Forschungsstelle Wolfenfels

[Westfalia Chris]

Hello!

I found this forum by chance, but was instantly wondering how I could go without it...

To introduce myself, I´d like to present my current personal miniature project (apart from some commissions, including a US gunboat):

Forschungsstelle Wolfenfels - Streng Geheim!, which is to be a Weird War 2 commando scenario more along the techfetish line, rather than the weird creatures ilk (that´s fascinating, too, but I´m just in for big stompy robots). I´ll get the two West Wind german mecha ASAP, but until then, I´ve started with painting up some older miniatures and a chance find from last weekend´s convention.

I´ve already posted threads on it at TMP and Sweetwater, but in case you´ve missed it, it won´t do any harm...

Panzerkampfanzug Wolf (Grenadier model sculpted my M. Copplestone, still available from his re-issued "Future Wars" line):



The Wachgruppe, pt. 1:



Pt. 2:



I´ll get some more Germans for Guards soon, and the mechs along with some of Schuco´s nice Kübelwagen models, and then, I´ll set out for Castle Wolfenfels itself... ideas are already forming in my mind.

More pictures of my WW2 Pulp stuff can be found in the respective gallery:

http://www.dminis.com/scratchbuilder_christian/images.html?galleryId=1105&from=World%20War%20Two%20-%20Pulp

I´ve also got some Gangsters:

http://www.dminis.com/scratchbuilder_christian/images.html?galleryId=1651&from=Pulp

and Victorian adventure stuff:

http://www.dminis.com/scratchbuilder_christian/images.html?galleryId=674&from=Victoriana

as well as a mechanical Weird West Posse:

http://www.dminis.com/scratchbuilder_christian/images.html?galleryId=671&from=The+Old+West

which you might like to see.

All feedback is greatly appreciated!

[Zoogla]

WOW, this is some great custom built stuff you have there. Although in my opinion the movie WWW sucked big time I still like the idea of this 'steampunk western stuff'. The spider is amazing, the coach brilliant.

just great
Z.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

fascinated with your conversion stuff over and over again, Christian   Top notch!

nice to see some painted Westwind germans, i like them a lot, unfortunately often they will be ignored completely

[Neldoreth]

Excellent! I love those german walkers. My first impression was that they were simply perfect. Then I realized that they were a bit more hightech than I am usually into. But then I realized that the paint scheme made them perfect! Excellent work on those!

Love the westwind figs also! They are my favourite line ot be honest!

n.

[Westfalia Chris]

Dear Neldoreth, I also like the size of the West Wind figures, being more of a "25er-Fan", so to speak. However, their German Helmets are a bit awkward, to my mind... whereas the Field Caps are nifty as hell! Nonetheless, for further figs, I´ll get the Bolt Action stuff.

[Neldoreth]

However, their German Helmets are a bit awkward, to my mind... whereas the Field Caps are nifty as hell! Nonetheless, for further figs, I´ll get the Bolt Action stuff.

I like the bolt action stuff. I think some of the best sculpts/designs are TAG. But for the price, Westwind can't be beat

n.

[WitchfinderGeneral]

their German Helmets are a bit awkward

They look like the helmets from the "Sturmtruppen" comics!  ::

I think I have 1 or 2 of that robots lying around here too. Not painted them yet but this German paint scheme looks great on them.


If anybody wants to buy that robot: EM4 are selling much more weapon variants than Copplestone does.

[Westfalia Chris]

I finished the second battlesuit, Panzerkampfanzug "Wolf" Ausführung A. The model originally had a rotary cannon as its main armament, and while I´m a nutter for all things that go "Gatling", it just didn´t fit with WW2, much less Germany.

So I took a brass nail and some plastic tube, removed the barrels and replaced them with a single Fla 38 20mm cannon - rat-tat-tat!



Also, as Sweetwater and TMP visitors may have noticed, I painted up one of Schuco´s SdKfz 231 8-Rad Recon Armoured Cars, which will see use as a security vehicle. A bit large for the West Wind Miniatures, it still looks good next to the Panzer Suits and would also be fine with larger 28s, like Black Tree.

[Westfalia Chris]

More Germans for Wolfenfels!

A third Guard Group, made up of two Bolt Action Miniatures and a West Wind One.



And the chief german villains, left to right:

Oberst Fritz von Finstherlingen, Doktor Walther von Hellbraun and Herr Inschwartz, Gestapo Liaison.

[Westfalia Chris]

The very first top-secret shots made by an operative on location, revealing test flights of an hitherto unknown vehicle:

[PeteMurray]

Nazi Flying Saucers! Finally, our Thule Society quotient for the month is met!  ::

Sweet work, Chris. Now, if you'd kindly let the OSS take some less blurry pictures...

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Sweet work, Chris. Now, if you'd kindly let the OSS take some less blurry pictures...

can't wait to see them!

[Westfalia Chris]

Using the latest US-supplied Kodak colour photofilms, we managed to sneak out the following:

[PeteMurray]

Achtung! Gefliegentersaucen! Und Pulp German!

Great work, Chris. Ed Wood, eat your heart out.  ::

[abbot_amaury]

Wow! Absolutely cool, Chris! What did you use? A lamp shade?

@PeteMurray: special thanks for "Achtung! Gefliegentersaucen!". Definitely the best Pulp German I heard/read so far in this forum  ::

Gruss,
Hagen