28mm Forgeworld Hobbit hole commission - part one

I had been asked to make two Hobbit Holes using the Forgeworld fronts. This was way back before the lockdown, so its taken a while for Forgeworld to get back to work and enable me to buy the components. The customer had seen some of my earlier builds and wanted me to make them look lived in and to split the front so they were not flat. So here are a few pictures of the builds....

The parts as them come from Forgeworld . Decent quality castings with little or no air bubbles, and nicely packaged

The first variant of resin front..

The second variant..

The first build was similar to one of my earlier ones, so i set about cutting the front to make space for one of my resin cast chimneys

Some Wills plasticard and Balsa gave me this...

Then some Wills planking cut into small strips was used for the roof shingles....

Here is the front primed and ready for the next part of the process (the chimney top is to be added during the next part of the build)...

The second build used the other variant of the resin fronts, this time splitting the front by incorporating a log store. Two vertical cuts at stategic places with a bit of balsa and Wills plasticard gave me this...

Different angle with some of my resin logs (taken out to make painting easier)

To add a bit of variety this time i used thick card for the shingles, here it is primed and ready for the next stage of the build....

I hope you like the pictures, part two will follow shortly...

Fun minis to paint 28mm...

Here are a few sets of miniatures I  really enjoyed painting up recently. They are so different from the usual historical sci-fi or fantasy minis (not that there's anything wrong with those) one might usually paint. They are all from the excellent The Assault Group within their 'Ultra Modern - Western Civilian and Corporate' range. First up is their Goons in President Masks. I used some pictures from the Point Break movie for some inspiration, an enjoyable film back in the 90's starring the late Patrick Swayze, and Keanu Reeves. I hope you enjoy the pictures...

Here is my inspiration picture..

Next up is Rioters in Clown Masks..

And lastly my favourite group of all, Rioters in Anonymous Masks

They will be going up in my Ebay sales very soon

28mm Street Junk Barricades

I did a post on how I make these back in September, but having picked up some more of this type of dolls house furniture i used the spares to make another set of barricades. Please take a look at my earlier post, they are relatively easy to put together. The painting is probably the most difficult part of the process, I like to start with the centre piece of furniture and work out from there. I hope you like the pictures, they will go up on my Ebay page very soon