But first, before the mountain...

 

For this Tuesday, a post apocalypse city ruin for apes and humans to explore. A simple 2' x 2' board, so far. Maybe add a another foot to two sides to bring it up to a 3' square. Of course three more squares would give a nics big gaming ares...

We all go a little mad sometimes...

This is more than a little mad, I am not so much teetering on the brink, but racing on the down slope towards insanity. I have started to build a 4 panel arctic mountain game table, four 2' x 2' boards. Two will have a large hill/mountain on them, one will be a shoreline and the last one will be rough ground with a bit of a rise on two edges. They will be interchangeable to some extent, not 100% but enough to offer some variety. The elevated area will be 18" long leaving a scant 6" edge, or a 12" valley if the orientation of the boards is altered.

My typical spreading out of all items of potential use, and a bit of a mock up, sketch out of plans. The four L shaped bits are from a previously abandoned project, they are more or less straight edges and the original plan was to use them to facilitate the lining up of the corners. Plans changed.

I now have decided that the boards do not to be fully interchangeable, so I do not have to match up all four boards. The two mountain squares will still be able to match up with each other just not with any other boards that I might make. The other two boards will be able to switch places and that will give me enough variety.

However as I started working on the big boards a bad idea entered my head. I have now decided to make the mountains hollow to allow for some set up inside.

So the WIP shows my very rough assembly. I had drawn up a basic plan, but with the decision to make the mountain hollow out went those plane to be replaced with nothing but hit and miss almost random placing of items. Oh I have laid out some items that might fit inside and I am trying to leave my options open for what could go in, but I am flying by the seat of my pants for this.

The madness part of all this is not the building of it but the fact that I want to get this built and painted this week in time for Tuesdays posting. Not only that but I am at the same time working on a butte for Mars, a Planet of the Apes board [2' x 2'] and 50 figures for PoTA, 50+ arctic figures and another 50 figures for Mars. Not all can be done this week. At very least Mars will have to wait. I should be painting my arctic figures but instead I have almost finished off 28 apes.

Final pic for today. You can see that I have also cut out panels so that one can reach inside without removing the top and one can also have something extend under both mountain areas.

Number 9 now posted

 

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Nazi she wolves, Dr Who Ice warriors and Martian tripods among other things on view.

The big thing that got done was a super figures Gorilla robot that I have tried to paint for a few years. Well it is done now, not perfect by a long shot, but it is table worthy.

 

Analogue painting challenge, post number 8 now available to view

 

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As I said over on the Analogue blog it was an off week. What saved me were a few items that I had started and a few items that just required a little paint to finish off. The Titans had been base coated the previous week, so it was the detail work that needed to be done. 

The problem was that I just did not have it in me until maybe Saturday, so a whole bunch of days were wasted. The buildings were supposed to be a quick job, but then I started to apply more paint, more colours and they became a much bigger task to complete.

The titans themselves were a challenge due to their detail, which I worked on for some and ignored on others. I did not go super fancy on them, there are no banners, no flames, just basic colours albeit with highlights on certain parts.

 

Cheap FX just like the old TV show!

Post number 7 now up at the Analogue hobbies painting challenge

 

 

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Ever fine that sometimes when you open up a comic what is promised on the outside is not delivered on the inside? Well, 'Big Red' and "The Robot' did not make the cut this week, but fear not, next week we visit Altair IV which is also a planet of robots, so we will see if we can't add them into the mix there.

Next week, Eldar Titans, Robbie, those 13 robots I said I was painting at the start of the challenge (and that I did not) and maybe a trip to a second planet...

 

 

 

Painting challenge post number 6

 

Click  HERE for post number 6. I suspect it will be my last big post as even though I am retired it is rather taxing to paint up that much stuff in one week, every week. It is cool that I have had a steady increase in my output week over week, but enough is enough I fer what quality I have is being impacted by the speed. Also while I really do thrive under pressure it is having an impact on me. Too many late nights are running me down. Then again where I normally might just slough off a project, procrastinate and avoid it, with this challenge I just keep going, and in fact push past fatigue to reach a target.

Now technically this target is a self imposed target and all I should care about is getting done what I want to, but I cannot deny that trying to get as much done to get as many points a week is part of the motivation. Oddly enough, I am not trying to beat everyone, and I would be perfectly fine should someone end up with more points than me. That said my average output has been just under 460 points per week, but that average should drop as I plan to cut back a bit, I repeat, plan to, we shall see what the future will bring.

Up next will be a visit to the planet Cybertron:

• Dystopian War robots of all sizes
• Dr Who 'The Robot' and UNIT troops to fight him
• A giant red gorilla robot
• Maybe some giant 6mm robots (if I can find them) 

There is a chance I may also visit Krypton, in which case I would be adding a lot of Old Glory super figs, but I may just wait until the following week to post them.

However, up first will be a general cleaning of my painting table and room.  The clutter and confusion is slowing me down this,

has to be cleaned up, now!