I've been working on a few buildings recently. One piece is a generic office block for our club games, the other a specialist mini diorama for Arctic Strike in April.
The office block started as a Hovels Russian block of flats 9R/300 from their 1/300th range. This may be old model as it does not have the quality of detailing and sharpness of casting found with manufacturers such as Timecast. That said there were virtually no bubbles or blows to clean up and the base had been trimmed nice and flat. After mounting on an MDF base painting didn't take long, the fiddliest bits being the windows. Subconsciously I've used the same colours as the Hovels model on the website! The hedge is pan scourer painted green. All I have left to do is add some cars and make a suitable looking company sign.
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The field repair and maintenance section for my soviets is intended for the Arctic Strike game at Crisis Point 2 in April. I've tried to show the maintenance section utilising an abandoned farm or industrial site. The open fronted shed is scratch built from plastic card, the railings are N scale fencing and the tree home made using Woodland scenics tree armatures and foliage. The tanks are Scotia that I've had lying around for ages so I'm not sure of the codes.
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. The vehicle towing the tank is a Scotia M1977 Arv(RM0067), although I think it looks like a BTT1.. The other recovery vehicle is a Scotia T55 ARV(SM0066). Still need to add some figures and camo net over the Scotia Ural 375 with the workshop Body(RM0071) and it's completed.
The office block started as a Hovels Russian block of flats 9R/300 from their 1/300th range. This may be old model as it does not have the quality of detailing and sharpness of casting found with manufacturers such as Timecast. That said there were virtually no bubbles or blows to clean up and the base had been trimmed nice and flat. After mounting on an MDF base painting didn't take long, the fiddliest bits being the windows. Subconsciously I've used the same colours as the Hovels model on the website! The hedge is pan scourer painted green. All I have left to do is add some cars and make a suitable looking company sign.
The field repair and maintenance section for my soviets is intended for the Arctic Strike game at Crisis Point 2 in April. I've tried to show the maintenance section utilising an abandoned farm or industrial site. The open fronted shed is scratch built from plastic card, the railings are N scale fencing and the tree home made using Woodland scenics tree armatures and foliage. The tanks are Scotia that I've had lying around for ages so I'm not sure of the codes.
. The vehicle towing the tank is a Scotia M1977 Arv(RM0067), although I think it looks like a BTT1.. The other recovery vehicle is a Scotia T55 ARV(SM0066). Still need to add some figures and camo net over the Scotia Ural 375 with the workshop Body(RM0071) and it's completed.