tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29991349548066872372024-03-14T08:31:33.697-07:00Andy's Painting BureauThe obscure ramblings of a born again painter and modellerAndy's Painting Bureauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860516962954465157noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999134954806687237.post-52822507688670380982018-04-11T09:18:00.001-07:002018-04-11T09:18:04.206-07:00A Nice Little Extra - Part 3<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well I can't believe where the time has gone with no real progress. But I have returned to messing about with paints and sand and wotnot and made some much needed progress on the 3D printed goodies my colleague created for me. In fact so much time has passed between me starting this article and actually getting to the point of posting that I have only gone and actually finished it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not happy with a lack of depth with my first coats of colour I decided a bit of a wash of burnt umber might help, so much so I slapped it about a bit on the other buildings in the project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">The it was a matter of picking out the brickwork to give it a bit more depth and break up the white.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The bases were then given a liberal dose of fine sand and left to dry off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The door and shutters from the 3D printing weren't all that great in my opinion so a bit of scratch building with coffee stirrers, a scalpel and some brown ink has given me something I'm pretty happy with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">I could have left it at that, but I wanted those little details to draw the eye so put some crumbled plaster at the base of the wall where the brickwork has been exposed. I think it looks well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just need to finish off the ruins now with piles of rubble and burnt beams where it has all collapses inwards.</span>Andy's Painting Bureauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860516962954465157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999134954806687237.post-51434834892572045142017-09-17T06:24:00.002-07:002017-09-17T06:24:44.203-07:0010K !!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am absolutely astounded that I have reached the blogging milestone of 10,000 page visits, though without the weird Russian thing a while back I think I'd only really be at about 9k but I'm going to take it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The numbers were slowly building despite my efforts to take many months between posts but there has been a real rush of late all thanks to your <a href="http://andyspaintingbureau.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/god-i-love-pound-shop.html" target="_blank">love of Pound shops</a>, this has been my most popular post by a very long way with more than double the number of visits compared to anything else I've done, and it's nearly hit a thousand views on its own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By way of celebrating this achievement and as a thank you I've decided to do a little give away. You to could be the owner of a golden Buddha statue from the pound shop. "Ooooooo" I hear you all cry. All you need to do is comment on this post with something complimentary, or even constructive criticism, by midnight (GMT) on Saturday September 30th and I will randomly pick from the comments and then be in touch with the lucky winner to arrange getting it to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It has been pointed out to me that whilst there was some interesting stuff in </span><a href="http://andyspaintingbureau.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/gr-iii-final-shelf-of-discovery-part-2.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">GR III - The Final Shelf of Discovery - Part 2</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> there wasn't very much about the little guys themselves. So, in an effort to redress that oversight, let's have a delve in to the tins and boxes of my childhood obsession with 1:72/1:76/HO/OO toy soldiers, or fine scale military miniatures as we now like to call them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not a singing nun in sight, but maybe the odd bit of edelweiss. I think this might be classed as 'mint in box' as it is all in perfect condition as if you had just brought it home from the <strike>toy shop</strike> military miniature emporium. More details of this set can be found <a href="http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=526" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fallschirmjager on the sprue and with less flash than the ones reviewed </span><a href="http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=49" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by PSR. Another MIB set which may have been worth something before Airfix reissued lots of sets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I didn't have any recollection of these but I must have bought them some time in the early 1980s. Nice sculpting but some odd poses and quite a few of each. The maxims a really nice. More details from our friends at PSR </span><a href="http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=87" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well the one good side of my office move (will I ever stop moaning about it) is that I now have very good access to not one but two of the different British £1 chains, PoundLand and PoundWorld</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, as well as that other fantastic source of gaming junk - Wilkos,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> in fact the only one missing is the slightly undercutting 99p Store. So I was perusing the aisles the other day to get a sieve and some plastic boxes (more of that later) when I stumbled upon everyone's favourite South East Asian god like statue - Buddha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And on a related note to that, one of the stops on our holidays this year was a visit to the volcanic island of La Palma in the Canary Islands which has black sand beaches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">For a change I have not been progressing at my usual glacial pace and have actually got somewhere with my 3D printed gifts. I've based everything on card and built up the ruined buildings a little more to offer some differentiation and to fill in the holes the printing process leaves when it is interrupted mid print.