Sculpting in Exile
I’m away from home in northern Alberta for four to six weeks helping run a field project for the company I work for. It’s hard but fascinating work with long hours and we’re living in a hotel suite for...
View ArticleSculpting in Exile Progress Pics
A gallery post of work-in-progress cellphone photos from Project Hotelroom Treemen! Many of these were taken late at night under a desk lamp and they’re all cellphone pics, so quality is… variable....
View ArticleNecromancer Beer – a Blood Bowl Sideline Ad
Something quick and silly to break the month-long dry spell in posting! On our local Blood Bowl league’s Facebook page one of the guys made a joke about “Necromancer Beer – one taste will revive you”...
View ArticleA Goblin Scoreboard, Part One
Decided that my Blood Bowl Goblin team, currently glorying in the name of T.U.R.D. (what that stands for changes every single game they play…) needed a scoreboard, to use as substitute to my existing...
View ArticleBuild Something 2017: The Bloodyear Blomp
Every year or so over on Lead Adventure Forum they hold a friendly Build Something competition. There’s a theme that imposes some restrictions; one year it was “your scenery must be based on a CD”; we...
View ArticleBuild Something 2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 2
Progress on my Lead Adventure Forum Build Something 2017 entry, the goblin-crewed Bloodyear Blomp! I’d said previously I was going to finish covering the blimp envelope in fabric before moving on to...
View ArticleBS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 3
Blomping onward, in a classic goblin-engineering “make sh*t up as you go” fashion! The front half of the gondola has been skinned with styrene sheet, cut in one continuous strip for strength. I also...
View ArticleBS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 4
Good progress on the Blomp gondola this weekend, with all the major structural assembly finished, skinning done in styrene sheet, and the start of the lifting-gas engine and associated pipework. The...
View ArticleBS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 5
Progress! Greenstuff! An incompletely explained troll! I broke out the greenstuff and went at the gondola this evening. I filled in under all the various discs where piping will come out, and then ran...
View ArticleBS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 6
Progress, the purpose of the troll revealed, and IT FLIES. Well, sort of! I got most of the structural parts of the base done today, barring more greenstuff putty to solidify everything. The big troll...
View ArticleBS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 7
Greenstuff all over the place this time! Base greenstuff work – on the troll, the barrel, and the base itself. More to come! Click for larger. I’ve started on the heavy leather harness that the troll...
View ArticleBS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 8
Blomping along… Primer! Got the gondola spray-primed grey and the balloon envelope brush-primed black. All primed up, except the base. Click for larger. The LAF Build Something 2017 contest rules ask...
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