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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: majorsmith on September 11, 2022, 06:33:36 PM
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Got these from northstar last week and painted them up fairly quickly, based the berglanders around reichwehr generals, one I did as an airforce officer and the other as secret police …. The other 4 generals I just made up their uniforms pretty much although they look kind of austro Hungarian
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Surprised you based them. Wasn’t the point of the range that the figures stood on their own?
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Still not sure of the whole concept but you have done a truly fantastic job.
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Excellent work 8)
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I could have left them with no bases but on a felt mat I felt they would topple over still, a nudge of the gaming table etc….
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Especially with clumsy idiots like me around!
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😂😂😂
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I think that the gloss finish and minimalist bases go well with the whole toy soldier feeling of the range. Nice work, though like sir_shvantselot I am not sure of the concept.
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Thanks guys! May add to these but at the moment I’ve got too many other projects on the go!
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Nice work! It's hard not to have them appear as some historical army but with these there's no need to worry about the correct shade of green or red.
I think Imaginations are what these were designed for, 1920s-1930s. Although from what I've seen posted on Instagram you could do some historical armies.
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Very nice painting.
I did wonder about basing, what did you use?
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I just used some mdf bases 25mm rounds, I think warbases? But 2mm thick not 3mm
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I could have left them with no bases but on a felt mat I felt they would topple over still, a nudge of the gaming table etc….
That’s why you need a green painted plywood gaming table, chalked in roads and rivers and plasticine hills, a la Messrs Featherstone and Bath.
As a certain LP Hartley once wrote ‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there’.
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That’s why you need a green painted plywood gaming table, chalked in roads and rivers…
That gave me a nostalgia hit. Though we had hordes of unpainted airfix figures, who struggled to stay upright even on this surface .
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I tend to base all my toy soldiers on mdf bases even my old britains…
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Nothing wrong with basing figs, particularly if you remember to handle by the base and save wear on the paint job.
Nice to see a proper glossy finish on them, so far I've resisted the temptation of these, but they are lovely figures.
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It's a shame Mark doesn't make the generals in 28mm scale - they would work a treat in an Austro-Hungarian army.
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Painted my first group of figures. Looking forward to the next lot. (https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/310836265_6245570438808922_7049066633387583901_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p480x480&_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=TUbo-SrRnOwAX-bDPFD&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=00_AT8siNH2MKqbbq81Y9hLiotZ9h8gsF40-9xTDvfc_qsyag&oe=6340E710)
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Cool. You’ve captured the classic toy solider look with these. Even down to the wear on the gun shield!
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It's a shame Mark doesn't make the generals in 28mm scale - they would work a treat in an Austro-Hungarian army.
Cut the bases off. Judging by the comparison photos on the other thread, it's the height of the bases that moves them above the 28-30mm range.