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[Weird War II]¶
German Mad Doctor and his Zombie creations¶

While working on the Alternative Armies Terminators, the de-flashing and gluing bug bit me and I started to work on several other miniatures from my lead pile.

Among the miniatures waiting to be worked on were

Joseph Umfangle, Mad German Doctor (Blackball Games)
Wehrmacht Zombies including Officer (Studio Miniatures)
Improved Whermacht Zombies (Blackball Games)

I assembled them, glued them to washers, applied plaster of paris to hide the integral bases, and added sand. While assembling the plastic zombies, I added some weaponry from Bolt Action to some of the miniatures, rifles they had still slung over their shoulder, or weapons held in spasmed hands, dragged behind the unliving.

Ready for basecoating.

Published 2015-02-05 23:07:00

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[Modern]¶
Characters¶

While working on the Alternative Armies Terminators, the de-flashing and gluing bug bit me and I started to work on several other miniatures from my lead pile.

Among the models were several characters from Hasslefree. I based all on washers, then added floor screed, a kind of self-leveling plaster of paris. This will be painted as concrete/tar.

There is one duplicate model, the one with the FN SMG. One will be added to my group of private military contractors I painted a while ago; this model got sand on his base. His twin will become a police officer.

Ready for spray coating.

Published 2015-02-05 23:19:00

2010's | Hasslefree Miniatures | Modern Characters | PMCs

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourgh¶

Finally, the miniatures are all done, all washes and highglights applied. All the new miniatures I prepared for painting (see previous posts) got me motivated again to finish this rather long journey.

Here are some close ups (mobile quality close ups only...):

Here are the squads in formation. I do not know what I was thinking when planning the force, but I ended up with one squad more than I would need... The group of models above the ones in black bases (spare command models) are the additional machine gunners which allow me to equip each squad with two MG42, thus making them Grenadiers.

All the models I painted glued to wood strips (support weapons and the Big Men), have been cut from the wood strips and glued on their washers. Then I applied a mix of my base brown and floor screed, a kind of self-leveling plaster of paris. On top of that I sprinkled sand.

Unfortunately I ran out of the brown colour...

Next up is drybrushing the bases, painting some individual sand grains as rocks and adding static grass. But first I need a resupply of the brown.

Published 2015-02-08 23:44:00

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourg¶

As the last things left to be painted were mortar ammo crates and shells.

I was not able to find any dedicated mortar shells for the Wehrmacht mortars, so I settled for the pack '14. Medium mortars+ ammo boxes' from Peter Pig's AK47/Weapons range. When I ordered them I asked for packs consisting only of the ammo crates but no mortars. Friendly as they are, Peter Pig complied :-)

Published 2015-02-10 23:38:00

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[15mm IABSM]¶
North of Caen¶

With the Wehrmacht done, I started to work on the British troops. First, I painted the boots on all miniatures black. Next, I highlighted the uniforms with 'British Uniform'. This is the same colour I airbrushed over the black basecoat, but brushed on it is much more intensive. On the below picture, the left model is the highlighted one, the right a model with only the brown airbrushed on.

The following is my test model, with all the different colours painted, but no highlights yet except for the uniform as described above. I am happy with the colour selection, and will proceed like this with all the models.

Published 2015-02-12 22:24:00

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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Imperial Flush Space Marines¶

Today I put the last touches to the command models:

The lieutenants have personal heraldy on their right shoulder pads, and on the upper leg/shoes. Both models had two stripes sculpted on the left arm, which I also painted in yellow like the rank badges on the Sergeants. Both officers have a plume on their helmet which I painted in a darker blue than the other blue parts on all the models.

The Captain has quite some parts painted in gold to distinguish him even more than his helmet already does.

The apothecary has a white right shoulder pad and helmet, both showing the Helix badge in blue. Otherwise, the apothecary is painted like a common Marine.

The Librarian is mostly clad in a dark blue robe. The Lexicanum badge is painted on his forehead, he also has a gold decoration on the helmet.

Next steps are painting the rocks on all the bases.

Published 2015-02-18 23:42:00

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[Modern]¶
Characters¶

I washed the miniatures in warm soapy water to get rid of manufacturing residues. Unfortunately, this loosened some of the floor screed... Should have applied a protective coat of PVA glue over it.

When they were dry, I basecoated them with my airbrush and Vallejo surface primer black 28.012.

Published 2015-02-26 12:12:00

2010's | Hasslefree Miniatures | Modern Characters | PMCs

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[Weird War II]¶
German Mad Doctor and his Zombie creations¶

I washed the miniatures in warm soapy water to get rid of manufacturing residues. When they were dry, I basecoated them with my airbrush and Vallejo surface primer black 28.012, followed by a spray from a roughly 45Â° angle with Vallejo 70.830 German Field Grey WWII, thus creating the first shading of the uniform.

Published 2015-02-26 12:15:00

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[Modern]¶
Mercenaries¶

I washed the miniatures in warm soapy water to get rid of manufacturing residues. When they were dry, I basecoated them with my airbrush and Vallejo surface primer black 28.012.

Published 2015-02-26 12:16:00

28mm | Kickstarter | Militia Miniatures | PMCs

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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Squat Brotherhood Sappers¶

Another few models that were sitting around for quite some time (actually as long as the Alternative Army Marines) are some Squat sappers. For the younger ones among us, Squats were Dwarves in Space (as they were actually initially called) during the Roque Trader era which were unfortunately dropped by GW.

I used models from Olleys Armies for the models. What I do not like about them are the weapons, especially the diversity they come equipped with. I want the squad to be armed with the same weapons plus a support weapon. I was looking for replacements that looked like a bolt gun, and settled for Hasslefree's V.E.R.A.. I chopped away the old wepons, glued the bolt guns in place and then did some minor sculpting where neccessary. The shotgun/grenade launcher I left in place, but replaced the barrel by a plastic rod and added a foregrip.

After all the time they were sitting around collecting dust, I washed the miniatures in warm soapy water to get rid of the dust and any manufacturing residues. When they were dry, I basecoated them with my airbrush and Vallejo surface primer black 28.012.