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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: War In 15MM on 30 July 2019, 02:29:26 AM
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I’m usually pretty disciplined about keeping my miniatures purchases focused on a specific project, but “pretty disciplined” does not mean always disciplined, and over the years I have purchased a number of things just because I liked them and without knowing how I would incorporate them in a collection. Dr. Who solved my “how am I going to use them” problem for a number of things I’ve bought on a whim over the years. During my weekly swap meet adventures I’ve purchased a lot of dinosaurs, giant toy plants, Flintstone Happy Meal buildings, and volcanoes. I’ve also purchased Dr. Who figures, cavemen, alien plants by manufacturers like Black Tree Design, Acheson Creations, Snapdragon, and Armorcast. A few months ago I realized that Dr. Who and his travels through time and space was the key to bringing all these different elements together on the planet of Obacron. In addition to the 46 pictures that make up this gallery I have provided a detailed write-up about the thought/whimsy behind this crazy collection and the figures and terrain that make it up. I’ve attached 6 sample photos below that I hope you will enjoy and if you do, I urge you to look at the larger gallery version posted at www.warin15mm.com
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48409829026_30d5a59261_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gKP2AA)IMG_1046 (https://flic.kr/p/2gKP2AA) by Richard Garretson (https://www.flickr.com/photos/158632126@N06/), on Flickr(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48409973897_632426742b_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gKPLEn)IMG_1046a-1133 (https://flic.kr/p/2gKPLEn) by Richard Garretson (https://www.flickr.com/photos/158632126@N06/), on Flickr(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48409828871_06608074e1_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gKP2xV)IMG_1053 (https://flic.kr/p/2gKP2xV) by Richard Garretson (https://www.flickr.com/photos/158632126@N06/), on Flickr(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48409828761_aad93ef903_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gKP2w2)IMG_1073 (https://flic.kr/p/2gKP2w2) by Richard Garretson (https://www.flickr.com/photos/158632126@N06/), on Flickr(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48409828706_80281becaf_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gKP2v5)IMG_1094 (https://flic.kr/p/2gKP2v5) by Richard Garretson (https://www.flickr.com/photos/158632126@N06/), on Flickr(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48409973447_2d774545b7_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gKPLwB)IMG_1102 (https://flic.kr/p/2gKPLwB) by Richard Garretson (https://www.flickr.com/photos/158632126@N06/), on Flickr
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Loving it! That is so gloriously whimsical (at least until the Daleks arrive!)
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Wow, now that's a table! :o Yabba Dabba Doo!
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Wow!
What a table!
It brings back memories. My sister had the Marx Flintstone set when she
was young. This reminds me of it.
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You sir, keep doing what your doing, its excellent :D
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Wonderful stuff :-* :-*
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This looks SO FUN! Great job on the table and the idea behind. Kudos. :-*
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Wow this is fantastic! Where are those rock pools from?
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Thanks to all of you for taking the time to write and for the generous comments. This was a crazy and fun project that I've been planning and collecting for for years. A majority of the plants, other terrain pieces (rocks, lakes, volcanoes, stone houses) and the dinosaurs were picked up at my local swap meet and then repurposed/modified and painted for use with this collection.
Jagannath, most of the rocks, and volcanoes are cast-off or broken toys I picked up at the swap meet. A lot of them are Playmobil and toys marketed with the release of The Cars Movie. The terrain piece that involves a rock face behind a pool is a combination of rock from a toy marketed with The Cars Movie and the pool is by Playmobil. I though they would go well together so I cut way the part of the rock piece that I didn't want and attached it to the Playmobil pool using yellow grey Milliput to blend the two pieces together and create a hand bond to hold them together. For more information go to the link to my website provided at the end of my original posting and click on the Dr. Who Meets The Flintstones Gallery (46 pics). In addition to the other pictures, you will find a more detailed explanation of what I used in putting this collection together.
Thanks again. Richard
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Wow, everything is looking really stunning! Great project!
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Exterminate those dinos, guys!
Lovely stuff.
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Brill!
For some reason it all reminds me of a Far Side cartoon(that’s a good thing).
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Thats just brilliant, love it
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I love this, it is sheer whimsical madness.
Great!
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And thanks for reminding me that I have those Flintstones buildings somewhere, for my fantasy Palaeo Diet project.
Now I need to find some of those crazy plants that you have used.
:D
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:-* :-* :-* Very nice!
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This is all kinds of fun. Very nice table.
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Brilliant work! I love your painting style, especially the use of vibrant colours - seems especially appropriate in a project like this. I might have missed it, but will you actually game with the stuff or is it for pictures only? Whichever it is, thanks so much for sharing!
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Thanks again to those of you who have taken the time to write. I really do appreciate it, and I'm very happy that you're enjoying my little Dr. Who adventure.
