Sunday, August 8, 2021

Great Escape Stargrave Gunslinger

 Great Escape Games released their multi-part multi-pose Western Gunslingers in June.

This was at the same time as the release of Stargrave and the plastic figures from North Star.

So here is a combination of the two.

This is the duster coated body with the advancing legs from the Gunslinger set combined with a head, arms and gun from the Stargrave Crew set.
Here he is on set


Now I want to build a Chicago Wizard for hire using the same body.

Sunday, July 25, 2021

Oathmark Human mini-army

 After the release (okay a bit after the release) of Oathmark, I pointed up some minimum point armies.

I had completed (assembled) an Elf Ranger army not long after that, okay it is four ranks of archers and some stragglers. I still have not finished painting them.

So now the first Human mini-army is assembled.

It comprises three ranks of Human Infantry, four ranks of Human Archers and two ranks of Human Spearmen.



Only one figure is currently painted, and that was painted towards the end of 2019.


Finishing painting may take some time.

As a picture is apparently worth a thousand words, here is a graph of the production speed of my Oathmark Human army.



Empress M422 "Mighty Mite" Light Vehicle

 I am not sure when I ordered the Empress M422, but the first photograph I have is at the very end of 2020.

It was a very easy kit to put together, the only issues I had were extraneous texture on the bonnet and some issues with the "grill" on the front. I did add a small tarpaulin rolled up on the bonnet (clear of the grill on the top) to reinforce the windscreen, a a bed roll in the load space to reinforce the rear door.

I undercoated it with Citadel Chaos Black and then removed the (still separate) wheels from the box I use as a base for spraying. The body (and various figures) were then sprayed with Humbrol 155 Olive Drab.

The wheel hubs were then hand painted with Humbrol Acrylic 155 Olive Drab.

The wheel arches and the underside were given some muddy texture with Citadel Stirland Mud texture paint, a bit of Citadel Typhus Corrosion for additional texture and plus a coat of Humbrol 29 Dark Earth to bring it all together. Citadel Agax Earthshade brought out the final texture.

The seats were painted with Humbrol 29 Dark Earth.

The decals were provided by Rubicon again, probably the wrong numbers (WW2 Jeep numbers)
And I managed to seriously mess up one of the USMC prefixes, so had to use one from another set which was more yellow and thicker.
That rear axle needs looking at.

Well, the interior. Well...

After trying some of the Humbrol Weathering powders on the Empress T-55, I thought I would add some interior weathering. I again used Army painter Dark Tone as the medium, but it sort of got out of hand...

It does look either like a shag pile carpet, or someone has been making mud pies in it.

You may ask "where is the driver and crew", to which I have to reply "somewhere in a box, undercoated". I will eventually find them and paint them.


Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Inspiration: Survivors

 Survivors was a 1970's Post Apocalypse television programme created by Terry Nation.



Saturday, May 29, 2021

War-games Atlantic Persians

 I have been looking for figures to expand my Ancient Greeks, so decided to order a box of Persians from Wargames Atlantic.


The box contains eight sprues that build five figures.
There is one fixed archer (plus two additional bow arms and four quivers). Two Pavaises, two picked waist shields and two other shields.
First figure assembled.

Comparison with an Immortal Miniatures (now Warlord) Ancient Greek.
The Immortal Miniatures figures are shorter and slighter.