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So with a second coat and 24 hours drying it's looking a lot better, so it can come back in to the house to have some details and aging/weathering applied. Plans include nice tiled floor and window shutters made form coffee stirrers, the 3D pinted ones looked a bit rubbish so have been broken up and added to the rubble box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've always enjoyed playing with fire a bit too much so making burnt beams for the rubble piles was a perfect opportunity to indulge my pyromaniac tendencies, all be it in a very controlled and limited way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Inspired by the work of the chaps over at </span><a href="http://www.inlgames.com/adobe.htm" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">Irrational Number Line Games</a><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> who posted their exploits on </span><a href="http://www.theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=397829" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">TMP</a><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> I recognised the box as one I'd seen lying around in the old office before it was closed down. So with the box recovered I had the basis for my own adobe complex. So whilst SWMBO was watching her soaps or drooling over Poldark I was cutting and sticking on a little table in the lounge, that way I was being sociable by being in the same room (even if she was roll her eyes at my antics).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So there was an interesting news article the other day over on TMP for a range of Arabic buildings to print yourself from Terrain4Print (<a href="http://theminiaturespage.com/news/1858739404/" target="_blank">article here</a>). Now the file is only $10 and the instructions looked pretty interesting, only problem is... I don't have a 3D printer. Nor do I know anything about 3D printers, how they work, how much they cost or cost to run, etc etc. But I do have a colleague who's into all that sort of stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So started to bend the ear of Mr M at work and he pointed me to a very interesting site called <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/" target="_blank">Thingiverse</a> and what a revelation it was, all these free to use 3D print files. Mr M offered to print me a test if I could find something like the building I was describing to him. So I had a poke about and stumbled upon a free sample of the very files I had seen on TMP (<a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2379715" target="_blank">here</a>), Bingo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So a couple of days later I get the call that I have a present waiting for me... A lovely little adobe building in sturdy ABS, minus a roof, doors or windows/shutters but they should be with me on Monday, apparently this 3D printing lark takes quite some time. Now the scaling is a little out, we went for 80%, but perhaps 66% would be closer to 1/72 now I've had chance to measure things properly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now Mr M is a bit of a perfectionist and wasn't happy with the first attempt as it hadn't adhered to the print bed in one corner, the second attempt there was a power problem and it stopped and there was another issue with the third. But rather than just bin them all I sense a ruined hamlet coming on...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A real mix of fantasy figures including Citadels first generation of Lord of The Rings figures (Gandalf riding Shadowfax, Ithilian Rangers and wood elves), Lone Wolf fighting fantasy novel figures and assorted warriors and such.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I spy with my little eye boxes of figures and other goodies. Packed really well as you can see, but looking complete the Airfix Coastal Defence set along with some spare bits (from somewhere) and I think the landing craft is from a Matchbox set, Beach Assault maybe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The final box of our odyssey, is this the one that would this hold the fabled motherload of figures? </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Well judging by the scrawl in the corner (in my Mum's writing I think), YES!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well this really is a blast from the past, my Beano - Dennis The Menace Fan Club membership card and badges (and my elder sisters as well I think), wonder if they are still valid?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My dad used to save old tobacco tins for me and my sister and fill them with coppers (1p & 2p coins) when he used to be away for weeks and months with work. They certainly came in handy for me after the cash was spent</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So there we go, my figures all found, the garage horde all sorted and a mammoth painting project born. I guess I will have to catalogue them all in more detail at some point and perhaps decide what I am going to do with them all. For instance I'm not too interested in Nappies so the boxes of them might go on evil bay at some point.</span></div>
