More stuff from nowt (Part 2)

We've been watching a Brit drama series called Happy Valley that's based in Halifax, which is a couple of miles from where we lived in the Uk so I've found myself becoming incredibly "Yorkshire", hence the "nowt" in the title (which for all you none Yorkshire speakers means "nothing")

Anyway here's the second installment of my "somert fo nowt" (or something from nothing) post - Ruins. As Ash and I got into Frostgrave I decided to build a ruin, which I posted about a while ago. Then Scott got me thinking about making some Osgiliath/Ithilien ruins so I set to with sharp knife and scrap poly and hey presto, more ruins.

Beanomir still searching for that elusive "precious"

"Oi Sean..... er I mean Beanomir don't go in there, you might get jumped by a Hobbit"

Beanomir continues to wander about, bloody hell Sean it ain't in there!



Posing dramatically!

"this looks a bit like the pub!"


"I know, up them there steps, thats why the pie shop....err I mean the ring is"

"Yup definitely in there" and the strange Yorkshireman marches off on to the moors for a ramble!

And here's the latest batch of recycling all together. I do have some more ruins in the pipline and I may have to build something that is a little bit more 3d, do we can play on different levels.

Warlord Games British Paras

And finally Bolt Action had acquired a little momentum down here in Kiwi land and as such I thought I'd finally out paint to brush and get my paras done. These were the very first Bolt Action minis I ever bought back when it was just a miniatures range and Alessio was still dreaming up the rules. At the time I was looking fir an alternative to the nightmare that had become GW and these guys were just singing out to me from the shelf "buy us and read Pegasus Bridge !"

So I did and the rest is history so to speak.

Anyway here's a small squad with Vickers MMG in support. I have to say I'm happy with how the dennison smocks came out and also the mustachioed medic who looks quite distinguished don't ya think?

Because I enjoyed putting these guys together so much I decided I needed more, luckily the redoubtable Mr Bowman has decided to set himself up as a Warlord Games trader (seeing as there are no actual games shops in the Wellington region anymore) and has become the go to guy for all us big kids who need our fix of hobby related plastic krak, and therefore I placed a request for some more of these chaps to round out my platoon. Now I just have to paint them!


Also here's a bit of a work in progress shot, after all the Paras have to have something to capture!

My never ending quest to turn junk into something useful (Part 1)

I know, I'm cheap. I'm also a bit of a sustainability nerd and can't abide throwing away something that can be reused. So as you can guess my garage is slowly filling up with stuff that falls into the category of "ooh, that could come in handy".

The easiest stuff to find a use for is polystyrene packaging as it's just a few minutes work to hack it up and make it into some simple terrain! And so I present the hills of Cha'ick'caratharan (I figured they look a bit fantasy hence the dumb name!)

Left over poly, old hard board and some bark chips from the garden. PVA, beach sand, cheapo artists acrylic and then flock so all in all about $2 to make both hills. Obviously it took time as well but it was fun and who can put a price on fun!

Beanomir searching for a pint and meat pie.....err I mean the ring! (Everyone's favorite Gondorian Yorkshireman included for scale purposes).