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Saturday 17 March 2012

Nipper's Newsstand

Here's my latest building effort, "Nipper's Newsstand".
Some of you may recognise the origin of this particular piece as being the small upper floor from  "The Horseman's Deli", the free downloadable  building from Microtactix,  which I've adapted into a ground floor building and extended somewhat.  Its footprint is about  4" x 2.5" (10cm x 6cm); I think the original was about 2.5" square, which to my way of thinking was a tad too small, so  I extended it a little using my newly acquired photo-shop skills. The height to the top of the roof parapet is about 2.25".
The photo above and these next two photographs show Nipper's in its closed mode with the shutter down.  The shutter was made to be able to slide in and out a sandwich of three pieces of thin card that makes up the front wall, the sides and back are made from 5mm foamcard.



Obviously the two side walls and the back wall are nothing to write home about and will have posters added to them when I print some interesting ones out. Though not obvious from the photo the window is of the "see through"  perspex variety
 

This next photograph shows Nipper's open for business, the shutter has been removed and the various hoardings and counter (all one piece) have been put in place. 

The various newspapers and magazines etc. have all been gleaned from the Interweb and reduced in size to what I thought looked right for the scale of figures being used - there was no scientific methodology involved, just pure guesswork. There are multiple prints of the newspapers and magazines, to give a more "3-D" effect though this isn't readily apparent from the photo.  The "plywood" texture was gleaned from goodness knows where and backs all the hoardings as well as the newsstand sign. In the back of the shop, viewed through the opening can be seen magazines and more newspapers on the wall. The counter may look a bit skew-whiff, but I can assure you that that is down to my ineptitude as a photographer, not modeller (I am reading the camera's manual though).

This photograph (a little out of focus) shows the inside of Nipper's with the inherent detritus of piles of old magazines and newspapers.  The slot for the shutter can be only vaguely made out at the tope of the photograph.

In the bottom right can be seen a box on top of which has been placed more rubbish.
The door just seems ajar but it does open fully to the
side wall if necessary.




Here's another view of the inside (slightly more in focus), showing the box, now in the top left corner, a little more clearly.  The box (and many others) was downloaded from "Tommygun's" site, which has lots of very usable card/paper downloads (free).  The slot for the shutter can be seen a little more clearly on this view too. The more astute amongst you may recognise that the box is a "Blue Sun" packing case; I intend to have "Blue Sun" as one of the suspects for the cause of the zombie apocalypse in my campaign.

All of Tommygun's freebies can be found here:
http://tommygun.sector-17.com/tommygun/main.php
 
This final photograph shows the scale of the model along with some of my latest efforts at painting zombies. The zombies are Old Glory and are from a batch of 19 that are nearly finished, a bit of highlighting, varnishing and some work on their bases still needs to be done to finish them off.  I'm quite pleased with them though as they are, as I'm no great shakes as a figure painter.

Thanks for looking and if I haven't already welcomed you, then "Welcome"

All comments welcome too.

16 comments:

  1. Pretty good mate!

    "I would like one copy of the ZOMBIE DAILY thank you."

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    1. Thanks, LS.
      Order being processed, would there be anything else ?

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  2. Very nice building sir. I wouldn't of noticed that it has been extended

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    1. Thanks Brummie, it hasn't been extended that much though so easy not to notice.

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  3. I like it, and I take my hat off to you for having a workable set of shutters. The way you've made them is the same way that I would have done them.
    As for your zombies, I can see a lot of my influence in them - pale grey skin, black eye sockets, white eyes with no pupil showing and a good smattering of gore effects done with TCR. It's such a winning combo, he says modestly!
    You should be proud of your model and your zombies.

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    1. Of course I used the vampifan way of zombiefying ! - Doesn't everyone ?
      I'm very happy with the shutter effect, not perfect, but perfectly workable.
      I'm quite proud in so much as I've all but actually finished it !

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  4. You have really nailed it with this one. Great build with plenty of character and loads of detail. That was brilliant the way you did the shutter. I'm going to steal that one. :) I think the Zombies are looking very good. Can't wait to see them finished.

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    1. Thanks, Joe, I wanted some clutter inside, but not so much as it got in the way of gameplay - I think I got the balance about right. I'm sure I used the shutter idea many, many years ago - I doubt very much that's it's original !
      As for the zeds, they should be finished for next week's blog, if only I could finally decide on basing.

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  5. Very nice open and closed versions. I imagine a separated survivor trying to make his way to the newsstand, close it up and wait for his friends to save him...

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    1. Thanks PapSpanky, I too had envisioned a rescue scenario, providing the survivor can make it to the nesstand of course.

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  6. Not thought of making a news stand until now. Now that I have seen it I am already imagining the rules for helicopter "rotor wash" creating a newspaper snowstorm to disrupt shooting on the turn it lands or takes off. keep up the good work.

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  7. Thanks Clint, interesting thought on swirling 'copter blades, not just around the newsstand either.

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  8. Thats awesome, well done!

    Now you should slowly have enough of everything to show a setup maybe? ;)

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  9. Very good, I start liking too much this paper buildings...

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    1. Thanks Zerloon, it's a completely new and strange medium for me.

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