Andy's Painting Bureauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860516962954465157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999134954806687237.post-90495982555064440302017-08-07T16:31:00.002-07:002017-08-08T02:57:05.893-07:00It's Been Rather Quiet Round Here Lately<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So it's been months and months since I published anything on my blog, and to be honest I haven't been following other peoples blogs like I normally do. Work has been busy (and a bit shit) and I think the extra travelling is taking it out of me as well (certainly time wise). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But I also managed to divert my attentions in other ways, over the past couple of years I've lost nearly 5 stone (70lbs, 32Kg) but the weight loss had stalled and I decided I needed to do something more and so I started a C25k programme at my local athletics club with the extra aim of doing some good and raising money for a worthy cause (more of that here - </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/andrew-hume-dd">https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/andrew-hume-dd</a> )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But I'm back now and picking up the different half written articles that have been sat unfinished for months and months, so I'm going to try and blog more whilst also continuing my running progress as I aim for 10k next.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I wanted to start spraying my models (for the big areas) rather than hand painting and making a bit of a mess of them I had decided on starting with the cans of spray from Humbrol as a first tester of the market. If this proved successful and I wanted to carry on I might consider a reasonably priced airbrush set up, but we would have to wait and see about that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So with that decision made for the time my mind turned to where I could actually do the spraying. When I was a youngster and my mother was none the wiser I would do it in my bedroom with the window open and a few bits of newspaper and perhaps a bit of a box to protect the carpet etc. But now I am a responsible adult and realize how much carpets and furniture and wotnot cost there's no way I'll be doing in the house (and SWMBO wouldn't let me with in a mile of the house with a spray can). So the next place to consider would be the great outdoors where there is plenty of ventilation, but that would severely limit when I would be able to do it do to the famous British weather, coupled with living in a fairly rural coastal area with more wind than the big city. So this left the garage which at the time of these thoughts was more than a little messy (see <a href="http://andyspaintingbureau.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/operation-garage.html" target="_blank">Operation Garage</a>) so things were kinda put on hold for a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So that was the base and sides of the of the booth sorted and I needed to figure out how to finish it all off. This went through several variations including using clear plastic dustsheets across the top and lots of other lighting ideas. But eventually (and I mean eventually) I have settled on the following ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With the main body of the spray booth constructed the interior was a little dark and despite the plan for a clear roof it needed more light. The easiest way I could think to get some descent light in there was with some clip on lights you can pick up from most DIY stores and some of the discount shops in the UK. I thought 3 would be plenty, one for each of the sides, with some cheap daylight bulbs (they can be had for as little as £2.99 nowadays).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Getting it stuck together with some weights on top to hold it down, used PVA wood glue as well as staples as they didn't hold it as well as well as I had hoped.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK so those pictures were all taken back in April when everything was going according to plan, though slowly. Then life sort of got in the way and before I knew it we're in August and I spent more time doing Couch to 5k than I have on painting! So with a few days spare after coming back from a nice sunny holiday the partly completed spray booth started to call to me from the garage, or more it was making sarcastic comments to me every time I went in there. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And you know what there wasn't that much left to complete it really, apart from having to clear out lots of spiders and cobwebs</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The lights were glued in place with a little bolt to help keep them in place, the cake stand was glued in the middle as I didn't want it moving around. and I added a bit of a roof as I didn't want stray dust and dirt just falling in if I was spraying.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So there we are, finally completed my spray booth and started to spray stuff. Just need to mask up the Dak and I'll be able to make much quicker progress with the sprays for the two top colours already sat waiting to be used.</span><br />
