Post by beaty1961 on Jun 6, 2018 20:46:30 GMT
I've been exploring making my own FLW figures and after making some Christmas tree decorations (yes, *already*) out of traditional wooden 'dolly pegs' I decided that these pegs had possibilities! I began with little soldiers but the thought 'I wonder what else I can make out of pegs?'...
So here is my new project, the first aircraft for my Molatarian Air Force (my FLW imagine-nation). It's a late WW1 era single seat fighter in Royalist colours - 'The Purple Baron'!
But let's start from the beginning...A peg!
And then this went from this...
...To this...
And then to this...
And then I got on to the fun part - the painting.
As mentioned, I'm painting this in Molatero national colours (purple, orange and black)...
The cross is my imaginary 'Royalist' emblem (more than a little Germanic influence), and it was a bit of a swine to paint freehand, but I managed it...
And there you go. This model (and the models like it that will follow) is well out of scale for FLW - I guess it's roughly 28mm 'heroic' scale - BUT I am a fan of 'down-scaling' my aircraft models for use with war-game ground models...So, for example, when making 1/72 war-game models I prefer to make the game aircraft 1/100 to represent 'altitude scale'.
I'll park any further air models in this series in this thread - to avoid cluttering the forum - and I have a lot of other ideas, I'll be including some of the 'Rebel' aircraft from the (imagined) 1917 Molatero Civil War. It'll be interesting to see how varied I can make the designs from basic pegs!
Hope you enjoy these,
Beaty
So here is my new project, the first aircraft for my Molatarian Air Force (my FLW imagine-nation). It's a late WW1 era single seat fighter in Royalist colours - 'The Purple Baron'!
But let's start from the beginning...A peg!
And then this went from this...
...To this...
And then to this...
And then I got on to the fun part - the painting.
As mentioned, I'm painting this in Molatero national colours (purple, orange and black)...
The cross is my imaginary 'Royalist' emblem (more than a little Germanic influence), and it was a bit of a swine to paint freehand, but I managed it...
And there you go. This model (and the models like it that will follow) is well out of scale for FLW - I guess it's roughly 28mm 'heroic' scale - BUT I am a fan of 'down-scaling' my aircraft models for use with war-game ground models...So, for example, when making 1/72 war-game models I prefer to make the game aircraft 1/100 to represent 'altitude scale'.
I'll park any further air models in this series in this thread - to avoid cluttering the forum - and I have a lot of other ideas, I'll be including some of the 'Rebel' aircraft from the (imagined) 1917 Molatero Civil War. It'll be interesting to see how varied I can make the designs from basic pegs!
Hope you enjoy these,
Beaty
