Safe bruv, safe....

oh dear sorry for the old school street lingo...

Hi all

Happy New Year to you all. I hope that your Christmas period was as relaxed as you would like and filled with the joys of our shared hobby.

I was going to do a loot post from my double whammy - i.e xmas and my birthday which is just after.  However I think I'll just show the minis and games that my awesome family gifted me over the course of the year as and when I showcase them here.  Suffice to say, I'm both blessed and humbled by my family's generosity.

Sadly, I've been a bit poorly over the holiday period, with a damned chest infection marring the precious few days I had with my family.  But I did manage to persuade them to gather around the breakfast bar and participate in a board game or two including one of my Christmas gifts - "Escape From Colditz". I've been wanting this game since, well forever!  Thankfully it lived up to my expectations and is thoroughly enjoyable to play and I can see me getting a lot of games this year!

On the Urban Project front, I've been busy making detail pieces for my supermarket and I started making a safe to hold the takings.  I uhmmed and ahhed as to whether to make it relatively simple i.e. a box shape with a dial, but I decided to stretch myself a bit and make an open safe.  Not only would it fit my current project but also many other settings such as Pulp and 7TV2e.

For the build, I reached for my 1cm blue foam and cutting a small square and hollowed it out.  I then used 6mm blue foam door cutting it to the same sized square. I then used a cocktail stick to represent a hinge and glued the whole lot to a 40 mm square mdf base.

on the door I glued a small circle from the top of a coffee stirrer and then a slightly smaller mdf piece that came from one of the TT Combat mdf terrain packs made up the rest of the dial.  I then cut a piece of cocktail stick and made up a handle.

I then cut up some foam to make some cash and some cocktail stick to represent coins.

painted up it looks like this...

Finally here is the finished piece (with the varnish still drying...) with a plastic Bushido ninja for scale.

The rest of the piece is progressing well and should be finished over the next week, which just leaves the last corner of the board to finish.

hope you enjoy

dGG