I wanted a miniature display cabinet in the man cave, but couldn’t find anything that was the right size and of a reasonable cost so built one instead. I used …more
Storage & Work Area Fit Out
With two main halves of the man cave to fit out, the plan was the left wall would be mainly for storage and the right for modelling. For storage I …more
Walls, Floor & Finishing
Once the electrics were installed I could see the end in sight and started to work on the man cave more regularly. After the odyssey of insulating the cave, putting …more
Insulation & Electrics
Having made a complete building I can now say with some certainty that there is nothing more dull than installing insulation board. It was so boring that completely insulating the …more
Door, Window & Finishing the Front Wall
The next day it was finally time to get this thing weather proof. The reason I’d delayed putting the OSB and cladding on the front for so long was because …more
The Front Wall
Writing this now in August, the exact timing of the things I did is a little hazy but I think this is day eight, and whatever number it is, it’s …more
Stud Walls
On the second day I built the back wall of the man cave. Much like the floor, building a stud wall with no door or window is really rather simple. …more
Preparation & Foundations
With the initial plan done this was the situation: I had a week of post-work evenings left before flying to Spain for a few nights. When I got back I’d …more
Research & Planning
At the outset and throughout the project I watched many YouTube videos of people doing similar projects and read several articles. The series I became most reliant on (even mildly …more
Converting Blood Bowl “Mummies”
The problem with mummies… Mummies were in the Warhammer canon for Old World Undead when Blood Bowl was created. Later they were written out of the army because their Egyptian …more
Designing Vehicle Dashboard Cards – Part 1
With my Vehicle Dashboard Cards approaching final production ready for use and possible sale, I thought it might be interesting to explain how I went about designing these. This first …more
A Note on Hot Wheels Scale
As mentioned in my post about conversion bits for Gaslands cars, ostensibly Hot Wheels and similar are 1:64 scale, also referred to as 20mm (meaning an in scale adult figure …more
Gaslands Conversion Bits – Where To Buy?
May 2019 Update: Originally this post listed a number of companies making and selling bits and parts that could potentially fit Gaslands models (depending on the scale of your Hot …more
Pitslave/Servitor Build & Paint
A pit slave based on a Bloodbound of Khorne with the Khornate iconography hacked off (roughly – I liked the appearance of bashed up dented metal plates this left). He …more
Inquisitor Bane
Erasmus Bane is an Ordo Xenos inquisitor and psychic. I wanted to create a sort of sneaky, works in the shadows type of character, and one who could lean either …more
Kitbashed Bounty Hunters & Men at Arms
Veteran Guardsman – Rax Logal, veteran of the Mordant Acid Dogs and Inquisitorial Sergeant at Arms. Rax was completed at a group kitbashing/gang building day at my club – where …more
The Ball & Goal
In Guild Ball it’s common to make a custom goal marker. Since the characters available to you are dictated by the background of the game, and the models are fairly …more