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I am on a bit of a scenery kick at the moment and got talking to a professional Architectural Modeller about making trees at the Salute show recently.

The guy was extremely helpful, showed me some trees he had made, which were the best ones I saw at the whole show, and as he also does it for a living, I thought his advice well worth taking.

He suggested I get a 'Low Temperature' Glue Gun - apparently similar to a standard Hot Glue Gun but less dangerous and the glue sets quicker, and for hobby stuff is perfectly adequate.

Now - I have scoured internet and shops and seem to only be able to find cheap and nasty looking small ones under £10 and then they go right up to much much more expensive.
There are some I have seen in the £17 - £30 range which look like they have a temperature control, which might be advantageous as you could use it for DIY or jobs that do require something heavier duty.

I am really looking for recommendations from people who actually have a Glue Gun and have used it regularly with success.

My hobby and gaming stuff has definitely suffered over the last year or so. The gaming buddy across the road moved further away; eldest son lives 120 miles away and comes home for fleeting visits and I cannot remember the last time I played a full game of warhammer.
This hasn't stopped me buying minis of course,    but with no gaming there has been even less incentive to build and paint, and as regulars will know, I need little excuse NOT to paint.

So I examined what chances I had to get some gaming in and I realised that my potential opponents had the same problem as me - time.
The days when my neighbour would come over at 7.00pm on a Friday evening and we'd play 2000pts with a few beers and pack up on turn 4 or maybe 5 at around 11.00pm, or my son and I would start Saturday morning and run a game all over the weekend had gone.
My best chances were some sort of game that would last from around 30 minutes to an hour and a half.

So what had we got?  Mordheim obviously, and then I have dabbled at Saga and quite like that, and Legends of the High Seas was quite fun a couple of years ago.
I have the Legends of the Old West, plus supplements of Blood on the Plains, and The Alamo, and I have some cowboys and indians, - and then recently I have been quite taken with Muskets and Tomahawks and the French Indian Wars figures and scenery.

So what we needed was a 4' x 4' or 1200mm x 1200mm board - an adaptable board to allow me to play some of these games on it.

I already have several square scenery bases with ruins suitable for Mordheim scattered around my gaming room, and these are all on something like a 6mm thick board, so I wanted a lip to hold the bases in place and stop them getting knocked.
New bases could be made to be used for more normal land.

So I had a board cut and lipped it, then I decided to paint it blue for a water effect.



So I had the sea or water, and now I needed to make some raised sections to give me varying amounts of land.
So I got some sheets of quite thin mdf board - around 2mm and cut them up into 300 x 300mm squares, and a few 300 x 600mm rectangles.
Getting them cut accurately was quite a task and I never got it exactly right.



Then I got loads of polystyrene and glued it to these bases and took a knife and hot wire cutter, and trimmed the edges, and then with a wide scraper smeared filler down the sides .............

....... and then realised it was bloody useless as none of the edges were straight. The polystyrene was very difficult to cut neatly and there were all sorts of gaps when I tried to put the various bases together in any sort of pattern.

 

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I have posted in the CT where it should really go, but I though a quick thread here might be good, as I know a lot of members like their stuff

http://www.gamezoneminiatures.com/tienda/en/

40% off is pretty good - I haven't tried an order out yet, but I will soon.

 

Not sure if anyone else has been following this on Warlord Games site - their sculptor Wjotek has been running a simple 4-part guide to how he did a gladiator.

Part 1 Tools:   http://www.warlordgames.com/13021/sculpting-101-part-1-tools/

Part 2 The armature:    http://www.warlordgames.com/13021/sculpting-101-part-1-tools/

Part 3  Starting the Gladiator: 
http://www.warlordgames.com/15848/sculpting-101-%E2%80%93-part-3-starting-the-gladiator/


Part 4 Finishing:   http://www.warlordgames.com/22283/wojteks-sculpting-101-ends/

So you obviously need some talent, but it does give you an idea of what's involved. 

We recently had a discussion about plastic printers - now we have this ............................

Apparently 0.1mm accuracy - a lot closer to GW quality and probably better than finecast 

http://hackaday.com/2012/05/10/and-so-the-deluge-of-resin-based-3d-printers-begins/


Also for about £200 you can get 0.35mm plastic printers.

I'd be interested to see what TIny has to say on this too.

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Just had the weekly Warlord Games email - thought some of you might like this.

http://www.warlordgames.com/18097/new-warlord-games-firepower-lights/



Just need to do some sound effects now ...........

Many of you will have noticed that we are increasingly being plagued by Spam members and posts.

We have been monitoring the 'new' members and getting up to 30 a day of which 28/29 are spammers.

We have therefore decided to introduce an approval system for new members - guests trying to join will have their registration interrupted and an email is sent to all the staff - much like when a member hits the 'report' button.

Staff are directed to a link where they can see the prospective new member and if they think it is genuine they can click an 'approve' button.

To all guests who may read this we wish to say that this is not what we wanted, but the sheer volume of spam is ruining our genuine members enjoyment and we feel forced to act.

If you have been browsing the site already I am sure you will feel it is worth a bit of a wait to get approved.

Our staff coverage across the globe and time zones is pretty comprehensive and we hope that in most cases genuine applications will be approved within a couple of hours.

 

Aeronautica Imperialis

Has anyone got involved in this - know how it works.

I am led to believe it is airborne conflict at EPIC scale?