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Post by 54th Grumblies on Oct 5, 2021 0:13:06 GMT
The weather was FINALLY nice enough (dry but not unbearably hot) to cast my custom artillery crew figs (an at ease body with a gurka pillbox head - or a french kepi head), to be paired with AIP Krupp guns. The Britians die cast firing artillery is great and all but looks too Great War and too long range for tabletop battles IMO.  |
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Post by tradgardmastre on Oct 5, 2021 8:07:18 GMT
These look great! I really enjoyed seeing your painting area too and what you are working on in different scales.
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Post by 54th Grumblies on Oct 5, 2021 14:53:43 GMT
Good progress thus far. I sprayed the guns with gray primer which does a lot to make them less plastic looking. I painted the seat padding black, but I may leave the rest gray and just gloss coat them. Block painting the figs will prob be finished today. These will really improve the look of my French and British forces and make some Invasion of 1897 games more feasible - the hodge podge nature of my artillery has always bugged me a bit in my games...  |
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Post by tradgardmastre on Oct 5, 2021 15:32:40 GMT
Coming along very nicely indeed.
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Post by 54th Grumblies on Oct 6, 2021 5:17:25 GMT
Block painting done on these, I think. Glued figs to 1mm thick mdf bases from Litko. Got a nice coat of brush on varnish on to shine everything up. At first thought it was running off the gun barrels, resulting in no shine, then I realized I was using the matte varnish! 😂😂😂 Here's everything while the matte coat was still wet though...   |
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Post by 54th Grumblies on Oct 13, 2021 4:52:11 GMT
Completed artillery now in training exercises for Belle Epoque games.  |
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Post by tradgardmastre on Oct 13, 2021 5:54:04 GMT
Can you tell us how you did the trees?
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Post by 54th Grumblies on Oct 13, 2021 14:52:07 GMT
Can you tell us how you did the trees? Those are just various model railroad trees I have accumulated over the years. |
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Post by gonefishing on Oct 13, 2021 19:35:19 GMT
They turned out very well!
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Post by 54th Grumblies on Oct 15, 2021 23:52:53 GMT
A game has been played and another set up. Report to follow soonish...  |
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Post by tradgardmastre on Oct 16, 2021 8:20:31 GMT
Tres, tres bon !
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Post by aducknamedjoe on Oct 16, 2021 20:25:38 GMT
Looks fantastic! Those houses remind me a lot of rossmac's. |
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Post by Henri Sebald on Jun 9, 2022 20:09:50 GMT
Hi, was browsing and your image created a great symmetry with my newly painted French artillery! So impressed I joined up. I'm currently building an army Red and army Blue to fight Wellsian battles based on the Invasion scares of the late 19th century, early 20th.  |
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Post by tradgardmastre on Jun 10, 2022 5:51:42 GMT
Welcome aboard! I look forward to seeing and hearing how your Wellsian project moves forward.
This is a friendly group full of fellow travellers who are more than happy to enthuse or offer help.
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Post by 79thpa on Jun 10, 2022 13:06:54 GMT
Excellent work by all.
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