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Zeppelins. We like Zeppelins.
There’s zeppelin on the curent banner for this site, and we’re notorious pulp gamers, so it should come as no surprise that zeppelins are amongst our favourite things here on The Warbard. Sure, they’re...
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This has minimal bearing on the 28mm pulp gaming we usually do that might involve a zeppelin, but it’s such a cool and masterful technique I have to share: Creating Zeppelin bodies with foam...
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Bit of a quiet week here on the Warbard. I’ve been burning up all my available hobby time painting Russian Civil War figures. There’s two dozen Cossack infantry finished, another three dozen regular...
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Red Airships!
I am, as mentioned in the last post, neck-deep in prep for my Russian Civil War game less than a week away at Trumpeter Salute 2012. Nevertheless, something near and dear to the very core of the...
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Links of Interest, 1 May 2012
A few things to start your month off right! Paul of Paul’s Bods has a rather clever nearly-math-free method of getting a perfectly fitting roofs. It would need a bit of adaption to work with the...
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A Zeppelin Baggage Sticker
I haven’t posted one of my “World More Pulpy” graphics in ages, but here’s something that’s been lurking on my harddrive for ages and needs some fresh air. Here we have the luggage label for a piece of...
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Airships for Lenin!
A bit later than the Russian Revolution/Russian Civil War-era Russian history that I usually post about, but it overlaps so beautifully in our pulp interests here on the Warbard that I can’t resist....
View ArticleLinks of Interest, 3 September 2013
Quiet around here recently; I’ve been gaming regularly through the summer but not doing a whole lot of painting, scenery building or much of anything else! Here’s a few cool links to share, though....
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Build Something 2017: The Bloodyear Blomp
Every year or so over on Lead Adventure Forum they hold a friendly Build Something competition. There’s a theme that imposes some restrictions; one year it was “your scenery must be based on a CD”; we...
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Build Something 2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 2
Progress on my Lead Adventure Forum Build Something 2017 entry, the goblin-crewed Bloodyear Blomp! I’d said previously I was going to finish covering the blimp envelope in fabric before moving on to...
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BS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 3
Blomping onward, in a classic goblin-engineering “make sh*t up as you go” fashion! The front half of the gondola has been skinned with styrene sheet, cut in one continuous strip for strength. I also...
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BS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 4
Good progress on the Blomp gondola this weekend, with all the major structural assembly finished, skinning done in styrene sheet, and the start of the lifting-gas engine and associated pipework. The...
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BS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 5
Progress! Greenstuff! An incompletely explained troll! I broke out the greenstuff and went at the gondola this evening. I filled in under all the various discs where piping will come out, and then ran...
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BS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 6
Progress, the purpose of the troll revealed, and IT FLIES. Well, sort of! I got most of the structural parts of the base done today, barring more greenstuff putty to solidify everything. The big troll...
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BS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 7
Greenstuff all over the place this time! Base greenstuff work – on the troll, the barrel, and the base itself. More to come! Click for larger. I’ve started on the heavy leather harness that the troll...
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BS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 8
Blomping along… Primer! Got the gondola spray-primed grey and the balloon envelope brush-primed black. All primed up, except the base. Click for larger. The LAF Build Something 2017 contest rules ask...
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