October's Bench

**OldGuy59** · 10-21-2016 11:32

Well, it is what I have been doing mostly this month, if not exactly Wings of Glory.

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Now, I need play-testers...

**clipper1801** · 10-21-2016 11:36

Originally Posted by OldGuy59

Well, it is what I have been doing mostly this month, if not exactly Wings of Glory.

Now, I need play-testers...

Looks fun! Is this the one Andrea is working up?

**OldGuy59** · 10-21-2016 11:40

Originally Posted by clipper1801

Looks fun! Is this the one Andrea is working up?

Exactly. I'm infiltrating the design team...

**clipper1801** · 10-21-2016 11:58

Excellent! The elves are digging out the Mattel Thing Maker . . .

**clipper1801** · 10-21-2016 20:54

Some early Red Tails action here today . . .

**clipper1801** · 10-21-2016 20:55

Some early Red Tails action here today . . .

**clipper1801** · 10-22-2016 23:41

Got in some WWI painting today . . .

The French get a new Breguet Br.V

Another Short 184 for the Brits

As well as pair of DH-2's

And of course the "Bugs" finally got finished ready to launch on their carts . . .

**Flying Officer Kyte** · 10-23-2016 01:37

All looking good Dave.
I do love those Kettering Bugs.
Rob.

**zenlizard** · 10-23-2016 15:19

Exceptionally nice work on the bugs.

**clipper1801** · 10-25-2016 18:57

Latest obsession . . . 36" wing span . . .

Spanish Civil War colors will be very cool!

A little something for the grandson . . . every 4 year old needs one!!!!

**Diamondback** · 10-25-2016 22:05

The monster makes headway, slowly...

Optic test over dinner

Mocking up the iron sights--each square = 2x2", so we're talking around 2' between their final mounts once the upper arrives

Checking out the view through the sights:

**Flying Officer Kyte** · 10-26-2016 12:24

Albacores from OTS.

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More to follow.
Rob.

**matt56** · 10-30-2016 05:31

While not anywhere near as prolific as some on the Forum (

), I have been slapping a little paint on various things - Fokker D IIs and and FE2b are in the works, as are several I need to finish up that have been taking far too long. But these two have also been waiting for some attention...

The dragon is the golden dragon from the D&D Attack Wing game - I bought him early in the year after Karl (Jager) shared his play-test of the Dragon Hunt game he was planning on running at Origins. While the colors these beasties come in is fine, I am always one to tweak, and I finally decided on the color scheme for him. The grey is a spray primer - he'll be greens and tans (PC 10 and CDL, for all intents and purposes...)

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The von Richthofen bust has also been languishing for a while - I have to be more in the right frame of mind to paint larger figures - and over the last month decided to do a bit more on him. Still a ways to go, but I'm relatively pleased with the results so far.

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All the best,
Matt

**BB401** · 10-30-2016 06:19

Does replacing fascia boards and rehanging gutters count as bench time?

Indoors my current bench mess consists of converting a reproduction bc-611 from an frs to a ham band radio to feed my living history habit. Plenty of models in the queue after Old Man Winter forces me indoors once again.....

**OldGuy59** · 10-30-2016 08:29

Things for October are still in serious distraction mode, with more work on this off-shoot game:

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And why this is different from the prototypes up above? Link: Tripods &Triplanes: An Invasion from Mars

**Walter Nowotny** · 10-30-2016 09:42

Originally Posted by BB401

Does replacing fascia boards and rehanging gutters count as bench time?

Indoors my current bench mess consists of converting a reproduction bc-611 from an frs to a ham band radio to feed my living history habit. Plenty of models in the queue after Old Man Winter forces me indoors once again.....

I too have been wrapping up all the outdoor stuff, Painting, etc, getting ready for winter. I don't call it workbench time, I consider it more like Penance! I have a slew of stuff for Novembers bench to work on! Whoo-hoo

**Walter Nowotny** · 10-30-2016 09:43

Originally Posted by matt56

While not anywhere near as prolific as some on the Forum (

), I have been slapping a little paint on various things - Fokker D IIs and and FE2b are in the works, as are several I need to finish up that have been taking far too long. But these two have also been waiting for some attention...

The dragon is the golden dragon from the D&D Attack Wing game - I bought him early in the year after Karl (Jager) shared his play-test of the Dragon Hunt game he was planning on running at Origins. While the colors these beasties come in is fine, I am always one to tweak, and I finally decided on the color scheme for him. The grey is a spray primer - he'll be greens and tans (PC 10 and CDL, for all intents and purposes...)

The von Richthofen bust has also been languishing for a while - I have to be more in the right frame of mind to paint larger figures - and over the last month decided to do a bit more on him. Still a ways to go, but I'm relatively pleased with the results so far.

That is some fine painting Matt. Reps coming your way.

All the best,
Matt

**Flying Officer Kyte** · 10-30-2016 10:31

Your von Richthofen is superlative Matt.
I only wish I could get my skin tones that good.
Rob.

**Womble** · 10-30-2016 11:17

They look fantastic Matt. I'm still on cartoon tanks. Tried something new today. Bluetack camo on some M22 Locusts.

And then a qick spray.

These tiny tanks came out fine.

Ian

**OldGuy59** · 10-31-2016 12:20

Skype game anyone?

LINK -> Skype Game - Mars Attacks!

**matt56** · 10-31-2016 14:29

Ian, your Blu-tack camo plan worked wonderfully! I love these little panzers you're putting together for your Anime game...

All the best,
Matt

**zenlizard** · 10-31-2016 15:12

Originally Posted by matt56

The von Richthofen bust has also been languishing for a while - I have to be more in the right frame of mind to paint larger figures - and over the last month decided to do a bit more on him. Still a ways to go, but I'm relatively pleased with the results so far.

Absolutely superb work!

**Flying Helmut** · 10-31-2016 16:35

Originally Posted by zenlizard

Absolutely superb work!

Isn't it just?

**Womble** · 10-31-2016 17:01

I thought you may like this. Here's my brother's latest paint job.

(15mm plastic soldier)

I'll keep practicing.

Ian

**Boreas** · 11-02-2016 01:22

I'll be posting pics to the Fokker Dr.1 thread in the near future, but thought I'd contribute here first - but no pic sorry.
Here's the link to my inspiration: https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=fo...mai4yTsIAsM%3A

I had stupidly doubled up on the Baron's Red Fokker from Ares, & decided I should really do something about it,
otherwise it'd just sit around forever.
I searched the net for suitable inspiration. I wanted something bright. I wanted something doable...well, doable
for someone with a limited paint palette (a few old/nearly dry games workshop paints), & without the need to
find decals from somewhere - far too much like hard work.

After looking on several occasions, I couldn't find a real life colour scheme I thought I could pull off, but that
otherwise fit the bill. So - I settled on the plane from the link above. I believe it's a skin from a PC game or
similar - but I'm not 100% sure.

It took me hours! The Baron's red is hard to eradicate! (& I'm a perfectionist)

All I need now is to spray it with some matt varnish. Which is lucky - as it'll be used this weekend in my first
game in several years (2nd game ever), wherein we'll have 8-10 fighting on the kitchen table.

Cheers one & all...