Mutant barrel jumper...???????

Bit of a weird one spawned by a joke on the Post Apocalypse Wargames forum. When I posted up pictures of my waterfall on my mutie mountain a poster said I needed a barrel going over the falls, someone said there should be a mutant in the barrel followed by a comment that the mutant really should have a chainsaw????????

So for a laugh................I built one from my bits box........just because.

Jon

The hills have eyes....7

Managed to get some work in today. Firstly I built the prison were the mutants can keep captives/food which is much the same thing to mutant cannibals. I then attached it to the chop'ouse as it seems reasonable to keep the food close to the slaughter house......now when a mutant asks if the butcher has got anything "good out back" the butcher can pop out back to see whats in the holding cell (maybe I'm giving this to much thought.....).

I've also added some grizzly detail to the chop'ouse it's not glue in place yet as I need to paint it up first.

Finally I've added a bridge spanning the two tall areas the bridge is removable to allow the tops of the mountains to still be removable to allow access to the caves. I think I've worked out I have room for another seven or so shacks one they're then I can start painting them up.

Cheers Jon

The hills have eyes.....6

A few pictures of last nights work. This is the "Chop 'ouse" think of it as the mutant's version of the....butchers. I want to add some more details in a bad horror movie vain (hooks/saws/ bodies)

Again I've left the roof removable to allow access. Next I need to build somewhere to keep the food.......er I mean prisoners of the tribe.

Cheers Jon

The hills have eyes......5

I made a start on the shelters and shacks last night. The picture (a slum in Rio) at the top is kind of what I'm aiming for though not that densely populated as this is a gaming piece and I need to leave space to actually move miniatures around.

I've added a watch tower to the highest part of the mountain complete with warning bell to be rung in case of attack....or at dinner time.

On the same mountain top we have the first shack built from pieces of scrap plastic card and balsa wood. I've made a roof but left it removable to allow miniatures to be placed inside.

Finally I've done a bit more work to the main entrance including a bill board which will have some sort of witty settlement name on it (just as soon as I've thought of one)

I popped into Hobbycraft on the way home from work tonight and lucked out on a large bag of balsa strips in the clearance sale which has now given me loads of raw building material.

Cheers Jon

And the mutant shall inherit the earth....

Well I started on the shacks and shelters for my mutant mountain tonight I haven't taken any pictures yet. I think this is the point were the project will slow down a bit as the shacks are a more involved build than just carving up bits of pink foam.

In the mean time I thought I'd show a couple of pictures of my mutant preacher. This miniature is from mad puppet miniatures and called HOST mutant leader. He didn't look like a leader to me more like some sort of priest/witch doctor/shaman so that's what I'm going to use him as. I imagine my mutant tribe having past down knowledge of pre-apocalypse religion which has now become mixed up with later ideas to form some weird new mutant religion which this guy preaches to the tribe .

Hopefully some more photos of progress on my mutant mountain tomorrow

Cheers Jon

The hills have eyes ....4

More progress I had a go at making the mountain waterfall tonight using an Idea I picked up from a model railway website. Basically it involved using clear silicone sealant to make a water effect on a clear plastic backing sheet.

On the plus side I think it's come up quite well for a first try. On the down side it was really messy the £$"$%*^ sealant got every where and wasn't nearly as easy to work with as the model railway tutorial made out.

One other slightly problem was I couldn't connect the bottom of the waterfall to the bottom pond as I wouldn't then be able to to remove the top to allow access to the cave behind the waterfall. Which means there is a slight gap at the bottom and the waterfall doesn't look quite as good as it could have done.

Right next up more shacks to dot the mountain side.

Cheers Jon

The hills have eyes ....3

More progress on mutant mountain. The main bulk of the mountain has been painted using cheap test pots from Wickes and cheap artists acrylic paint from the Works. The model was painted all over with burnt umber and then when dry dry brushed in a colour called toffee and then dry brushed again in a cream yellow called sand. the two caves were painted black inside and will get some dry brushing when dry. The two pools where painted with GW Dark Angels green/Goblin green getting lighter towards the edges of the pools.

Lots more to do yet in the way of detailing. As you can see I've started to add shelters, defences and a bridge made of post apocalyptic junk lots more of this to do to give it a sort of shanty town in the mountains look. I also want to build a waterfall, I've checked out some model railway stuff on the net for some ideas on that one.

Cheers Jon