Category: WIP Wednesday

Work in Progress Wednesday

Despite over half of the membership regularly playing historical based games, this weeks progress is dominated by Sci-Fi. We start with Mark J and some more progress on his Legions Imperialis forces.

Next up and Stephen has been mixing various plastic kits to come up with some interesting characters. I think these are destined for a hive of scum and villainy somewhere.

Andy has also made progress with his various projects. The Werewolves have been primed along with a robot.

The Einherjar (space dwarves) have also been primed but Andy is also experimenting with zenithal highlighting.

That’s also been applied to his Sneakfeet (space halflings), will be interesting to see the results.

And last but not least this week, I’ve been painting some more of my 3mm sci-fi miniatures. This time some light mechs, just need to do the basing.

We will see you next week with more progress on our projects.

Work in Progress Wednesday

Welcome to another work in progress Wednesday. We start this week with Marcus who has been busy basing his 6mm miniatures for a sea based game. Above we have some VTOLs and below a mixture of naval units and hover tanks.

Next up Andy has been prepping a number of miniatures for various projects. Firstly some space dwarves.

Some halflings (called Sneak feet apparently) snipers.

And some werewolves.

Meanwhile Tony has created some turrets on what look like some sea based platforms.

And he’s also been painting up some new roads.

And finally for this week Stephen has painted a useful piece of packaging and created this sci-fi building.

And with that we will see you next week.

Work in Progress Wednesday

Giant stompy Titan kicks us off this week. Felix has been painting up a Reaver Titan for Legions Imperialis. While Mark J has continued work on a Marauder flyer.

Next up and Tony has started a new project, this time 10mm Dwarves for Lord of the Rings.

And another member for his Stargrave crew.

And finally for this week Stephen has been painting more town characters. This time the silent stranger and Daisy Chainsaw (don’t ask).

And an idol that members will soon be fighting over in an upcoming game of Stargrave.

See you next week.

Work in Progress Wednesday

It’s Wednesday and the members have made a start of their various projects.
First up we have Stephen who has painted a 15mm patrol boat for Vietnam.

Staying with boats and Marcus has also been painting boats, this time some 6mm sci-fi craft

He has also been finishing some 6mm sci-fi hover tanks.

Next up we have Mark J and some progress on his Legions Imperialis miniatures and buildings.

Some Legions Imperialis tanks, super heavy tanks and a gunship

Meanwhile Tony F has been busy getting terrain ready for a Lord of the Rings game.

And as his opponent in the game Phil has been painting some Ring Wraiths to pursue those pesky Hobbits.

We’ll see you next week for some more progress.

Work in Progress Wednesday – Christmas Special

While the society members ramp up their projects for 2025 we thought for this Wednesday we would have a round up of the hobby related gifts members received as a teaser of what to expect to see this year.

We start with Phil and a fresh supply of GW Agrax Earthshade and Nuln Oil. If these ever go out of production Phil will never paint again!

Next up and Marcus has some new Battletech miniatures as well as some John Carter of Mars figures. Marcus has recently been painting up 6mm sci-fi forces and clearly felt the need for something a bit heavier.

Now we have Tony F with some Mantic sci-fi terrain, which he says will be appearing in a game of Stargrave this year. He’s also got more reference material for Middle Earth to help with the campaign currently running.

We have some 40k and paint for Charlotte, and some intriguing diorama lights. Never come across those before so am really interested in how Charlotte is going to use them, as intended or as terrain features?

Mark J has just gone for more reinforcements for his WW2 collection. This time some US Airborne troops.

Mark K has a new ruleset to try out in the form of L’Art De La Guerre,

and some Desert Rats decals, so a real mix of periods there.

While Mark W (yes we have a lot of Marks) has the Arkham Horror card game, Dunwich Legacy and the Investigators. You can never go wrong with a bit of Cthulhu style horror in my book (and we all know what book that is).

We have more new rules now, looks like John La will be up for more naval action this year, we’ve seed WW2 and Ancient naval games from John. I can’t remember if we’ve seen any age of sail yet.

