Lead Adventure Forum

Miniatures Adventure => Back of Beyond => Topic started by: Rogerc on May 26, 2020, 07:40:32 PM

Title: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: Rogerc on May 26, 2020, 07:40:32 PM

Inspired by others on here I had a bit of fun over the weekend and a slightly dodgy Russian Civil War Armoured train is complete.
In my defence I have never been much of a modeller. Write up and photos on the blog.

https://gapagnw.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-slightly-dodgy-russian-civil-war.html

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49933497948_202d26ce14_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2j5sehq)IMG_20200523_125942 (https://flic.kr/p/2j5sehq) by Roger Castle (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152172226@N06/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49933495693_7dfa2c08d2_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2j5sdBx)IMG_20200525_124547 (https://flic.kr/p/2j5sdBx) by Roger Castle (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152172226@N06/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: trev on May 26, 2020, 09:47:04 PM

Great stuff Roger.  Welcome to the train commander's club.   :D

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: Rogerc on May 26, 2020, 11:31:43 PM

Wish I had noticed your tip on the nail art beads as rivets sooner. Perhaps next time.

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: flatpack on May 26, 2020, 11:37:38 PM

Well done.
It’s useable and on the table ready to go.

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: has.been on May 27, 2020, 12:23:51 PM

More stuff out of drawers & now table ready. Result!

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: trev on May 27, 2020, 03:46:21 PM

Quote from: Rogerc on May 26, 2020, 11:31:43 PM

Wish I had noticed your tip on the nail art beads as rivets sooner. Perhaps next time.

I often find a great idea a week too late.  lol   My latest revalation is plastic/nylon brush bristles for spears.  They're great.  No more puncture wounds when moving spearmen around.  I occasionally trawl eBay for useful looking plastic nick-nacks now.

The little beads come in various colours actually, so you might get one that matches but I'm not sure battleship grey is very popular with the nail art community.  :D

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: Rogerc on May 27, 2020, 11:25:47 PM

Surely battleship grey compliments sunset pink perfectly?

Thanks for the positive feedback guys.

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: marianas_gamer on May 28, 2020, 08:35:35 AM

Really nice work Roger  :-* :-* Especially, in such a short time.
Lon

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: Rogerc on May 28, 2020, 08:38:40 PM

Cheers Lon, still tempted to try Trev's technique for the rivets, however this weekend Iwill concentrate on the Sopwith.

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: Rogerc on June 07, 2020, 12:42:32 PM

So, added rivets using 2mm rhinestones after seeign how Trev did it. Not a bad result so update the blog and heres a picture of the result.
https://gapagnw.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-slightly-dodgy-russian-civil-war.html

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49980437892_86fc4d68de_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2j9ANTN)IMG_20200607_122450 (https://flic.kr/p/2j9ANTN) by Roger Castle (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152172226@N06/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: juergen c. olk on June 07, 2020, 06:12:15 PM

I love it..I am gonig to have to try that rivet idea...and satin varnish...thax for sharing

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: trev on June 07, 2020, 11:15:29 PM

Great rivets Roger.  That's come out well.  I must do flags for my trains.

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: Rogerc on June 07, 2020, 11:45:19 PM

Cheers gents.

Jurgen the satin varnish just made sense, need to sort some track out next. H/OO fits just inside the wheels but only just, all my track is curved so will need to pick up soem straights from ebay I guess.

Trev flags are a must I think to add some colour, drama and glamour, interchangable ones are best but with three locomotives to do I felt I could glue mine in place. I plan a plain unarmoured loco and carriage with no flags for generic use and then the last loco a bit more fully armoured and looking slightly less improvised with red flags, that last is on the back burner at present.

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: Rogerc on June 08, 2020, 11:13:26 PM

Inspired by the train I added some White Russians to my workbench, eclectic this week, being a butterfly with allsorts on the go, more here.

https://gapagnw.blogspot.com/2020/06/a-butterfly-workbench.html

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49985422678_5c6c96649a_w.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2ja3mGo)white foot (https://flic.kr/p/2ja3mGo) by Roger Castle (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152172226@N06/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: trev on June 09, 2020, 09:21:03 AM

Great painting Roger.  Nice to see how well the Studio Siberia figs match with the Copplestone ones too.  I stuck my first three Siberia minis to bases yesterday.  Hopefully I will get to painting them soon.

PS I think I’m going to add removable flags for the Steamer and armed train.  For the armoured train I have stuck a star on the engine front.  If I’d thought I might have made that removable too.  I want to do a White Armoured train though, so I can specify a bit.

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: Rogerc on June 09, 2020, 10:51:46 PM

Plan, I look forward to seeign that.

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: gamer Mac on June 10, 2020, 12:18:10 AM

Nothing dodgy about that train
great job :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

Title: Re: Dodgy Improvised Armoured Russian Civil War Train
Post by: Rogerc on June 11, 2020, 12:08:31 AM

Quote from: gamer Mac on June 10, 2020, 12:18:10 AM

Nothing dodgy about that train
great job :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

Cheers very much