ECW Gun

My first adventure into the ECW period..Thanks to Rich for the bods and gun :-)

GO WEST!!!

After painting up the last of the set (the rider) I couldn´t bear just to add the wagon etc to a future of sitting on a shelf waiting for an inevitable layer of dust, so I knocked up this little dio. The rest of the bods have gone into storage.

Pics of the Bods from the set HERE and the wagon HERE

Troubadour and Family

A wonderfull little group from Alex. These sculpts are all made from photographs of real people and the similarity to them is uncanny I can tell you....They look so much like the subjects it´s hard to believe that such a thing is possible in this scale. These will be released as part of a medieval civilian set from Valdemar, a set which, for me  is an absolute must have.  Very very special thanks to Alex from me and my family  ;-) :-)

Sand riders (Pt II)

Here ya go...the crazed,  wine fuelled creations I like to call sand riders. :-)

Airfix wagon train (Pt II)

The bods part of the set.

The "guys". The very tiny one wearing the brown derby is supposed (I assume) to be a boy. One of them, (rear row) looks like he is feeding chickens ?????

The "gals". Again, the one which is supposed to be a girl looks a bit older than her size depicts.
Mrs Grump...oooh! The way she´s been photographed makes her look a bit like a well known 20th cenury dictator....and no, it´s not Charlie Chaplin :-)

The set, although old has few nice little details like Mr Potatoe eating his beans and holding a 3 pronged fork.
Strutting Joe carrying a....well it must be a sheep. What it´s physical condition is I don´t know, though I assume it´s not breathing.

Dio using them HERE  and the wagon HERE

Sand Rider

After a couple of glasses of Red wine I was sitting at my work area thinking "what can I paint next?" when  a nag in front of me transformed in my minds eye into something else not at all nag like. Next thing I looked through all my sets of spare bods and found a fitting rider. Some snipping, glueing, a bit of  greenstuff and the Sand rider and his mount were born :-)

Airfix Romans

Another "historically correct" set from Airfix.
13 poses, 4 nags and 1 chariot
The pegs for the  shields are badly place so the bods end up carrying them on thier elbows. And as for the sporty Chariot!! :-)

The "grunts"

All hold the shield incorrectly, a selection of clobber that probably never existed, all in all not very historically accurate

Command and Archer.
The best from the set although also not too accurate in historical terms.

The chariot. I´ve upgraded it by adding reins and painting designs on the "shield".

They get a poor rating over at PSR, but these guys (along with 100´s of thier comrades) invaded  and took control of large areas of  carpet back in the day. 

Balian V´s templar

A couple of bod conversions to try and protray a bit of the fight at the oasis from Kingdom of heaven. Balian is an ex Zvezda peasant and the knight from the Zvezda´s Livonian knights

Airfix Wagon Train

Firstly the main part of the set...the wagon. Half the horses I have for this set broke like hard cheese whan I tried to pin them in preperation for painting...luckily I have two sets..so it wasn´t completely Hard cheese all round.

Rolling, rolling,  rolling, keep those etc"

"Jonathan! What are you doing with the big brown snake!?"

The other bods from the set HERE and a dio using the set HERE

Airfix WWII German Mountain troops

Not a bad little set with some usefull poses which could be used in combination with other sets.

 I liked the idea of the blue frame...it is after all a mountain bike:-) How he manges to ride it without any spokes is beyond me!

"Come on Willi, throw the dam thing!! It´s bloody freezing!"

"On the Piste" 

Obviously the snow is so hard it needs breaking up with a pickaxe!!

Snow made using Shaving foam.

New Sculptor...Leon

Another great Sculptor from Russia...Leon. He has a varied range of subjects in 1/72nd scale , each of which he does justice to.They may be produced in limited runs...when I get any news I´ll bung it up here...I hope they come out soon:-)More Of Leons Bods can be seen at Bennos forum under the titel "Another Sculptor - Leon" in the Miniatures talk section, with an Intro from Alex.

Apparently this is one figure of a set of two

 

  

Aifix Guards Colour Party

So, after the slightly gloomy pic from yesterday, a nice colourfull bunch of bods...the Airfix guards colour party. Why they are so named I don´t know as there was no icecream or pop in the box., and they look pretty serious..certianly NOT in a party mood at all!!
This, along with the guards band  was my very first set of  bods...I remember lining them up along the hall...then later using the heads as ammo for a 1/32nd scale metal howitzer...luckily some survived to tell the tale...maybe that´s why the stern faces! :-)

Eyes........Right!!!