I've finally got a layout!

After much poncing and suggestive moving of buildings by my wife we've finally got the layout sorted for Saturday. Just two or three more things and we're in great shape :-)

And of course the figures, it wouldn't be a game without the figures but they are not coming out till the day (the are too bloody many).

I'll leave some piccies for now but will have a more concise post after the big day.

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Even more Salute progress

Of a sort...

I've slightly changed the arrangement of the building bases to better fit the ever so slightly differing sizes of them.

Just one wall top to paint and put on along with the wooden supports at the rear and the water to paint and thats the boards complete. I've still got a few things to finish that will go on top. A simple base for the shrine to sit on and some more walls for the poncy houses.

I'll hopefully get a chance to take some decent photos on the day before the madding hordes decend but I'm sure (hoping) there will be plenty of photos on the net afterwards.

Salute progress

Just a quick post to say that the layout for the samurai game is pretty much sorted and the pictures are below.

The third main wall needs completing along with the land across from them. The three white patches are imprints of three building bases that I'm borrowing back from a good friend.

I'm hoping that there's enough time left to make it look finished ;-)

Salute releases

I've got a new range of Victorian character buildings due out at Salute and the first is a pump house.

Quite a large one but it has a removable roof and the chimney is unattached, there will also be a large door option so it can be used as a train shed or some such.

The kit comes unpainted but primed, flat packed with enough tile sheeting for the roof and separate windows. The price is £65 and it comes in at 225mm long, 120mm wide, 130mm high and the chimney is 270mm high.

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Work on the Salute board

Progress is slow but this isn't a huge issue as I'm fairly comfortable with the amount of work left to do.

I've completed the first castle wall section and I'm quite pleased with the result. There are approximately 480-500 separate tile elements on the wall top so I'm going to be casting it as I don't fancy doing that again no matter how much I enjoyed it the first time round.

The stone wall is laser etched MDF painted in a suitable Japanese castle wall colour (with some help from my wife).

Once another one is complete (after the bank holiday) I'll take some more comprehensive photos to better illustrate the scale and size of the wall.

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Better late than never...

Although sometimes that's not as good as it sounds :-)

Unfortunately work commitments have prevented me from doing what I like, which is making things (even though I make things at work :-/ ) but the time has come to start getting ready for Salute. Fortunately most of the work is done so its just a few finishing details, a set of castle walls, a few more building bases and we're good to go.

I've been working on and off on three new bases to go with the ones I already have. I'll also be borrowing some commission ones that I made a while ago from a very nice chap to fill the spaces.

These three bases are more high end merchants house/shops and this is evident from the high proportion of tiled roofs. About half of the buildings are from my catalogue and the rest are scratch built using the same technique and style as the masters from the catalogue ones.

There are still a few details to go at the front, like stalls and benches but they are pretty much there. I didn't really take any wip pictures and until mobile blogger allows you to put pictures in the post content rather than at the end we'll just have to have them at the end.

More to follow on a regular basis as the big day draws closer.

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From the Back of Beyond

I've already posted this on the LAF but I'm putting it here for completeness.

It's a small Chinese walled compound or farm utilising the two Chinese buildings that are currently available from my catalogue (there will be more at some point soon). It could be used in any Chinese action and I'll probably do one for myself for the Boxer Rebellion.

The walls were scratch built but they are along the same lines as some wall masters that I have on the workbench. The buildings were painted in an off tan colour (Foundry American Tan I think) for the walls and a grey for the roof and then given a wash with a wash I've made up from matte medium, flow improver, some water and a couple of dashes of Vallejo inks (green, brown and a bit of black). Drybrushing was with Foundry Canvas light.

Typical groundwork and growies all round with part of a lager model tree stuck in the back to help give it it more of a setting. The figures are from my Boxer Rebellion Japanese range.

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