I don’t usually like to talk about plans and ideas before there’s at least some progress to show off, but while I was away over the New Year I had time to do some quick sketching and thinking about a … Continue reading
Started another Russian farmhouse on Boxing Day evening, this one slightly bigger than the first at 4″x2″. I mentioned in the previous article that I used coffee stir sticks for the wood siding. The workbench photo below should explain some … Continue reading
… and over at my place, I was hiding out, enjoying the last evening of solitary, productive peace and quiet I”ll have for a while, as the holiday season proper lands on us tomorrow. In between beer, sending out festive … Continue reading
Here’s something I bought largely on a whim from a local craft store that has proven unexpectedly useful. It’s a 2oz (60ml) sprayer, cost about $2, and I find all sorts of uses for it. Filled (as it is here) … Continue reading
Picked up a cheap towel to use as thatching. Here it is in a quickie late-night photograph, glue still wet on the roof of the half-timber barn.
First scenery project in quite a while, I’ve done lots of figure painting over the winter and spring but no scenery. I pulled the top layer of paper off a sheet of corrugated cardboard and cut that up for the … Continue reading
ound, buried in my harddrive, another couple of forgotten work-in-progress shots from the first round of shoreline/riverbank construction back in June 2009. The rest of the construction was written up last week.
These riverbanks or shorelines made from picture-framing board (mattboard). I did the first set back in 2009 and another batch in the winter of 2010. They’re designed to form one edge of a playing board, especially on the 2′x2′ playing … Continue reading
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Another revival from the old Brian’s Wargame Pages version of the site, and one that I should have brought forward ages ago! You can see the Esquimalt Drydock on Google Maps for a sense of scale that wasn’t available ten … Continue reading
