Category: WIP Wednesday

Welcome to another Work in Progress Wednesday, we start this week with Mark J and some more WW2 miniature progress. Mark has started painting some german armour, he’s acquired his first airbrush and these vehicles are perfect for a try out.

He has also made some more progress on his Volksgrenadiers.

Next up and Chris St has been painting up the fairly new Stargrave Automaton miniatures. I was tempted by these myself, but now have too many space skeletons to paint.

Moving on and Phil has managed to finish his Watcher in the water miniature. This is the beast its self.

And some additional tentacles to cause the Fellowship a few problems.

Stephen has been busy scratch building a castle, this one is in 15mm scale and based on 13th century rotunda style castles.

And not to be left out Tony F has also been making some castles. These are 2mm scale keeps and towers from Brigade Models.

And with that we will leave you until this time next week.

Happy new year and welcome to our first Work in Progress Wednesday post of 2026. We have a bumper crop of things to show this week!

We start with a contribution from our newest member Chris St, with an impressive looking French unit for the WSS.

Next up we have an M48 from Stephen, we have a game coming up in later in January and I suspect this will be making an appearance.

Phil has been putting together an artillery piece for his Quar army, he has used a suitably looking WW1 gun for this. We are hoping to get our first game using the Quar at the society this year.

He has also finished off flocking this always useful rocky ground terrain piece.

Moving on and Tony F has been working on something outside his normal interests with these John Carter of Mars themed miniatures. These he is getting ready for our 2026 show game.

And some more beasties for the same game.

And we will leave you this week with some miniatures I painted that were also outside of what I normally paint. I painted two scenes as christmas presents using the range of fairy tale cloth miniatures from Statuesque Miniatures.

For this one I used the old lady in the woods with some singing rats.

And a scene with some cloth dolls and a cat. The mushrooms were just small craft wooden ones.

And with that we will see you next week.

Welcome to the last Work in Progress post of 2025. We are taking a short break and will be back with our 2026 projects in January.

For this week we start with a project of mine, I’m building a Robot army. I have robot miniatures from lots of different sources so decided to paint them all the same so they blend in. Here we have an old EM4 robot, an AT-43 Therian (looks a bit like a robot) and a 3D printed skeletal robot.

Next up and Mark H has been painting some Yak9P 1950 vintage North Korean fighters.

Moving on and taking a break from orcs, orcs and more orcs, Phil has painted some 3D printed alien terrain pieces. These are more biotech style pieces.

Tony F has also been busy working on some sci-fi terrain of his own. We start with some plastic kit market stalls.

He has painted up some stacks of crates useful for hiding behind in a fire fight.

And having discovered a box full of resin terrain pieces in the loft, felt it was about time they were painted.

And we will end this year with something wonderfully random fromStephen, who presented these fungus themed bases. I’ve no idea what they are for but I like them.

Have a well earned break over the festive period. The work in progress posts will return on the 7th January 2026!

It’s the penultimate Work in Progress Wednesday for 2026. We start this week with Phil and what he informs me is a Coftyran Chyweethl tractor from the Quar miniatures range.

Phil has also been painting some strange alien scenery, apparently this is a storage container?

Meanwhile Tony F has been using a silicone mould designed for making food items like chocolate or icing treats. He has poured resin in instead.

The result being various bush/plant pieces to use as scater terrain.

Tony has also be working on some Fauna in the form of these dangerous lookning hounds.

To be festive I decided to repaint my scratch built Maggot beast, wanted something a little more realistic colourwise.

And last for this week we have Marcus who has apparently found a Woola. He knows what that means, the picture provided was this beastie!

And with that we will see you next week for our last Work in Progress Wednesday post for 2025.

Only three more before Wednesdays before the Christmas holiday. But progress is not letting up.

Phil certainly isn’t with yet more 10mm orcs for a massive lord of the Rings game at some point in the future.

Speaking of which I’ve had a test paint of some 10mm Lord of the Rings Easterlings.

Next up and Stephen has decided to create some alien looking terrain using just hot glue and a blue paint scheme.

Back to reality and Mark J has gone back to his 28mm WW2 forces and continued painting up the last of his Volksgrenadier platoon in winter uniform.

Moving on and Tony F has painted up a couple of 3D printed beasties, which now makes me regret signing up to the next Stargrave game.

Tony has also applied a Chris Foss inspired paint scheme to his curtain thing topped (don’t ask) tesla tower.

And with that we will see you next week.

It’s Wednesday and that means progress! We start this week with some 3D printed construction style robots from Tony F. He has also been scratchbuilding some other sci-fi pieces with a few 3D printed gubbings thrown in for good measure.

Moving on and I think Mark J has finally finished painting his 10mm French and German early WW2 forces.

And the French forces, apparently these are both ready for a game of the ‘O’ Group rules from Two Fat Lardies.

Next we have Stephen who has started on a Quar tankette, he has swapped the crew member to the faction he is collecting. I won’t pretend to know the factions but I’m thinking of collecting Quar myself.

Moving on we have Phil who has continued with his 10mm Lords of the Rings orc army with some more trolls.

And lastly for this week I’ve made some scale agnostic volcanic craters. I actually made them out of a type of plastic that you can mould when warm and sets rock hard when cold. The lava was created with some orange translucent hot glue.

And so we will see you next Wednesday.

We start this work in progress Wednesday with some Slaine fantasy from Eric. First Slaine himself mid spasm change! Followed by some other celtic warriors and a roman.

Taking to the air and Mark H has been working on some US Navy Skyraiders and North Korean Yak9P’s from Tumbling Dice. He has also started on some bridges that will no doubt be targets of a future game.

Stephen has fiished his warlord made from a couple of diferent miniatures spliced together.

And he has put the finishing touches to his oasis.

Now we have Tony F and some rather impressive Cacti, these were desk ornaments found in Ikea. In front of them are some cyber dogs.

And lastly this week, I’ve painted up a couple more mechs, this time a Blood Asp and Warhawk.

And with that we will see you next week.

We are running out of Wednesdays for 2025 but we start this one with some of my progress. First up I scratch built some 6mm fuel dump pieces, and while on the 6mm kick I painted up some Mechs. First ones in at least 30 years!

Moving on and Mark J has gone back to painting more 10mm WW2 german armour after spending time on the French forces.

Next up and Tony F has been working on various crates. Thes sci-fi pieces are scratch built from ammo trays, not that he has lots of bullets to store but you can pick them up as futuristic pallets. One set has actual bought crates the other is a chopped up plastic waste pipe.

He has also painted up some wooden crates for a more traditional setting.

Stephen is in a crusading mood with the start of a Warlord made from splicing together a couple of different miniatures.

And the start of a scratch built oasis to give him somewhere to lead his horse to. I’m sure there will be some palm trees to accompany this.

And with that we will see you next week.

Welcome to Wednesday and this week we start with some bones. Tony F has been building some terrain, this time the remains of some gigantic beast.

Thinking of beasts, he has also painted up these two vicious looking bugs.

Moving on and another of our Tony’s, Tony P this time has continued amassing his Greek warriors and a temple for a bit of flavour.

And some more warriors with what looks like a champion out front.

Sticking with quantity and Mark J has moved on to some French infantry and support guns for his 10mm WW2 project.

There’s going to be a lot of units on the board when he’s done.

And with that we will see you next week.