Category: Modelling and Painting Articles

It’s Wednesday so let’s see what the membership have been up to this week. We start with more Quar and Mark J’s completed Fidwog unit.

Staying with the Quar and Tony F has converted a WW1 toy tank as a tractor for his forces.

Heading to the depths now and Marcus W has been creating some terrain for his underwater adventures.

I must remember to ask Marcus where he obtained these various pieces of terrain. Normally the local Aquarium shop is the source, but these look much too detailed.

And lastly for this week Kim has continued painting up more buildings for Traitors Toll.

Going to look great when all the buildings are together to form the town for the game.

We will see you next Wednesday.

Welcome to another Work in Progress Wednesday. We start this week with Eric who has been using the slap chop painting method to good affect on some Dreadball players.

He has also used it on some fantasy human guards.

Next up and Stephen has started in some 15mm Star Wars 3D printed AT-ST walkers.

Moving on and Phil has started on some 10mm Lord of the Rings trolls. I’m sure there are many more of these to come!

Next we have Mark J who is continuing his build of the Arnhem bridge, loving the rivet detail on this.

Marcus continues with his underwater themed gaming, this time he has put together a sunken ship.

With the front and back halves split as they sit on the sea bed.

And with that we will see you next weekend.

Welcome to our Work in Progress Wednesday Quar Special

We’ve had a number of members getting into playing Cash of Rhyfles and collecting Quar miniatures this year, we thought we should do a blog post all about it.

We start with my Quar, I went for the Gwynt faction within the Royalist camp. I went with the red/orange uniform scheme as shown in the rules. I’ve also been building my own imagined Quar houses, that you can see in the main picture.

In the Clash of Rhyfles game you get a number of ‘pluck’ points to help you, so I decided to build a Pluck counter complete with Quar taking a well earned break.

Stephen went for the Coftyrans, also Royalists and has also embraced a bit of converting by making this war correspondence.

He has also been picking up some tank models to go with his Coftyran infantry. Rather than go for the official vehicle models he decided to go for an early tank that looked the part.

Moving on and Mark J also couldn’t resist and went for the Fidwog Royalists, their normal squads come with single Quar tankette’s, and keeping in with the spirit of the game, the tank has a side tray with complementary bottle of wine.

Tony F has not been idle and picked up these from the local aquarium stockist, and with the aid of a couple of chimneys , doors and windows has created some houses for his Crusader forces.

Phil also went for the Crusaders and here we see a few specialist units. Firstly the bicycle riding Cook who also doubles as a medic.

And a Squirrel handler complete squirrels to assist in battle.

And again using his imagination for the Quar he has 3D printed a flying machine that seemed to fit. There are no flying machine rules in the game but I cannot see it staying that way for much longer.

And with that we aill see you next week for our regular look at progress.

Welcome to another work in progress Wednesday, the heat here in the UK has slowed all our painting efforts down, but we still have progress being made.

This week we start with Kim and some buildings for the game Traitors Gate. This is a town type terrain heavy game, so I’m sure there will be more to come from Kim.

Next up and Tony F had some blank 8 sided dice so decided to turn them into Sci-fi crates. I think they came out very well.

Moving on and Stephen has decided to give his river sections a bit of a make over by improving the banks of the rivers. I thin they look much more realistic now.

And Stephen also picked up this suspended target piece from the recent Broadside wargames show, and couldn’t wait to get it painted up. I believe this will be an addition to a medieval fair.

And lastly and sort of leastly given they are orcs, Phil has been painting up more 10mm orcs for his big Lord of the Rings army. We have some ballistae.

And more orcs have been started to add to the ranks of Mordor!

And with that we will see you next week when we will be having a Quar special for our work in progress.

Welcome to a new Work in Progress Wednesday, we start this week with Alan K and som MDF buildings he is putting together for his WW2 Commando game at this years Open Day.

Next up and Marcus W has made progress on his ruins and what looks like some new pulp adventurers. Nice of Marcus to leave the paint colours he used in the picture.

Sticking with Marcus and we also have some progress on the pterodactyl monster and armoured Spug.

The members obsession with the Quar continues. Mark J has continued with his Fidwog Quar faction miniatures. Including a first go at dappled camo pattern.

But it’s not all Quar for Mark, he’s also getting on with his WW2 British Airborne, here we see one of the officers.

And last but not least Stephen takes us back to the Quar with a 15mm WW2 tank he is converting before adding a Quar driver.

And with that we will see you next week.

We’re back to our normal progress for a Wednesday.

We start this week with Phil having reduced a 3D print of a beast of Mordor down to 10mm scale. I think it came out well.

Sticking with the Lord of the Rings theme and Tony F has made a start on some 10mm Rohirrim cavalry. The base colours are to give the horses some variety.

Next up and Mark J has made some more progress on his British WW2 Para’s.

And Mark has started painting up his new Quar forces.

Moving on and Marcus W has made a start on a Spug miniature in power armour and some sort of pterodactyl monster.

Marcus has also made a start on some monolithic terrain pieces.

And last but not least for this week Chris St has been painting so 15mm SYW Russians

We will see you again next week.

Welcome to another Wednesday, we start this week with something very different from Tony F, these are some sort of spirits from Games Workshop, not sure what they are but Tony did mention having to build these three bases from 24 different pieces!

Moving on and Stephen has been painting up so 15mm sci-miniatures as laser sword wielding adventurers.

He’s also been painting up this rather splendid looking Norman Warlord.

Next up and Mark J has primed some British paras for an up coming game.

And lastly for this week and Tony P has been painting the mass ranks requied for Macedonian Pikes in 6mm.

We will see you next week.

We’re here with another week of progress on our various wargaming projects.

We start this week with Alan K who has been working on some Greek Myth miniatures. More are planned, not sure on the game yet.

The membership has also recently gone a bit Quar mad. Felix has been putting together some Quar he got at the Salute wargames show.

While in preperation for a game of Clash of Rhyfles Stephen has created some blasted woods from locally sourced sticks.

And Tony F has started painting up a selection of vacuum formed shell holes.

Meanwhile Phil presents a group shot of the 10mm orc horde he has been working on. Apparently he has many more to do.

And last but not least for this week Mark J has finished panting his Jadgdpanther. Apparently this is a metal model, so a very realistic model for a beast of a tank.

And with that we will see you next week.

We’ve had a change in weather in these parts, but the sudden sunshine has not reduced productivity.

We start this week with Tony F who has succumbed to the lure of the Quar, having picked up a box set of figures at the recent Salute wargaming show.

Next up and Mark J continues with his WW2 German infantry.

And two Churchill tanks getting ready to face them. You can see in the battle report, that didn’t go quite to plan!

We move onto Stephen and Cardinal Gareth le Tookere, I don’t know if he has hs own stats or will be finding himself as an objective in future games.

And lastly for this week Chris St has made some progress on his inprovised gun platform trucks destined for a game of AK47 soon.

And with that we will see you next Wednesday for more miniature progress.