Geezer

Got this figure in a set from Artizan last Christmas. I think all the other figures in the set are painted up and exhibited in blog posts from around December/January time. Nice figure, bit tall, but some men are bigger than others. An enjoyable distraction, and a nice little addition to my figure collection. I would have gotten more done but I was a bit busy listening to my Neanderthal like neighbours loudly and shouting about how they are going to kill another of my neighbours, for "Grassing" on them. Which would suggest to you that I live in the inner city or something, but no I live in a small village which is usually peaceful bliss, shame you can't drive over unpleasant neighbour hood thugs really.

Tiny but fierce

I've spent the last two days, or so, painting up these two tiny figures from different manufacturers. The tiny adventurer with the torch is from Heresy Miniatures and is their Van Helsing model. I should have put another 28mm figure in the picture to demonstrate just how little this hafling is!

The Van Helsing model was great fun to paint and I really like how the whole model turned out. I have not ordered from Heresy before and found their figures to be excellent and there delivery times amazing. I ordered the Van Helsing figure from them on a Thursday afternoon and it was with me by Friday Morning! They have some other great hafling models which I will definitely be getting to go with Van Helsing, as well as a great range of fantasy and scifi figures. A firm recommendation from me.

The second figure is a gnome (I think) ninja which came with a ogre figure I got ages and ages ago from GW. I painted the Ogre and never painted up the ninja. The base is meant to look like a big puddle, so it answers the question how do Ninja's jump in puddles? answer they don't they leap gracefully over them. Anyway nice little figure, and a silly distraction.

Union Infantry

Some time ago I picked up a box of ACW Plastic Infantry from Perrys. This is the box where you can make the figures up as either Union or Confederate infantry. When I under coated the above I made a bit of a hash of it so the paint job isn't as smooth as I would like. But I have the rest of the box still to paint up so I doubt it will be noticeable on the table top. 

I have never really had a proper go at ACW before, although I have always been interested in it. However as I didn't have anything else to paint I decided to get these figures out and paint up the first batch. I like how they turned out and I really enjoyed painting them, I still need to create the flag for the standard bearer but sufficed to say I may have caught the ACW bug! 

Seriously mad scientist

I was at a bit of a loss this afternoon and found this rather mental looking figure kicking around at the back of my paint box. I think it came free with a set of rules that I bought but I can't remember which set. Anyway not the sort of thing I usually post but I think it turned out quite well (in a dodgy kinda way) from a technical view point I think I did a good job on the scientists face and the fluid in the needle. 

A little tank

I have spent the last couple of evenings working on this little tank which I picked up at Partizan. This is a Vickers Light Tank kit produced by BEF Miniatures. The kit is resin with some metal parts, namely the tracks, cupola and gun, in addition to the oil cans in the stowage in the back. The kit is really quite nice, with crisp detail and not to much flash. In fact the only flash I had on my kit was one of the track sections, but this only took a few minutes to clear up.

One slight problem with my kit was the exhaust pipe had (for some reason) not been included. Still I managed to scratch build the one in the picture using some bits and pieces I had, and I think it turned out okay. I also scratch built the clamps holding the exhaust pipe on as it didn't look right just hanging there. Again I think something was supposed to come with the kit.

I went for a simple Green and Brown paint job with some transfers scrounged from another kit I had in the cupboard.

All in all a nice little kit which I would recommend to anyone looking for an early WW2 tank, I will certainly be getting another one at some point in the future.

And so it begins

In September myself and some of the GWP chaps will be putting on a VBCW demo game. I am shamelessly hosting a map I need to post on the forum there, here. Cheery bye. 

Nasty Adjutant

Following on from yesterdays post, I had this guy and decided to paint him up as my nefarious BUF field agents adjutant. Well a super secret evil spy can't possibly drive himself or make his own brew now can he!