Kira's Club Terrain - A Spring Clean Challenge

Well, I did write an entry last week about the pledge for this week but it appears it never made it to the servers as it’s not around here now.
Perhaps I failed to get it submitted, perhaps the Gremlins where particularly angry or maybe Tom just hadn’t feed the hamsters on time that day.

Either way, I’m just going to write this entry on what I did last week and how it compared to what I wanted to get done. I’m channelling my inner Gerry and doing what I want because you can’t stop me.

I’m sure the power won’t go to my head.

Ooooooh boy. This one nearly broke me… I’m not kidding.

This one was a challenge. I have mentioned before that the finer textured parts of these kits are laminated mdf with the top layer painted and then texture laser cut into the surface.
This can make some of the finer bits liable to come away if handled a bit roughly. As it turns out, for all the red brick work pieces in this set, a bit roughly equates to breathing a little too heavily in the next room over.

I spent so, so much time finding individual bricks on my cutting mat, having to reach for the glue and try and get them back onto which ever part they had fallen away from: assuming I found them at all.

Anyway, it’s done. I think I am ready for something different next week and to take a break from this sort of thing. I’ll definitely come back to these but once the frustration has worn away.

Yep, I finally made the time and space to sort these out.

For those just joining us, I had to solve the issue of the horses in the Riders of Rohan kit from GW not fitting into the bases provided for them. The pegs on the horses hooves are just way smaller than the holes for them.#

To solve this, I decided to take a mix of miliputt and green stuff for no other reason than I have heard quiet a few people more talented than me recently talking about how this gives a happy medium between the two: being softer than green stuff itself but less crumbly than just milliput.
I’m not about to start sculpting custom kitbashing or anything but hey, how often do you have an excuse to mix up two part epoxies without just throwing them in the bin when you’re done.

Not a full review but yeah: it was smoother than miliputt when it was all mixed up but not quite as stiff and dense and green stuff. Not exactly revolutionary for this application but would recommend.

A quick walk through of the steps I took in the gallery above:

1. Prepping the parts to mix up. much squishing and rolling and folding to occur.
2. Next I stuffed the holes in the base with a wad of the mixture…
3. …before filling it over, getting the horse set into the position I wanted and clearing away an excess that squished out in the process.
4. As is always the case you have to mix more than you use when doing this but I decided to go all in and use the excess to fill out the space more of the same. I simply took what was left after the more precise work, rolled it into a sausage and cut it into roughly equal parts and slapped it in there.
   These modes are fairly tall once they have a rider mounted on them and given the lack of clean connection these are going to have this should help to bring the centre of gravity down a bit.
5. And this was all done six times. Done.

Glad to finally have these done. Now to annoy someone for a learner game of MESBG.

The next-next post will be the Pledge for Week 04. Hopefully I’ll appease the server’s machine spirit this time and it want disappear into the void like last time.

But the next post is a bonus post. What could it be? Who knows?
Well I do but I’m going to make some dinner now and then hopefully write up that one. Or maybe you’re reading this in the future and you can go read it right now. The wonders of the internet, go you.