@SkelettetS - Cheers. The Knight terrain has been pretty poor for lasering quality since it was first put out, but has apparently improved a lot over that time. Still, the quality control isn't great, but at least their customer service department seems to be on the ball, even if it takes time for the Spanish post to get items places.
I built a few more bits and got foiled in my attempt to build more - my SWAT van joins the complaint to Knight list as integral parts weren't cut through. Not seeing a Starfire replacement in the post yet either, but I'm hoping that will be here soon.
Anyhow, here's how a 3ft board (or mat) looks with the terrain I built last week. I'm still waiting on my Kraken Wargames mat, but that's on its way from Germany as I type, so it's my GB mat for now.
Still lots of open space, but I think one of my bigger buildings that I'm yet to build - Digicore Tower from TT Combat or the Olympus building from Multiverse might do nicely along with a few more bits of scatter terrain.
Things that I haven't posted in here are the Dino Gas station and the construction terrain I salvaged from the lasered section of the not lasered Construction sheets.
The roof is removable on the store, and the forecort comes off as well for ease of storage and potential transport. And for painting.
Next up is today's work. Since Hulk got re-released on a 60mm base, I've been on the lookout for a cheap 60mm lipped base. It's hard to find 60mm lipped bases, and even harder to find ones that aren't £5-6 before postage. I picked up the only lipped base on ebay at the time (buy it now for about £3.80 inc postage). It wasn't a style I liked, but I wasn't prepared to be fussy as I need one for Hulk, seeing as mine is an old one and used to come with a 40mm base.
This is the original shown on the listing.
This is a "battlefield" base, with shells and rock and what I assume is mud. When mine arrived, it was very bubbled from dodgy casting, but since I was needing to do work on it, I thought what the hell, lets get started.
I cut off the shells as best I could then put my limited green stuff skills to work to create some rocks instead, and to fill in some of the bubbled rocks.
The only other 60mm base I have unused at the moment is for Old Grogg from the Battle for Troll Bridge set, which is a plain base, so I'll be swapping this one for the plain one. That way I can keep Hulk in the same style as my other BMG/Marvel figures, and this one now looks like it fits in a fantasy environment, maybe even a river bed under a bridge if I put some water effect in there.
The next plan for the day was to work on Hannibal, as I've been putting it off for a couple of weeks. The purple is currently at a stage I'm happy with, but I might go back to it once further parts of him are done.
There wasn't quite as much work on him as I'd have liked as I got distracted by an idea I had when I first got my Marvel game boxes. Getting the Guardians box left me with a duplicate Rocket so I decided to put him to use, fighting my way through his tactical rock, destroying a pair of clippers in the process.
In the end though, he made it to where he belongs.
There is still a lot to do green stuff wise. He's currently stable, but I want to work some more layers into Groot's back and arms to try and keep as close to his initial design and style as possible, but showing that he's grown a platform for Rocket to work from, which is as close to the awesome prison break scene from the film as I could get it.
Diane is ready for primer now that it's July and she can be started for the combined comps of CMON's monthly comp (Heroes and Villains this month), 'Eavier Metal's 'Eadbanger 2, which also ends 31st July and the Hero section of the Fallen Frontiers group's KS release comp, which ends in October. Lots of reasons to get her done!
Oh, and I also built my norml Rocket because I had the box out and thought I may as well hit both at once.
Busy day, lots of work but not a vast amount of progress where I intended there to be progress.
