[Modern]
US Army Squad and Flatbed

Thr truck is painted in base colours. The gloss varnish is now drying, then I will apply some washes and wathering effects.


[Song of Fork and Heroes]
Mythical Agyptian Giant Scorpion

The models is basecoated in black and ready for painting.


[Modern]
US Army Squad and Flatbed

The GIs were basecoated black and sprayed from an above angle in the base grey, creating the first shadows.

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I airbrushed the underside, the steps blow the foor and the flatbed in rust, then with some gunmetal. After sealing the areas with gloss varnish, I applied water and salt.

Over this I then airbrushed the three colour NATO camo scheme, with the respective colour set from AK Interaktive. When this was try, I rinsed the model under running water to remove the salt and exposing the rusted metal areas.


[Modern]
US Army Squad and Flatbed

In the last time I painted only fantasy/ancient miniatures, and wanted to do something different for a change. Luckily, the leadpile (or rather plastic pile in this case) offers enough, so I prepared the first miniatures of the Mars Attacks Kickstarter loot.

The emergency vehicle lighting and mounted machine gun on the truck I fitted with small magnets, to be able to use them interchangeably.

The plastic bases of the miniatures I cut away and mounted them on the washers all my modern models are based on. This gives them some weight and allows for easy magnetic storing.

The quality of the truck is superb, hardly any mold lines, the parts fitted very well - perfect.

The miniatures were substandard - very soft plastic, a lot of mold lines which were hard to remove due to the soft plastic. They are ok, but I had better ones. They also suffer from a small detail that bothers every time I see it: Show me one real life soldier, that goes to war only armed with an AT-4. Where is his rifle, or at least a side-arm?


[Song of Fork and Heroes]
Mythical Agyptian Giant Scorpion

With a recent restock of brushes and colours, I ordered this scorpion for my Mythical Agyptians - the first mythical element. I assembled it and mounted it on a base by Product for Wargamers, by planting the tips of the legs in some Miliput for a stronger connection.


[Warfork Fantasy Battles]
Bretonnian Chevaliers Errants

The knights are all prepared for basecoating. I exchanged the shields from the fantasy models for the same as from the historical knights, to have a unifying element.

Most lances were good to work with, slight bends could be eased out. From some of the historical models though, the lances were very bend and quite thin - looking at them askew bend them again. So I decided to replace them with brass rod.


[Warfork Fantasy Battles]
An der Fähre Village Guard Reinforcements

The two models are done.

The unit is complete now.


[Warfork Fantasy Battles]
Bretonnian Chevaliers Errants

Being still in the flash-removing-mode, I started preparing the next unit(s), which will be Bretonnian Knights. The models are all Black Tree, a mix of their 100 Years War and Fantasy ranges. The bases are again from Product for Wargamers.


[Warfork Fantasy Battles]
Knights of the Hawkbit

The unit is done; riders mounted, flags attached and greenery added to the base.

The Oldworlder Ally Contingent allows for 5-10 Templars with a minimum unit size of 5. Here is the finished unit set up as two 5 man units and one 10 man unit. Of course, one unit of between 6 and 9 is also possible.


[Warfork Fantasy Battles]
An der Fähre Village Guard Reinforcements

I sanded down the Miliput to the helmet form and based the models.