Grekwood Miniatures

Wednesday 11 July 2012

A Bit Of Everything

Hello!

I would like to start by saying hello and thank you to those who have recently started to "follow" me.

Zombie Hospital
I have been busy all day with the hospital building. I have been taking photos of each stage and writing a documentation explaining how to put it all together. Once finished, I plan to put it on the website as a PDF download which people will be able to purchase. I thought I may as well as you never know who might want it. I have created a number of floor/ward colours, such as light blue, green, red, pink, and tomorrow I will probably make a yellow and dark blue ward. Each floor is checkered with the ward colour and white tiles just to make them different.

Once the wards are complete I will start work on a hallway, well, multiple hallways, depending on how I want to lay out the hospital wards.

Latest Releases
I am currently awaiting a parcel for the new zombie nurses/mutants/demons. I'm not 100% sure whether this is just the masters, or the production figures as well. I hope it's both as I really want to start selling them. I originally wanted to put them on the website near the end of June/begining of July, but there were a few casting delays, but I have been informed I should have them early next week. So fingers crossed for that!

As soon as I recieve them I'll update the blog for people who are interested in them.

Hospital Beds
The new resin seems to have a better viscosity, but it sets pretty fast which is a bit of a problem. Because it sets fast, bubbles are difficult to get rid of as it becomes thick quickly..soooooo... We have an idea; building up the moulds in layers rather than in one go. The idea is to pour a small amount of resin into the moulds, poke it into place to get the detail, and when it is dry, top it up with more resin. It's a plan which I hope works. 

If this fails, then what I might do is touch them up with some putty (the bubbles are so tiny it's crazy), and sell them that way. Once painted you wont know it's there. So that's an option, what do you think?

We'll keep trying, but that is a last resort...

Final thought...
Hopefully over the weekend I will post a blog which shows the hospital coming together! I decided to open up a bag of 50 trees (Tree link!) to decorate around the hospital when done. I am making a few alterations, such as putting them on sturdier bases, and spraying them with green sprays to give more variety :) 

Okie dokie, that's all for now. Cheers for reading if you got this far as it's bit of a long blog without pictures...

As always, comments etc are welcome. If you're new, check out our website. Things will be added next week :) Grekwood Miniatures Website

12 comments:

  1. Quite alot mate! Looking forward to seeing more of the hospital, so far it has been promising!

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    1. Why thank you kind sir! I will be doing more work on it today :)

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  2. Good update. I hope your plans with the building up of the resin for the beds works. If you can patch the bubbles as well, then I'd still buy the beds.

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    1. I hope it works too. If not the bubbles will be easy to patch up. It'll be done nicely so it'll blend in no problem.

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  3. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you regarding the hospital beds. If the bubbles are as small as you say, I'd still buy them. A coat of Games Workshop's new liquid putty should cover them up nicely.

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    1. Cheers :) If the new method doesn't work, I'll use Pro create to smooth out the bubbles. It's nothing that can't be done, it's just nicer if they would come out without the extra hassle. But it will be done!!

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  4. It all sounds good mate. Make sure the beds make there moneys worth back with time spent on them!

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    1. I hope they will make their monies worth! Nothing is ever as easy as it first seems, but we'll get there :)

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  5. I'd like to comment Carl, but I find it hard to understand when there are no pictures ...

    [30 mins or so later]

    Ah ok, NOW I get it. When you say you're going to put a pdf of the hospital up, will that be a print and make file, like World Works Games / Stoelzel's Structures / etc. or a guide how you made yours?

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    1. It'll be like the Stoelzel ones, where I provide all the prints and step by step instructions of how to build it :)

      I'll try to provide a variety of ward/floor colours so people can choose what they like.

      It's a long way off yet, but it will definitely be done.

      Hehe pictures always help! :P

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    2. Sounds great to me, I'm looking forward to it!

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  6. All news welcomed. As for the beds, small bubbles shouldn't be a problem to most people especially if they're warned beforehand imo. I think everyone who has ever purchased a resin piece has experienced that sort of thing.

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