Smoke. NO not that kind.

I saw a post on one of the forums that I regularly visit that intrigued me.  How to make cheap effective smoke.  I have seen cotton balls, and steel wool.  I have even seen someone who painted up great stuff for his counters.
This is my take on it.  I am going to take my cue from the makers of Flames of War.  The answer that I am going to try is wool.
I start with four different colors of yarn.  If I was going to really produce this for game play, I would play with the colors to get the right look.  Since this is a test I used two strands of gray and black yarn, and one each of red and yellow. 

You separate the yarn into individual strands.

I used a dog brush to brush the strands out into individual fibers.  If you do this with a large bunch of different color strands it mixes the colors for you.  I brushed the fibers out and fold them over.

I then glue the smoke onto a per-textured base.  This can be used as is or it can be teased out with a dental pick or other tool.

 













That is my take on Smoke.  I think that if I do this for regular use counters, I will use more strands of black and gray.  That would get the colors more like smoke and less like fire.  Hope you like.
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Late birthday pressie

My wife sent me on a little plane ride for my birthday.  Had to wait for them to come back from their tour.

Inside had more room than I expected.

Low Level over the Superstition Mountains.

The B 17 was an option, but I love smaller planes.

All for about the price of a ticket to Vegas.  If you are in the Phoenix AZ area and interested, the fees go to maitnance, and upkeep of these flying museums.
Commemorative Air Force AZ.
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A couple of projects.

Just a quick update.

I am working on my Halloween decorations again.  I used a great corpsing tutorial.  Here.

This was the end result.  I actually had a sheriff deputy come over to see what I was doing while it was drying on my front porch. 

 

I also started on a zombie horde base.   I ordered some 120mm beveled edge bases from Privateer Press and added sidewalk texture and details.

Here are two test shots with the zombies in place.  They are a mix of Reaper, Victory force, and Studio zeds.

All I got right now.
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Halloween.

This is the holiday that we go nuts on.
I found this link.
Instructables
And bought this plastic skull for $3.00 us at the dollar store.

 Once I did the eyes, I used a dog brush to shread three colors of yarn.  I soaked this in wood glue and slapped it on the skull.

Nice and meaty.  After all the glue dried, I gave it a coat of future floor polish to give it that glossy freshly skinned look. 

Kitty approves.

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Easy birds

From Andy Slater at Terragenesis.  I saved it a while ago.  When I went looking it was not on his site so here it is.  Useful little toot.  

Worthwhile tip.
Update.  Found the location of his original file.
Original article

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Coin Laundry Complete

Here it is. Some action shots first for scale.  Studio, Reaper, Hasselfree and Tengu models. 

Exterior shots

Interior shots

 

Hope you like.
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Coin Laundry WIP

Finally getting off my butt and working on some zombie terrain.  My coin laundry.  Just finished filling the gaps. Did a custom molds for quite few of the small parts.  Building is stripped and embossed foam core. Hope you like.  Will get images of the completed building as soon as I finish.

 Hope you like.
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