Webway Portals

So last night I was wondering what I wanted to do with the little time I had. I thought about my Predators and about making some more foamcore walls and towers since I've been thinking about Planetstrike. But I decided to get in there and finish something outstanding before going on to something new. I pulled out the portals and got to work. Drybrushed Bleached Bone and then white over them. They're OK, but I wonder if I shouldn't have flat out painted them Bone or something similar. Either way, at this point, I was ready to have them done and, as with many other pieces of terrain I have, they're good enough. I'm sure if I put them on a table, people will recognize what they are and that's the point. Cracked open the cheapo bag of plastic gemstones and glued those bad boys on and voila! And I've got enough stones left to make another one if I like. I'm thinking I may make two or three really tall portals (the original template is full page size and these were shrunk down to half size) but not this week or really anytime soon. I find that cutting curves is not only hard, but it stats to hurt my hands after a while. Maybe I'm just old. We'll stick to blocky Imperial architecture for a while.

I sprayed Whirlwind #1 and the launchers and plates last night. I also found a couple of repair jobs I should just whip out. As I mentioned before, I was thinking about towers and walls. I have several types of foamcore walls: small inch high walls like hasty fortifications, 3-inch high walls with walkways that are good for compound or fortress walls and 6-inch high, 2-inch thick walls that are more like city walls. The taller walls are good designs that are sturdy and easy to build. I might post scans of the templates for other people to use. The towers are three story tall towers with an open area on the third floor and a roof. I made them to be stand alone towers but they could go well with the really tall walls. I'm also thinking of making a stepped tall city wall. Something where three inches up there's a level that can be defended with troops and then at 6 inches there's the top. That way, defending forces can put twice as much firepower on a wall and invading forces can fight their way up the wall. I'm thinking about the Whirlwinds, too. I should have flipped the pieces and resprayed them last night or this morning but I didn't so I'll have to do that when I get home so I've got at least another day before I can work on those.