Hard To Get The Race Time

As I've said before, December leading up to Xms is not my favourite time of year. Xmas Day is fine; good food, family visits and presents are all great, but December 1st up to 24th can relegated to the 5th level of hell for all care right now. Scrooge-esque rant over, back to painting, modeling and gaming.

My copy of Gaslands turned up in the post a few weeks back and I've finally had achance to sit down and read it properly. Needless to say that this game has been on my radar for a while now and in the New Year I'll be breaking out some cool new scenery and a stack of custom cars and bikes to tear up the gaming tables with. For now, here's a few pics of the cars in question.

This has also been my first attempt at using weathering powders. An interesting experiment, but I'm really happy with the results.

I've also managed to squeeze in a game of 40k. I'm really enjoying the new system and it's given me some really cool ideas regarding what I want to do next. I've been busy with some more scenery for both 40k and Gaslands when I can get time, but also tinkering with the Night Lords Terminator scrap build project I mentioned sometime back in November. Alas, no pictures for now, but after Xmas I'll have a host of cool pictures and maybe even a Gaslands Race report to show off.

Thanks and Merry Xmas/Happy Holidays to everyone out there. See you in the New Year!

Dino Dealings

This has been an insane week. Christmas in work is in full swing and there is no end in sight, but my Boss decided to through one last spanner in the works an conscript me and a few other members of staff into helping with a birthday cake. Nothing a team of trained chefs, artists, sculptors and creatives can't handle you might think, well that's before we were told his plan... a dinosaur themed cake, with eatable dinosaur surrounding an erupting volcano AN ACTUAL ERUPTING VOLCANO CAKE! All to be finished a round Christmas bookings and general mayhem.

Let's do this!

So between all of us, the work was divided up and we got the supplies. I was tasked with sculpting a T-Rex and a Pterodactyl from modeling icing. This stuff is a million miles from green stuff (not just because green stuff isn't eatable) It cracks, it sweats, it sticks to everything it shouldn't, it generally doesn't behave like anything I've actually sculpted with up to now. Still, I'm a fast learner.

My mistake at this stage was thinking that the icing would actually defy gravity as well as my known sculpting knowledge. Over night the T-Rex became a little.... depressed.

A little work and a few candy sticks, I was able to get the king of the dinosaurs to a more upright position. Once I got him into work, it was time to put all are collective efforts together. I got to paint up all the dinosaurs, whilst the rest of the team worked on the base and volcano.

A little colour and these little monster really came to life. It really was a team effort for the final hours of construction and decoration. Thankfully I didn't have the headache job of transporting it to the birthday party, but in the end it made it much to the joy of the Birthday Girl.

The final touches....

This was an interesting side project to work on. definitely something new as I've never had to sculpt with food safety standards in mind, though the icing was a pain to work with. Until next time.