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Murder chickens are almost half done. Dinos themselves only need eyes and base rim. Riders are still monochrome.

 

Winged prime and some brains are finished.

 

Three facehugger wannabies are done. This one was quick

 

I went to modellers club today! After being stuck in traffic, I arrived, varnished couple of models, preshaded rhino and while airbrushing it, moisture filter got so overloaded that airbrush basically started spraying rusty water on model (yeah... that is a thing). It took us half hour to fix the issue. But I managed to spray rhino in the end!

 

I am now proud owner of 10 more Hirst Arts molds (13 in total). I found a guy who was willing to sell me his old ones, so I got reasonable price. Kiddo is getting interested in plaster blocks, so I think that in couple of months he'll be helping me make some buildings and ruins. Worst part will be to find a place to store them

 

I made few casts and selected couple of blocks that are gonna be used a lot, like window arches and small supports to make my own molds so I don´t have to cast default molds that many times just because I want to have more windows. I bought new silicon as the one I used all those years ago was not stretchy enough. First mold was partially successful with couple of spots of uncured silicon that I corrected by directly applying catalyst to spot and working it into mush. It hardened all right in the end and I fully blamed my inexperience with said new silicon. Also plaster is kinda porous and silicon held those parts really strongly to a point where corners stuck in mold and I had to use xacto to piece them and remove them, so I needed to find solution to this.

Today, I made two more molds (one again for arches and windows, one for floors). I coated plaster masters with dilluted PVA to redue porousness and I stirred silicon really well with catalyst to prevent uncured spots and went on with a day. Couple of hours later I found out that I have uncured spots yet again... I am starting to blame silicon itself...
Maybe next time I try to mix smaller doses.
Right now, uncured spots are treated with catalyst again and I try to demold masters in the morning.

Also, those 3 molds took 4/5 of silicon package, so I have enough to one half sized mold... I think I´ll use it on roman collumns.

 

I am stuck at home office for couple of days as my car started acting funny and is currently being repaired. Since I didn't anticipate this, I left paints and everything at the office. So I at least made few casts of various bricks and started laying it around to get the idea for first house I would like to build. Couple calculations and I should have enough material after 6 casts of 6 molds + roof and planks on first floor.

Edit: and chimney, so possibly one more cast for that.

 

Great to see you working on scenery pieces

Grrr, !mrahil

 

Thanks I did few in the past, but curse of living in small appartment is that there is not enough space to have much of the scenery that I would like.

 

After some more thinking, I decided to go for square house as my first build.
I have building plan for all layers laid out and already started gluing. Everything on photo below is glued.


Bad news is that this is all the bricks I have right now, so now comes big waiting. I have to cast more and then wait few days for them to completely dry out.

 

Day of majestic hobby break. I had 3 hours today, so I spent 2,5 of them casting and last half hour cleaning.
I have enough for about 6-7 more layers.


Next time I cast, I'll need mainly roofing and wooden floor.

 

I finished neurogaunts (those small buggers that I used for testing of paint scheme. I bought another unit for final display). That was another 11 models. Only 14 more to go.

 

Modellers club today. This time I was not painting, but casting remaining parts for house. I was getting dangerously low on dental plaster, so last three molds were only roof tiles with technological pauses to get them dry... Plaster run out when I was single cast left! I am not exactly sure what to do now as I am missing 2 inches of roof...

 

Allrighty, another bug done. 13 more to go.

 

Fantastic job with the Tyranids so far
Look forward to seeing how your terrain building comes along.

 

I woke up early, so there is some building to do.



And I am going dangerously low on bricks, so I might be ordering that dental plaster soon after all.

 

Lets get more bugs done. And I really have to bring skink riders to work, so I can work on them.

 

Von Ryan's leapers finished. I might take a week away from tyranids now






edit: Darn! I need to add grass again

 

Whole family is sick (and I am slowly getting there too), so I am stuck at home. No paints, no models (yeah, I finally brought murder chicken riders to the office just to left them there) and no spare dental plaster.

So I glued everything I could. House now has removable floor, fireplace and one roof wall.




And I have only two miscast bricks left.

 

While selling more of my untouched stuff, I found Power Axe praetor from Age of Darkness box I bought last year. Since I tried to sell him twice and nobody wanted him, I forgot about him. Until yesterday. He went from this


To Lord of Contagion