Modern wars in 1/35- project log

[CapnJim]

I haven't checked in here in a few minutes.  More great stuff! 

[Freddy]

I haven't checked in here in a few minutes.  More great stuff!

Thank you!

[Freddy]

The African warlord painted.

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Apologies - very late to the thread but…. Amazing work! From the sculpting (with what is not the easiest material - at least in my experience) to the lovely paint jobs and then you seem to actually get them to the table. I’m not sure ‘envy’ quite covers my feelings 

Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain

[carlos marighela]

Very nice! Love the shades.

[mikedemana]

Great camo pattern! 

Mike Demana

[Freddy]

Thak you, guys!

Apologies - very late to the thread but…. Amazing work! From the sculpting (with what is not the easiest material - at least in my experience) to the lovely paint jobs and then you seem to actually get them to the table. I’m not sure ‘envy’ quite covers my feelings

They could have more table time, but yes, i try to use them
Working with FIMO is not that hard, I really like that you can just put down a figure and pick up the next day where you left it as it is oven-hardening.

Great camo pattern!

Thank you! I wanted to try to paint woodland scheme, and an African figure was an ideal candidate as there are loads of knockoff/copy patterns used so if the painting experiment turns bad, it is still useable. I am pleased with the colours, I can work a little bit on the pattern as the black lines turn to be longer and more irregular. The colours:
-Tamiya Field Grey (for a more "unused" version maybe try NATO Green)
-Tamiya Dark Yellow (for a more used version try something less yellow)
-Tamiya Nato Brown
-black is black. For a more used version try GW Corvus Black or Tamiya Panzer Grey

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Working with FIMO is not that hard, I really like that you can just put down a figure and pick up the next day where you left it as it is oven-hardening.

I do find when using two part sculpting putty when you are waiting for a set time to add detail etc (when the putty is in the wanted condition and has started to cure) everything else in my life starts to contend for my immediate attention and I sometimes miss the window.

That is a definite advantage. The main thing I remembered about using Fimo was the fact you had to have clean hands (I was little) but mainly that it didn’t hold hard edges well (but again I was little).

I made my first miniatures out of Fimo after watching my brother and his friends play Rogue Trader in ‘88. I made a squad of 5 space marines and a genestealer driving a deathroller (from Bloodbowl). I had just turned 7 and was sold but couldn’t afford miniatures so I made my own. I still have them somewhere. Now reconsidering it as a medium…. thank you.

Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain

[CapnJim]

That chap does indeed look good.  I too like the shades...

[Freddy]

That chap does indeed look good.  I too like the shades...

Thanks! It is relatively easy:
-black base
-Eshin Grey line on the lower part
-light grey line: thinner and even lower
-a white dot on the upper right part. Can be a small line following the contour of the lens or more dots.
-gloss lacquer

I do find when using two part sculpting putty when you are waiting for a set time to add detail etc (when the putty is in the wanted condition and has started to cure) everything else in my life starts to contend for my immediate attention and I sometimes miss the window.

That is a definite advantage. The main thing I remembered about using Fimo was the fact you had to have clean hands (I was little) but mainly that it didn’t hold hard edges well (but again I was little).

I made my first miniatures out of Fimo after watching my brother and his friends play Rogue Trader in ‘88. I made a squad of 5 space marines and a genestealer driving a deathroller (from Bloodbowl). I had just turned 7 and was sold but couldn’t afford miniatures so I made my own. I still have them somewhere. Now reconsidering it as a medium…. thank you.

The time management part of oven hardening is not only about the fractured nature of sculpting time for adult men, but also for the deductive sculpting approach: you make the big masses first and if you like the composition, you go down to the details. If you want to sculpt like this with green stuff, you have to be really fast.

I use FIMO with rubber gloves. Note that it also hardens a little bit by the air, after 1-2 weeks it gets harder, be it the opened package or the half finished sculpt. It can still worked with, also can be re-softened with water or heating, but that is not the same as a freshly opened package. At that point use it for a simple sculpt (terrain, sandbags, whatever) and open a new one. Good thing that it is cheap and easy to find.

[Freddy]

A couple more of the Afghanistan Soviets.

[sandsmodels]

great stuff
are you in the uk?
i have a whole load of cold war 1/35th vehicles i want to sell, all sorts of things tanks, trucks, apc's & jeeps ect.

[HESH]

Those Russian Airborne look terrific. 👍

[Freddy]

Thank you, guys!

great stuff
are you in the uk?
i have a whole load of cold war 1/35th vehicles i want to sell, all sorts of things tanks, trucks, apc's & jeeps ect.

I am from Hungary, so the postal+customs costs might be big.

[Freddy]

Two cars for modern themes. They are diecast ones (the Sprinter is 1/36, the Vito 1/32), I added some detail with painting, a driver and number plates. The Vito with the markings V260 is a Chinese model, in Europe it is running as W447, but that little historical inaccuracy might just spice up things