Dockside Container Yard

Just before Christmas my friend Deansy From the Internet™ asked for my help with building his gaming table. He has been collecting TONS of the excellent and sadly OOP Rackham shipping containers and decided to make a shipping yard. He primarily wants to use it for games of M.E.R.C.S, which uses a 3x2 table size, so decided to do a 3x3 with one foot of water on the dockside. The addition of piers and boats will extend its usefulness to games using a 3x3.

Anyway Dean took a bunch of pics of our progress which I am stealing to put here. It was 40 degrees Celsius the day we did this so paint/goop etc dried in about 5 mins, it is amazing how much you can get done in Satan's own weather, you could see the paint drying! Still a fair bit of painting on a bunch of stuff so a couple more working bees and this should be good to go!

This is me literally watching paint dry!

The resin pooled because of the heat. We have since poured a second coat which evened it out.

New Year painting challenge!

Inspired by a post over on Pulp Citizen's blog, I decided to start a painting challenge with my pal Deansy From the Internet™, in the interest of getting some long overdue painting done. We are starting small, and have picked four figures each that we have to complete by the 20th. Some of my choices are partially painted, so it is a bit of cheek! I should be able to manage getting some colour on these guys though. I have chosen to get Sgt. Bale, Chronin, Mini Hadron, Captain Hadron and Giant Hadron from Pulp City all finished up, which will hopefully motivate me to get some more of my growing Pulp City collection all done. Here is how they are looking right now.

Sgt. Bale is base coated, his hands have also been replaced with clear flames from a heroclix Silver Surfer figure. I never liked the way he was awkwardly holding his gun, and think this makes for a much more dynamic figure.

Chronin is more or less just primed, with her face painted. Though I think I have decided to re-do the face in favour of something a bit more exciting than a normal skintone.

And the Hadrons! All the Hadrons have had their crests removed, as I wasn't too keen on it. Giant Hadron is actually pretty close to being done, just some more blending on his gauntlets really, and some detritus on his base to make it a bit more exciting and really show the scale of the beast. Mini Hadron is also very close to being done, with perhaps just another highlight pass to get a bit more contrast. Regular Hadron is basically base-coated, though shouldn't take long!

 

 

 

Drawing Lines

Update! An actual update! I have had a long time between actually doing any hobby stuff, but now that study is over for the year I am turning some of my limited attention back to the Pulp City table project. I have a lot of things done since the last update (6 months almost!). I have finished the base board, painting in the road markings today. I experimented with weathering pigments and may have overdone the weathering a bit. I might paint over some parts to dial it back. Each of the buildings you see in the pics are in various states of completion, and I will go into further in this post. Some of them have LED lighting all wired up, and partially completed interiors. I tried to take some pics in low lighting with the buildings lit up but I struggled to get anything usable before my camera ran out of juice. I will try again soon.

My goal with this project was to go all out with details, so lots of street furniture and bits and pieces are being finished or worked on. It also means it is taking its sweet time :) The small park you can see in the pics will be replaced with a scratch built nightclub but mostly the layout will be how it is here. Of course everything is modular, so not fixed to this layout, but the unusual angles of the board made filling the space a bit more difficult. The board is starting to take on some personality which is what I am after more than anything else!

 

 

Shamrock Hotel

The Shamrock hotel is passable but still needs a lot of work before completion. I still need to do a bit more detailing on the exterior paint job, but for the most part it is done. The interior has had only very minimal work done so far, with the ground floor getting its floorboards put in. All the LED lighting is done, and all three levels have exterior switches to turn them on and off. I have done this on all the buildings I have wired up so far. The roof access door hides the battery pack and board for the neon sign, while the concrete ledge hides the battery pack for the interior lighting for the top level. I have a few ideas for concealing the battery packs for each level. I still need to matte varnish the graffiti transfers to blend them in a bit better. Superglue was a bad choice for adding the window panes, as a bit of frosting occurred. If anyone has a cure for it after the fact I am all ears.

 

Ouroboros Esoteric Bookstore/ Sailor's Grave Tattoos

 Mostly done here but a little bit to go. The exterior is finished with the exception of adding in a side door. The interior needs some finishing off, painting of the furniture and adding a staircase (a challenge in such a small space). Lighting is all done with the battery pack hidden with the mesh on the roof. The first story batter is attached to the underside of the roof. Not ideal but the massive 9v took up too much floorspace to hide it anywhere else. Need to make a massage bed and drawing table for the tattoo shop.

 

 Apartment Building One, Tortilla The Hun & Pizza Delite

The Interior of Apartment Building One is actually further along than both the Shamrock and the bookstore/tattoo shop, but my camera ran out of juice before I could snap some pics. Tortilla the Hun taco stand needs signage and interior furniture and lighting, but painting is finished (you can see part of an icecream truck that needs weathering/detailing to take away the toy look). There is also a shot of the very wip Pizza Delite shop, a scratch built building, which will probably end up having another shop on the second level. It will also have its own neon sign! Always more to do and hopefully not another six month betwixt updates!