Month: December 2022

With the zig finally and definitively off my plate, I was surprised how badly I wanted to build something else. I figured I’d spend a

I was going to skip the oil wash, but then I looked at the doorways next to the walls and changed my mind. There really

Necessity. Invention. Cheap and lazy. Same coin. There’s no point in storing a bunch of clay rubble that’s just going to get progressively smaller until

Started on the small scale scatter to go with the zig. Still need to build the doors and a few pieces of cover, but it’s

Finally. fucking. finished.

It started out OK, but that shit went sideways with alacrity. I spent the next 2 hours unhappy with the sooty mess of it, so

Guard buds and lava falls glued. They’re messier than I like, but not terrible. You really can’t tell unless you’re right up on them, and

Seriously. WTF was I thinking? Oils take for. freaking. ever. to dry. Hit the final dry-brush layers and sealed everything with matte medium. So ready

After dry fitting the lava buds, I don’t think stanchions or columns are necessary. I need to be careful not to screw up the paint,

TIL that I’ve loved Vallejo paints longer than I realized The Vallejo-Safranek marriage started the new business. They set it up in the garage of

Whelp, the clay is on. It took for-freaking-ever, but I think it was worth it. I started gap filling with plastic putty; it should work

Finally made it to the final stages. I finished cutting the corners and did a final seal of the edges with exterior PVA and heavy