Excellent! The elves are digging out the Mattel Thing Maker . . .
All looking good Dave.
I do love those Kettering Bugs.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Exceptionally nice work on the bugs.
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:
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.
All the best,
Matt
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.....
Things for October are still in serious distraction mode, with more work on this off-shoot game:
And why this is different from the prototypes up above? Link: Tripods &Triplanes: An Invasion from Mars
Mike
"Flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss" Douglas Adams
"Wings of Glory won't skin your elbows and knees while practicing." OldGuy59
Your von Richthofen is superlative Matt.
I only wish I could get my skin tones that good.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
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
Skype game anyone?
LINK -> Skype Game - Mars Attacks!
Mike
"Flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss" Douglas Adams
"Wings of Glory won't skin your elbows and knees while practicing." OldGuy59
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
I thought you may like this. Here's my brother's latest paint job.
(15mm plastic soldier)
I'll keep practicing.
Ian
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...
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