[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?

Published 2017-02-10 06:07:54

28mm | Kickstarter | Mantic Games | Mars Attacks | US Army

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[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.

Published 2017-02-10 05:32:03

28mm | Agyptians | Product for Wargamers | Reaper Miniatures | Song of Fork and Heroes

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[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.

Published 2017-02-09 03:38:25

28mm | Black Tree Design | Fantasy Human | Oldworlder Ally Contingent | Products for Wargamers | Warfork Fantasy Battles

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[Warfork Fantasy Battles]¶
An der Fähre Village Guard Reinforcements¶

The two models are done.

The unit is complete now.

Published 2017-01-25 08:57:48

28mm | Fantasy Human | Hegemony | Mirliton | Oldworlder Ally Contingent | Products for Wargamers | Warfork Fantasy Battles

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[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.

Published 2017-01-22 10:47:16

28mm | Black Tree Design | Fantasy Human | Oldworlder Ally Contingent | Products for Wargamers | Warfork Fantasy Battles

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[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.

Published 2017-01-22 10:35:41

28mm | Black Tree Design | Fantasy Human | Oldworlder Ally Contingent | Products for Wargamers | Warfork Fantasy Battles

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[Warfork Fantasy Battles]¶
An der Fähre Village Guard Reinforcements¶

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

Published 2017-01-19 10:33:51

28mm | Fantasy Human | Hegemony | Mirliton | Oldworlder Ally Contingent | Products for Wargamers | Warfork Fantasy Battles

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[Warfork Fantasy Battles]¶
Knights of the Hawkbit¶

The flag is done, only needs some cutting

Published 2017-01-19 10:31:55

28mm | Black Tree Design | Fantasy Human | Oldworlder Ally Contingent | Products for Wargamers | Warfork Fantasy Battles

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[Warfork_Fantasy_Battles]¶
More Halberdiers¶

I removed the cast on flags from the Mirlition models to replace them with brass rod.

 

When test placing the models, I reckognized that the Mirlition are noticably smaller than the Black Tree ones :-( This won't do.

 

Luckily, my lead pile included some more models from Black Tree's 100 years war range. I used some knights on foot for the unit leader and standard bearer. I had enough Halberdiers to fill out the unit to 16, but only in the later round helmets. As I have one unit in earlier rim helmets, I had to convert two models. First I cut off the helmets.

With Instant Mould and plaster I cast two helmets and glued them on.

 

For the bases I used metal ones from Products for Wargamers. On the underside I numbered them with a Proxxon Precision drill FBS 240/E so that deploying the units will not be a puzzle game each time.

 

The standard bearers got a pole from brass rod and all the models were based. The only thing missing now are two instruments to attach to two models. I am not sure which I will use (horns, drums, ...) and if I will buy some or do them myself.

Published 2017-01-19 10:29:51

28mm | Black Tree Design | Fantasy Human | Instant Mould | Mirliton | Oldworlder Ally Contingent | Warfork Fantasy Battles

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[Warfork Fantasy Battles]¶
An der Fähre Village Guard Reinforcements¶

The command group of the More Halberdiers project had two halberdiers in excess, which I planned to use to fill out the An der Fähre Village Guard unit, which is currently two men short.

I removed the feathers from their helmet, as no other model in the unit has them. The small dent in the helmet I filled with Miliput.

Published 2017-01-10 09:47:07

28mm | Fantasy Human | Hegemony | Mirliton | Oldworlder Ally Contingent | Products for Wargamers | Warfork Fantasy Battles

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