Playing catch-up

It's been a while since I last talked about what I've been doing (terrain-wise) over on my YouTube channel - so I thought now might be a good time for a quick recap!

OK then, earlier in the year I announced another 'community challenge' - i.e. just a fun little project where I put together a bunch of random textures, and then 'challenged' everyone to make something with them (you can see the blog post I made about it HERE).

Anyway, I was very pleased to have nearly thirty people take part... and you can see all of their entries in the following video:

So, I want to say thanks (again) to everyone that took part - it was really great to see how inventive/creative everyone was!

Anyway,  after the 'challenge' I've also released another three videos - the first being a sci-fi shuttle (which I'm quite proud of)...

 ...the next was a bunch of pedestals (to add to 'the dungeon')...

 ...and the most recent was a 'fun' idea for a trap...

 ...which also had a little encounter to go along with it :)

Anyway, if I go back to the 'shuttle' episode - in that video I asked if folks would like to see if I could make similar vehicles using the same chassis/fuselage/hull. And, seeing as how a lot of folks said yes, that has inspired the next video - in which, I'll be showing how to make a 6-wheeled truck.

Here's a picture of an early prototype:

And here's how it ended up looking (note the smaller one is printed at 75% - just to illustrate that you can easily change the size of most of this stuff within your pdf reader):

So, that's the video I'm working on at the moment, and with any luck I'll get that out later this week!

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In other news, I seem to have been bitten by the World War II bug again... and, since I have a couple of Wargames Atlantic sprues lying around, I thought I would assemble a little (early war) British force:

And, I'm thinking that I could use the One Page Rules 'firefight' game (using the 'human defence force' list and a bit of common sense) to play a few skirmish games with them.

Obviously, that then leads me down the rabbit hole of WW2 terrain... and while I'm not fully committed to it yet... the ideas have begun:

 

(though things like 'hedgerows' and 'emplacements' will likely have a wider use than just WW2 gaming).

Anyway, I think that covers most of what I've been up to (aside from painting several more undead models to test out my new paint set)... though I have also given my hobby area a bit of a tidy/makeover - to accommodate this new(ish) Vallejo range of paint (that I recently bought - due to having problems with some of the Army Painter 'fanatic' range):

 

So yeah... that's it for this post. As I say, the next video should follow along in a day or two (or three)... so hopefully you'll tune in for that!