Category: Modelling and Painting Articles

We start this week with a sorry tale, above is a new crew captain for Tony F after the last one got killed during a game of Stargrave. They were the only casualty and in the after game roll they didn’t recover.

Moving on to happier stories and David P is getting more miniatures painted for a big game next January. These are the start of some Russian Artillery.

Next up and Felix has been back at the painting table for some more Vietnam era troops. We have some more US Airborne and NVA.

Nice freehand work on the flag.

Stephen has added a bit more scenery this week with some broken/rocky ground.

While Mark J has produced a rather large pyrrhic pike block.

Lastly for this week and we have a new set of Elves for Andy.

See you next week!

Only a small offering this week.

We start with Marcus who is painting up some scenery pieces this week. Above we have a crashed plane that Marcus may end up using as more underwater terrain for various scuba, secret agent, bondesque style games.

Along with the wreckage Marcus also picked up some rock pieces from the local pet shop aquarium range.

Sticking with the aquarium theme Tony F has also been in the pet shop and picked up some little bridges from the aquarium range. These were stripped down and repainted.

And lastly for this week Andy has returned to the painting desk with the staart of their Elf band for an upcoming game.

That’s it for this week.

It’s Wednesday again, it’s bad weather for trying to use spray varnish outside but there’s still beeen progress.

We start with my efforts this week. Above I’ve been painting up some space stations for a coming game of Full Thrust. I got these models off a fellow member, they are apparently from the Dropfleet Commander game. They came as a sprue of parts that you stick together as your mood takes you.

Following that I managed to get my Stargrave crew finished.

Next up and Stephen has managed to finished their scratchbuilt medieval manor.

Now we have Mark J’s progress on their helicopters for Vietnam.

And finally for this week Eric has painted up a band of Elves for a future game tryout of Red King Elf.

So we’ll see you next week.

We start this weeks Work in Progress with a bumper crop from Eric. Above is an Orx Guard for Dreadball, below is a Goblin Jack also for Dreadball.

Eric has also bee painting up some romans.

Next up Peter M has been building some more Martian Cloudships.

These are all scratchbuilt from various other miniatures and kits.

Now we have John La rushing to get a DBA army ready for the Society’s annual competition.

Marcus has continued with paiting up some miniatures for Frostgrave.

And yet more aquatic miniatures.

Stephen has inadvertently (their words not mine) started building a medieval manor house.

And lastly for this week I’ve made some progress on my Stargrave crew.

See you all next Wednesday.

It’s another Wednesday and just a small offering this week.

I’ll start with my efforts this week. Above is the start of a new set of miniatures for that will be my Stargrave Crew. These are all Copplestone miniatures that I’ve done a bit of conversion work on to make some of them a bit more alien like.

Next up Mark J has been putting together some vehicles for a Vietnam game.

Stephen has been busy painting up some more reinforcements for our Wars of the Roses campaign. This time Stephen has painted up some Irish kerns and gallowglaichs.

And lastly this week, Mark H has finished painting up a 1/300th Soviet Guards Battalion.

See you next Wednesday.

This week it looks like the members have been doing a spot of gardening.

We start with some rather impresive trees from Eric.

And a close up of the tree base.

However I believe Phil has gone the scratchbuilt route with these trees.

Now back to miniatures and Mark J has finished painting a US Seal Team for Vietnam.

And finally for this week Andy has been experimenting with some Army Painter speed paints.

To paint up some plastic Orcs, I think these are the old Grenadier ones now produced by Em4 Miniatures.

I’ve yet to try speed paints, feel like I’m playing catch up on that front.

See you next Wednesday.

As a break from our regular Wednesday posts we present this week a look back at our Open Day.

We had six games on the day covering a wide selection of periods and scales. One of the selling points of the Maidstone Wargames Society is if you’re into it we probably play it.

We start with Stephen’s Road to Damascus Saga game. Saga has proven very popular at the club mainly the Age of Vikings, but Stephen presented a Crusades game for the open day.

The game boasted some new scenery in the form of an Arab Manor house.
The Arabs were victorious on the day.

We now move to the English Civil War. We have a number of members who regularly play Field of Glory, between them they have many armies of different periods and scales.

For the open day they put on an 15mm ECW game for a change.

I don’t know who won on the day but their were many excited exclaimations that can only mean some fortuitous dice rolling!

A new game to the club has been Strengh and Honour, this has been played as a 2mm Ancients game to give a sense of scale.

Here we have Roman Legions taking on the Celtic hordes.

For the open day I finally got my Naploleonic Balloon game up and running. But then failed to take any pictures of it as I was busy running the game.

A phot was taken of all 10 balloons on the battlefield, the game needs a little bit of tweaking but much fun was had in being blown around by the wind all day. Hopefully this might make it to be a show game one day.

Moving to the Franco-Prussian war and the Battle of Spicheren, this was a pet project of member Tony G who thought they’d try a new period for the open day. Tony did this in 6mm and wanted to represent the terrain dominated battlefield.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a more hilly, wooded landscape to have a battle.

Tony also made the towns and villages using paper models for the buildings. Quite a challenge at this scale.

And onto the last game of the day, Tony F and Phil decided they had been neglecting the first age of middle earth for their Lord of the Rings games.

This gave Phil the excuse to paint up some real big beasties, much to worry of Tony F, but luckily there were enough Elven heroes knocking around at that time to meet the challenge.

I’m assuming this is Elrond going toe to toe with a Balrog? Phil definitely went big with Balrogs, Beasts and Trolls in abundance.

I do feel however that this picture should be part of a caption competition!
As to the game I think it was declared a no score draw at the end of the day.

Thanks to all the members who put on games, and to those who visited us on the day.

If you are interested in joining the Society please feel free to visit us on any of our regular meetings. The club Diary can be found here. Any further details about the club can be found on our website.

 

I thought the weather might slow the members down a bit. This week we start with Phil and some Lord of the Rings Goblin archers.

Next up and Mark H has made more progress on their WW2 Soviets, clearly 6mm froa bit of a distance!

We move onto John La who has decided to create some new trees. Here we have the wire armatures. Home made trees is not something I’ve ever tried.

I’m keen to see the end result.

And lastly for this week Marcus has some worms. The least said the better.

Let’s see what next week brings.

The sunny weather hasn’t kicked in yet to slow the members down.

We start with some markers for Stargrave from Stephen. Followed by the finished Pilgrims from Andy.

Andy has also made progress on the Salute Viking figure.

Now we have some large boulders from John L.

Moving on and it must get boring soon for Tony F having to paint yet more elves. First up a captain and magic user.

and some more rank and file elven warriors

Mark J has proven they don’t just paint 28mm vietnam miniatures with some 6mm Tiger tanks.

Sticking with the 6mm theme Mark H has started painting Soviet Infantry

And lastly for this week, Eric has been painting up a fantasy tree.

Close up of the base of the tree

So we’ll see you next week for some more work in progress.