Category: WIP Wednesday

We have a change from out normal Work in Progress post this week for Jeremey to take us through improving a popular cheap option for plants on the battlefield.

Like many wargamers I picked up a number of cheap plastic aquarium plants to use as plants in my games. To try and get some variety I bought a number of different sets and mixed them up a bit, but despite that they just looked so plastic.

At a recent game this is what the plants looked like on the battlefield. Admittedly they are designed to be bright for fish tanks of a tropical nature. You could also argue they work fine as bright plants for jungles or alien planets.

However I wanted something that would look more natural and if nothing else just look less plastic. Here is a selection of the plants I’d put together for my games, that I decided to see if just a light spray paint over the top would provide the results I wanted.

For these I used a camoflague style green paint from Halfords. I used a couple of short bursts mainly from the top down. The above picture shows a before an after. I was really pleased with these results the paint was a mat colour and so took that plastic shine off the plants.

I was about to spray all of the plants the same when I decided to take a chance on some other colours. In the example above I first tried using a can of army painter green skin. This kept the plant colour quite bright, great for jungles but it did take the plasic shine off. For the other example I used a can of red primer from Halfords. Again for both of these, just short bursts rather than colour the whole plant.

And this was the end result, It’s made such a difference to how the plants look and it took just moments to do. I’m not going to varnish these. If the paint wears off I can just apply a bit more paint. I might look at using some different colours, but for now I’m pleased with how this project went.

Welcome to another Wednesday and this week Andy starts us off with some more work on his Necron, swiftly followed by a pack of werewolves. All but the middle one are plastic models from Atlantic Wargames. The other is an metal miniature Andy has had for some time.

And to finished off (not literally) Andy has also completed a tomb.

We move on to an impressive bunch of vikings from Tony P who has started working on a ship for them.

Mark J has been busy building Nijmegen bridge for a big Chain of Command game coming up. This is only half of the bridge, the rest is on the way.

And finally for this week Tony F has been creative and added a number of scenic pieces to an old internet phone connector. I’m assuming once painted this will be making it’s way to a Stargrave game.

And with that we will see you next week.

Welcome to our Work in Progress Wednesday post. We have a very mixed bag of projects this week. Firstly Phil has continued with his Orc Horde, He’s starting to get that mass ranks look.

Moving on and Andy has managed to regain his painting mojo by slapping some paint on a Games Workshop Necron miniature. We will no doudt be running into this one during a game of Stargrave.

Talking of Stargrave and I have also started to regain my painting mojo, I’ve not picked up the brushes for a good 4 or 5 months. I’ve purchased my first 3D printed miniatures to act as my crew in Stargrave. I’m not starting a new crew just refreshing the miniatures used.

I’ve also managed to put together two simple conversions of Mechs for my 3mm sci fi forces. The missile pods are from a Dropzone Commander miniature.

We now have a very early project, Stephen has acquired yet another card packing piece that will soon become another sci-fi building for his growing collection.

And out of left field Tony F picked up this food silicone tray. It’s designed for chocolates but Tony has added some resin to create some objective markers.

That’s it for this week end we will see you at the next one.

Welcome to another work in progress Wednesday. We start this week with Mark J and yet more Shermans, I don’t know how many he is planning to do but it has sparked a Sherman bragging contest, I think the winning bid was 65 Sherman miniatures although in 10mm scale.

Next up and Eric has been painting some fantasy celtic warriors. Liking the flesh tones on these.

And of course a shot from the front of the warriors.

Tony F has been plucking random things from the lead pile to finish up. This ones a bit of a cheat but interesting. Apparently this is a pre-painted model truck, Tony has added an ink wash to make it look used. It’s perfect for a number of early 20th century games.

And some English policemen, not sure why Tony has these, clearly an impule buy at some point in the past.

And we finish off this week with some Pulp sci-fi from Marcus. I think these are going bright colours as is entirely appropriate for the genre.

And with that we will see you next week.

It’s Wednesday again and we start this week with Stephen and an A-7 Corsair, 1/100th scale ready for duty over Vietnam.

Stephen also managed to pick up a Warhammer 40K walker, that he stripped of the over abundance of insignia to make it more generic for various sci-fi games.

Next up and continuing with the walker theme, Tony F has repainted an old plastic Star Wars toy droid as this rather wonderful sci-fi JCB vehicle.

Moving on and Phil has made some more progress on his 10mm Mordor orcs, I think this represents about 1% of what’s planned!

We finished up with more miniatures from Marcus. Firstly some more Celtos orcs.

And the start of some Barsoom miniatures.

And with that we will see you next Wednesday.

And we’re back with our normal Work in Progress Wednesday posts.

First up and Mark J has been painting up a 3D printed Sherman tank. This is going to be for a big Nijmegen game.

Moving on and Marcus managed to paint up some more miniatures that we saw at his Open Day game. Firstly some Celtos miniatures, some beastmen, orc champion and a barbarian.

Not sure who makes these miniatures, but we have three more mean looking beasts.

Stephen has been busy tinkering and has come up with a mobile gun platform for his Quar captain.

And by chopping up a couple of other miniatures created this fetching sniper.

And finally for this week Tony F picked up some scatter terrain at a wargame show and got to work. Not sure what he plans for the Mini we’ll have to wait and see.

See you next Wednesday.

Welcome to another Work in Progress Wednesday. It’s very sunny here so progress might slow down a bit. I know I’m struggling to get projects done.

But this week we start with Phil who is putting the finishing touches to a gate to Moria for a Lord of the Rings game, and sticking with the Lord of the Rings theme but in a different scale with some 10mm Orcs.

Next up and Mark J has been putting the finishing touches to a universal carrier.

Returning to the Lord of the Rings theme and Tony F has been painting up more dwarves, no doubt with an eye on that gate.

And finally for this week Eric has been busy with a rune incrusted Wyrdstone.

And some miniatures referred to as Skullswords from a Kickstarter.

And with that we will see you next week.

Welcome to another work in progress Wednesday. We start this week with Peter M and another amazing scratchbuild. Peter has been mixing and matching with various models to create a new spaceship. Can you guess what the parts are?

Next up and Tony F has been putting the final touches to some 6mm buildings for a Hammers Slammers game. I think he can stop now.

For the same game Tony has also painted up some 6mm Hindi faction forces.

We move on to Marcus who has made progress on his tower for Frostgrave.

Complete with interior staircase and additional scenic pieces for the roof.

And lastly for this week, I discovered and old miniature I’d forgotten I had, the old Ral Partha D&D Ettin miniature, I plan to strip the 30+ year old paint and start again.

And that’s it for this week, we will see you at the next work in progress Wednesday.

Welcome to another work in progress post. This week we start with Marcus and some Denizens for the Labyrinth appearing at the Open Day later this month. He has also been busy scratchbuilding a tower for Frostgrave. Apparently this is one of three to be constructed.

Moving on and Tony F is also busy painting for an upcoming game, although I believe these are for a 6mm Hammers Slammers game at the Broadside wargames show this Saturday.

First up we have a small 6mm town which will be a likely objective in the game.

There will also be lots of wooded areas apparently, well you need to break up those lines of sight.

And finally from Tony F some monorail tracks.

Last but not least for this week and Phil has been painting some more 10mm orcs, it’s becoming a nice looking horde, but a little bird tells me he is supposed to be sorting out his 28mm orcs for his open day game!

That’s it for this week, we’ll see you next Wednesday.