Pirate Metal?

In a world of fusion musics, this is an amusing discovery...

Experimental Buildings

For a while now I've been looking at the cheap, paper gift boxes found at craft stores. I've always thought they would make perfect fodder for quick and dirty 15mm terrain. Well I finally went out and bought a few and cobbled them together into the building above. Except for a wrong cut that I patched together for the sake of completeness, I think it worked out pretty well. 

I marked out the doors and windows in Sharpy and then got to work cutting and gluing. Each box comes with a lid and I found that if I flipped the box over and glued the lid to the top of the box it made a nice building with a rooftop patio. The style is slightly Middle Eastern and certainly could be used for any sort of indigenous adobe construction. Stacking a second box on top of the the first, allowed for a second story with a nice reinforcing trim where the stories joined.

Considering that these boxes come in a variety of sizes and shapes it is conceivable that an entire sprawl or vertical adobe structure could be cobbled together with little difficulty. Using a little filler or even some simply strips of paper glued over the joins between the boxes would give them a more solid appearance, but even without this, the effect is still pretty effective. Once painted and shaded it should be less apparent. 

One nice thing about these boxes is how solid they are. they require absolutely no reinforcement or basing and would be easily left in such a fashion that they could be plugged into any sort of scenery. With their bottoms open they can also be used to conceal miniatures for those occasions when you want your hostiles to be less obvious. As much as they do not need it, I do feel that a little creative basing with some scenic effects would bring these into their own, I think.

-Eli

Heavy Space Suit Sculpt

Just so folks don't think I've dried up and blown away, I wanted to post one of the sculpts I am working on. 

This one is being done along side some of the other work I am doing. Any time I am sculpting, I usually have several projects going at a time. This keeps me from getting bored and helps keep my ADD tendencies on a productive track. It also helps with the necessary downtime between steps on other sculpts.

I am going with the themes of a heavy duty space or environmental suit with built-in servo enhancements allowing for heavy lifting and load-bearing. This is the sort of suit you might find operating heavy machinery in a hostile environment or lugging around mining equipment on Alpha Proxima IV.

The sculpt is still in the rough right now and there are some places where the details could be sharpened up some. Also, my camera never does these things justice and considering the pictures are three to four times the size of the actual figure, that isn't surprising.

Not sure what route I'm going to go with this project, but we'll see.

-Eli

Thanks For No Tanks - Crazy Emu's Used Tank Blowout a Success

Thanks to everyone who chimed in for the tank blowout. It took a single day for me to clear out all these tanks models. I hope they will all find good service in your respective armies.

 

Crazy Emu's Used Tank Blowout!

I've got a crap ton of 1/72 modern Russian tank model kits that I'm not going to be needing. All are unassembled, though a few have been opened to examine the kits. I'd like to sell them off, if I can. Feel free to email me on the email in my profile to ask what is available.

I'm looking to get about $8 a model and will ship actual postage. I'll consider offers for the whole pile.

I have the following -

Sorry for the glare. It was hard enough to get all the tanks into a single picture.

Thanks for considering,

-Eli

When Is A Ninja Loud?

When he is me!

As of now Loud Ninja Games is officially a go. 

What is LNG? 

LNG is my new boutique-scale gaming company focused on, but not limited to bringing new and interesting miniatures to the gaming scene. I don't have any delusions about being the biggest kid on the block or even the most productive, but I'm sure as heck going to do my best to contribute to the gaming culture at large.

Please visit the new Loud Ninja Game blog I have started for all the latest news and eventually retail links to order the products I'll be releasing in the upcoming months. I've already got the first set of miniatures being sculpted and hope to release them by early Summer. until then, I'll be sharing design elements and updates on the background fluff that I used to fuel the first release, the Chuhuac, sculpted by the talented Pedro Navarro.

-Eli

The T-Shirt...

http://www.wargamingshirts.com/I-See-Lead-People/_p_6843097

How cool is that? You getting royalties, Eli?