That's it then for this week, thanks for taking the time to read. I'll also take this opportunity to welcome another follower Gordon Richards who has the very interesting blog "I have wrought my simple plan". They're for my other on-going gladiator project and can be seen on my other blog HERE In other news, I'll be continuing to make HVAC type things for more roof-top furniture for next week and I've managed to pick up a paint-brush and paint a couple of figures (though not zombie related - they're not even human!) as I've been feeling a lot better lately, despite some more unexpected, very minor surgery - These are the first figures I attempted since March (and my painting hasn't improved any). Hopefully you can see that I have managed to vary the colours slightly.Īnother view - slightly more boring than the last Here's a view of several of them on the terrain used in my last scenario. One - so there will be no more camouflaged roof hatches in the future!īoring roof-top view (try and spot Sid to relieve the boredom) They're nothing to 'write home about' really as they're just boxes packed with a bit of foamboard with a card roof added I did manage to make another seven giving me a grand total of eight - halfway to what I need to give each tenement So here's another view of the finished piece, its footprint is about eleven inches square and is about 5 inches in height.Īs a bonus, whilst waiting for glue to dry, prints to arrive and so on, I got to work on some more roof exits for my tenements. I'm sure that there are many manufactures who make much better resin versions of these, but alas as in many things their cost to me is prohibitive. For my purposes they're fine as they are, didn't take too long to build and besides I've got another batch already printed out.
I do reckon that they'd be fairly easy to make from scratch as they're basically just boxes, but adding the detailing is a pain. These once more have at least a semblance of an intersting shape to them, even if it's just an extra angled bit tagged onto them. The two HVACs on the left could just as easily be electrical cupboards too, but basically they're just more roof furniture (and cover). The angles nature of this model made it quite difficult to pack out with foamboard for strength (Damn you sausage fingers!) In the photograph Sid is having to hold up the vent as it's top heavy and not stuck down. The one shown on the right is fairly recognisable as a typical air, one which would be equally at home on the side of a building as well as the roof. Some however do have interesting shapes to them giving a bit of variety. Most of them the HVAC units are of the basic cuboid box shape (as shown above) and hence are fairly easy 'builds', even if I do tend to make them look like they've been built by a five-year-old! I did scratch-build some HVACs and made some card ones for roof furniture quite a while ago, but as my city has grown the need for more has of course been quite apparent as the roofs of my buildings are almost devoid of anything vaguely interesting.Over time I've also accumulated more card buildings from various sources.