Welcome to another Work in Progress Wednesday. Above we start with Tony and his freshly painted Knights of Rivendell.
Tony has also been making some 6mm roads.
Next up Felix has made some good progress on his Polish army.
Eric has been as busy as usual, first up a standard bearer for his Chaos Warriors.
Then we have something Eric calls a Hellbrute.
And finally from Eric something slghtly different with some Viking archers.
See you next Wednesday.
It’s often feast or famine with the members projects and progress. Just a few offerings this week.
Above Eric has finished his Chaos Warriors.
Next up Andy has started a new project with some WW2 Brits.
Felix has continued his impressive run of putting paint on miniatures with some polish lancers.
And last for this week, I’ve finally returned to my balloon project. I’ve added more netting to some ballooons and finished the baskets. Next I have to start the assembly process.
That’s it for this week.
It’s Wednesday, and Eric is putting us all to shame again. Above and below we have something new with a couple of Aeronefs.
Next up some Chaos Warriors
And lastly from Eric this week an old Grenadier adventurer miniature.
Next up Stephen has been painting up some 20mm Gladiators for an arena game.
Mark has made a little bit of progress on his ancient greeks
and we end this week with Tony having painted up a new space fleet (that recently fought me to a draw!)
and some rather impressive 6mm sci-fi terrain
See you next week.
It’s Wednesday and we have another collection of things the members have been working on.
Above Marcus has painted up some sci-fi creatures. They are apparently a Northstar Stargrave creature (orange) and Lucid Eye Beyond the Savage Core guard “dogs”.
Next up we have a couple of dwarves. Firstly a dwarven wizard from Stephen.
And another dwarf wizard from Andy.
Andy has also painted up a victorian/steampunk figure.
and yet more 10mm Polish infantry.
Next up Felix has painted some napoleonic polish cavalry.
While Mark has made a start on some 15mm Ancient Greeks.
And last but not least Eric has completed a unit of mounted chaos marauders.
That’s it for this week, see you next wekend.
It’s Wednesday and we have another bunch of pictures showing what club members have been up to.
Above Tony has painted up some archers from Blackfoot Vale to add to his Lord of the Rings collection.
Next up Andy is painting more of his Polish Vistula Regiment.
Andy has also started painting up some more vikings and a wizard.
Eric has been busy again on some Games Workshop Marauders and something wonderfully named a Slaughter Priest.
Next up John has painted up some more galleys.
Stephen has been working on some fatigue markers to better match his Saga Crusades games, Stephen has also thrown in a converted miniature as a priest.
And finally for this week Marcus has started on a new project, here is a first attempt at some 15mm sci-fi terrain.
See you next Wednesday.
We start this week with a wonderful piece of work from Eric. This is apparently Wulfric The Wanderer in all his glory.
Next up John has made progress on his Japanese houses.
Andy is next up having finished some of his 10mm Polish. There a lot more colourful than I imagined they would be.
Meanwhile Stephen has finished his skeleton cavalry and added a bolt thrower.
A rare treat for me this week, I’ve finally made a start on the last of my trees. These were from a store called ‘The Works’. Every year they have various sized christmas trees available very cheaply.
They come covered in snow and so following recommendations from other club members I sprayed them green.
Tony has also been working on some trees from ‘The Works’, but he still has the snow on his.
But Tony has also painted up a bear miniature to act as Beorn for his Lord of the Rings armies. Here Beorn is with the finished versions of Deorwine we saw in a previous WIP Wednesday.
That’s it for this weekend, see you next time.
Back to Wednesday after a slight hiccup last week.
First up we have an undead dragon from Stephen and below the start of some undead cavalry.
Next up Marcus has started on another toy sub model for his underwater adventures.
Next up Tony has painted yet another Lord of the Rings miniature. This time Déorwine, Chief of the King’s Knights and a sneaky addition of the Brigadier miniature from Brigade Models.
Now we turn to the progress Andy has made on his Polish forces.
And an assortment of Dwarves and Vikings.
Lastly for this week, John has returned to building some more Japanese houses.
That’s it for this week, see you next Wednesday.
It’s been a quiet week at the society but we have a couple of things being worked on.
Above we have some more Chaos Marauders from Eric and below an interesting start to what is apparently a Games Workshop Culexis Assassin.
Next up I’ve finally made some more progress on my Napoleonic balloon project. Managed to get the netting onto four more balloons. Only five more to go!
