by Peter Ball | Mar 10, 2016
I picked up a pack of hypersleep/cryosleep chambers from Antenociti the other week. They should add a nice Alien vibe to my on-again, off-again spaceship board project. Lovely size they are, and nice detailing without being over-ornamented. Nifty things with a broad...
by Peter Ball | Mar 4, 2016
Nothing could be simpler than knocking up an adobe village. Even better, provided you minimise the detailing, they're suitable for all sorts of locations: the Middle East, Mexico and the south-easterly portions of the USA, even the desert planet...
by Peter Ball | Mar 2, 2016
To go with the adobe village I'm working on, I decided to spruce up a larger building I had mostly finished a while back. I'd never got round to finishing off the ground, so with a few coats of brown, a bit of a drybrush, and some greenery, it's all done, and ready to...
by Peter Ball | Feb 29, 2016
I hope by the time you read this I am not being savaged by a cold. I had last week off work, which was very helpful in getting Dad's present finished. Naturally, having to that point avoided the deadly cold which had been slaying (well, inconveniencing) people in this...
by Peter Ball | Feb 25, 2016
So what was I playing at by posting a picture of a brown car on a brown board? I was making a model railway for my Dad's birthday. I'm too technologically inept to have worked out how on Earth to wire it up properly, though I spent several hours in failed attempts,...