The £10 Challenge - A Partial Success

The Challenge

Well I'm back from my challenge and despite me completing it, its not as successful as I originally thought it might be.

I managed to pick up a few key pieces for scenery building but most of the money went on unexciting things.

I got a large sheet of foam core for £3.50 (which took the biggest chunk out of the budget). Whilst this sheet will last me for a while (its at least A2 in size, maybe even A1) its not a very exciting purchase.

The next biggest spend was a long (2m) outlet pipe that I picked up for £1.99. Its a lot of pipe to use but will come in handy.

After that, I got some backing card (card that is thicker and stiffer than cereal box / thin card). An A3 sheet was about £1.49.

By now, most of the budget has been spent and its all useful but not that interesting. The remains of the budget were spent on some cheap, vinyl floor tiles that should be good for basing as they have an uneven texture to them and were very cheap (£1 for about 4 square feet) and on two 90 degree pipe bends (for toxic waste pipes) - each one costing 99p.

So as you can see, I've hit my budget but I'll have to do a lot of rummaging through my spare bits and recycling to turn it into something interesting.

The £10 Challenge

At work we've been discussing the possibility of starting up a Necromunda campaign but unfortunately all our scenery is aimed more at 40k and not very three dimensional.

So this morning, I issued myself a £10 challenge to build a few pieces of Necromunda scenery by spending just £10 and using the odds and ends I have lying about.

At the moment, I've got an almost blank shopping list - the only item I need to get is some foam core for better looking bases, everything else is just what I can find.

The challenge is not to find the best deals on stuff or anything like that, its simple to set myself a budget and see what I can make.

I'm still working on the Scavvy however.

Substation Complete

Very quick post this morning, just to show the finished substation.

Unfortunately I realised that the grey paint I had was lighter than the one I'd used previously so it might look ever so slightly out of place.

Aside from that, its a pretty simple, no frills paint job (grey, black wash, grey drybrush) partly because it fits in with the rest of the battlefield but also because I wanted a quick and easy terrain piece that still looks decent.

So here it is:

Painting Update and a Little Scenery

Progress so far with the painting has been good. I've been mainly working on the Arch-Confessor and need to just finish his mace and he will be done. I've used the Games Workshop picture as a guide for how to paint it but since that model has a lots of effects that I haven't the steady hand for, I've simplified things down a little.

I am really impressed with the results and he looks inspiring enough to bring the rest of the Cult to arms.

I've also done a little bit of scenery.

There's an RSPCA near where I grew up and not too far from that is a small outbuilding (which I think is an electrical substation or something). I always thought that it looked kinda cool and fitting but would also be simple to construct.

Unfortunately I ran out of glue so I couldn't add the gravel, rubble etc (that's a job for tomorrow). I also didn't worry too much about lining things up nicely as it makes things look like they are run down.

Ruined!

(See here for the WIP shots).

Double post today as I've just finished the ruin I've been working on. Took me a bit longer to complete but I'm pretty proud of the results (despite me also buying the wrong shade of grey to finish it off).

It was pretty easy and cheap to make. The only thing I had to buy to specifically build it was some filler and paint, I had the other components lying about.

Here's what I used:

• Corrugated card (double thickness) - used for the base and the basic structure.
• Scrap paper / card cutoffs - used to build the bases of all of the rubble heaps.
• Filler (the quick dry stuff from a tube is easier to use for this) - used to build up and fill the gaps in the walls and rubble heaps.
• Sprue cutoffs (chopped up pieces of sprue left over), ballast and sand - used to cover the rest of the model.
• I also added some sandbags, barbed wire and other bits for extra details.

And here is the results:

I Got Mail!

So after a week away from work I received a few parcels today containing the following:

First up is the crashed ship from (I think) the 40k 4th edition starter set:

This will make a good piece of scenery for the cult (the Patriarch had to get to the planet somehow).

Next up is the model that is supposed to pilot the ship:

After a good soak in Dettol and a bit of conversion work, this chap will make a good Hybrid.

I also received the wheels I ordered for my bikers (here's the link to where I ordered them from):

 These wheels are about the same size as the Space Marine bike wheels though unfortunately they're one sided so I'm going to have to do some greenstuff work to make them work with my bikes.

So I got distracted...

Well, working purely on my throne didn't last long as shortly after I made the frame, I decided to build this:

 (Please excuse the quality of the shots, both my cameras were dead so I had to take the picture on my phone).

I think I might start adding more bits of scenery to my blog to mix things up a bit. My Cult probably will be hiding behind it anyway!

And just so show that I wasn't completely distracted, here's the state of the throne so far:

Unfortunately I seem to be battling quite a bit with Milliput for this one as after mixing it and leaving to harden, it doesn't completely set making it difficult and time consuming to smooth down.