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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Cubs on 02 September 2013, 10:05:41 PM
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All metal Bolt Action by Paul Hicks, painted up for ... urm ... well, painted up then. I guess in theory they're for 'Rules of Engagement' but I don't even know if they'll ever see any rolling dice.
This is the latest offering, a 75mm Pack Howitzer in a base that was lots of fun to make. I've given different angles to show the different bits of the base.
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-ITM47ITJ-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-NFQZ4OI6-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-QT684KHI-D.jpg)
Some overhead shots so you can see the sabot bases properly. From the last one you can see some of the colours don't quite match up, so what I'll do is lob some pigment powders around with the bases in place, just to marry them up nicely.
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-YAGM4ZGD-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-WA6FQDLL-D.jpg)
Does anyone want to see the stage-by-stage shots? Some are a bit fuzzy because the camera was sulking.
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By the way, there's plenty more pics of the rest of the platoon, but I have to find where I've stashed them, so wait up a bit. I also did a stage-by-stage which I can bring across from the Warlord forum if you like that sort of thing.
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Great paintwork. Really like those :)
Wonderful groundwork too. Well done.
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Great painting! Please show us all of them!
How did you make the bricks? I'd love some bases like that!
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Wow! You are my new painting hero!
There's something you need to see (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWn7zbgxZ4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNgWn7zbgxZ4)
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Fantastic work, well done.
Helen
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That is awesome :-* :-*
Just post everything ;)
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Exceedingly good :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Darrell.
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neat :-*
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Lovely work :-*
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Wow! You are my new painting hero!
There's something you need to see (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWn7zbgxZ4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNgWn7zbgxZ4)
(http://www.mikanyyssola.fi/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Noooo.jpg)
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How did you make the bricks? I'd love some bases like that!
Well now, a lot of the work is explained in this month's exciting issue of 'Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy', in a copy near you! Or, if it's on a far shelf out of reach, not particularly near you. If the shop is out of stock, it will be even less near you. Quite far perhaps.
But basically you get some Forex (which is a lightweight sort of plasticard, used in advertising signage) and score the brickwork onto it with a pencil or similar pointy thing. It's a nice soft material to work with and you can chop at it easily to make loose bricks or holes in your wall section. There are also plenty of sprue bricks, made by chopping up plastic sprues into brick-sized chunks.
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Right, well, since plenty of people want another tickle then this is the stage-by-stage. Again, sorry that some of the photos are a bit iffy, but the painting demon that lives in my camera likes to torment me from time to time.
The base is cut from a piece of Forex and the round 'sabot' shapes for the bases to sit nicely in are just made by drawing around the crew's basing pennies and then building up around with Milliput and glued-on sand. The broken walls, some of the bricks, box and some of the snapped bits of wood are also all pieces of Forex cut and/or scored in suitable fashion. There's also plenty of grit, rough and fine sand, Milliput sandbags and sprue bricks glued on with gay abandon.
The artillery shells are bits of wire shaped by clamping and spinning them in a mini-drill and then touching them to a diamond disc spinning on another mini-drill. Most pleasing.
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-GVZSLJYN-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-PVJG3ADU-D.jpg)
Here's the base with the dark brown undercoat and some grey, blue-grey and brick red drybrushed over. Then it all gets an overall drybrush of dry cream colour.
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-TYIMODD7-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-IHEMICJV-D.jpg)
Finally (for the base at least), the shells, box, sandbags and wood are painted in. It's tough to make out on these photos, but the wood has been painted to look like green-painted woodwork, splintered and wrecked by explosions. Lots of inking and washes have gone in to dirty it up, then after varnishing (the bits where the bases will sit get a few layers of brush-on varnish too) then plenty of grey and brick-dust pink powders are lobbed all over it. Just the gun and crew to paint now!
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-ZBEZD7OO-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-3GAGATO6-D.jpg)
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Photos are a little blurry this time, for reasons known only to the bloody camera, but it gives you an idea with the painted gun in place. Simple green paintjob with inks and washes and plenty of powder round the wheels.
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-P4YPVD7A-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-X8H7G448-D.jpg)
And here's the crew, all painted up.
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-8IZYXAMV-D.jpg)
The standing dude has had his Para wings chopped off his badge, so I can put in an artillery one instead. I don't really know if the Paras themselves crewed the guns or not, but since the howitzer came in by glider, I'm guessing it was crewed by Airborne Artillery instead of Paras.
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That is just bloody unfair. These are far too good.
Great work mate. Im so jealous of these.
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Here's the command group (there's a WiP on another thread, to keep this one a little tidier).
(https://myalbum.com/photo/o0pnoEznMZsV/1k0.jpg)
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Just fantastic!
