Tales of a hobby butterfly
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About the Project
Turns out i may be a hobby butterfly freshly hatched from my chrysalis of denial. This challenge started with the intention of completing a project i started many years ago when i purchased advanced space crusade. Turns out i am now massively into rebasing my epic collection on washers so they dont slide around everywhere im not sure where my hobby time will take me next. I have recently noticed that when i start a project with enthusiasm i take my time and enjoy what i am doing but then when a new shiny catches my eye i rush through the project to try to get it done as fast as possible so i can start the next thing. So i think the project will now be reduce the pile of shame but in my own time and pace, i can always go back to a project when the enthusiasm returns which it always does.
Related Genre: Science Fiction
Related Contest: Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2023
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Painting some evil minions for advanced space crusade
The gaunts and gargoyle miniatures were painted a long time ago when I was about 13 rather than repainting them just gave them a quick bone drybrush and some strong tone wash
The hybrid orks are 3d prints, the rules are set so you can use the miniatures frome space crusade as mind slaves but thought it would be cool if they were aliened up a bit.
The space men with bolters are substitutes for mind slave chaos marines
Huzzah the idea worked
Smooshed some paint on the short buildings this evening 
Will they fit in an A4 box file?
Bam 💥 town in a box Splashing some paint
Squished on some paint with a sponge, mixing blue, white, black and sand
Once that dried I went over the wood with burnt umber, followed by an off white drybrush.
Last but not least using watered down black acrylic I black lined the wooden beams and frames.
Tomorrow night I shall add doors and glass to the windows and work on removable chimney stacks
Adding some bits and bobs to the foldable buildings
Thought it would be cool to add some stone walls.
Hunted out some scrap foambord and marked out the bricks with a pen then using a ball of tin foil rolled it over the board to give a stone texture.
Using a hot glue gun the wall was stuck on then cut coffee sticks up and glued them on as well 
To give the walls some texture I coated the plain areas in textured basing paint
Strips of scrap card were then cut up to make roof tiles
Then stuck onto the roof panel and coated in PVA to hold it all together
Double checking that the building still folds down for storageBellonsville cheap homemade foldable buildings of doom
Been getting interested in guards of traitors toll but am lacking in space to store a town full of buildings.
So have decided to work on some scratch built fantasy buildings using scraps and bits and bobs from the wobbly wobbly craft pile of doom.
The main plan is they will need to fold away for storage.
If anyone fancys a go at making some for their own town the pdfs of the templates I came up with are here
These are the basic shapes I came up with the roofs are separate and the upper buildings walls fold in so the building can be squished flat
The houses fit nicely on A4 this was them all marked out before cutting out with a super sharp knifeAt the moment they look pretty plain the next step is to add some texture with the help of coffee sticks, some textured filler and some plastic packaging windows they should look a bit cooler.
They are held together with blu tac which is not ideal, Rhi had the great idea of using velcro pads to hold them together so am going to pick some up and try that after work
I think the plan at the moment is to make 5 to start with, will try adjusting the height of the lower section so they are not too uniform, also may be able to make single story houses just by using the top part. It
It has been quite useful having a paper mock up that I can choose bits off or add bits too before chopping up the card sections 
Added some dry wall tape to give the folds inside a bit of strength, on the outside edges I added a layer of masking tape
Blobs of sticky velcro to hold it all together
Making plans for a single story hoise
Bam 💥Bam slapping paint on the empire
Had 2500 points of empire of man for the old world built and undercoated for a while now.
The soldiers are from a kick starter oakbound studios did a while ago a few 3d prints of older models have been scattered in as champions
Was having a real problem deciding what colours to paint the dapper chaps in pufling pants, so decided to ask on the house of water discord the first answer was almost instant from Gerry with Averland so that solved that.
It was then time to hunt out the yellow and black speed paint.
I believe Averlands banner should be a big red sun but went with a griffin as the unit has the griffin banner which increases the rank bonus, I think the only way these dudes will survive is by getting as big a rank bonus as possible to help win or draw combats.
Got distracted again...
Thought I would be cool to add gaunts ghosts to the 69th hamfists, so chopped some heads off and rolled up some green stuff
Painted up some tank support as well, had these built I'm a box for years one of them is a lemun russ from the first plastic release so that one is the tank commander. Went with a simple single colour scheme rather than cammo so I could get them all painted quickly rather than sitting in a box looking grey.managed to get these tanks done in two evenings. 
The 69th hamfists are slowly growing to its former glory, having sold off my old forgeworld army these plastic kits are fantastic no more fiddly lasguns to snap Having an epic day off with tiny orks.
These little chaps gave me something to do on a damp afternoon.
2 squads of 5 ork bikers
A squad of buggies and another squad of boar boys.
Speed paints are great for models of this scale.
Now these units are done I can treat myself to painting up a gargant which I have been looking forward to
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