliberately keeping the lines on this one quite clean, because I think it suits the 'boat body'. In the end, I put a couple of magnets into the hull so that I can move the weaponry around. The second trukk is underway, and will be taller and spikier.

All the wheels are from Ramshackle Games, driver and engine from the deffkopta, weaponry from the spares box, everything else is scratchbuilt.

The Dalek-rons

Given a few days off work, I have decided to play with some paint and clear out some of the drawers. This is the first unit in a Necron 'counts-as' army; warriors or immortals.

Ten of the iDaleks that were given away on the cover of the Dr Who magazine last year; I have enough to make another three units like this, and perhaps another 40 that will be used to make specials. The blue one is being converted to Davros; he will be a Necron character of some sort.

I will be making up a couple of pieces that will be used to convert daleks to destroyers (probably a small flying saucer) and to make barges (a larger saucer); I can easily do my own resin casts from them.

Not dead yet...

I have been very quiet lately - blame Salute.

Anyway, I have started to build up my next army - can't decide between Imperial Guard and orks, but I wanted to do a bit of messing with trukks. Being me, I want my trukks to look different to everyone else's, so they're being scratchbuilt from the chassis up.

The driver and engine are bits of a deffkopta - I have five sets of the Black Reach orks, and while I will probably convert a few of the deffkoptas into buggies, I won't do all fifteen. All the white stuff is plastic rod and plastic card, plenty of detailing still to go but the basic shape's there. So... heavy stubber from a biker, rokkit from the 'kopta with scratchbuild launcher, next I need to do some magnetising so they can be swapped as necessary.

Objective markers

A quick project for this morning while my wife is off shopping - objective markers themed to the table.

Steampunk jewellery parts from Hobbycraft - I think they were £2 for a pair of brass coloured clocks, easily clipped off with cutters and glued to 40mm plastic bases. I put white glue on the base, superglued the pieces down and dipped immediately into coarse sand, which made it very easy to keep the sand off the top of the metal parts. Took about an hour in total, plus drying time.

Now looking for a cloth to go with this stuff - seems like Hotz do the perfect mat with their Mars Red series, though I want to get the version without a grid.

Clockwork planets (3)

I have finally grabbed the time to do some more on this set of scenery. I now have two hills, half a dozen barricades, a set of pipes and a watch-tower.

The pipes were just narrow drainpipe sections with a bit of grating in the front; the watchtower was more grating and K'nex. All very quick and simple. I will be making some LOS blocking scenery at some point, but I need to come up with some ideas...