After months of avoiding them, I finished the last three mounted AWI figures I had. These are plastic figures from (I think) Armies in Plastic. I lopped off the tricorns and put some smaller helmets nicked from a HaT SYW Prussian infantry set.
Saturday, June 25, 2022
54mm AWI riders
Saturday, June 18, 2022
3-D printed Cylons
Awhile back, I painted up some Cylons from Crooked Dice. I noticed that Tangent Miniatures was also offering some 3-D prints so I bought both sets.
Saturday, June 11, 2022
More British regulars for the Crimea
This is the rest of the Foundry British regulars in field garb for the Crimea.
Saturday, June 4, 2022
Random sci-fi clean-up
Crooked Dice released this dagget and Twiggy combination. Always a sucker for BSG, I bought it.
The dagget fits in nicely with the Colonials I have from Tangent Miniatures.
I discovered this lone Star Wars droid. It is plastic and likely a micro machine? Pretty close to the metal West End Games 25mm one I have.Since my Crooked Dice order had some room left in it before the shipping went up, I opted to add in this Xena figure. Meh. Arms were separate with the join in the middle of the bicep (which sucked). I worry her arms won't survive first contact with my gaming buddies ("Easy here, Lenny"). Tangent Miniatures looks to be offering its own Xena plus friends.
Saturday, May 28, 2022
28mm Crimean British regulars
I finished off the first half of a huge group of 28mm Foundry British for the Crimea. These appear to be regulars with some kind of field cap and coat.
These sculpts are from 1993ish and no longer appear in the Foundry catalogue as far as I can tell.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Last few baddies from Imperial Assault
Last of the Imperial Assault 28mm. first up are some baddies. Greedo flanked by two generic hired gun.
I was leery of the palette for these but they turned out okay.
Greedo I figured would be very hard (I hate painting green skin--I can never get the colour right) but the sculpt made it easy.
Up next: Crimea British, I think.
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Outer Rim Imperial Assault
First up are droid friends on Tatooine. Then some bounty hunters (and hunted) in lusher climes.
I was super stressed out by Bossk. Turned out to be dead easy.
Up next: A few Star Wars baddies.
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Imperial Assault Hoth
This week, some more 28mm Imperial Assault figures.
From the snowy wastelands of Hoth we have two troopers, Leia and an Imperial baddy.
I spent a stupid amount of time trying to get the tone right on Leia's jacket. Paint, paint, perfect. Add wash. Crap. Remove paint, cursing wildly. More painting. More cursing.
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Star Wars Imperial Assault
Painting progress has been slow as work absorbed too much time. But I'm back on track and doing some 28mm Imperial Assault figures for a friend.
IG-88 was dead simple. I spent some more time looking at images of Han Solo to try and get the colours right.
Saturday, April 9, 2022
More 28mm Crimea French
And a second unit of 28mm Foundry French/Sardinians for the Crimea.
Saturday, April 2, 2022
28mm Crimea French
Missed a week of posting due to some work distractions plus nicer weather (hello, summer bicycle!). But today I finished off from more 28mm Crimean from Foundry.
These are French/Sardinian troops. There are four command and eight troopers. Not sure I got all of the details right but close.
Nice figures overall. Need to find an appropriate flag.
Up next: Some more 28mm French!
Saturday, March 19, 2022
ST:TNG Klingons
I finished up 7 Klingons and 1 Norsican this week. These are plastic toys from the Strike Force series and are more 25mm than 28mm.
Up next: I am grinding away on a bunch of 28mm Crimea figures (some French troops). Very colourful but lots of details to fiddle with.
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Trek crews finished
To the extent that any gaming project is ever finished, I have completed my ST:TNG era crews.
Saturday, March 5, 2022
28mm British Crimean command
I have four British command from Foundry done this week. Some came painted while others needed a matching job. I also need to find a flag.
Overall, nice figures. Lots of detail but cleanly sculpted.
Up next: Some ST:VGR and ST:DS9 figures.
Saturday, February 26, 2022
28mm British Crimean cannon
After a brief hiatus, I got back to work this week and finished off two British horse artillery cannons and crew from Foundry.
After some dithering about what to do with the basing, I chose 40mm frontages and put as many of each crew as I could on the base. The remainder, I based separately.
Overall, a nice enough piece. The endless lace and braid was tiresome. Looking forward to some more basic troops next!
Up next: Some British command and then some Trek.
Saturday, February 12, 2022
ST:TNG Red Shirts
I've been putting together ST:TNG, ST:DS9 and ST:VGR crews but lacked an adequate number of cannon fodder figures.
Up next: Probably some more Crimean troops.