*There’s always work to be done, but I doubt I’ll go back and really add anything.

Here’s the hauler primed and ready for paint. You can see the mast is already painted, so there’s a close up of this as well. I ended up repainting it blue to match the rest of the ship. The mast would be put in place when the winds are right so the hauler can save on fuel.

The hauler fully painted and weathered. The mast is tied down to the top and repainted blue. The bed of the hauler has all the necessary tools: winch, spare parts, tarps, and wood planks.

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The top part of the truck’s cab is the bottom of some WW2 destroyer ship, the fore portion is a water gun, an the rest is mostly just plasticard and tubing.

This is some kind of hovering vehicle but I wanted to give it legs to sit on when it’s at rest, so these will be like the kind of ‘leg’ you see on a trailer hitch when it’s not in use. You can see the leg in place in the above image and here’s the ‘before’ shot. I’ll also make cotter pins out of paper clips.

Here’s a close up of the door.

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I’m working on an ancient battlefield board and I’m going to need many carts and chariots. I scratch built these two wheels from coffee stirrers, plasticard, and nail beads. I’ll make a mold soon and cast these up so i can have a somewhat endless supply. Hopefully I can make some wagon wheels that have spokes as well for some variation.

**Update**

Made the molds for these and I’d say they were like 60% successful. Too much silicon got underneath the wheels so it was difficult to remove the originals from the molds and I had to cut a bunch of the silicon between the spokes. You can see it especially in the top left and bottom right spoked wheel. This is after I made some resin casts so the white stuff is some talc powder.

Here’s the resin casts. The spoked wheels broke in spots but for what I plan to use this for, that’s actually fine. They’re going to be ruined wheels on a battlefield.

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I was fiddling with green stuff at the time and decided to sculpt a more organic robot/creature. In my mind this guy is some kind of monster or alien that scrounges on the battlefield for broken and discard parts and forms itself from those pieces. I was definitely inspired by the Japanese movies Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Meatball Machine.

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I knew the legs would be the most annoying thing to have to make from scratch every time, so I planned on making two legs and then molding and casting them. I created the legs using a combination of laser cut acryllic, styrene rods and sheets, acrylic nail beads, and some random Warhammer pauldrons.

Once i was generally happy with the legs, I made a one part cut mold of each. Everything I know I learned about mold making I learned from Robert Tolone on youtube. I even added in some air vents.

I’m not a fan of the resin I used but it’s what I had. Rather than a 50/50 resin to hardener mix, it uses drops of hardener depending on the pour depth. This isnt very helpful for this because I’m not casting a regular shape. The casts came out ok, if not a bit tacky at first.

Once I had some legs cast, I got started on the first robot. Just like the original legs, I used a combination of styrene bits, acrylic nail beads, and other plastic junk. It started looking like a camera because of the gear I used as the cockpit so I leaned into that concept.

I airbrushed the robot a yellow and did various chipping and weathering. I wanted to keep this paint job quick and vibrant. I also added a few small decals from a Sherman thank model kit.

For the second robot, it was a similar process to the first but I added in some MDF scraps and some of my daughter’s acrylic nails I’m constantly finding in the wash. The fake nails gave a nice gently curve to the two spots that I used it.

I airbrushed this one red and followed a similar technique as the previous robot.

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I did three different doors: a metal jail cell door, wooden door with stone frame, and a wooden door with a rounded top.

The pouring of silicon went OK. I learned that it gets into every detail of your sculpt. So where I didn’t fully glue a board down to my base, it got underneath. It wasn’t too big of a deal as I was able to just tear it out and rip the silicon.

Here’s the three doors quickly primed and dry brushed. What’s nice about this mold is I can always pour leftover resin into from other projects and make more doors.

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