What's on your workbench?

[garyp]

You could follow Peeler round the pubs on Friday night with a large balloon, capturing his emissions. Then conceal it under the table on Saturday and squeeze a bit out every time you want some special effects. Or alternatively you could make the village hall a scratch'n'sniff model . . . .

[Jeremy]

Every time you roll a 1, you have to scratch and sniff

[Purple]

I may pass on that one Gary

[Count Belisarius]

It's not an issue really. Peeler will be there both days, post pub, so the ambience will be all too real. You'll be lucky if we can see the table through the mist and watering eyes...

[Purple]

Talking of which I’ve just finished the toilets for Ayton hall.

I’m swimming in a never ending sea of roof tiles

[levied troop]

I’ve just got the doors to do for the Ayton public conviences. We shall be well-off for human waste recycling never fear.

[RMD]

Butler's Printed Models (BPM) get something of a bad rep - mainly because of their own 'warts'n'all' photos of their own products. I don't know who told them that it was a good idea to take photos of their models without even giving them a cursory clean-up...

However, about a year ago I was looking for some 15mm SKOT APC models to go with my Cold War Polish troops and they were the only ones on the market, so I gave them a punt (Team Yankee have since produced a SKOT-2A model). I was genuinely impressed with the first batch of three models and in the end bought a further 16 of them.

3D-printed models are definitely at their weakest when modelling shallow slopes or curved surfaces. However, models with flat, vertical and steeply-sloped surfaces don't suffer anywhere near as badly from the layering process. BPM's models are also CHEAP, and as Stalin said, "Quantity has a quality all of its own".

So it came to pass that I was in need of a couple of M48 Chaparral SAM vehicles. Team Yankee do a pack of four of them (best price £27 - nearly £7 per model), but BPM do them for £4.50 apiece. The Team Yankee model is very nice, but I really do only want two of them - three at the very outside - not four. So I ordered two from BPM and I have to say that they're absolutely brilliant! They're extremely cleanly modelled (supporting printing structure notwithstanding) and lovely little models - perfectly in scale with the Team Yankee M113 APCs in my collection (the Chaparral is based on the M113 chassis). It helps that the Chaparral's hull is essentially a tracked, vertical-sided box, but the launcher-turret and four SAMs are very finely modelled, despite their curved surfaces.

Much as I like the traditional metal, resin and plastic models, BPM's offerings are really growing on me. I'll stick up some photos tomorrow.

[FreddBloggs]

I like bpm stuff, I have a batch rescaled to 1/225 to match epic (russian equipped orks, t35s are sooooo orky) and they are perfect.

[Purple]

I’ve just got the doors to do for the Ayton public conviences. We shall be well-off for human waste recycling never fear.

Phew!

Ayton hall is fully done and it’s render is drying ready for undercoating.
Smashed through that well quick.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Butler's Printed Models (BPM) get something of a bad rep.....

I hate you, Butler - now get that bus out!