Your "Dennis On" mini on the left looks very nice.
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You loves it more than maple syrup on a beaver, you knows you do.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x5WyF1TJjVY/TiSWjYt6GYI/AAAAAAAAA48/Xko_VQ9GYMY/s320/LargeBeaverPhoto.jpg)
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Here's a group shot of the platoon. The bases of the Bren and Vickers were done in much the same way as the howitzer's.
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-LFMOYCFA-D.jpg)
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Sweet looking figures.
Love them.
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Fantastic work!
Please post anymore you get done. Really great way to do British Airborne, the vast majority always get given filthy Denison Smocks but these really give a great sense of how best to get a great effect for them.
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I really like those and enjoyed your article in WS&S
do you cut the cast base off your figures before you put them on to the final base? I only ask cos I can't see the join and there is no sloping mound
dodge
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epic bit of work 8)
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Very nice indeed. Kudos!
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Thanks all, very kind.
I really like those and enjoyed your article in WS&S
Woo-hoo! Fame at last!
do you cut the cast base off your figures before you put them on to the final base? I only ask cos I can't see the join and there is no sloping mound
No, I just build up around the edge of the cast base with layers of glued-on sand or Milliput. Since I base them on pennies, it can take a little height.
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Hadn't seen this thread before but these really are exquisite. I especially like the Denisons and the various insignia, both of which I find really hard to paint for very different reasons.
Both :-* and 8) with a hearty dash of :o
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Why thang yo. I did a WiP on the Denisons here - http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=57780.0
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No, I just build up around the edge of the cast base with layers of glued-on sand or Milliput. Since I base them on pennies, it can take a little height.
Thanks for the advice
dodge
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Have you got anymore of these done? Would love to see any further work!
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Whoa, thread necromancy.
No, there's a couple more specialists waiting for some slap, but I've been too busy to paint any more since the howitzer. I've promised myself that between the paying work I'll try to get done all those odds'n'ends, like the remaining Airborne, Chindits and Vikings in my lead drawer. I might even paint up a few and get a whole new article out of it, you never know.
At least if I do get some done in the next few months I'll be able to find this thread a bit easier! Thanks for that.
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Amazing!!!!!!!
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Awesome painting 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Cubstastic!
Airborneriffic!
Reddeviltacular!
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Gorgeously painted characterful minis, I tip my hat to you sir!
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Cubstastic!
Airborneriffic!
Reddeviltacular!
Grant, you scare me. It's really disturbing how you never seem to lose inspiration for the weirdest compliments lol .
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Grant, you scare me. It's really disturbing how you never seem to lose inspiration for the weirdest compliments lol .
As simple as they might look, some thought does go into them - and a fair amount of fun, too. lol
Glad someone enjoys them as much as I do :D
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Wonderful. Looking forward to seeing more in due course.
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I did four more fellas recently for an article and thought you'd like a peek at them. Don't worry Dan if you're reading, these aren't the pics from the article! I hope you enjoy them. Special mention has to go to Warlord Games for being so damn slow with an order I placed on the 3rd that I was able to use neither the models I had originally planned to, nor the 'Jump Wings' decals (I had to do them freehand) ... it still hasn't arrived.
Two guys with 2" mortars and two snipers.
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-DILEYNLB-D.jpg)
Here they are individually in more detail, beginning with the snipers.
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-CYFX7BVZ-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-OXBOXCV8-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-EE3YAJKY-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-VQTPQFYW-D.jpg)
And now the mortarmen. It was only while looking at my source pics that I discovered the sighting mechanism for these wee mortars was a white line painted down the barrel!
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-QDIATXU7-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-V7WDIV8N-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-ACOEJA7F-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-3S6D8VF4-D.jpg)
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Beautiful models! The restricted palette is very effective!
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Excellent @Cubs! ...as always! :)
Boo to Warlord though. Probably too busy making gurning 'war faces' in the mirror or something! lol
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Brilliant Cubs. You've got the Denison smock spot on, and the wings are incredible. I do like to see fingernails too ;)
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Fantastic stuff :-* :-*
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Thanks guys, I do like painting these old Paul Hicks models, d'you know I do.
Brilliant Cubs. You've got the Denison smock spot on, and the wings are incredible. I do like to see fingernails too ;)
I simplified the jump wings a little from my first attempt and tried to make them the right size - the other ones are way too big now I look at them. It's basically a droopy porn moustache shape with an ice-cream cone in the middle. I do the dark olive backing first then fill in (very, very carefully) with a 10-0 brush.
