SP/VSF Month: Ishoo Sventy: Rocky Outcrops

Welcome back hippo fans! Here we are at last with the first actual terrain ishoo for Steampunk & Victorian SF Month - rocky outcrops, just perfect for sinister tribesmen to spring ambushes from! Or, if you prefer, a good place to hide from the furious flaming death wielded by Menite warjacks!

The rocky outcrop really is a very simple piece of terrain, in fact I'm surprised we never got round to it sooner! Oh well, let's make up for lost time shall we? Cue Grot!

And there you have it hippo fans! Very quick, and very easy. You can knock out a whole table worth of these in a day, no problems (especially in the summer when paint and plaster dry faster!)
Well, don't forget to vote in the reader's choice poll, and stick around for the next instalment (which is either a Robida house, or a Zeppelin, depending on which gets done first!)

Ishoo Forty-Nin: Sinister Hippo Sphinx

There are some shapes which just cannot be made from foamcore. Sometimes you just have to get creative and carve things from polystyrene. Such is the case with the Sinister Hippo Sphinx; it's a quick and simple introduction to the world of carving polystyrene. It's easy to build, and it looks... well sinister. How easy you ask?

Cue Grot!

And there you are! Remember when sanding polystyrene to always wear a dust mask - the dust is all pervasive and really nasty stuff.

Well, that's about it until next ishoo... holy freaking hippo spit! Next Ishoo is Ishoo Fifty! Guess we'll have to do something special!

Ishoo Twenty-Free: Small Egyptian Tomb

If you're going to play colonial games or Khemri (or Wargods of Aegyptus for that matter), you'll be needed some Egyptian style terrain. Pyramids are obviously awesome, but they're also huge and easy to do (even a concussed hippo could work them out!), so here instead is a nifty small Egyptian tomb of the sort in which merchants were buried.
It goes without saying that it's so easy even a hippo could do it!



















And there you have it Hippo Fans!
Don't forget to vote in the Ishoo Twenty-For reader's choice poll and have a merry orksmas!

CUP DAY SPECIAL: Khemri Khottage

Well, it's Melbourne Cup Day which means the race that stops the nation has resulted in me getting a public holiday. Not one to let the race that stops the nation stop me, I challenged a few fellows on the What-If Modelers forum (My brother and the Brian-that-is-known-as-Brian) to a single day model building event. Anything was aceptable as long as it was built entirerly on November the 3rd, 2009.

So I took a day off from working on the Pontiac (which is almost done anyway) to build a new Khemri Khottage. Back when the Tomb Kings army book first came out, I built a set of Khemri desert terrain for Hampton Games Club, but it's now showing signs of it's age (ie: it's getting wrecked!) Fortunately, I have worked out a new, more sturdy way of producing Khemri buildings, a way which is (all together now!) SO EASY EVEN A HIPPO COULD DO IT!

Take it away Grot!


Like I was going to let a horse race stop me.
I'm working on a few more similar structures, although larger and more grandiuos. It's hard to tell which will come first, pics of the other Khemri Khottages or Ishoo Ten. See you then eitherway.