Category: WIP Wednesday

Apologies, we’re a bit late with this weeks WIP Wednesday post, we got a bit side-tracked by the bank holiday weekend.

We’ll start with the honourable chairman Mark’s efforts, a Vietnam era LVTP-5 and a M-50 Ontos (above).

Next up we have a couple of offerings from Charlotte, she’s given her Spanish church a coating of sand, painting is next.

And a couple of characters from a game she’s developing “Folked Up”, the Pirate queen of Hispania: Inés de la Espada and her pet Octavio.

Inés is a Reaper sculpt and Octavio is scratch-built from earplugs.

Stephen’s gone off his painting, but he’s still got his modelling mojo running with this construction, called ‘Stairway To Heaven’. We’ll be seeing that in a Stargrave game at some point.

Regular editor Jeremey has been working on some cavalry, King Richard and his retinue, for the upcoming finale of the War of the Roses campaign, the battle of Bosworth  (that’s him on the far right, with the gold armour, leading the charge from the rear).

Meanwhile Tony has take a break from his WW2 Belgian project to work on some terrain for a planned Lord of the Rings game, the Gates of Bree and the surrounding hedge

And, as something completely different, some 15mm Yenpalo Sci Fi vehicles and crew.

Going up a scale, Andy has been working on some Japanese Corporate Mercenaries, these are 25mm GZG figures that have been in Andy’s pile of shame for over a decade!.

And in case they need a bit of support, he’s also working on a War Bot from Alternative Armies, which would work in 6mm, 15mm or 25/28mm scales.

That’s all for this week, hopefully we’ll be back on time next week.

 

Andy is back with a round up of the Society’s members painting efforts.

We start with some Norman mounted crossbows from Stephen (above). He’s planning to field these against me in a Norman Conquest mini campaign later in the year.

Eric has been working on another car for Gaslands. Is that The Stig driving, or one of his cousins?

Felix has started work on some BAOR figures.

And Chairman Mark has finished his Vietnam USMC Recon team.

One we missed from last week, Marcus has been working on some Stargrave scenery.

Also on the scenery front, I have been working on a random selection of Lord of the Rings items.

And I’ve finished a couple of 3D prints from Brigade Models, a Ford Model T Armoured Car and a British 13pdr gun. The Ford is available from their website, but the 13pdr is a pre-production model so hasn’t quite made the website yet.

Tony has been making progress on his WW2 Belgians, first up, a Daimler Armoured Car. This is an IBG kit (the only plastic 1/72nd Daimler he could find) and it’s definitely not a quick build wargames model – it’s more like a miniature Tamiya kit with loads of tiny details. It has a fully detailed interior, although some of the parts once fitted would be impossible to see from any angle even with the hatches open, so all of that got left off.

And he’s also working on the 25pdr guns and tractors. And all the wheels!

Finally Peter M has been working on some 28mm Sci FI AFVs for the Hammer’s Slammers universe.

Another week and another roundup of MWS member’s efforts on the modelling and painting front.

First off we’ll take a look at a couple of offerings from Tony. Above we have a 6mm Hammer’s Slammers detachment – the Heliodorus Regiment who carry flamethrowers (not that they can be seen in this image) and ride around in big wheeled vehicles, with a few more bases of 6mm desert scenery. These are Brigade Models products, no surprise there!

Also from  Tony we have progress on his late WW2 Belgians, a couple of 25 pdr guns, limbers and tractors, some 15cwt trucks for the motor rifle platoon, and a couple of scout cars. Tony says the green base coat looks nowhere near so pale in real life.

Next up some of Chairman Mark’s work, a Vietnam era USMC Recon Team.

Our main theme for this week is some Stargrave (other SF rules are available) markers, mostly for the Side Hustle option.

Marcus has built a Pylon from odds and ends.

A damaged robot/drone mainly for underwater games:

And finally from Marcus some Coral style scenery pieces.

Eric has built a pit marker, scratch built apart from the doors which are old 40k Rhino top hatches.

And some loot markers:

And I’ve also been working on some Side Hustle markers, although mine are commercial models rather than being scratch built. The Pylon and Pit are from Blotz, and the Robot from Alternative Armies.

I’ve also finished off a repair bot (Crooked Dice) and some sand worm type beasts, not sure where I got those.

Hopefully Jeremey will be back in charge next week.

Andy curates this week’s roundup of members painting and modelling activities.

We’ll start off with some offerings from Tony F this week, above we have the start on some Brigade Models 15mm Yenpalo infantry for Xenos Rampant. They comprise two units each of heavy infantry and light infantry/scouts, plus mortar and railgun teams. The scouts are on open order bases to reflect their Hard to Target rule, with the heavies in closer order. The weapons teams are based with two man crews, while the additional command figure allows the removal of single casualties.

Also from Tony are some 25 lbr guns for his 20mm WW2 Belgian project.

Next up we have some of Eric’s work, an Alien Bounty Hunter inspired by the recent Dead or Alive supplement for Stargrave. This is a Kroot Carnivore figure.

Continuing the Stargrave theme we have some Necrons:

And some Baby Bugs:

Finally we come to my meagre offerings. Firstly some simple markers for Lion Rampant, “Wall of Spears” and “Shieldwall”. Printed labels, PVA glue and some surplus cavalry “pill” bases.

I’ve finished off some Arab Light Cavalry (apart from their shields, which I can’t find!)

And a few peasant slingers.

That’s all, we’ll be back next week.

Jeremey’s otherwise engaged for the next couple of weeks, so compiling the WIP Wednesday roundup falls to Andy.

After helping Phil with basing figures for the WW2 game he and Tony put on at the Open Day, Phil’s youngest son decided he wanted to do some painting.

So as a start from him we have a GW wolf (above). He is now moving onto some Space Marines.

Marcus has been continuing work on a variety of projects, this week he has completed a couple of Pulp Figures.

Does the one on the left remind you of a character from a certain “motherly” film franchise?

Eric has started a new project, a 15mm force for Xenos Rampant, he’s assembled them, but no paint has been applied yet

I’ll finish off with some of my own work.

I’ve been experimenting with a home made wet palette (a Chinese takeaway container, thick kitchen towel and some greaseproof paper) and a vortex mixer.

The wet palette certainly keeps paint useable for a couple of days, and the vortex mixer seems to work well. We tried it out on some “problem” paints at the open day.

On to the figures, I’m nearing the end of the Arab Light Horse, just some washing and varnishing to do. And the shields. When I find them! Here are four of the twelve.

I’ve also been working on some Footsore slingers while I’ve been painting the Arab horse.

That’s all for this week, we’ll be back next Wednesday.