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January 27, 2016

Orc archers and warriors completed .. almost.

I have nearly finished painting some orc archers and some warriors.

Some of them required conversion work as repairs.

I haven’t painted faces or eyes.. these are strictly table top standard miniatures.

Anyhow here is the link below

It includes alot of these… trying to get painting pelts dome correctly… look around the collar of his splint mail suit there is a fox like pelt attempt there.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o75/Martin_Ellis/Martins%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings%20Minitures%20Photos/IMG_1867.jpg

Enjoy

January 27, 2016

Beakies new hands

I got this figure who has a beakie helemet… and he looks great.. but like alot of the figures you get they often are missing thier hands and spear.
So I made some.
There pretty rough.. but they are tatty gloves and anything rough on a orc looks fine.
Everyone should start conversions with orcs… you can get away with faults.

So I drilled the arms and bent some florist wire and Super glued them in, after test fitting of course.

beakies hands

Mixed some hard green stuff and sculpted as well as I could in place.

The polystyrene rod is 1.1mm diameter and works well.
I have tried brass rod and even tooth picks but after shelling out some money on propper Poly rod stock I have to say I love it. And it glues so well too.
Anyway.. about eight years ago I made some weapons parts from DAS (which is very good polymer clay from NZ) I had a tri fork I made roughly and I decided this guy was going to get it.
Total pin to attach… I was going to socket it.. nope that didn’t work. tried wrapping paper sleeve.. nope. In the end it was a big blob of super glue and three windings of copper wire strands.

the ugly attachment

And he looks .. good!
He looks good.

And the figure finished prior to basing material being added and static grass…

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o75/Martin_Ellis/Martins%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings%20Minitures%20Photos/IMG_1849.jpg

And the completed model

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o75/Martin_Ellis/Martins%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings%20Minitures%20Photos/IMG_1852.jpg

December 16, 2015

Static grass applicator made from electric fly swat

Ok getting pissed off because every time I insert pictures it removes all my typing.. I typed a grand explanation as to how I built my electric fly swat static grass applicator.

It works fine.. except.

I want to put a DC supply into it but this might not be so good as it restricts movement.
Use good batteries.
Make the ground link wire light and flexible and reasonably long. I used wire to stiff and it occasionally tips over the base your working on.