Now on to what I got from Father Christmas, I love reading older sci-fi stories and picked this set of three books of edited collections about power armour, super tanks and space fighters. I get a lot of inspiration from books like these for miniature sculpting and rule writing.

And we end our Christmas special with a typical gamer response from Stephen. He didn’t ask for any hobby stuff this year but one of his presents had this packaging, which is being painted up as a sci-fi building as we speak, so look out for that next Wednesday.

That’s it for this week, we hope you also got some nice hobby goodies over the break. See you next Wednesday when our normal look at the work in progress will resume.

Work in Progress Wednesday – the Best of 2024 – Part 2

As soon as we posted the best of our Work in Progress posts for 2024, we realised there were many more contributions from the members. We therefore decided a part 2 was required to end 2024.

We start with the contributions from Felix. Felix hasn’t been painting miniatures long but has been getting through a number of projects. Above we have some Ashigaru, but as we’ve seen this year Felix has bounced across various periods.

Here we have the start of his cold war Brits, a Chieftain stands ready for it’s camo paint surrounded by a British Infantry squad.

Jumping back a few years and here we have some of the WW2 miniatures Felix has painted this year. This time some German Volksgrenadier’s.

Next up is a special shout out to member Mike L for his first contribution to the WIP posts. These are a set of miniatures for a Dragonlance RPG game coming to the society. 2024 saw more RPG’s played from D&D to Call of Cthulhu.

Moving on to the Napoleonic era and the current passion of member David P. David has spent 2024 adding a vast number of miniatures to his Russian and French armies.

He has also run a number of games to test out his own rules, with plenty of members volunteering to help with the playtests.

We finish this second part of our WIP review with Eric who also covered a number of genres with his efforts in 2024. Above we see one of the many Gaslands vehicles Eric painted.

There were also a number of Necrons encountered in a game of Stargrave that Eric ran. These were perfect as random encounters in the game.

And out of left field (no pun intended) Eric presented these colourful Dreadball miniatures. I definitely need to practice painting yellow as Eric has done such a good job on these.

And that’s where we are going to leave 2024. Join us in 2025 for more painting and building from the members.

Work in Progress Wednesday – the Best of 2024 – Part 1

Merry Christmas ! Since it’s Christmas Day we thought we’d give you a run-down of our favourite WIP Wednesday items from the year, one from each month. So grab your eggnog and mince pies and join us for a trawl through the society’s makes and paints for 2024.

JANUARY

We started off the year with a few of us tackling some old Games Workshop figures for a retro painting challenge. We wanted these efforts to be worthwhile, so we submitted them to the charity table at Salute in April where they were sold off for a good cause. Taking part were Stephen, Eric, Jeremey, Marcus and Tony F who each painted two figures, most of which came from a big box of classic old GW figures that Tony was given many years ago. These were in a bit of a state, so we all had to clean them up, strip the original paint jobs and in some case do a bit of repair work before painting could start.

FEBRUARY

In February our new 2024 show game made its debut at Cavalier in Tonbridge. Phil as always left things until the last minute, so we saw several work in progress posts of his splendid 2mm scale terrain when he had time to drag himself away from the painting table.

MARCH

In March John La went all nautical on us with a selection of ships for a WW2 convoy game, both commercial models and scratchbuilds.

APRIL

April is Salute time, and Pete M showed off some 1/300th Victorian SF cloudships that he would be using on a game he was running with a number of gaming friends from another club. I’m not sure how we handle this downright treachery, but they’re too nice not to show.

MAY

In May Charlotte began working towards her game for the club Open Day, a Project Z game – this month she gave us a selection of terrain items.

JUNE

We’re past the halfway point of the year, and Chairman Mark J has been plugging away at his 28mm Vietnam kit for the past few months, so it’s high time we gave it an outing. All Hail the Chairman !!

JULY

In July, Tony F set out on a project that would take until December to complete (so everyone else was pretty bored of it by then…). It was a unit of 20mm late WW2 Belgians (yes, that’s right late war Belgians). So essentially all British kit, mostly motorised infantry with a heavy selection of support units. Just look at that weathering…

AUGUST

Stephen was prolific throughout the year so it was hard to pick just one item from him, but a standout was this magnificent conversion of a WWI Airfix tank into the Soup Dragon for his 28mm Quar.

