Working on 1:100 K-Wagen

Almost done!

Started working on 1:100 K-Wagen

Started working on 1:100 K-Wagen. For now its 45% done.

T1 Cunningham is PRINTED!

I am glad to tell you that T1 Cunningham is PRINTED and ready for cleaning. With lots of different parts you can assemble four different Cunningham variants. On the photo below you can see T1 compared with Bradley (not mine) and 15mm figures

Finished half of the British unit!

I finished finished half of 10-man British unit! There are 1 officer, 1 musician, 1 standard bearer, 8 man in 6 poses (I painted only 3 riflemans in 2 poses).

CHARGE!

Royal Marine Light Infantry

Another "Peter Pig" British infantryman painted as Royal Marine Light Infantry.

All three poses from pack "27.British infantry advancing" (http://www.peterpig.co.uk/range22.htm) painted as Royal Marine Light Infantry, British infantryman in khaki, British infantryman in red.

Barbed Wire

Photo of barbed wire section I made mounts ago. I used 28mm scale barbed wire from this shop http://www.freewebs.com/mbtandt/wargamingterrain.htm to add cartoony effect and made it more recognizable on battlefield. Peter Pig Sudan range 15mm Brits for scale comparison.

Another shot of barbed wire.

Top View

British infantry colour test

Just painted two identical British infantryman miniatures in classical red and khaki uniform. 

These minis are only one pose from Peter Pig "Sudan Range" pack called "27. British infantry advancing".

Magnetic movement tray tutorial

In this tutorial I'll be doing movement tray for 10-man squad. I base my miniatures on 20mm washers, so the measurements will be 10cm-4cm. Firstly you'll need to cut your movement tray from cardboard or plastic.

Then add a layer of magnetic sheet.

Spray your movement tray with grey coat.

Paint your tray with TAMIYA XF-57 Buff.

Place your miniatures on movement tray.

Add some PVA glue.

Then add some sand.

After several minutes remove the excess sand.

Continue this operation until you get this result. You can add whatether flock you like.

And now you have your own magnetic movement tray!

How to fight with size difference in 15mm

If you are 15mm gamer and have miniatures from different manufacturers, you may know about size difference in this scale. The matter is some manufacturers made true 15mm figures, and other 16mm, 17mm and even 18mm figs. Peter Pig is one of my favorite manufacturer, but his true 15mm figures looks a bit small in comparison to Blue Moon and Irregular Miniatures figs.

Here is size comparison shot of "Blue Moon" Wild West range civilian, "Peter Pig" Sudan range British soldier and "Irregular Miniatures" Colonial range Sepoy. As you can see true 15mm Peter Pig guy is on the smaller side.

But I found a solution how to deal with this size difference!!!!

You just need to use greenstuff or other material to uplift your true 15mm miniature from its base. When basing your bigger 15mm miniatures, try to cut their base to minimum and place figure inside the washer hole to make miniature look smaller. If you don't use washers but coins, just try to make your uplifted smaller figure heads to be on same lever as bigger 15mm guys.

Here is photo of uplifted Peter Pig figure, true 15mm Wild West figure with sanded base (sorry I haven't finished painting this guy) and bigger Blue Moon figure (with cutted base) placed in the washers hole.

Hope this article will be useful for you :)

And if you wondering about Wild West guy at the middle of the last photo, I'll tell you that you can find this figure on 15mm.co.uk or Battleline Miniatures sites here http://15mm.co.uk/A16.htm or here http://www.battleline-miniatures.co.nz/detail.asp?ProductCriterion=15mm%20American%20Civil&SubProductCriterion=American%20Civil%20war&quicksearch=&NAV=3&ItemNumber=27366

15mm Sepoy and updated painting technique!

I've just updated my painting technique and tested it on Irregular Miniatures 15mm figure from their Colonial range - FZ96 Sepoy Infantry marching ( http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/15mmRanges/15mmColonials.htm )

I used Citadel paint called Desert Yellow (Tallarn Sand in new Citadel paints range) for his base uniform color, then washed him using Gryphonne Sepia (Seraphim Sepia), then highlighted with Kommando Khaki (Karak Stone) and then small highlight with Bleached Bone (Ushabti Bone) :)

P.S Here is new Citadel Paint conversion chart

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2320032a_Citadel_Conversion_Chart

1/76 Airfix tanks as VSF Landship - part2

I've started to paint heavy landship "Prince Albert".

Medium landship will be - 15mm Mark1,2,4,5 etc.

Light landship - Whippet

C'mon Lad! We can get it! CHARGE!

But our tank does not finished! We cant move!

1/76 Airfix tanks as VSF Landship - part1

I was in Hobbyco and bought 1/76 Airfix Mark 1 Male tank. Back home I've decided to use it for my 15mm VSF. I've half assembled it and made a size comparison photos with true 15mm minis (with base diameter of 15mm

)

I choosed: Irregular Miniatures Russian Infantry

Russian Oficer

British Bluejacket

Samurai

Battleline Miniatures (NZ) Jakobite Rebellion Bagpiper (not quite 15mm)

Here are real Mark1 tank measurements:

Length 32 ft 6 in (9.94 m) with tail

Width 13 ft 9 in (4.33 m) [male]

Height 8 ft 0.5 in (2.44 m)

1/76 model measurements:

Length 10mm (WITHOUT wheels)

Height 2.8 cm

New samples

I've painted some 15mm Irregular Miniatures minis from Peasants (http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/15mmRanges/15mmPeasants.htm) and American Indians (http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/15mmRanges/15mmamerind.htm) ranges.

From left to right John Langstaff, PI35 Cowboy or Settler on foot, Pastor Humphries. Really good figures. Knowing that Irregulars have several variants for their figures, I am going to order more variants of these.

And here is a photo of rebased gorillas from 15mm.co.uk

( http://15mm.co.uk/552_Ape.htm )

Creatures and toys for 15mm!

I've decided to show you some toys which can be useful for 15mm. I took Irregular Miniatures 15mm "FZ103 British Bluejacket in straw hat" from Colonial range for size measurement.

Waterloo Boy toy. Gift from Barry S

Giant Scorpion. Originaly key trinket scorpion from Australian Reptile Park

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

And repainted version :)

Toy frog from local toy shop.

Toy ferret from same toy shop.

These 15mm gorillas are not toys, but 15mm.co.uk minis from Fantasy range (http://15mm.co.uk/552_Ape.htm)

Cowboys and Indians

I'd like to show you some of my painted examples of15mm Pony Wars Range from 15mm.co.uk (http://15mm.co.uk/Pony_Wars.htm) and Battleline Miniatures (http://www.battleline-miniatures.co.nz/products.asp?ProductCriterion=15mm%20Pony%20Wars) both ranges are same. I don't know why. Maybe bouth companies bought this range from extincted manufacturer :)

These are a bit old but still nice looking figures.

Gunslighters gang. Left guy is repainted Confederate solder from Freikorps 15 (QRF)

PW14 Gunfighter in duster with Shotgun, PW16 Townsman firing Shotgun, PW13 US Cavalry Trooper with Rifle

PW10 Miner with Rifle (Actually it look more like shotgun), PW11 White Woman in Bonnet

PW04 Indian with Bow, PW05 Indian with Tomahawk, RiflePW06 Indian with Rifle, PW06a Indian with Lance

PW03 Indian with Lance on Horse

Old photo of same figure before rebasing on 1 inch washer.