Wild West Archive

  • In a few hours I’m heading off to Wales. My good friend Mark is getting married to his fiancée, Marie, on Sunday, and I’m the Best Man. Needless to say, I have been worrying myself silly trying to write a speech that’s not going to send everyone to sleep. The...

    Too few tanks: Auf wiedersehen, folks!

    Posted on May 23, 2012 | No Comments
    In a few hours I’m heading off to Wales. My good friend Mark is getting married to his fiancée, Marie, on Sunday, and I’m the Best Man. Needless to say, I have been worrying myself silly trying to write a speech that’s not going to send everyone to sleep. The...

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  • Today the temperature fell, so instead of sawing in the garden, I have begun work on a long-considered project: a Wild West river board. I made the bridge for this ages ago, but only acquired the 2′ by 4′ chipboard the other day. I marked out where I wanted the...

    Too few tanks: Big Board: River, Bridge and Hill

    Posted on March 30, 2012 | No Comments
    Today the temperature fell, so instead of sawing in the garden, I have begun work on a long-considered project: a Wild West river board. I made the bridge for this ages ago, but only acquired the 2′ by 4′ chipboard the other day. I marked out where I wanted the...

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  • Today the temperature fell, so instead of sawing in the garden, I have begun work on a long-considered project: a Wild West river board. I made the bridge for this ages ago, but only acquired the 2′ by 4′ chipboard the other day. I marked out where I wanted the...

    Too few tanks: Big Board: River, Bridge and Hill

    Posted on March 30, 2012 | No Comments
    Today the temperature fell, so instead of sawing in the garden, I have begun work on a long-considered project: a Wild West river board. I made the bridge for this ages ago, but only acquired the 2′ by 4′ chipboard the other day. I marked out where I wanted the...

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  • Everything here needs some little touch-ups, but is largely completed. There’s a two-foot long rampart for snowy landscapes, a Hellhound I finally got round to completing (yes, it needs some mud) last night, a shed/toilet for the Wild West, and a building (storehouse? Access to an underground complex? Scientific laboratory?)...

    Too few tanks: Works on the desk right now

    Posted on March 22, 2012 | No Comments
    Everything here needs some little touch-ups, but is largely completed. There’s a two-foot long rampart for snowy landscapes, a Hellhound I finally got round to completing (yes, it needs some mud) last night, a shed/toilet for the Wild West, and a building (storehouse? Access to an underground complex? Scientific laboratory?)...

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  • Everything here needs some little touch-ups, but is largely completed. There’s a two-foot long rampart for snowy landscapes, a Hellhound I finally got round to completing (yes, it needs some mud) last night, a shed/toilet for the Wild West, and a building (storehouse? Access to an underground complex? Scientific laboratory?)...

    Too few tanks: Works on the desk right now

    Posted on March 22, 2012 | No Comments
    Everything here needs some little touch-ups, but is largely completed. There’s a two-foot long rampart for snowy landscapes, a Hellhound I finally got round to completing (yes, it needs some mud) last night, a shed/toilet for the Wild West, and a building (storehouse? Access to an underground complex? Scientific laboratory?)...

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  • Yesterday I did my general burble about relationships. Over on the exquisite Roundwood’s World I saw a grand link to Wordle, a site which analyses everything you’ve put up in the last however-long and makes a “word cloud” of it all. You might see one for here soon, you lucky,...

    Too few tanks: Hills, a frozen pond, crates and more bits and bobs!

    Posted on March 2, 2012 | No Comments
    Yesterday I did my general burble about relationships. Over on the exquisite Roundwood’s World I saw a grand link to Wordle, a site which analyses everything you’ve put up in the last however-long and makes a “word cloud” of it all. You might see one for here soon, you lucky,...

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  • Yonks ago I left a water tower unfinished as I lacked PVA glue, and I left a bridge unfinished because I needed a base for it. Well, one of those situations has been rectified. I thought I had a base for the bridge, but it turns out I have made...

    Too few tanks: Back to the West: more Wild West terrain

    Posted on January 25, 2012 | No Comments
    Yonks ago I left a water tower unfinished as I lacked PVA glue, and I left a bridge unfinished because I needed a base for it. Well, one of those situations has been rectified. I thought I had a base for the bridge, but it turns out I have made...

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  • Per ardua ad astra, as they say! I was a bit over-eager with the grey moon here, and didn’t allow the GS to set, so it came loose. I shall have to get some more GS or similar before I can fix that problem. I have given the Plumbing Planet...

    Too few tanks: A shack, a tower, a moon and a planet!

    Posted on December 30, 2011 | No Comments
    Per ardua ad astra, as they say! I was a bit over-eager with the grey moon here, and didn’t allow the GS to set, so it came loose. I shall have to get some more GS or similar before I can fix that problem. I have given the Plumbing Planet...

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  • Having knocked up a few fighting compartments for the Basilisks, I ended up with several very bare sides for the fighting compartments. What do real SPGs have? Stowage and boxes for stowage on the sides, of course. So I took a couple of bits of Lego (pics 1 & 2),...

    Too few tanks: Undefined Advances

    Posted on September 29, 2011 | No Comments
    Having knocked up a few fighting compartments for the Basilisks, I ended up with several very bare sides for the fighting compartments. What do real SPGs have? Stowage and boxes for stowage on the sides, of course. So I took a couple of bits of Lego (pics 1 & 2),...

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  • Well, less painting, more staining. I hit both of these buildings with my usual grey Halford’s primer, but balsa gets a bit fluffy when you do this. So I then started diluting paints and using inks and washes to help flatten out the surface texture a bit. It’s working quite...

    Too few tanks: Shack and Sheriff’s Office: preliminary painting

    Posted on September 21, 2011 | No Comments
    Well, less painting, more staining. I hit both of these buildings with my usual grey Halford’s primer, but balsa gets a bit fluffy when you do this. So I then started diluting paints and using inks and washes to help flatten out the surface texture a bit. It’s working quite...

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