The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Ammo, uh, flamenco?

Not content with just a glyph on the top of the ammo canister, I set about applying a smaller one to cover up the visible 'USA' mark on the side.

With that taken care of, I felt like I had to do something to the opposite side to balance it out, so after thinking a little bit, I decided to go ahead and try something dumb. I sprayed a decent helping of the red paint I had onto a cardboard sheet and smeared my hand right in there and then smeared it down the other side of the canister to give it that authentic 'stole from da 'umiez' look.

 

I think this canister's done. I bought three more after finding out how awesomely they hold the sabol foam I have, so hopefully I'll be able to fit my entire ork army into these cans. When I get the others I will, undoubtedly, be making similar 'modifications'. For now, this one's done, though.

Of course, you can't get your hands smeared in 'blood' without pausing to reflect on the awful reality of your situation:

Stuff is hard as hell to get off!

Ammo Can-Can

One of the things I got this christmas was a neat military surplus item - an ammo canister.

The first thing I noticed was that the canister's dimensions just so happened to be just about exactly the same as Sabol's army transport foam.

It fits perfectly width-wise, with a little bit of extra room at the ends that I might be able to cram a rulebook/dice/templates down. What that meant as far as I was concerned is that I had a new, fancy army transport on my hands that needed a wee bit of customization!

So, off to the drawing boards we go. A bit of heavy stock paper and some cutting, and we have a nice aquila template that I can use as a stencil for spray-painting.

 

I ripped out papers from the closest thing handy to help act as a mask for the stencil I cut out. What else is the Macragge book good for now, anyway? In some areas I used magnets to help hold the stencil down tight against the surface of the metal. If I'd made my stencil out of something like contact or film paper, it wouldn't have been necessary to do that part, but since mine was basically just thicker paper it would bulge up in areas no matter how hard I tried. The magnets helped me keep the stencil snug to the lid.

With the lid masked off, I grabbed a spray can of white paint intended for aircraft out of my garage and gave the top of the canister two good coats of white.

 

The results were pretty satisfactory. With the lid Imperial'd up, I thought it'd be appropriate to 'loot' it by slapping a big red ork glyph essentially overtop. After a wee bit more cutting, I had myself a nice glyph mask.

I had to give it a couple coats of red spray paint to get it to cover properly, since painting bright red over dark green is a bit of a challenge. Fortunately, by the end of it I had a nice, bright red color. I didn't think it stood out enough, though, so I grabbed some cheap black paint and a rough brush and set about outlining it. When all was said and done, I had myself a nice lid for the ammo canister that clearly stated my allegiance.

I'll probably add a couple more glyphs to the sides of the thing before I'm done messing around with it - I only just noticed one of the stencils already on it reads 'USA', which simply won't do in the 41st millenium!