Tag: 15mm
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3D Modelling Roundup
I enjoy modelling buildings and vehicles in Blender for use with 15mm wargames. My “current” project is a series of vehicles based on the British CVR(T) family. They’ll be pressed into service as last-minute production vehicles to serve alongside my PAU infantry in a far flung colonial war, but more on that later. Right now,…
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Terrain and Miniatures
Over the weekend I applied a stippled paintjob and some half-assed weathering to my recently printed 15mm buildings. I need to add further details to make them appear more lived-in, but at least they’re now acceptable for the tabletop. The larger building off to the right is a Norman house from Patrick Miniatures. I still…
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Scattered Terrain Sunday
I spent some this morning catching up on the prep for a few terrain elements: First up are these pre-fab dwellings that I designed in Blender. The design is modular, so they can easily be re-arranged or new elements introduced. One key point for me is that the interiors are fully playable as I want…
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Sci-fi Rice Paddies Get Wet
While taking stock of my grass tufts this morning, it was evident that I only had enough to sparsely plant the paddies, and one unit would have to be done with mixed colours. Oh well, I suppose the mixed tufts could represent plants of varying age, or some that have already been harvested. I mixed…
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Sci-fi Rice Paddies
For years, I’ve seen the complaint online that hard sci-fi wargaming is just “Vietnam in space.” Pffft, whatever. I like “Vietnam in space.” Of course, the bog standard Terran rice paddy won’t do for my war torn colony world. Instead, I’ve designed and printed a sci-fi garden bed, or aquatic planter, or… Rice paddy :p…
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PAU Infantry Test
Having recently based a platoon of PAU Infantry from Ground Zero Games, I figured I should do something productive and carry out a couple paint tests to determine what the force will look like. I was initially thinking I’d do something akin to a (very) simplified DPM. The end result was the bloke on the…
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ESU Infantry Lightbox Test
Desiring a countertop-appropriate “studio” solution that could be broken down and put in the closet, I purchased a cheapo light box from Amazon. It came with a variety of coloured backdrops, of which the blue was pretty much guaranteed to never get any use; I cut off the upper and finished the lower portion using…
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Painting my “Not-BMD”
It was with bated breath that I approached my Mars 2 Pro as the first of my “not-BMD” print runs lifted from the resin vat. Unsure as to the orientation I should use to minimize warping, I had laid out three vehicles worth of parts at various angles (~30, 60 and 90 degrees to the…
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Making Tanks
I’ve always had a thing for the Russian Airborne’s BMD and its derivatives. Only the Russians would pack so much firepower into such a tiny package and then toss the damn thing (while crewed!) out of an airplane. As I’d finally made a concerted effort to sit down and learn Blender 2.8 during lockdown earlier…