This has been taking up space besides my painting table for a good while now, so I gave into its pressuring and just said "its good enough".
God I hate painting signs. Must be an old shop with all those Soviet era posters about.
I may get around to filling out those shelves more (adding newspapers and a cigarette stand specifically) at some point, but yeah "good enough". No, I am not aware if its illegal to have a shop without a fire exit or not. Hey, they have a staff toilet at least, which I suppose is more than what most modellers bother to add in their's (...I do have like 20 28mm scale toilets going spare though).
Those shelves are looking awfully full for a disaster scenario situation. I guess that one super market in 28 Days Later was as well. Well most miniatures shops just sell them that way, though I suppose that Kickstarter for scatter terrain which just finished are doing damaged shelving units now too (those websites and that Kickstarter are mentioned in the PA furniture thread if I recall rightly).
With that Chechen War's Kickstarter now shipping it dawned on me that I haven't painted any Separatists so far (let's not talk about the possibility of the postal van being currently stuck in a snow drift). Here's the first squad of them.
As opposed to the Nationalists these guys have more green in their uniforms, along with lacking helmets (the NDF have mostly American made ones), just to set them apart. The camo's also all surplussed Soviet or Russian stuff as opposed to the NDF having some British or American camos mixed in with their Communist era uniforms. There's a Novorossiyian flag on them as a final indicator (which is a suitably generic symbol for multiple factions).
Oh, as for source models. 1st image: Left- Empress Chechen Wars Russian, middle - Studio Miniatures "not" Glen (with arms and head swap, and an AK slung over his back. No, that vest isn't bullet proof!), right - Empress generic soldier with Warlord Games Head. 2nd image: Left Eureka Miniatures Soviet with Warlord Games head, Middle - Spectre Miniatures Insurgent, Right - Spectre Miniatures MENA fighter (with a Wargames Factory PPSh-41 across his back).
After some distractions here's that pair of BMP-2Ds.
Just done up in Soviet era colours. The only thing that'd betray them as being later is the odd more modern backpack. I'm wondering whether to give them any markings, leave them plain, or have some hastily painted over ones? I suppose leaving them blank would be the most universal, though maybe be just a bit dull.
The stowage is by Die Waffenkammer, HLBS and Empress or milliput. The BMP-2s are HLBS.
Here's another wrecked BTR-80 as well. This one is from my old S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stuff.
I tore off the slat armour I'd given it and just burned up the front a bit. Its 1/56th scale, so no use with my current vehicles, and well I may as well use it for something. It'd been gathering dust alongside other junk. Personally I think the paint job on the first wreck is better, though I guess its just a dumb terrain piece.
Ah, and last up, this guy's been staring at my for a few years from one of those collections of models I keep for various skirmish games (you wind up collecting a lot of those with all these blogs of mine). I posted him in the old S.T.A.L.K.E.R. thread, and so here he is again, just with a repaint (his skin was looking awfully yellow the first time around).
A Studio Miniature's "not" Rick Grimes, with a green stuff sheriff coat and a fuller head of hair made out of greenstuff. I prefer that company's take on him (once I added my own corrections) over Warlord Game's Heroic Scale figure to be honest. Odd that he shows up in the same post that the Glen figure appeared in.
05 May 2010, 11:29:02 PM