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

LITKO bases have arrived!!!!

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And now my big news for today! At last, my order of 15mm clear acrylic bases from LITKO have arrived!!! Now I can rebase all my figures and share photos with you. While waiting the parcel, I painted lots of figures, so be prepared for lots of new posts :)

Here is my LITKO list: 

600 - 15mm bases

10 -25mm bases

500 - 20mm bases

50 - 30mm bases

25 - 45mm bases

More than enough for my Lead Mountain Army :)

PS: Sharp eyed blog readers may notice Inuit dog sledge on the left side of photo, squad of WW1 era British soldiers on a lamp, M60, M113, some US soldiers and 28mm Goblin from Hobbit, near the Ducktape.

SHM Range and Litko

I am at the middle of my rebasing progress, and I want to share some results with you :) On the photo above you can see three SHM Range alien creatures: Thing from Abyss, Tentacled Brain Monster and Avarep Cobra. All figures are based on 1.5mm thick Clear Acrylic bases from Litko.

Here you can see Tentacled Brain Monster and Merc with assault rifle from Laserburn range painted in Australian cmouflage. I glued each tentacle to the base using blob of superglue. While glue was wet, I added small amount of sand around tentacles. Merc was based on 15mm wide base and creature on 30mm base.

The same Merc with Avarep Cobra. Looking like a furry Terran snake the Avarep is a dangerous foe indeed. Capable of near flight by coiled jumping, its beak is as hard as iron. Found on many worlds. There are hundreds of Avarep Cobra species, each have its own fur and skin colour.

Pazner 28(t) and Sd.Kfz. 251

Before painting A7V, I decide to practice on smaller German vehicles. 

Here is Panzer 38 (t) from Zvezda. Hull was painted in Army Painter Uniform Grey and highlights were made by Citadel  Fortress Grey. And don't forget to use Testors Dullcoat :) ! 

Another angle of Panzer 38(t)

Sd.Kfz. 251 from Zvezda

15mm M60A1 from QRF Part 3

Started rebasing my Insurgents

Started rebasing my Insurgents on 15mm clear acrylic bases from Litko

Colonial British rebased

I rebased my colonial British on 15mm clear acrylic bases from Litko.

Minifigs Austrian Cuirassier

Just painted 15mm Napoleonic era Austrian Cuirassier. I got ten of them year ago from one of TMP forum user. They were unpainted so I was not sure about their nation and uniform colour. I even created a topic to identify these chaps http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=242333 

20% finished Char2c and Rkhm Kashalot

15mm M60A1 from QRF Part 1 - Half Painted

Half painted M60 from QRF in MERDC camouflage. Only turret is finished, so don't bother half painted hull and ugly tracks.

Finished M60A1 turret in MERDC camouflage. 

Whats on the Workbench?

Bunch of half painted QRF models. M60A1 Patton (only turret is finished), RKhM "Kashalot" and Char 2C. Sorry for poor lighting :) Its rainy outside.

Whats on the Workbench?

Mount ago Mike Edwards from "Stopping the Red Tide" blog have gifted me four QRF M113 (read posts here and here). And now these M113 want to say "Thnak You" to Mike for their new home :)

I painted this APC in same way as Irishserb Humvee that I already own and headswaped the gunners head with Peter Pig marine head and also added some bullet holes of right side of the vehicle. I plan to paint 2 M113 as modern vehicles and other 2 as Vietnam ones. In that case I wont be headswapping gunners heads for vietnam era, because they have similar size to Peter Pig Vietnam era Americans (older Peter Pig sculpts with smaller heads.)

I also received lots of 15mm and 20mm clear acrylic bases from Litko, that I am gonna use to rebase my models.