Mason, I hope you find those Flintstone buildings. They really offer some fun options for use with 28mm figures. All I did with mine was trade a few of the pieces of roof decor around between buildings, add a little Milliput so I could have more control of the look, and give them simple painting jobs. I probably could have used them as they came and painted them up, but that was a little too much whimsy for me.
Arundel, I'm not a gamer. I began painting figures and putting together collections more than 40 years ago. At that time I thought I was going to game, but gaming never caught fire for me, but my love of the figures, terrain, and painting and putting collections together has probably grown over the years. When I started, as the name "war in 15mm" indicates, I was solely into 15mm military/historical figures, but as time went on and 25mm/28mm offered all this wonderful Pulp, Adventure, Victorian stuff, I began dividing my time between the figure sizes... 15mm for military and 28mm for Pulp, Adventure, Victorian, etc. If you look at my vanity website you will see that there are galleries of both scales. Prior to doing this collection I finished and posted a large 15mm/18mm Boxer Rebellion layout. And a couple months ago I finished this Dr. Who collection... a little slow in getting photographed and posted. I'm currently finishing a 28mm Mountain Man collection inspired by The Revenant/Man In The Wilderness films. Most of those figures are Foundry, but there is also some beautiful terrain from Dept. 56 that I have modified and repainted. I'm a big fan of my local swap meet and you will find repurposed broken and discarded toys found at the swap meet throughout my collections. I have more than 20 galleries posted on my website and each Sunday I post my Weekly Workbench showing what I have been doing on my projects that previous week. Those Weekly Workbench posting are moved over to my Workbench Archive page at the end of each month, and a new Weekly Workbench month is started. I've been doing the Weekly Workbench for more than a year now so there is a lot of stuff in the Archive section... the weekly progress on this Dr. Who project is all detailed there. This is probably a lot more than you wanted to know, but I admit to being a little longwinded. Thanks again for writing. Richard
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Not long-winded at all, 15! Your take is very interesting. After posting I did have a vague recollection there was a chap here who was only into the modelling and collecting aspects of the hobby, and wondered if it might be you. And it is! Again, thank you for sharing your work with us. Your blog is deeply inspirational. In perusing it I find my self thinking, "Golly, wish I could paint like that!" lol
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Arundel, thanks for the very generous comments. Much appreciated. I probably am your "vague recollection." The postings on LAF have inspired me for years so it is always nice to hear that things I have done have inspired the work of others. One of the things I try to do when I post a gallery on my website is provide a pretty detailed account of the things (figures, terrain pieces both those sold by manufacturers for gaming and those I repurpose from toys found at the swap meet, and vehicles) I have used in each of my collection. I do this in the hope that my write-ups will help guide others to an item they are looking for... just another effort to pay back for all the help I have received. It's been a great hobby for me for more than 40 years now, and I'm hoping to hold out for a new more years... still have a lot of figures to paint. Thanks again. Richard
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Great looking project. It certainly made me smile :-* :-*
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absolutely delightful. Just brilliant.
really like the presentation on the web-page too, in terms of the text to the right in short ragged lines.
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The Doctor, Daleks and Dinosaurs: whats not to love? I have a box of dinos in the attic i plan to use someday for the exact same purpose. Yabba dabba DooOo! :)
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Richard, I don't normally come to Future Wars but I saw this gallery on your personal site on my phone and had to come here for a better look. Love the Triceratrain! I have cavemen but I'm keeping it in the Stone Age so Mega Fauna, yes, dinosaurs, no. As said, fun!
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Thanks for taking the time to write, and for the generous comments.
FifteensAway, you can't go too wrong with the Stone Age and big plants. The Dino Tour tram is, perhaps, the 4th time I've used one of these modified Disney parking lot trams in one of my galleries. I really like them. I still have one left for a future collection (not sure what). Unfortunately, they are currently out of production. In putting this collection together, I had to include the dinosaurs; simply couldn't resist them, so Dr. Who was the perfect tool for allowing me to bring together all the stuff I wanted to gather together in one collection.
After about 9 years, I decided to change my avatar. I liked the one I had, but others use it too, and that causes my old mind some confusion, so I'm going with a picture my daughter created which seem particularly appropriate given the fact that she is the photographer for all my galleries.
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I like the new avatar! And it seems that talented young fruit of the loins might be an animated illustrator of some sort for I believe I've seen that avatar's cousins on the screen a time or three.
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Excellent new avatar!
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Thanks to both of you for the nice comments about my new avatar. Fortunately for me character design is not only what my daughter does professionally but it is also something she enjoys doing for herself, and I found this guy among that non-professional work and thought it captured the spirit of me.
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That is an amazing collection, thank you for sharing!!! :o
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Smoke Frog, thanks for writing and the generous comment... much appreciated. Richard