Watermelon Man on Australia's Got Talent 2010

Very funny video!

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!

Found my miniature on the other wargamer's blog!

While browsing the Internet, I found that blogger Snowy Hoobinoo on his blog http://thiswayleads.blogspot.com.au/ have posted painted version of my 15mm Alien Leader from 15mm.co.uk SHM range! Here are photos of original sculpt. This is very small miniature, only 12mm tall.

Space Stallions - 1980 cartoon that never existed :(

Space Stallions is a short cartoon created for an animation class. Its made like trailer of sci-fi cartoon of 1980-1990 era. Sadly this is not real cartoon :( 

I really liked the retro style and music. 

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

Newly found miniature basing secret!

Long time ago I made small tutorial about basing 15mm miniatureshttp://15mmworld.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/basing-tutorial.html where I used Citadel paint called Desert Yellow (Tallarn Sand in new Citadel paints range) to paint base sides.

Several mouths ago I found that if you use natural sand and Kommando Khaki (Karak Stone) paint for base sides and also you will have much better results!

Here is comparison photo of 4 miniatures based on 20mm washers. First figure is 80% painted Bornu from Irregular Miniatures with base sides painted with Desert Yellow, second figure is Peter Pig Egyptian Speaman with sand on its base and base sides painted with Desert Yellow, third figure is Irregular Miniatures Maasai Warrior with sanded base and base sides painted with Kommando Khaki, and fourth figure is Irregular Miniatures Settler from American Indian range with base sides painted with Kommando Khaki. As you can see figure bases on the left side look much better. Now I am going to repaint all my Desert Yellow base sides with Kommando Khaki