Time to update some old Martian scenery

 

 So, I had cannibalized these parts from a GW temple of some sort, deciding to make a set of ruins out of some of them, while keeping one set more or less intact. The picture above show the first three stages of recovery.

The image on the left is the dull uninspired original version. The next shows the impact of a fresh, redder swath of colour across the exposed barren surface. The last shows the temple bits highlighted to make them stand out better. After this highlighting, I will add some red/yellow flock to punch up the vegetation, and will no doubt add in the odd shrub that I have converted to a Martian red from the terrestrial green.

Coming soon, but currently a WIP over on the painting and building blog

 

Completely out of the blue with no reason whatsoever, I have suddenly launched into working on this long delayed project. While sorting through my shelves, to consolidate what has been finished, and removing extraneous stuff I came upon the front end loader. Now this was not some great discovery, but rather an item that kept mocking me from its shelf. Well it is no longer mocking me!

Skyrunners and cloudships

This years first major project will be to finish off these fine airships!

 I have a dozen of these poorly base coated models that I am hoping to save, and finish off this year, hopefully in February. Along with these scudders, I have one large cloudship that also needs to be completed.

To build my cloudship, I must first disassemble the skiff

 

I figure the best way to convert this will be to take it down to it base frame.

At long last I have one of these (actually 2 er, uhm make that 3 possibly 4) Okay, 5, but that's it, no more...

 

Almost like the holy grail, to me, I have been hoping to find one of these in a yard sale, or geek store. On a whim, I decided to search online again, finding some on Ebay. Shipping to Canada would be costly, and the asking price after conversion meant they would run $100 or more. 

Then I noticed the Amazon add in the corner, I had low expectations, but decided to check them out, what could be the harm. Well amazingly they had some, and with free shipping it came to $45.00 more or less. Some how I did not realize that these had been re-released last year, more fool me!

Some more, but not as old, Dystopian War pictures

I am looking to get inspired to work on this collection of miniatures. Last time I looked, I had every faction well covered, maybe not every miniature, but disturbingly close... My local brick and mortar did a 50% off deal (maybe even 60%) so I wound up getting a pretty good deal on a lot of this stuff. Not fooling myself, I did spend a ton of funds on these figures, but they appealed to me, as did/do the rules.

Blast from the past, first ever game of Dystopian Wars sometime around 2010-2011

 

Very primitive in every respect. Yes, newly carved coastline, but apparently quickly flocked, no foliage etc. The ships look to have received only a base colour, and oh my that green on the Prussian forces!