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Andy's Painting Bureauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860516962954465157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999134954806687237.post-13750282735175564062017-02-02T02:24:00.002-08:002017-02-02T02:24:36.440-08:005k - Another Milestone passed<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What can I say..... Thank you all for stopping by to read my ramblings. I know 5000 views isn't huge by comparison to many sites, and I know the Russians helped a bit when they hit me for several hundred views a few months back, but I don't think I ever thought I would generate so many, especially when you consider how little I post about actually painting and model making.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I promise that I will get back to the painting and making now I have a new dedicated area in the garage for more messy stuff and the makings of a spray booth (more of which in an upcoming post).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So to come we have the second part of the final installment of Garage Raiding, the first part of my N.African/NW.Frontier/Mexican adobe build, the spray booth and I might fully unpack and document the Wild West stuff I uncovered (I think there should be some WWII and knights hiding somewhere as well).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So once again a massive thank you to you all for coming back again and again. I think if I hit 10k before my birthday in the summer I'll see if I can find some giveaways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And so, following the success of <a href="http://andyspaintingbureau.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/operation-garage.html" target="_blank">Operation Garage</a>, I can actually reach the final unexplored shelf and I could quest to find the mother load of my wargaming memories. Stories are told of chests full of toy soldier gold hidden somewhere among the old dusty relics of a house move. so like an slightly agen Indiana Jones I began to climb the rickety step ladder of the ancients (well the previous owners of the house left it behind 10 years ago, to be fair they were quite old) to search</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I started at the end where I didn't really expect to find anything, and my expectations were well placed unless you count boxes of MG and Mini magazines, original sales brochures for the same, a child sized sewing machine (!) and SWMBO's childhood Lego (still with the original boxes).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first finds were the easy low hanging fruit of the search, 3 choppers from the early issues of <a href="http://www.xxl-sale.co.uk/search/?q=Helicopter%20Magazine&campid=5337249842&gclid=Cj0KEQiAhs3DBRDmu-rVkuif0N8BEiQAWuUJr78QO_n-rz1aHQ-tFy4-AF7tItaxq6mHmLK1NBA7Pn0aAqMr8P8HAQ" target="_blank">Helicopter </a>magazine to go with the others already stashed in the new in their new home, a Blackhawk, a Seaking and another Chinook. A good start.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well to be honest it wasn't far off. A couple of bags stuffed with lichen for shrubs and trees, another bag of broken cork and various sized flocked polystyrene hills. In addition there was most of a bag of bright green flock and an unopened Airfix Churchill Mk VII - so one tank rather than some tanks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some of you may recall my recent ranting post about my company closing down my nice seaside office and moving us 30+ miles to a picturesque business and retail park on the M61 (if not you can read all about it <a href="http://andyspaintingbureau.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/breaking-silence.html" target="_blank">here</a>). Well in the interests of reuse and environmentally friendly policies pretty much all the office furniture is being trashed! It's 20-30 years old but really good quality and much of it is still in really good nick, but apparently there is no market for it to even be given away. Mmmmmmmmmmmm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Now my garage has become a dumping ground, it used to be nice and tidy with a place for everything and everything in its place, but things have slipped and it is, quite frankly, a mess. And so my mind hatched a plan of repurposing the office storage for my garage storage, with the permission of the site support manager (well he said I could take a couple of cabinets and a chair if I was discrete). Thus was launched</span></div>
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Andy's Painting Bureauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860516962954465157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999134954806687237.post-12686963975493142922016-10-09T13:58:00.001-07:002016-10-09T13:58:58.237-07:00An Unexpected Find<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well what a turn up for the books. As things have been progressing with my Afghan/North African/Middle East compound (not decide which it is yet, the colour will determine it I think) I had run out of my to hand matchstick pile and so needed to get some more out of my long term storage, or at least where I hoped I had stored them many years ago, namely a big tool box bought especially for figures and painting stuff and shoved in a corner under the office desk (doubling as a foot stool). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">SWMBO has an identical one with card making/scrapbooking stuff in, they were pretty cheap considering the size and have proven to be quite sturdy and up to the job. Anyhow I digress....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">So I dragged out the weighty chest and flipped the first lid and marvelled at the amount of unpainted lead there was (I know a small pile by many peoples standards) and how many of them I had completely forgotten I had.