Christmas has been and gone – and quite a long way by this point – but having gone a little crazy with the catering, both the other half and I have been munching our way through festive snacks for the last several weeks now.
And the best thing about Christmas snacks? Well, for a wargamer with a keenly developed sense of thrift – the packaging.
What we have here is the packaging insert from a pack of Bailey’s chocolate fingers – a most sinister invention, being yummily moreish but also infuse with just enough alcohol to get you gently pissed, making it physically impossible to eat just one.. this particular box lasted just under ten minutes and almost provoked violence over who got the last one.
Nonetheless, after I’d talked Louise into putting the knife down, I was left with a Very Interestingly Shaped Piece Of Crap, which I duly mounted on some leftover ePVC as a base, glued in place with some UHU, bevelled the edges and primed grey.
As you can see, we essentially have three factory buildings joined together with seriously heavy duty pipes and each one sporting a helipad – having primed grey, I splodged heavily thinned yellow and brown paint over the top, gave the whole thing a thin black wash when dry, and then applied a light (ish) bone drybrush – yep, we’re leopard spotting again!
The pipes got a gunmetal coating and you can see a few accent details picked out hither and yon, along with landing markers on the helipads and a bit of sponge chipping on the bit of packaging that got squashed – that’ll be battle damage then, or the consequences of Imperial austerity…
I painted the base brown and layered up the flocks and dried earth/ cement dust before sealing the whole thing with watered down PVA and hitting it with some varnish – and there we have it, a cracking little objective piece for the next time Waagh-Bozzhog give Hazzard a call, or indeed for the next phase in our ongoing alt-hist Star Wars saga…
So, pics to wind up:
As always, stay thrifty, Slava Ukraini
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