SEPTEMBER

In September Jeremey resumed work on some 3mm sci-fi models that he’d been sporadically painting earlier in the year. Later on he also repurposed some 6mm models and even a 15mm tank as dropships to carry his tiny troops.

OCTOBER

Andy lost his painting mojo at some point in the year, but he found it again in October. Besides lots of scenery, he painted up some GZG 25mm Japanese Corporate Mercenaries for Xenos Rampant.

NOVEMBER

In November Sean gave us this rather marvellous 2mm mini layout based around a Ziggurat – he named it the Hanging Gardens of Cranbrook !

DECEMBER

Marcus rounded off the year with some vintage 6mm sci-fi tanks from the past.

Work in Progress Wednesday

Welcome to our last Work in Progress Wednesday for 2024. It’s been a bumper year for the society, with lots of miniatures painted and projects completed.

We start this week with Marcus and some 6mm sci-fi. Marcus has been doing some turret swaps on old Scotia Micro Models. The new turrets are from Brigade models.

Very alien looking hulls on these of an equal vintage.

Next up and Mark J has finished off another block for an up-coming Judge Dredd game, this time complete with fairy light for that seasonal look!

For me I’ve started on a sculpted version of my old scratchbuilt maggot monster. People have been asking for one to buy so I’ll have a go at a cast-able miniature over the winter break.

And finally for this year we’ll leave you with some suitably festive miniatures from Stephen, here we have two workers from the medieval abbey Piers Plowman and Brewer Droop.

Have a good break over the winter and the Maidstone Wargames Society will see you for more work in progress in 2025.

Work in Progress Wednesday

We’re back to our normal Work in Progress Wednesday posts and this week we start with Tony F and some more work on his WW2 Belgians.

And the 3rd as possibly last rifle brigade has been started.

Now we move on to Marcus and he’s had a rethink for a Sci-fi tank he has been working on. Now it has a different or more pronounced camo scheme.

And jumping down a scale Marcus has also been painting up some 6mm sci-fi armour. None of us recognised these but they are in fact really old Scotia Micro Models (plus some newer drones from Oddzial Osmy).

And finally for this week we are staying with Sci-Fi as I’ve been painting up some 6mm walker from Brigade Models as 3mm mechs.

That’s it for this week, next week will probably be our last for Work in Progress post for 2024, but we’ll see.

Work in Progress Wednesday Special

It’s Wednesday but we’ve got something different for this week. Having completed the Dropship conversion I started last week, we present a step by step guide to how I converted the miniature from 15mm APC to 6mm (or 3mm) Dropship. You can see the finished model above with some 6mm tanks and powered infantry.

The project started when I was on the hunt for a real bulk dropship for my 6mm and 3mm forces. I went for the 15mm M58 Sugama APC from Brigade Models.

The main hull is resin and the grav engines are separate metal pieces, so I had a play around with those to see how I could make them into the dropships engines.

I used the ends of 8 wall plugs to act as the engine thrusters and cut the tops at an angle so the metal engine pieces would rest at a nice angle.

I then started removing some of the model detail and replacing and adding more that would be in keeping of a space going dropship. This included domes, bits of angled putty, some turrets and even bits of paper which work quite well to break up surfaces.

I then sprayed the whole thing with a grey primer.

And because I was going to use a Vallejo Xpres color over the model, I painted some areas a different colour to provide some contrast.

I didn’t actually have a black wash and so used Vallejo Xpress color Wicked Purple. This worked fine, but was a bit tricky to cover such a big model.

After that was dry I went over the whole model with a gun metal drybrush. I thought I was going to leave it at that but decided I wanted some more colour to the model. So I did a second dry brush using grey to dull down the metal, and then painted whole sections with Tank Drab. A little bit of white for various markings and some blue for the bridge completed the paintjob.

I wanted the dropship to work for both 6mm and 3mm miniatures, here we have the finished dropship lifting off after disembarking a 3mm force of tanks and mechs.

I’ll definitely be looking for some more miniatures I can convert into dropships for the smaller scales.