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">But I needed those matchsticks, so lid was closed and I moved on to the interior of the chest. The inner storage compartment was empty of anything of interest, l</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ifting this inner tray away what created my eyes was quite a surprise!! Three 1/72 armour kits I had completely forgotten about, and a bag of primitively finished and unfinished armour, along with two boxes of painted orcs and uruks and a bag of more unfinished lead. Along with a couple of HO/OO railway wagons (for some bizarre reason).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Oh and the matchsticks? They were in the baby brother toolbox which I hadn't completely emptied, or so it appears.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wandered in to the local Home Bargains discount store today in our little town and spy some kits from a manufacturer I've never heard of before, mostly 1/48 aircraft which really aren't my scale. But in amongst them I spied this 1/72 Kettenkrad and Schwimmwagen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With the package safely smuggled past SWMBO and back at the Bureau time to rip of the plastic wrapping and get a look at this mystery kit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well I can't say as I was blown away by how fully packed the box was. As you can see there were 2 sprues, one for each vehicle and fairly small at that, some instructions and a small decal sheet.</span></div>
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Andy's Painting Bureauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860516962954465157noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999134954806687237.post-15056572344042958682016-09-23T16:34:00.000-07:002016-09-23T16:37:42.230-07:00Breaking The Silence<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been a bit quiet of late, what with the holidays and the general business of life, but I haven't been totally idle with The Bureau. So as we trickle towards the 2,500 mark I thought I'd better get back on it and bring you all up to date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">But what I have managed to do is make progress with is the ammo trailer and 25 Pdr.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">I was inspired by the work of the chaps over at <a href="http://www.inlgames.com/adobe.htm" target="_blank">Irrational Number Line Games</a> who posted their exploits on <a href="http://www.theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=397829" target="_blank">TMP</a> and I recognised the box as one I'd seen lying around one of the floors in the office a while back. So after some hunting around the deserted areas (more on that later) I unearthed one and so had the basis for my own North African/NW Frontier/Afghan/Mexican adobe complex. So whilst SWMBO is watching her soaps or drooling over Poldark I can have fun cutting and sticking on a little table in the lounge, that way I am being sociable by being in the same room (even if she does roll her eyes at what I'm doing).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">I intend to do a bit of a tutorial on this build so wont ramble on too much about it here, but....... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">So as I sort of alluded to above we have deserted areas in my place of work because they are shutting the site down having slowly eroded the numbers over the past few years until they could trigger an occupancy review and move us 25 miles down the M6/M61 to our Bolton office (which is actually a business park in Horwich). So my journey to work goes from sub 20 minutes (normally 17 or 18) to north of 45 minutes depending on the great British motorway system. From office views of playing fields, the grounds of a stately home, a few houses, a golf course and then fields </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So this box was only given a cursory check over last time, so I've had a more detailed look inside now. More vintage goodness ahead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">In other miscellaneous bits and bobs there was this shanty hut which I'd managed to spray the interior black, no idea who made it but it's plaster and at least 20 years old (as is most of this stuff). And a bunch of old lead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">With the bureau now up and running I thought it might be time to raid the garage to see what kits I have squirrelled away from yesteryear, along with the various tins of <strike>toy soldiers</strike>, sorry I mean military miniatures. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Peel away the first layer and we find some plastic goodness, along with CarWars Deluxe and Marvel Superheroes. All Airfix stuff, the control tower, a Beaufighter and a Me109, all useful for my desert airfield ideas. The Beaufighter will be interesting as I also have the new tooling version from Airfix sat in Bureau central. Sounds like there could be a side by side build series of articles to me.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana";"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Third and fourth layers reveal more of my roleplaying past, early editions of CoC, Rolemaster, Twilight2000 (from the days when it still felt like it could happen) and 2nd Edition Warhammer, </span><em style="font-family: verdana;">I think</em><span style="font-family: verdana;">. Wonder what ever happened to my 1st edition box set? Plenty of scenario/modules under these and the old cardboard dungeon floor plans. Ahhh the good old days, the smell of nostalgia, or is it just mould?</span><span style="font-family: "verdana";"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Casually shoved on a shelf underneath an old sports bag and some other garage detritus is this little beauty, I think this set was under £10 and has great potential for tarting up as a train from pretty much anywhere - the Eastern Front, the Western Front, North Africa or even the Far East, I'm sure you could even use it for North America as intended.