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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: sukhe_bator on 29 November 2020, 10:51:31 AM
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Martin at Peter Pig has released a new and exciting range of Mexican Revolution 15mm figures. The prospect of gaming with improvised armoured trains clad in Federales or sombrero wearing Zapatistas proved too much to resist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Revolution#/media/File:Zapatistas_and_Nacional_de_Mexico,_No._739_(5655532688).jpg
After some online research I have made a start on two of the main buildings to feature in future clashes... Building upon previous 15mm railway building experience and reusing a number of pre-existing scenic items I settled on a railway station. A search for 'estaciones mexicanas de ferrocarril' yielded an interesting architectural style common to several. An island platform building on a low platform with a continuous sheet metal clad canopy supported by bracing struts and the occasional freestanding columns. The high sides lend themselves to revolutionary slogan graffiti and shrapnel damage while the sheet metal roof will undoubtedly show a characterful rusted vibe.
The other feature is a mission church in the Spanish colonial style. Most of these examples are confined to New Mexico and California so I wanted to find a Mexican version... Guachochi in Chihuahua has a number that I used as the basis for my version. This has a mix of rough stone and adobe and the all important tiled roof. Since I already have a few Mediterranean tile roofed resin buildings and some scratchbuilt mud/adobe dwellings I wanted something with a mix of both architectural styles.
The w.i.p. shots show the basic foamcore structures being clad in finescale white milliput detailing.
Next up - an attempt to model some varieties of cacti and agaves!
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Looks Great but please no double posting your pics.
Thanks
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oops sorry! - will stick to this one in future...
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The latest off the production line - still some detailing to do yet but substantially there - a poor quarter for a village or town based loosely on old photos of Juarez. A foamcore build with scribed brickwork on exposed patches and the outer skin acting as render, suitably battle scarred. The rear has a perimeter wall with loopholes cut out and the blown gate will be barricaded... The whole complex on a base 5 x 7 inches.
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Some great looking stuff here. Do you accept commissions?
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Some great looking stuff here. Do you accept commissions?
Sorry Hang Tuah, I have enough trouble completing my own stuff, but thanks for asking :)
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The Mex Rev scenery is coming along nicely. So far four blocks for f.i.b.u.a. representing a poor quarter, slightly better off residential, a cantina and shops, and a more central urban block. At each end a mission church and a train yard and station... with outlying buildings on the periphery, walls etc. as well as suitable scenics... all in 15mm
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Nice progress
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Further along now... streets, mission church with cacti and agaves and station yard...
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Looking good!
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Its getting better and better
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Lovely builds 8)
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:-* :-* I like it!
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Having fun with the cacti - using the 'nail method'.
A flat headed nail glued firmly to a card base (in my case a high tack 'no more nails' type glue which doubles as part of the sculpted groundwork)
Then a covering of finescale white Milliput which is gently scored with a modelling tool with interrupted parallel lines along the length to recreate the pleats up the stem. The single stem Saguaro are easy enough but the branched versions are slightly trickier to reproduce.
The wire armatures for the branches have to be flexible enough to bend out for working but stiff enough for pressure to be put on them when applying and sculpting the Milliput. They also have to be secure enough not to come off afterwards...
I'm still working on an example of a multi stem Mexican Giant and an more slender Organ Pipe cactus.
The metal cacti at the front are Peter Pig versions.
The agaves are the tips from plastic Christmas tree sprigs suitably based and repainted.
The remaining leaf-lets from the Xmas tree sprig have been cropped and applied in clumps as scrub (top right)
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I should also mention that the rustier/more worn the nail is the better the adhesion for the Milliput. It is an excellent opportunity to raid those tins and jars of spare old hardware lurking in sheds and garages and convince others why you were justified in saving them 'for a rainy day'...
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Aah this is turning out to be super charming! I love the amount of wear and tear showing brickwork, it makes it all feel so much more lived in and thus alive.
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The Cacti are all completed now with various scratchbuilt versions of tall Saguaro and a couple of multibranch Mexican Giant Cacti and an example of a squat Barrel Cactus. These are supplemented by Peter Pig cacti castings... I have not yet thought of a way to model Prickly Pear in 15mm, the branches of the other cacti were tricky enough...
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A fine day out for a Government Patrol, showing the flag to the locals...
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Good work.
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Working on an abandoned mine to use as a rebel base/scenic item... a ways to go yet but so far so good
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Working on an abandoned mine
Good start on this mine of yours ;) I'll be interested to see it completed.
Industrial installations are good ideas for terrain elements.
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That mine terrain piece is just..... INCREDIBLE! :o
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Okay, the mine is genius. Looking forward to seeing it finished.
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Some minor set dressing, foliage, stone scree and random rusted metalwork and it's good to go...
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The completed article...
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Great objective marker! We all know the abandoned mine is where the bandits hide out/ the treasure is hidden.
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Another scenic military objective. A 15mm military WW1 period camp with all tents made out of hand sculpted styrofoam...
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More of a Western feel for my Rancheros - a scratchbuilt wind pump, water troughs and fencing. 15mm longhorns from PeterPig... tree from a Woodland scenics armature with sea foam and flock...
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The small Mexican Navy do not get much of a mention during the Mexican Revolution. Any mention is largely confined to their activities around Veracruz but they were also active on the Pacific Coast trying to prevent Revolutionary control of lucrative ports like Guaymas and Mazatlan down the Pacific seaboard. A number of landings were made in support of Federal troops in an attempt to slow the advance of Gen. Obregon down the Western coastal strip.
Harbours were often sheltered within lagoons protected by sand bars with smaller fishing ports dotted around the coastline and one or two prominent towns developed from the exchange of material from neighbouring mines and ranches.
This is a more ambitious scenic build still under development.. a 3 foot wide stretch of coastline with small harbour and beaches for gaming small coastal raids and landings. A few tiled buildings give it a Spanish colonial/Mediterranean feel. The added architectural details and eventual decoration will hopefully convey the cramped feel of most harbour fronts with stairs suggesting upper apartments and a change in level. There will also be shutters and window grilles and the odd balcony. The modular build allows for the addition of other buildings etc to the landward side. A Naval landing force is composed of PeterPig 15mm figures and a WW1 period steam launch with a couple of ship's boats with a landing force drawn from Colonial-WW1 period Naval ratings painted up in tropical uniform.
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Excellent additions 8)
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This is all very impressive.
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Nice work
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A further Mex Rev project in 15mm - a scratchbuilt Spanish colonial 'presidio' for use as a garrison by Federales and local provincial reservistas. Walls exp poly with foamcore and styrofoam detailing, plus modelling matches, kebab and cocktail sticks and the usual filler and milliput rendering. A modular build that makes up into a rectangle some 13 x 15 inches counting the gun bastion. Equipped with garrison block, stables, storerooms and forge...
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Good job!
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A quiet scratchbuilt scene on a MexRev beach. Fishing boats drawn up above the high water mark... 60mm long carved styrofoam with pencil detailing...
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:o Love the boats!
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The fishing boats are impressive.