I've been buying lots of 10mm WW2 infantry from Pendraken, and saw the Escenografia Epsilon buildings on their site - they looked great so I thought I'd give them a go.
I have mixed feelings for the buildings. They are quite nice and come prepainted, but the amount of resin bubbles and "flash" I had to clean up was terrible. I cleaned them up and then repainted them, dipped and highlighted them. After that they looked good. I don't regret getting them, but was disappointed that they were not really "ready to play" as they say on the site. That being said, I will probably pick up the ones I don't have in the future as they do look good.
The miniatures in the above pictures were painted by JADawsonDesigns - I didn't want to overload my friend who usually airbrushes my stuff with too many commissions! :-)
The windmill came with two broken arms, and lots of flash and bubbles. I put it on a round base and flocked it. I think it came out well!
I thought I'd try out some of the N Scale buildings for my 10mm WW2 project:
The top three buildings are were purchased from the local train store, for $10-15 each. The church I bought online, I think it was $20 or so. All came pre-assembled, and will need some love to get cleaned up. In the first picture I have done just that, painting it to get rid of that plastic sheen and did some landscaping. ;-)
Stug from Arrowhead and Panzer IV from Pendraken or Arrowhead - I can't remember.
My friend Grant kindly took up an airbrushing commission to paint some WW2 Russian tanks, so I figured some infantry and support weapons were in order!
I did sixteen bases of various infantry, but the above gives you a selection of what was done. All are Pendraken miniatures, which I find the best for infantry. I'm already working on more of these, as you get a ton of miniatures with just the starter set and a few packs of add-ons. My only gripe is that the Russians don't get quite a breadth of range/poses as compared to the Germans say.
I did the bases a bit differently from the Germans I completed a while ago. Oh, and I used "the dip" for these and they turned out perfectly! It's ideal for 10mm.
Inspired by a forest seen in the online magazine Warning Order, I had a go after speaking with the author.
It was quite a learning experience for me! :-)
The base is laser-cut mdf from Kraken Skulls, with some 1/8" dowel from the local DIY store glued down with No More Nails. I added in some various-sized gravel on the base while the glue was still wet. When dry, I primed it and spray painted it brown. I did a quick dry-brush of a lighter brown on the gravel and then used watered-down pva glue to add on some flock. The hardest part was next. The tree tops are clump foliage of three different colours mixed together. I tried putting it on with spray adhesive, which worked ok. Then I added in more with the pray in spots that needed it. Then I used watered down pva to soak the foliage.
I think next time I will make the tree-tops by soaking them in pva separately from the base, shaping it generally. It was a mess trying to do it on the base, and lots of the clumps fell off.
Another terrain piece finished! This one is from Thomarillion, and is a hefty plaster-like bit of terrain that took a large chunk of mdf to base it on.
Like my older terrain, I went to town with the flock and other bits of detail. It's my favourite part of terrain building and really makes the item come alive in my opinion!
I did another dip session, this time on some Moria Goblins:
I've also been working on another terrain piece:
And something special for my blog visitors - a sneak peek at an unreleased miniature. Hopefully she'll make an appearance in my next kickstarter:
The Daughter of Yog-Sothoth!!! ;-)
I finally finished this batch of 35 Rohan Warriors. For some reason, they felt like they took a lot longer than the other LOTR miniature batches I've done.
I did them the same as with the other LOTR minis, brushing on "the dip". I'm happy to get these off my painting desk as they felt like they were on there forever!
Painted while listening to: Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
I really enjoyed this book! A very bleak look into a post-apocalyptic future from the view of Russian survivors living in the Metro. I really liked the ending to it - it reminded me of Ender's Game. I'm listening to the sequel right now and am not liking it...