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Tucked away behind this was some serious squirreling, 3 copters from the UK version of Helicopter magazine. Think I binned the mags but the models are all 1/72 and ready out of the box if necessary. We have a Chinook, a Lynx and a Blackhawk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Final box of the evening was a bit squidged but I knew at lest one of its contents. A made up, if slightly damaged, 1/72 Dakota. The wing is now off it and an engine cowl is somewhere amongst the packing, but as this was always intended to be painted up as a crashed plane for a 'Rescue the General' type scenario it didn't matter and only cost a few quid off the bay. Funny it seems smaller than the one I'm currently building. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Nice surprise in the box though, another couple of choppers. A Huey UH-1D gunship and a Wessex I think. These were bargains as I recall, I think the first issue was something like £2.99, the second issue maybe £4.99 and after that £7.99 which for the Chinook was a pretty good deal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">So the final box I had time for I didn't fully empty it, looks to mainly have rulebooks in. AD&D 2nd Ed, Runequest, obviously Judge Dredd rpg, some 80s vinyl, a box of dwarves and some other bits and bobs and rules. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So that the haul so far, if you can call stuff you already own and have done for years a haul! More updates when I get chance to return to the garage and tackle the main shelf, which I know has some of the boss's stuff on as well (childhood lego, still with the boxes and instructions - and she calls me a hoarder!!!)</span><br />
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<br />Andy's Painting Bureauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860516962954465157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999134954806687237.post-7631593280950234012016-07-03T04:19:00.003-07:002016-07-03T04:19:52.326-07:00Birthday Bits<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well another year older and closer to death (as somebody once sang), but a few goodies for the painting bureau received as part of the birthday package (even if I did have to write them down for the boss, and even buy the kits for my boys to give me). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So we have a couple of Airfix 25pdr and Quad kits for my North Africa ambitions. Which, with hindsight (such a wonderful thing), I might have been better going for the Italeri kit having now read some of the write ups and made a start on these kits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Along with the kits there is a set of 3 UniPin pens 0.1mm fine line pens (red, blue and black) and a W&N Series 7 Miniature size 000.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">The Dak is slowly but surely coming on with the huge filling job completed and sanded off. I know that when the undercoat is applied there will be areas which look a little rough, but this is going to be a wargaming piece primarily and not a exact miniature presentation fit to grace the pages of a magazine so I'm not going to go back and refill all the little bits and bobs, then sand again and prime again. Life really is too short. If it's good from a couple of feet then that'll do. Now to mask it all up ready for a spray.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">No progress getting the Tomahawk or Spit on the field at the moment, I need to get to a descent hobby/model shop to get some spray mattcoat which will hopefully take the sheen of them both. For now they gather dust.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">I've already made a start on the first of the Morris Quad tractors and it seems a far more tricky kit than I was perhaps expecting, mainly due to the actual body of the thing coming in several spate pieces which need some fairly precise gluing.</span><br />
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<br />Andy's Painting Bureauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860516962954465157noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999134954806687237.post-3796003859425845132016-06-08T14:15:00.000-07:002016-06-08T14:15:02.582-07:00Mind The Gap<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As those of you in the UK will be aware this past week and a half has been our summer (that's probably it for the rest of the year) and as a result the Boss (she who must be obeyed) found me a different kind of painting job - namely the garden furniture. To be honest it was in a bit of a state after last summers wash out and living outside through one of the wettest winters on record. So it's all been stripped down and repainted or oiled as appropriate. But that has left precious little time for the wee planes. Well that and just getting out and enjoying the sunshine for a change, including a lovely walk up in the Lake District (a must for any of you visiting the UK).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I've finally come back in doors armed with some Milliput and set about the sizeable gaps on the Dakota.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now I'm not the greatest a filling and I think my Millliput is a bit old and had gone a bit hard so I've made a total mess. Hopefully it'll clean up OK and once filed nobody will be any the wiser, hopefully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So any tips anybody has on filling the gaps in model kits would be gratefully received. What tools to use (rather than smearing it in with your fingers like me), best way to mix it, how to keep it moist and usable - that sort of thing.