The fingernails I did using a trial of a new method. Before, I would leave a patch of dark at the end of the fingers early on, highlighting all around and then go back in for a blob of final highlight at the end. But I wasn't convinced about this and thought it didn't look quite right. This time I just highlighted the fingers all the way along, then near the end of the process put a little blob of dark and then the highlight nail. For some reason it looks better to me.
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Lovely work. Where can I find these articles you are referring to?
You wanna paint mine? :D
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Just copied your fingernails! Thats the first time I ever painted them. Thank you!
Yes, where is this article?
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You're getting better you know cubs.. ;)
I reckon if you keep practicing you'll crack this painting lark in a couple of years. ::) lol
Lovely work as usual sir. :D
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Stunning work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Where can I find these articles you are referring to?
Yes, where is this article?
Not written yet, but hopefully it'll appear in a future Wargames Illustrated. I'll let you know what issue if/when it goes to print.
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Many thanks and also for the paint scheme for your paras which I have been dilligently following.
I have not achieved your level but I aim to.
Gotta love the Paul Hicks figures, they beg to be done justice.
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I thought someone mentioned a WS&S article?
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I thought someone mentioned a WS&S article?
That's April and possibly May's WS&S. Different articles I've done for them, too.
I'm such a whore.
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I'm such a whore.
...if only I had known that when I lived in Caerphilly!
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btw, to clarify, I assume you mean painting whore?
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Great work cubs! That's going in the inspiration folder for sure!! :o :o
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btw, to clarify, I assume you mean painting whore?
Whatever pays the bills dude, whatever pays the bills ...
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Ermehrgerd!!! These are just fantastic.
Every time I look at these pics I keep thinking my yearning do a Warlord Yank army leaning to British Airborne...
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Bump
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A couple of reinforcements. I really love these classic Paul Hicks models, but there's an awful lot of berets and stens in the boxed set and the packs, so I'm trying to individually buy more guys with helmets and rifles. I like these assault ones with the little bayonets and grenades.
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-XBOSBKKV-D.jpg)
(http://www.myalbum.co.uk/Photo-AENTOJXS-D.jpg)
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More nice work! :o :o :o
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Simply stunning :o
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Brilliant absolutely brilliant :o
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It's been a while, but I've painted up a Bren Gun group over the weekend. The problem with projects like this is they never end. I'm almost done with the platoon now - just another prone and another standing Bren Gun group to do ... but then there's things like a mortar and an anti-tank gun to consider. Then how about some Ox and Bucks glider troops? Or the Glider Pilot Regt? Maybe a jeep or two? Aaargh!
(https://myalbum.com/photo/iz6CQMvi6zi4/1k0.jpg)
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Very very tasty paintwork Cubs. Spot on.
Yes, the good news about these sorts of projects is that you can keep adding new bits and pieces to them forever ;)
(But that's a good thing, right? :D)
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Some lovely new character minis out by warlord...lol
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I'm actually thinking about buying some Stoessi's Heroes characters, because they look very lovely.
http://stoessisheroes.com/product/british-airborne-lt-col-john-frost-major-carlyle/
The Warlord airborne characters look ... special, but that could be the paintjob.
https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/british-airborne/products/british-airborne-characters
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Very nice.
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Those are gorgeous! Paul did an excellent job when sculpting these and your painting enhances them even further.
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I'm actually thinking about buying some Stoessi's Heroes characters, because they look very lovely.
http://stoessisheroes.com/product/british-airborne-lt-col-john-frost-major-carlyle/
The Warlord airborne characters look ... special, but that could be the paintjob.
https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/british-airborne/products/british-airborne-characters
Deffo the paint jobs;). I was very pleased how the sculpts turned out.
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Deffo the paint jobs;). I was very pleased how the sculpts turned out.
Oh they're yours! Well I'm going to have to get them then, since the rest of my airborne are pure Hicks as well (the new plastics are okay, but the Denisons look really puffy and make the models bulge oddly).
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Lovely paint jobs as always mate.
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Deffo the paint jobs;). I was very pleased how the sculpts turned out.
They really are very nice sculpts. I know I keep mentioning this but you need to find someone to commission you to do a Vietnam range. I would if I had the cash!
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Lovely brushwork on the paras.
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Lovely PJs. :-*
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Brilliant work on those - this collection has been an inspiration for a while. Great to see it added to.
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Cracking looking British Airborne! :-*
Christopher
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Stunning work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Beautiful stuff! I don't normally find myself in the WW2 board, but today I did, and was treated to quite a ... well, a treat! I will eventually start work on two WW2 forces, US Airborne and German infantry, and it's inspiring to see beautifully painted minis like these. Lovely straightforward basing, nicely handled highlighting, and (as always with your painting) wonderfully painted faces full of character.
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I just saw this tread now, and I'm definetly hooked: really a gorgeous work :o :o