{"id":4428,"date":"2021-09-11T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2021-08-21T12:20:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T11:20:41","slug":"you-came-in-that-piece-of-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2021\/09\/11\/you-came-in-that-piece-of-junk\/","title":{"rendered":"You came in that piece of junk?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeremey takes us through the various times club members have used actual toys for games.<\/em><\/p>\n

Recently Tony posted pictures of a toy Millennium Falcon he bought for his current 15mm Star Wars project.\u00a0 This was a Hasbro Millennium Falcon toy measuring 9.5 inches x 7 inches.<\/p>\n

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Checking the toy for size<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All Tony did to this toy was to give it a wash of black acrylic paint thinned with Johnson’s floor polish followed by a heavy light grey drybrush.<\/p>\n

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Picking out the details<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As you can see the end results were quite impressive for such a simple technique.<\/p>\n

When the Stargate rules came out Stephen decided to paint up a spaceship to act as scenery. Again going for a toy Stephen bought a strange looking spaceship from something called the Starlink range.<\/p>\n

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Starlink Neptune Ship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From what I can tell you can connect this toy up to a games console for added features. Stephen converted a few bits of the original toy to turn it into a craft for his bounty hunter.<\/p>\n

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This is the notorious bounty hunter, Boone Sadist, with his ship Scourge Reaper…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also got in on the toy action a number of years ago for my Fenris Descending game. I dug out one of my old Star Wars toys, namely this PDT-8 transport toy.<\/p>\n

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The old Mini-Rig range dating back to the early 1980’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For this I did need to cover over the compartments you put the action figures in and went for a complete paint job, but that was still just a simple primer of grey, dry brushed silver and a black ink wash applied.<\/p>\n

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The shuttle craft from Fenris Descending<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Again the level of detail on the original toy made it a good choice to use for wargaming. You can often pick up such toys for a bargain price on Ebay or in the toy store clearance bin. A purpose built wargaming spaceship of the same size (although likely better detailed) would be quite expensive.<\/p>\n

I can see my self doing this again if I spot the right toy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeremey takes us through the various times club members have used actual toys for games. Recently Tony posted pictures of a toy Millennium Falcon he bought for his current 15mm Star Wars project.\u00a0 This was a Hasbro Millennium Falcon toy measuring 9.5 inches x 7 inches. All Tony did to this toy was to give … Continue reading “You came in that piece of junk?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modelling-and-painting-articles","category-science-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/falcon1.png?fit=756%2C392&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A5LG-19q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4436,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions\/4436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}