{"id":984,"date":"2011-05-15T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtazz.com\/blokecrafted\/news\/status-update\/"},"modified":"2011-05-15T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T20:55:00","slug":"status-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gtazz.com\/blokecrafted\/news\/status-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Status Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right so with BoB currently feeling on target (this month is 1 tank and 10 infantry, the tank is done, and the infantry are primed and on their way), I&#8217;ve been looking at other stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got my plan for the heavy weapons squad for next month. I was in about fifteen minds which way to go, in the end I went for mortars which will be represented with mole mortars. I though it fitted well with the old school character I&#8217;m trying to invoke. Something a bit like the ones at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamehobby.net\/photo_gallery\/photo_gallery_wh40k_squats.html\">bottom of this page<\/a>, but obviously kit bashed from mortars. Damned if I&#8217;m trying to find real ones on ebay, that&#8217;s crazy talk!<\/p>\n<p>To try and improve my photographs, and thus hopefully the number of people who vote for me each month in Band of Brothers :), I wanted to do a quick spot of terrain. I&#8217;ve tried this in the past, but went a bit complicated and too small and it got shelved. So kept it simple. A sheet of polystyrene about 18&#8243; by 40&#8243;, gouged out a rough river bed (to be dry, it is a desert world after all), and covered it in different types of sand. The pva is drying as we speak.<\/p>\n<p>Then I had a rummage the interweb and found a nice desert scene image that looked the part. 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