Alien plants

Alien plants made from Banksia.

Wood and weathering

I was asked several times what wood I use for my fences and how do I weather my wood. For fences I use "Carnival Woodcraft" matchsticks (2 inches long) from local Sydney craft shop. But you can use simple matchsticks as well. 

For weathering I use Agrax Earthshade mixed with water. Hope that helps. If you have some questions about materials and paint color I use please write to fjodin - at - hotmail.com (Bear in mind that "at" means @. I just dont want web-bots to spam me)

New Tile

My previous tiles were made of 1 foot cork tile glued with custom made MDF tile. My idea for using additional layer of MDF was to make tile stronger and prevent warping, but this MDF increaced weight of tile, so transportation of 16 tiles to local club was very hard work :) So I decided to make new type of terrain tiles, from 1 layer of cork! New tile was very light and its not waprs. I nearly finished flocking the tile and placed my recently finished terrain pieces on it for photo purposes.

15mm fence section!

Just made a 4 inch long 15mm fence section!

Aircraft stand

Aircraft stand made by Daniel Mitchell and flocked by me.

Whats on the Workbench?

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Ottoman Commander or first head-swap experience! - part 2

Just finished painting mounted Ottoman army commander from this guide link . This is Peter Pig British mounted Sergeant with Egyptian head in Fez from this amazing range link

Aether ship "Prince Alberth"

British aether ship "Prince Alberth". Originally its a plane I bought at one of the Sydney markets. Its made from  two types of bullet cartridges. 

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Ottoman Commander or first head-swap experience! - part1

I was very pleased with "Peter Pig" Ottomans/Egyptians. I love their sculpts and variety of poses, but lack of regular cavalry and mounted commanders upsets me. So I decided to make my first head-swap ever! I was worried a bit, but procedure appears to be quite easy, so I made step-by step guide. In this guide I show you all steps of creating a mounted Ottoman army commander.

Firstly you need to buy a pack called "67. Mounted Brit cavalry  sergeants" and take the guy on the left of the photo. Horses are provided separately in four poses, so you can choose the horse for your future army commander.

Then you need to use very sharp modeling knife to cut his head off. Its not very difficult procedure and metal is very soft and easy to cut.

Then you need Ottoman head from pack called "24. Fez Egyptians" of this range 

http://www.peterpig.co.uk/range6.htm

Then just use superglue to glue the head to the body of rider. You can use greenstuff to fill some gaps.

Creatures and toys for 15mm!

I've decided to show you some toys which can be useful for 15mm. I took Irregular Miniatures 15mm "FZ103 British Bluejacket in straw hat" from Colonial range for size measurement.

Waterloo Boy toy. Gift from Barry S

Giant Scorpion. Originaly key trinket scorpion from Australian Reptile Park

( http://www.reptilepark.com.au/ )

And repainted version :)

Toy frog from local toy shop.

Toy ferret from same toy shop.

These 15mm gorillas are not toys, but 15mm.co.uk minis from Fantasy range (http://15mm.co.uk/552_Ape.htm)

Fun with matches!

My first 15mm scenery made from matches! And also first real wood painting experience.

Booth. I made cheese from greenstuff and then painted it.

Crude medival table.

Sculpting bases

After I saw that one wargamer on Lead Adventure forum have svulpted a wooden floor base for his Wild West female character I've decided to ry sculpt my own wooden floor base for Assassin figure from 15mm.co.uk fantasy range ( http://15mm.co.uk/506F.htm ). On my photo you can see that different parts of base have different "completion" status.