“That Certain Sacrifice!” (Season of Scenery)

No not the notorious “Madonna” film, but a little project I’ve needed to progress for a while now, but more on that in a bit. First off I’ll apologise as this is a rather “bitty” post, it’s “Season of Scenery” this month, (well the next two to be exact), as I’m sure you are all well aware you can never have too much scenery and this challenge forces enables you to get finished (or at least progress!) all those scenic projects you have hanging about waiting for you to get up the impetus to get them done. This is a bit like paying your “Wargames” dues each year😁 .

So what have I actually achieved thus far…well not a lot to be perfectly honest, nine days into July and I’ve hardly applied a paintbrush to anything thus far, I have however not been completely idle as I have now stuck together the other five of my “slum blocks” by TTG, that are destined for our “Deadzone” games they still need a bit of detailing adding before painting, but the basic stuff is done at least. I’ve also knocked up another building/shed piece from some of the bits left over 🤨, there are still quite a few extra bits left on the MDF sheets, and I might re-visit these either before the end of the challenge this year, or in next years “SoS”.

I’ve also been distracted making these “pallets with pipes on” out of the cardboard centres from my rolls of doggy “poop” 🐶 bags, that I’ve been saving up since the start of the year, the pallets are made from good old coffee stirrers and balsa. Though the pipes are started, the pallets still need painting before they can be put together.

Lastly I have been working on my “sacrifice” lady to go with the “cultists”, I did a little while back and the “altar of sculls” I made in last years “Season of Scenery”. She started life as a Heroklix “Wasp” figure that I’d removed the arms from to use on my “Aftershock” figure way back in 2016 as part of the very first “Forgotten Heroes” challenge, I haven’t gone into a long detailed account of how I made her (you’ve had more than enough of them this year already!), suffice to say her pose made her ideal to use in a prone position, and after removing her other lower leg, adding a foot (you can only see the one), adding her skirt and couple of wires to build her arms over, all made out of that other favourite of mine “Greenstuff” she was at the point you see her now, ready for undercoating.

Along with all these I also have my “Advent Challenge” figures to complete for July, so as you can see lots of stuff underway, but nothing actually finished yet. Hopefully by next week I’ll have one of them completed, so till them…

Stay safe, sit back, and enjoy the scenery, cheers Roger.

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