I made a bunch of GHQ paper buildings and some more of IanH's paper buildings recently.
I put together this photo set of step by instructions for how I built them. Hope you find them helpful.
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Building IanH’s 6mm Cognac paper houses
I finally photographed the two IanH's 6mm Cognac paper houses I built awhile ago.
I printed the house, cut out reinforcements for the walls using thin styrene sheets, then glued the paper to the styrene sheets using rubber cement. After I put it together, I used styrene square tubes in each corner to reinforce it. See the next picture.
For the roof, I reinforced it using two really thin styrene sheets on either side of the roof, then glued it to the tabs I left from the paper around the walls. I am not satisfied with how the roof went on and need to glue them better in the future.
Looking at one of the houses from the bottom. You can see the thin styrene sheets I used to reinforce the walls and roof. After I put it together, I reinforce it by gluing styrene square tubes to the styrene sheet walls in each corner with Krazy Glue. The tubes were a pain to cut with a scissors, so next time I plan to use an L brace instead.
IanH's paper models are free and fantastic. The only complaint I had was with the model on the left. It looks to me like the sides were swapped and if you built it by cutting out in one piece, then the ivy on one wall wouldn't match the next one around the corner. To get it to look right, I had to cut each wall separately and then glue them together in the order I thought they should be in.
On the first day of Christmas
For Christmas, my wife was kind enough to get me a set of C-in-C miniatures, including my first World War 2 miniatures:
- 10 Soviet T-34D tanks
- 3 Soviet KV-1 tanks
- 5 German Panzer 3m tanks
- 5 German Panzer 4g tanks
- 3 German Stug IIIg self-propelled gun
- 4 Dutch Lynx Recon vehicles
- 4 German Leopard 2A5 (Improved) tanks
As always, the quality and detail of them was astounding. They proved to be quite clean and had little flashing. After cleaning them, I primed them with a gray spray primer. For the Soviet vehicles, I then sprayed them with Tamiya Olive Drab (TS-5). I fear that they are too dark and the fact that it was 43 degrees out today probably didn't help. A bit of dry brushing with a lighter olive drab will hopefully help.
I look forward to trying them with Fistful of TOWs 3 or Kampfgruppe Commander at some point.
Half way there … again
My miniatures seem to be always half done, i.e. primed or with a base coat, but no camoflage or detailing. Unfortunately, my recent activities haven't been helping with that issue. I recently primed/sprayed a base coat on the following miniatures:
2 F-104 Starfighters (Viking Forge, I think)
2 A-7 Crusader IIs (Viking Forge)
2 F-4 Phantoms (Collectair)
2 Mig-29 Fulcrums (Luftwaffe)
2 Lynx helicopters (GHQ)
1 A-10 Thunderbolt II (C-in-C rebuild, amazing what crazy glue and spray paint will do)
6 Soviet 160mm mortars (Viking Forge)
5 TPZ Fuchs (C-in-C)
5 M105 Deuce Bulldozers (GHQ)
On the plus side, I was able to build two very cool paper buildings. More on those and other buildings I am working on later.
Priming and base coats done for a bunch of 1/285th scale miniatures
I finally got around to spray priming/basecoating a bunch of my 1/285th scale Cold War-era miniatures including:
15 Dutch YPR-765 (GHQ)
5 Dutch YPR-765 TOW (GHQ)
6 NATO M106 SP mortars (GHQ)
2 Soviet 2S6 AA (PFC C-in-C)
18 AMX-30 (PFC C-in-C)
11 Chieftains (GHQ)
10 Warrior IFVs (GHQ)
3 Central European apartment buildings (? resin manufacturer)
The British vehicles had already been painted various non-standard paint schemes, so I simply sprayed them with Tamiya Olive Drab 2. The Chieftains and half the Warriors haven't been touched in about 26 years.
The other NATO vehicles were primed in a light gray, then sprayed with Tamiya NATO Green. The 2S6s were primed as the NATO vehicles, then sprayed with Tamiya Olive Drab 2.
The buildings were simply sprayed black. I am getting tired of monopoly houses as my principal residential structures, so I may concentrate on my backlog of buildings before everything else.
Happy Gandhi Jayanti 2011!
Nearly too late on this, but October 2nd is Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, which is a national holiday in India called, Gandhi Jayanti or sometimes Ganghi Jayanti. Since 2007, October 2nd is also International Day of Nonviolence. I leave you with Gandhi's seven social sins (Young India, 22-10-1925):
Politics without principles
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
Some progress on Star Bright
With Ravenstar's new Mauridian star ships out, I started updating my Star Bright star ship fleet combat rules. I liked some of the card based command/action systems out there, so I borrowed a few ideas and set to work. Not complete yet, but the basic mechanics are fleshed out.
A new terrain table method?
Too Fat Lardies had a good description of the terrain building method they use for quick games at their Lard Island News blog, I rather liked their method since it looked more natural than the flocked styrofoam hills on a cloth method I have been using so I tried it out:
I setup a slide show with shots that show what I did step by step. Enjoy!
It just struck a nerve with me …
A girl wears a Syrian flag painted on her face during a demonstration against the government of Syria – From Al Jazeera's May 10th Syria live blog. May the universe protect her and all who struggle for freedom in our world.
Modern Distractions
Removed the flashing from a bunch of cold war 1/285th miniatures and glued them:
15 Dutch YPR-765 (GHQ)
5 Dutch YPR-765 TOW (GHQ)
6 NATO M106 SP mortars (GHQ)
2 Soviet 2S6 AA (PFC C-in-C)
18 AMX-30 (PFC C-in-C)