These motorcycles are a pain in the rear! The drivers' arms are attached to the handlebars and you have to line them up with the body while attaching everything to the bike.
Showing posts with label flames of war soviets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flames of war soviets. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
15mm Early WWII Germans for Flames of War (FOW)
Here's another recent WWII commission for Flames of War: early war, Blitzkrieg era Germans. The customer requested everything in dark grey. We added some air recognition flags to vary things up a bit like you see in some of the old photographs.
These motorcycles are a pain in the rear! The drivers' arms are attached to the handlebars and you have to line them up with the body while attaching everything to the bike.
In all an impressive assembly of armor with some heavy hitting 88's on the halftracks. Should make for some interesting games.
These motorcycles are a pain in the rear! The drivers' arms are attached to the handlebars and you have to line them up with the body while attaching everything to the bike.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
15mm WWII British Guards for Flames of War (FOW)
Another Flames of War commission for a customer we recently completed. This is a WWII British Guards Tank Company with some 25 pounder artillery pieces.
The artillery is from their desert set but the customer wanted them painted up for the western Europe theater.
The artillery is from their desert set but the customer wanted them painted up for the western Europe theater.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Russian Hordes! WWII Soviet Flames of War Infantry
So just how many 15mm Battlefront figures are in a 17.5 pound box? The answer is approximately 2200. This is the first batch of figures for that customer's order. There are about 500 figures in this first batch.
The figures are still on the painting sticks as the customer will do his own basing. This makes the figures appear a bit darker in the photos.
Kind of a funny story about this order: I took this on vacation with us while we were in Florida visiting Allison's family. It was a two week trip so there was plenty of down time while people were at work so that gave us plenty of time to work on it. I was in a hurry packing it up to take with us and in my rush I didn't throw all of my references and colors in I would need. As a result, I painted the gas mask pouches on the left hip of the figures wrong. Well, not wrong as there was quite a bit of variety in the color of the WWII Soviet equipment but it wasn't the color I prefer for that piece of equipment; the color I usually see it shown as. So I decided to repaint all 500 gas mask pouches. Five hours later, I was more satisfied with how they looked bu tit was a time and money costly adjustment!
The customer may not end up needing all 2200 figures for his army so that is one reason we will be doing the order in batches. It also helps my sanity so I don't have to paint all that khaki in one go!
The figures are still on the painting sticks as the customer will do his own basing. This makes the figures appear a bit darker in the photos.
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| The block of approximately 500 Soviet infantry |
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| Close up of some of the command figures |
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| More command figures |
Kind of a funny story about this order: I took this on vacation with us while we were in Florida visiting Allison's family. It was a two week trip so there was plenty of down time while people were at work so that gave us plenty of time to work on it. I was in a hurry packing it up to take with us and in my rush I didn't throw all of my references and colors in I would need. As a result, I painted the gas mask pouches on the left hip of the figures wrong. Well, not wrong as there was quite a bit of variety in the color of the WWII Soviet equipment but it wasn't the color I prefer for that piece of equipment; the color I usually see it shown as. So I decided to repaint all 500 gas mask pouches. Five hours later, I was more satisfied with how they looked bu tit was a time and money costly adjustment!
The customer may not end up needing all 2200 figures for his army so that is one reason we will be doing the order in batches. It also helps my sanity so I don't have to paint all that khaki in one go!
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