Another ruined home...

Here's another ruin I recently finished:

 Well, Helga won't dry any shirts here anymore :-/

And finally some scenic shots:

Have a nice start in your new week!

Regards,

Mojo

Oh look! It burned!

I already told you that the guys at the forum "got wild" on the missing evidence of fire and the lack of dirt.
I tried to catch that up and it seems, it worked pretty well... Have a look:

I'd like to welcome the laughingferret to my blog! Glad to have you here :)
If you haven't already done so, take a look at his own blog: The laughing ferret lab !

Regards,
Mojo

School's out for Summer!

Everybody knows it, the good ol' Alice Cooper song:

School's out for summer!
School's out for ever!
School's been blown to pieces!
http://www.youtube.com/embed/OUugQoxS8_o…ayer_detailpage

I had to think of it while searching the shoe box full of broken Linka casts that I received from the fore-owner of my moulds. He had stated he'd give me a huge pile of prefabricated parts, so I could start building instantly. Well unfortunatly most parts didn't survive the odyssey. However, one can still start building with it :D

He had started some kind of house, that doesn't look like a residence.
During paintig, some walls must have broken, so he decided to drop it to the spares box. The paintjob was neither nearly finished nor perfect. Since I didn't know what colors he used, I decided to make a ruined school of it. I had only the walls, broken into several pieces.

I added a base, a pedestrian precinct, a roof-construction and some shingles and lots of broken interior and details like an outhouse, broken glass and so on.

Here's what came out:

I got my as* spanked a the forums for not featuring any evidence of fire inside the building, so I'll have that added at some point in the future...

Hope you like it though!

//mojo

The corner shop Part III

After one more week of work I've eventually finished the cornershop. Almost.
I don't dare making the signs yet, I'll have to practice before ;-)

I ruined the paintjob of one house side an decided to cover it with plants...

The nicer side

 The garden

More scenic shots...

Two lazy Panzer men...

I'll be gone for two weeks now... Headin' to southern france :) Hello Sun! :)
I hope you'll all have a good time!

Regards,
Mojo

The corner shop Part II

Small update today:

Lots of sanding, gapfilling and detailing to do... :)
Hope you like it!


This part of the Post goes to Anne!
On Thanos' Blog Anne was asking for hints on making roof-tiles.
Don't know if you already read this, but Greg kindly answered on this and suggested one of his blog posts:
Gregs Post

Since Anne is rather new to the hobby, we should all help her out. So here's my contribution to the solution:

Here's a post from my blog where a single picture (middle of the post) shows how I made the shingles for my barn:
20mm Barn

And another post in my "home-forum" where explained how to make common claytiles (sorry, this is in german, but look at the pics and you'll get it. Or chase google translate over it...):
Forum Post

Either way, it's a hell lot of work. If you have a nice result, you should seal it with thinned PVA and make a mould from silicone. It's too good for a single use ;)

Hope this helps :)

//mojo

The corner shop Part I (Linka World Moulds)

Well, here we are again, back from Space, diving right into WW2 scenery stuff :)


It's been a while ago when I had the chance to get my hands on some moulds of a company called Linka (World).
One of my forum mates over at www.boforum.de sold some for around 6€ per piece and I got two of them.

Wait a minute. Whats Linka?
Linka World (website here: http://linkaworld.com/index.htm) is a company from the US, making moulds of modular wall- and roofsections for 20mm gaming or modelmaking. I've seen moulds on ebay whose owner wrote that the product would be 30 years old. Well that'd be quite a history for a company making stuff like that :)

Over here(Germany), the moulds are  pretty expensive with about 15€ pp., but I was lucky enough to find someone selling a bunch of 7 moulds for 50€! What an opportunity! But thats not enough. I suggested a price of 45€ (always trying, when possible), and he told me, if I'd pay the 50, he'd pack several hundrets of ready-cast parts in the packet. Allriiiight!

After an odyssey with a german parcel service which uses the name of the greek messenger of the gods (failed to give the parcel to one of my numerous neighbours 2 times...) the cast parts were mostly crapped...

Well this is what I got (along with the 2 moulds I already owned):

(Sorry, I was so eager for action that I forgot to take pictures before making the first cast... You might check the website above for better images and more moulds)
And this is the result of my first cast with 2x80 grams of stewalin (a very hard ceramic casting mass):

Pretty nice :) Unfortunately you still have to invest lots of time to deflash all the parts, especially between the teeth. If you don't, parts won't fit or even break while you're trying to fit 'em.
But thats not too bad: It's a perfect task while you're waiting between two World of Tanks matches ;)

Here's what I first made:

This is going to be a brick factory some day. After glueing the first parts together (using wood-glue), I realized how big this thing is going to become and decided to skip it for a while. I'd better start with something smaller...

So this is the beginning of what we call a "Tante Emma-Laden" (Aunt Emmy's Store):

I guess I might be back in blogging-bussiness now :) At least I hope so!

Last but not least: A warm welcome to my new followers. Damn, I can't even tell how "new" you are :D
$peedY ( Soldiers of Honor)
Michel (0ne of the few bloggers I know personally. Nice Chap, makes great 20mm figures!) ( Michels Miniaturen)
András Szilvásy (Random&Creative)
James Barry(No blog?)
Stephan Reber(No blog?)

Have a nice time! I'll try to keep you updated with this cool linka-stuff!

Cheers,
Mojo