And finally for this week, Marcus has added some foliage for his underwater games with some aquarium plants.
That’s it for this Wednesday, see you next week.
Welcome to another Wednesday and a selection of what the society members have been working on.
First up above Tony has some interesting looking miniatures. They are actually Chaos Screamers from Games Workshop, but we agree with Tony that they make good alien space monsters.
Next up Mark has made a bit more progress on his cold war brits.
While Felix has been busy painting up the figure given out at the last Salute wargames show.
And he’s also been painting up some 6mm dark age picts. Nice use of colour on these.
And lastly this week, Marcus has finished some of his WWII planes. Here we have a selection of Spitfires and ME109’s.
That’s it for this week, see you next Wednesday.
Tony F moves into real estate development.
Last year, as a bit of a lock-down#2 project, I decided to make a small desert village for 6mm sci-fi games. All of the components come from Brigade Models (quick disclaimer here – I’m one of the owners of said company) but the techniques would work with any other manufacturer’s buildings. The wall pieces were taken from the Town Walls range, while the buildings are mostly from the Desert Outlands set. The photos in this post are all thumbnails – click on them for larger versions.
The first decision to make was how large it was going to be; I decided that it would have to fit in a 4l Really Useful Box, which gave me a maximum of a 348x220mm footprint and a height limit of 68mm. I based it on a sheet of Foamex, which is great for terrain projects as it doesn’t warp like MDF or hardboard when you apply paint. This came in 300x200mm sheets, so one of those did the job nicely.
I spent a while laying out wall pieces until I had a configuration that I liked – I wanted to avoid a simple rectangular wall. I positioned a gateway and sanded down the base at that point so it sloped away, and added a pair of watchtower pieces to the walls. Once I was happy with this I glued them down with a clear glue (Uhu). I smeared some wall filler around the joins to fill in the odd gap, this has a similar texture to the wall pieces so blends in better. I then laid out the buildings – I wanted enough space around them to be able to position figures and vehicles, so didn’t cram them in too tightly. In the end there were nine altogether. Again I fixed them in place with clear glue.
Now that the main components were in place, I was able to texture the ground. Inside the walls I simply glued a layer of sand using PVA, with the odd small stone around the edges. Outside the walls I mixed up a batch of emulsion paint, sand and PVA and applied this with an old paintbrush. I mixed in some larger grades of sand and small stones (sold in homeware shops for basing candles) so that I achieved a much rougher texture than the inner area.
The next stage was to add lots of small details to the buildings. I used a few parts from the Brigade 2mm scenery range, there are bits of girder bridges, barns, support frames from an airship hangar, a Roman lighthouse (makes a good chimney) and an obelisk in the main square. There’s the odd roof-mounted water tank and aerial from the 15mm range. There’s also a radio antenna which is the broken off top of a much larger 3D (mis)printed mast. This part proved to be a nightmare as I kept knocking it off – in hindsight it would have been better to paint it separately and attached when everything else was finished, but I kept supergluing it back on.
I also fitted some supports for fabric canopies made from paperclips and wire staples – I drilled into the buildings, walls and base with a 1mm bit and superglued them in. I didn’t add the canopies themselves yet to make it easier to paint around them.
Everything was then sprayed in Halfords white primer, followed by a coat of Army Painter Skeleton Bone. The walls and buildings were them washed with GW Agrax Earthshade, while the ground was washed with Seraphim Sepia. This gave the buildings a distinctly different shade from the ground, even though they were painted with the same base colour. Walls, buildings are ground were all heavily drybrushed with bone or stone paints from the Citadel Dry range.
Other details were painted in – doors and windows, various roof accessories and so on, mostly using Citadel contrast paints which worked well over the pale bone base colour. With this done I was now able to make the canopies from small pieces of paper towel – the type of nasty, non-absorbent cheap towels that we used to get in school toilets! I soaked the pieces in dilute PVA and draped them across the supports, making sure that they drooped as naturally as possible in between. Once the glue dried they were pretty solid. I painted them in either dark red or dark brown using GW contrast paints.
The finished conurbation was christened Mos Arun; ‘Mos’ from the Star Wars Tatooine naming convention, and ‘Arun’ taken from the road name where I live. I’m planning a series of other small building bases to accompany it in the near future, which will also appear on this blog in due course. All being well, they should appear at the club’s Open Day later in the year.
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