The paint had barely dried on the Modular Urban Board Project before the terrain team here at the Beard Bunker, my buddies, my good time pals, the crew of Deep Space Nein , had booked some weekends in the diary. For why? Bloody big buildings, that's why. Making the multistorey Sanctum Administratus ruins told us how much we liked tall things. Tom sold me on the concept of a giant archway, and I had an as-yet unsatisfied yen for buildings connected by walkways. And so we got together and spent an unbelievable amount of time cleaning mould lines off Sector Imperialis ruins. Games Workshop put the kits on Made To Order over Christmas 2024, and we... indulged. To the tune of some hundreds of pounds. "Two of everything" was I think where we landed, at an eye-watering £443. But, once you split that four ways, what you're really asking is "would I like to spend years fighting battles over some extremely cool buildings for £100?" to which, obviously, our answer was...
A long gap since my last update; as alluded to, life has been complex. But progress has occasionally continued on the Thunderhawk project, and we are now getting excitingly close to completion. At the end of my previous update , I had the insides painted and the wings glued on. Draw the rest of the owl What can I say? Then I glued everything else on. Well, I guess I can say a bit more than that. I started by gluing everything on underneath, if I had started on the top I’d have broken bits when I turned it over. The feet went on as predicted, having previously drilled and set the pins, and as predicted getting the diagonal supporting in afterwards was fiddly but doable with tweezers. They seem solidly sturdy. For the most part I just glued things on with glue as they weren’t structural and had decent contact areas, but I pinned the hinge pieces on the strike wings as I predicted friction might otherwise force those apart, and I ...