Empress Miniatures modern British GPMG SF with armourer and wounded warrior

[Rick F]

Empress Miniatures GPMG SF kit with REME armourer. What better to represent your jammed MMGs, a bloke mending one

[Rick F]

Warrior Spirit

[commissarmoody]

Some more great figures. 

[Rick F]

Some more great figures. 

Thank you very much

[Jemima Fawr]

Lovely modelling, but as REME, you need to model him with a selection of hammers (of ascending size for problems of increasing complexity)... 

[Rick F]

Lovely modelling, but as REME, you need to model him with a selection of hammers (of ascending size for problems of increasing complexity)... 

Quite, but I don't remember RAF armourers having much more finesse "A I'm an armourer, B I'm an armourer" he does have one hammer in his tool bag, just hasn't seen a small enough problem yet. Thanks for the compliment

[SBRPearce]

US reader here. Is "REME" anything like "REMF" (US military acronym, quite unofficial)

[Rick F]

US reader here. Is "REME" anything like "REMF" (US military acronym, quite unofficial)

No mate, I know what a REMF is, we were banned from calling them it in Gulf war one, so we started calling them PONTIs instead (People Of No Tactical Importance) REME is Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, they mend stuff as opposed to the Royal Engineers who build or blow stuff up.

[Jemima Fawr]

Quite, but I don't remember RAF armourers having much more finesse "A I'm an armourer, B I'm an armourer" he does have one hammer in his tool bag, just hasn't seen a small enough problem yet. Thanks for the compliment

To my eternal shame, I am friends with at least six RAF Armourers.  I don't know where I went wrong, but the 'A, I'm an Armourer' song never gets old...   

[Jemima Fawr]

By the way, your treatment of MTP is superb!  I can paint DPM like a demon, but I still wear my MTP for gardening and often stare at it, wondering "How in God's name would I paint that...?"  It's like non-Euclydian geometry in colour form! 

[Rick F]

By the way, your treatment of MTP is superb!  I can paint DPM like a demon, but I still wear my MTP for gardening and often stare at it, wondering "How in God's name would I paint that...?"  It's like non-Euclydian geometry in colour form! 

I had to Google that initially I put a sample of all my greens, browns and khakis on a piece of foamboard and just laid it on a smock, matching the predominant colours. That was close, but I've slowly changed them. The problem with MTP is that you can look it one way and it's predominantly green, look again and it's predominantly brown. But as you know, there's that much variation with washing, age etc. The secret is to get the brown/cream lines and dots right, they're the identifying feature of MTP.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Very nice painting.

[Rick F]

Very nice painting.

Cheers

[Stu]

As an ex RNZEME Armourer I feel that I must point out that sometimes you need a big hammer to hit the gun crew with, once you get past the 'How did you do that/could you be so stupid' moment.

[Rick F]

As an ex RNZEME Armourer I feel that I must point out that sometimes you need a big hammer to hit the gun crew with, once you get past the 'How did you do that/could you be so stupid' moment.