{"id":6136,"date":"2018-09-19T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2018-09-18T16:47:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:47:53","slug":"test-of-honour-week-temple-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=6136","title":{"rendered":"Test Of Honour Week: Temple Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I continue through the Test of Honour week, I turn my attention to terrain by building up Sarissa Precision’s Temple Bell<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ve always liked this model and have had it sitting in shrink for a while now but was glad to have the chance to open it up.<\/p>\n

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It assembled quite easily and with minimal fuss. I’d seen complaints that the stairs are a little fiddly but it didn’t give me too much trouble.\u00a0 I did find that it didn’t want to easily come apart after dry-fitting them into the base so I just worked glue in on the edges and it holds fine.<\/p>\n

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Just like the Dojo kit<\/a>, it doesn’t have spacers between the roof slats so you have to add your own if you want it to better match the marketing image.\u00a0 I’m using some thin dowels I picked up at a hobby store and they worked great.<\/p>\n

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The only disappointment is with the “bell.” First, it doesn’t even look like a bell (more barrel than bell) and then the piece doesn’t even wrap all the way. Kind of a glaring error on an otherwise great model.<\/p>\n

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I searched around Amazon and various other sites until I found a suitable replacement.\u00a0 I have this on order and will update the model accordingly.<\/p>\n

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I went to prime everything and suffered a dumb mishap as I dropped the board I was priming on.<\/p>\n

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Luckily, damage wasn’t worse but it was pretty annoying to see it broken just after assembling and priming.<\/p>\n

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While my repair job was drying, I got to work on adding some color variations to the stone base.<\/p>\n

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Then painted up the fence and washed the stone in Nuln Oil.<\/p>\n

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After painting up the roof and doing a total hack job on the dry brushing, I fixed my more “experimental” roofing attempts and sealed it all down.\u00a0 Of course a ninja had to ruin it by posing for my shot.\u00a0 Damn ninjas.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty happy with the model.\u00a0 The stone painting takes a lot of patience just because it is so tedious but getting the model 90% there and done is pretty nice.\u00a0 I’ll have to truly finish it up later when the bell arrives but I like it overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I continue through the Test of Honour week, I turn my attention to terrain by building up Sarissa Precision’s Temple Bell.\u00a0 I’ve always liked this model and have had it sitting in shrink for a while now but was glad to have the chance to open it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[675,535],"class_list":["post-6136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-of-honour","tag-temple-bell","tag-test-of-honour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6140,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions\/6140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}