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.

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.

Nemrod 75mm Joan of Arc and Andrea Miniature 54mm Teddy Roosevelt

Here are my latest two projects. The first one is Joan of Arc by Nemrod Figures. I tried to do more highlighting and shadowing with my metallics on this one. I added a rose color glaze to her face to give her a more youthful appearance. I think it came out pretty well on the skin tones. The next figure is Teddy Roosevelt 54mm by Andrea Miniatures. I think this one of the best ones I have done to date though I am not pleased with the way my camera made everything so bright. In person the figure is very dark on the blues of the shirt, especially the shadows. There is a clear demarcation of the upper shoulders from the rest of the shirt and with this camera it seems to have whitened everything out. The glasses are photo etch and were quiet a challenge to put on. I think the ground work on both figures improved greatly over the last set. I used ground up oregano and some leaves by Hudson and Allan for Joan and ground up roots and oregano for Teddy. Anyways, here are my latest two. Suggestions and comments are welcome.

San Angelo Model Club website

Here is the link for the local model club in San Angelo.  Its a great club with a really friendly bunch of builders of all types of models.


http://www.sanangelomodelclub.com/

some other pictures can be found here:

http://sanangelomodelclub.blogspot.com/

Steel Legion Diorama

This is probably the biggest diorama I have done to date. It was a practice run for me to do some smaller vignettes with some Forgeworld Death Korps of Krieg models. The forgeworld stuff is so costly that I wanted to do some trial runs with some more inexpensive figures. The diorama takes place in the 40k universe and represents the Steel Legion overrunning a trench line. I wanted to try and replicate a WWI type of situation with the groundwork. In all honesty it didn't come out very well and I was not happy with it. The craters just look wrong. The figures are fine and the tank came out nicely, the walker is so-so. The diorama was finished out with a black border which hid the rough work on the sides. As a first attempt on this scale it was not bad but it could have been a lot better. Still it was a good learning experience. The display has since been taken apart and the figures individually based. I still might return a diorama of this size and scale in the future but for right now I think that the smaller vignettes are the way to go.

Even older works

These are some of my oldest works. I posted these to help see the progress I am making. The armor is all old Tamiya. Doing the armor stuff is more of a chance to do something different from the figures. I am hardly a armor builder. Its really more for variety from time to time.