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not sure if just how much filler is in the nose comes across here</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On a side note you may recall I managed to pull half a decal off whilst I was varnishing the Tomahawk the other week. Well I'm pleased to report that my Uni Posca white marker did the trick.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKA5EygOUSx1_osWLxoNp5b0WhfauxC6D12LLvlNNocefuow-DWtnLCasTAOQWeJB5d8o33hS2AWkKiDe0mB1SnEA8qHEeeR4jvThnmqbjZgXU3HdESEdOqPgnWnoK_P_nsjSxjl4BGffF/s1600/20160608_205222.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKA5EygOUSx1_osWLxoNp5b0WhfauxC6D12LLvlNNocefuow-DWtnLCasTAOQWeJB5d8o33hS2AWkKiDe0mB1SnEA8qHEeeR4jvThnmqbjZgXU3HdESEdOqPgnWnoK_P_nsjSxjl4BGffF/s320/20160608_205222.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Took the plunge and spent some money (not very much) on some primer as recommended by those good fellows over at <a href="http://www.theminiaturespage.com/" target="_blank">TMP</a>. It remains to be seen just how much of a hash I make of priming the Dak now. The bluetak (well cheap Sellotape version) is for masking things, a tip I have picked up from the <a href="http://www.britmodeller.com/" target="_blank">Britmodeller </a>site, I'll mainly use it to cover the engines and perhaps the windows, though I may invest in some proper model masking tape for those. The guy on Brtimodeller actually used it to mask out his camo scheme, which might also be an option.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Andy's Painting Bureauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860516962954465157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999134954806687237.post-84939811931067834272016-05-25T13:21:00.005-07:002016-05-25T13:21:49.135-07:00Thousand up!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A massive thanks to everyone who has stopped by over the past few months to look at my attempts to create models, I don't think I expected to reach a hundred views so a thousand is fantastic. Once again thank you.</span>Andy's Painting Bureauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860516962954465157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999134954806687237.post-25122277749832329662016-05-24T15:57:00.000-07:002016-05-24T15:57:07.725-07:00Some Progress At Last<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well it seems ages since I made any progress but I've finally found 5 minutes to pick up my brush, not that I actually did much by way of painting. A second coat of matt to try and kill the shine, don't think I had mixed it enough the first time, hopefully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A word of warning and a lesson learned, make sure you don't get varnish on your fingers and then handle another model with your finger on the decals. Where there used to be an 'F' there is now a couple of blobs of white! Oh well I suppose it's a chance to use my white Uni Posca marker for the first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I even managed to spend a bit of time sticking some wings on to the dakota. Had to do some hacking to get them to fit even acceptably, never mind well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the subject of priming I have to offer thanks to the folks over at <a href="http://www.theminiaturespage.com/" target="_blank">TMP </a>for their help choosing a descent primer spray at a sensible price.</span>Andy's Painting Bureauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860516962954465157noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999134954806687237.post-73615363645084488492016-05-11T07:01:00.002-07:002016-05-12T02:39:29.034-07:00Brush, Spray or Airbrush?<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I try to find an opportunity to actually finish the final touches (mainly varnish) my first models for many years and resume work on the Dakota I have been musing which approach will suit my needs best for future painting projects. My brush work on these first two projects has been pretty poor if we're honest about it (but lessons were learnt) and with the prospect of the much larger surface areas of the dak awaiting me I wondered if getting an airbrush would/might be the solution. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I haven't done a great deal of reading up on them so far, but what I have read makes me wonder if I would actually benefit or if the thinning down and cleaning would mean the novelty value would wear off pretty quickly and it would end up clogged up and abandoned in a drawer. Then there is the cost... You can pick up the actual airbrushes quite reasonably, but are the cheaper ones actually any good, but then there is the compressor and other paraphernalia to consider. I have got a birthday coming up which might cover all this though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The other option which occurred was to use the hobby aimed aerosol cans from the likes of Humbrol and Tamiya and others. Now these aren't hugely expensive individually, but I'm sure the cost would soon mount up when you need 2 or 3 colours plus primer and then varnish. Coupled with the fact not all colours are available (well in Humbrol at least, I haven't investigated Tamiya in that much detail).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">On the other hand I could just carry on as I am and stick with a good old fashioned brush job (perhaps with cans of primer and varnish).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">So any experiences or advise you might have would be gratefully received, I've seen some amazing work from many of you so would value your opinions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Cheers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Andy</span><br />
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