A Paintbrush Rack from Scrap
I’ve always know that hanging paint brushes bristles down to dry was better for them, but never bothered doing anything about it. Recently my selection of brushes has expended as I’m using cheap...
View ArticleLinks of Interest, 4 April 2021
Cement Saul is a fairly new YouTube channel that has been doing a bunch of interesting Gaslands-related videos. I especially like the video on Weathering with Coloured Pencils and Pigments. Pigments...
View ArticleRemembrance Day Weekend, November 2022
Went to our local municipal Remembrance Day ceremony in person this year, after two years of live streamed ceremonies watched from my computer, which was nice. Also making time for some hobby this...
View ArticleSandbars for Naval Gaming
As mentioned in the last post, I recently made a pair of new sandbars to give our boats and ships more stuff to run into during our games. I’ve done some before but this time I actually managed to get...
View ArticleRocks vs Boats
After doing a pair of new sandbanks, I wanted to do something slightly different but still on the theme of “stuff to crash boats and ships into” and decided on a trio of rocky reef pieces. As with the...
View ArticleSmall Scale Islands
To round out the current run of small scale scenery for coastal naval games I decided on a trio of islands, one of them with a lighthouse. As with the rest of these small scale naval terrain pieces...
View ArticleNaval Scenery Articles To Date
Last Update: 29 December 2023, Resources section with Shapeways link. Here’s all of my posts on 1/1200 coastal naval scenery so far… I’ll try to remember to add to this post as I create future...
View ArticleMasts & Booms
More detailing on 1/1200 scale ships with plastic broom bristle. I’ve added cargo handling booms to the masts and kingposts of two of the Antics 3d printed merchant ships. Booms in progress, the...
View ArticleStoring the Fleets
When talking about masts on tiny ships recently I mentioned that my current storage solution for my fleets was, frankly, bad. This last weekend I sat down to fix that, and came up with a solution that...
View ArticleLinks of Interest, 4 January 2024
First Links of Interest of 2024! Messing about with photo-etch (PE) parts? A bender seems like a useful thing, and happily there’s a Youtube build of a home-made PE parts bender from fairly common...
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