Citadel SJS & K9 & Black Tree 4th Doctor

 Finally got round to painting some old Citadel Miniatures Sarah Jane & K9 & a Black Tree/Harlequin 4th Doctor (even though I know I should be finishing the Pub!)

I haven’t painted this version of the 4th Doctor in any particular costume, I just went with something that feels right 😁

Quick update on the Pub

 I’ve got the pub put together & the roof on.

Dormer windows are glued on & just the roof tiles to do now 😔

Also experimented with  creating a frosted glass window

Pub for the Harbour

 

I've decided that the harbour village that I've slowly been building needs a pub to fill the empty space in the bottom left corner of the above picture.

This is the rough design that I've come up with (drawn the wrong hand though 🙄😂)

The next step was to design the windows & facade for the pub. I did these as a standard pattern for windows & doors, which meant that I could remove the side columns as necessary. 

I contacted ks_creation on eBay (who I get the windows from for the other buildings) & asked if they could make them to my design & luckily for me they sad yes.

This is the front 3 sections built & ready to add Cills & Headers & be rendered, I've added another door from the original design & the roof will be different as well.

FIRE UP THE QUATTRO

 Got an Audi Quattro From Kore Aeronautics Via Chris at Sally 4th.

Its a 3d resin print, so I gave it a wash & a quick rub down all over 😏 before applying any paint.

Then just painted it red!

The Number plate is a bit of plastic with a paper printed number plate glued on

Gene Hunt & Alex Drake For Pulp Alley

 The next Pulp Alley games day is going to be Detective Duos, so I thought that I would like to do Gene Hunt & Alex Drake from The Ashes to Ashes TV series.

Problem was no-one makes the 80's version of Gene Hunt or an Alex Drake, so I looked at whats available & went with the Geezers Shut It range of figures from Killer B Games.

They have the 70's version of Hunt & a Female Figure called 'Sporty Girl' which I thought would be a good donor figure

Gene Hunt & Sporty Girl from the Killer B Games Website

I had found the picture above online & decided to try to make the Killer B Games Miniatures 

look like the characters in the picture!

Gene Hunt was the easiest to convert as all he needed was the tie, the lapels on the coat & shirt trimming down to be a bit more 80's. 

I also had to lengthen the coat & add a belt, I did this with some Brown Stuff & a bit of Green stuff to tidy it up.

The 'Sporty Girl was more of a challenge. The edges of the shorts needed trimming off to make them look like the jeans.Then the top of the socks needed trimming back & a trainer details cleaning off so that I could make them look like the boots.

The bottom of Her hair also had to be cut back as well & the hand on the hip, detached from the hip.

The next Job was making the leather Jacket, this I fashioned from Green Stuff, followed by Green Stuffing some Hair.

Then it was a case of basing them & Flinging paint at them.

I also picked up a Policeman with Truncheon to use a Level 1 Backup, but I didnt do any converting to this figure just painted it up.

 Overall I'm happy with how they came out.

Small Warehouse finished

 It’s taken some time to get around to painting the Warehouse, but it’s finally done. 

I've the same colour palette as with the other rendered buildings. 

The Doors Still open & close, Just! 😂

For the mossy roof i used a mixture of AK Interactive mossy deposits & Vallejo Slimey Grime Dark & normal paint just dabbed on

Scratch built 28mm Scale Small Warehouse/Workshop

 I decided I needed another building, this time a small warehouse or workshop for the docks, with sliding front doors & a wrinkly tin roof. 

I started the same way as any other building with foamboard walls & a card roof

I doubled up the roof though with a mounting board inner that fits between the walls & a thinner outer that just sits on top of the walls.

This was so that when the wrinkly tin roof panels are added they sit reasonably flush with the roof

The base is a sheet of plasticard with milliput rolled out and stamped with bricks. The brown bricks are standard grey/yellow milliput with a bit of brown stuff added, i really like the colour & wished i done the same with the forecourt

The building was the 'Rendered' inside & out with a mix of powder filler & PVA to get the right consistency, then rubbed smoothish with fine grit sandpaper (same as the last building!)

The Wrinkly tin is made from beer cans & I used my fancy new Green Stuff World Corrugator tool  (rather than the old block of wood with nails glued on it that i used to use!)

I will carry on with the build in my next post

Lead Adventure Forum Build Something Contest Building Revisited

 I originally planned to make this building in February 2024 for the LAF Build Something contest. 

I had it all designed & the walls cut out.

Then i thought it would be a goo idea to put the impact driver bit through the forefinger of my left hand & of course it went septic & I couldn't use it for about 6 weeks, which stopped any hobby related modeling completely.

So nearly 2 years later I thought that I'd better get off my arse & finish it 😂

I finished cutting out all the windows & doors, then got all the walls glued together. 

The Doors, Windows, Head & Cills were all added next, then followed by the Yard floor & some paving round the front.

Then built the roof & Chimney, adding barge boards & Fascia's

Then using a mix of powder filler & PVA rendered the building

I wasn't entirely happy with the yard floor so I cut It off & made it the same as the Garage floor.

I needed to a Lamp to go above the doors so this building could be used as Police Station, I had already glued magnets into the walls to allow it to be removed.

I had been given a 3d printed Lamp already & needed to make a gallows bracket for it sit on.

I cut a piece of metal from a coffee tin, drilled a couple of holes in it & glued in a bent piece of paperclip. I then bent more paperclip to look like a scroll work infill

The building was all painted in various shades of Beige Brown & the roof a slate colour, with the doors & windows in Black

I will hopefully be using this with the Tenement Building & Quay in the upcoming Pulp Alley UK Games Day