Toy soldiers dance party and new ERA on this blog.

I started rebasing my Lead Mountain Army. All my little lead men were so happy about their new shiny bases, so they decide to have a party on my painting table! Some even brought tanks and cars with them to have a ride around the table :) Its nice to see my little guys happy, and from now on I decided to write short stores about them in my future posts like Jay does. I introduced a new "STORY" label, so if you are interested in life of 15mm World inhabitants, just click on this label.

Zulu War Brits are having a friendly firefight with Great War Brits on a lamp, while their fans from different time period are watching. Remember, that toy soldiers cant harm each other and treat all fights like fun games. Battles and skirmishes on wargame tables are their favorite sport.

Ottoman Turks are watching the fight behind barbed wire barrier. Turks want to become the popular army among other toys soldiers, but they need more training.

Riders preparing for a friendly race. They want to show Americans that their lead horses are better than modern cars. 

T-34 driver having a chat with giant crab. I am wandering what common topics they have :)

Soldiers, civilians, robots and aliens are dancing!

 M113 gunner and Colonial Security (French Foreign Legionaries painted in blue and grey) are watching Lone Wanderer's Futterwacken dance

15mm Inuits - part 1

The fifth time for this month, the giant white bear have attacked the peaceful village, stealing the fish supplies, and no one could stop the beast. The villagers have asked Akikak the brave lone hunter to track and kill the Qupqugiaq, and save the village.   

The figure on the photo above is 15mm Inuit with bow from Mick Yarrow from "Inuit2 Bows" pack

Giant Crab!

A group of fantasy warriors have encountered a giant crab in remote valley. Swords and spears vs giant claws and rock hard shell! Who shall win?

In this post I want to share a source of 15mm giant pre-painted crabs. Cheap, but great in quality and details. Suitable for gaming Mysterious Island (1961) style games.

 Just look at photo above - the detail level is amazing! I bet they used real crab for mold making :) Please bear in mind that I haven't painted the crab (it was pre-painted), but I washed crab a bit to highlight the details.

If you go to this Ebay shop you will find three types of crabs: Red crab, Crab with long claws and Orange crab. For the photo above I used not-washed and not repainted crabs. So this is what you'll get from parcel.

Thing from Abyss

Sharing photo of painted Thing from Abyss monster from SHM Range. One of my earliest 15mm sculptures :)

SHM range furry snake

Just painted an upcoming furry snake from SHM range. I also made a size comparison photo of snake, Laserburn adventurer and Eytaran.

Lord Drako

Mounted and dismounted Lord Drako. I used 15mm.co.uk Altuos range Burgundian Man at Arms for mounted Lord Drako and Medus range Knight with Sword in sallet for dismounted version.

Landsknecht pikeman

Landsknecht pikeman from 15mm.co.uk Altuos range.

Early 16 century cannon

Early 16 century cannon from 15mm.co.uk Altuos range

Altuos range 15mm Harquebusiers

Just painted two figures from 15mm.co.uk "Altuos" range. These are early 16 century Landsknecht and English harquebusiers. I really like these figures! They have very crisp details and really joy to paint. They are a little bit taller than true 15mm, but only a little bit. Their height is 16mm to the level of their eyes, so prefer coins to base your miniatures, you can use sandpaper or broach file to thin miniature bases a little bit, so they will look good near rest of your 15mm figs. Or if you use washers, you can cut some parts from miniature bases and dip the minis in the washer hole.

Dismounted Knight

Just painted a dismounted knight in from 15mm.co.uk Medus range. I used greenstuff to remove chain mail from the back of his legs. The matter is I want to use this figure as dismounted version of this Burgundian Man at Arms. You can buy this figure here.

Some Dark Age minis from 15mm.co.uk

Just repainted and rebased some Dark Age minis from 15mm.co.uk Isarus range. I decided to use new grass style bases for these figures. From left to right: rebased Galatian, repainted Gothic archer, rebased Gothic spearmen.

And here you can see a snake on shield of this Gothic warrior.

 After discovering 1mm height 15mm washers, I decided to rebase all my civilians on 15mm bases. All military figures will remain on 18mm washers. Here is a group shot of 6 civilians from different manufacturers.

Two identical Laserburn civilians and sheep herder from Irregular Miniatures.

Soviet nurse from Plastic Soldier Company, GZG female colonist and Laserburn female civilian.

15mm.co.uk releases Alien Flora!

Quoting from 15mm.co.uk

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The galaxy is a dangerous place and sometimes not even the petals on alien flowers can be trusted. Watch out, you might get turned into fertilizer! 

This pack contains four white metal 15mm scale alien plants. A random selection of three poses with a minimum of one of each. Just 4.00GBP a pack.
From left to right the Chompa Death Sprout, Creegan Doom Spore Bloom (see pack HOF46 for Creegan Doom Spores), Valtusian Man Trapper.

Suitable for use in any science fiction campaign when you need dangerous wildlife to challenge your troops or for interesting and active terrain features that bite back!
These miniatures can be purchased as single figure castings search under codes HOF79A,HOF79B,HOF79C.  At 1.00GBP to 1.25GBP each.

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Wandering martial arts master

Just painted 15mm wandering martial arts master. Actually this is "Irregular Miniatures" Colonial range Boxer artillery crewman from FZ94 Jingal Light Gun pack.

Whats on the Workbech?

Fragalian from SHM range

Fragalian from SHM range.

Fenrir Battle Armor

One year ago I bought 5 Fenrir Battle Armor figures fom Mechwarrior Dark Age game. Then I rebased and repainted one of them. Each Fenrir will have a roman number on its shoulder armor.

Size comparison of Fenrir and 15mm.co.uk Galatian

Galatian

Just repainted old Galatian figure from 15mm.co.uk "Dark Ages" range link

Giant Scorpion

Giant Scorpion. Originaly a key trinket scorpion from Australian Reptile Park

( http://www.reptilepark.com.au/ )

Originally scorpion looked like this.

And here the same scorpion after drybrushing and applying matt top coat.

Clash of the Titans!

Acklay

Just repainted a Star Wars Miniatures Acklay figure. While Star Wars Miniatures are 28mm difures, this Acklay looks beter with 15mm figures.

In this scale its scale to humanoid is almost like in Episode 2. The beast have height of 7cm and have base of same diameter (7cm).

By the way, if you want to know more about Acklay, here is Wookipedia article:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Acklay

And here are different angles of model.

It came with good texture, but I've painted his eyes and tongue, and then washed and drybrushed it to make this beast more realistic.

I also painted and flocked its base.

My idea was to give it's base a look of something between desert and grassy land, because you can find Acklays on planets with different terrains.