Monday, November 26, 2012

Draconia Miniatures Droohan-Taff

This is a 54mm figure that I painted up to resemble a character cornered and turning to face his enemies. Sort of a back against the wall, last stand sort of vignette. I placed him in a snow setting as he seemed to have a Nordic appearance. Draconia makes a lot of fantasy figures but I think this guy could fit into a historical setting quite easily. The slate for the wall and grounds came from a new home construction site near my house and the log is a branch from the backyard. The twigs are from the floral section of Hobby Lobby that I clipped the ends off to resemble barren plants in winter. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome.







Saturday, November 17, 2012

Wargames Factory War of Spanish Succesion French Figures

This is a unit of the Wargames Factory War of Spanish Succession 28mm figures. They are painted up to match the Aunis Battalion. I do not play wargames so it could be wrong on some of the aspects of the uniforms but I did quite a bit of research to try and get it as close as possible. They are not painted up to a level of a single figure but they are passable for a table top standard. My goal with this type of project is to show them in mass rather than as a competition level single figure. That basically means I do not have the time nor the desire to spend the time on each individual figure as I do for a single display figure.

As anyone who has worked on these figures will know, even unpainted the eyes on these figures are huge. They are just sculpted like they are startled. I tried to get them down smaller but they still need some work. The close ups of the eyes make them look like they can see the future so I will probably go back and try to reduce them somewhat.

Despite that I would recommend them to anyone looking to get into the era of the WSS as Wargames Factory has complete set of infantry, cavalry, and artillery for this era. No figure is perfect and people have raised issues with them but for me the only drawback is the eyes and that can be overcome with painting. These are a nice solution to getting a lot of figures of this era done for a good price so check them out.

The plan for this project is three more infantry battalions of this size, one cavalry unit, and a unit of artillery. The other units will be different French regiments that were involved in the WSS.The long term goal is to have a matching set of British and Allied units to show the diversity of uniforms in this Old World conflict that is unknown to many in outside of Europe.








Tamiya 1/35 Rommel Vignette

This is an old 70's kit from Tamiya. I left it stock except for the two infantry men heads which I swapped out with some other vintage Tamiya heads. I really like the older Tamiya kits as they are essentially small dioramas in a box. They are rough and probably inaccurate for rivet counters but fun to build and paint up.






Panzer Grenadier (Kharkov 1943) Dragon

Been awhile since my last update. Here is a 120 scale Dragon Panzer Grenadier. Like all of the 120 Dragons it went together easily. I need to add a strap for his gun but other than that it is done. I used Woodlands Scenics Snow for the base. Suggestions or comments are welcome.