1914 Belgium - UD 18/12 - news re German infantry paint scheme

[Silent Invader]

Fandabadozi!
And those barricades will be useful for all sorts of things 

Nooooooo not the Krankies! 



And yes, the barricades are deliberately multi period (town attack, anyone?  )

[Elk101]

Not another thread derailed by the Krankies!   

[Dr. The Viking]

Steve this is absolutely amazing already!

I second the multiple uses of those barricades. Now cat them up and sell them to me. 

[Silent Invader]

For completeness, am just copying this over from the Build Something 2015 contest pages

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=75215.msg919032#msg919032

Obviously, all WIP updates will be in the contest thread. 

For my 'Tommy And Fritz' Belgium 1914 project I shall attempt to scratchbuild a British early-WWI scout plane, the Sopwith Tabloid....

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Tabloid

For 'rescue the pilot games', the plane will be crash landed with an engine fire, much like in this image (not actually a Tabloid)....

[Silent Invader]

I've finished the block-painting of the 2nd town tile, so like for tile 1 the next stage will be various washes, dry brushes and highlights.

Here's where it's at:

The Duck Egg (restaurant) and The Bakery by the Church; the year 1815 is etched above the bakery door (the last time the British and Prussian Armies were in Flanders at the same time ....):



The poster dates from 1905 (a bit early I know) and advertises biscuits:



The poster dates from 1913 and advertises an aperitif (the characters in the poster are the European heads of state):





And here's the block-painted tile 2 alongside the finished tile 1, which I think makes for an interesting comparison:

[OSHIROmodels]

Very good mate, nice little touches on them 

cheers

James

[Constable Bertrand]

Glad you have a baguette shop Steve. Not to box an entire People.. but 



Cheers
Matt

[Dr. The Viking]

Simply just amazing!

[Silent Invader]

Thanks guys - just black washed it and it looks horrible now 

Glad you have a baguette shop Steve. Not to box an entire People.. but 



Cheers
Matt

The workshop on tile 3 will be for bicycle repairs 

[Constable Bertrand]

The workshop on tile 3 will be for bicycle repairs 

      

I hope you have a shop for little felt hats too

[pocoloco]

     

I hope you have a shop for little felt hats too

Needs a tonsorium for men as well.... with 'tache wax ads outside

2nd tile looks brilliant as it was, will surely be grand when finished with washes and whatnots.

[Silent Invader]

 

In the meantime: tree mkII





This one would be for the centre of a copse, thus the lack of lower limbs.

[Eric the Shed]

Is that scratchbuilt? Looks fab !!

[Dr. The Viking]

How you tease!

If you don't share your recipes you're just plain rude though. Said the man who still hasn't used the scouring pads you sent me years ago.

[Silent Invader]

Thanks, maybe this one won't be for burning!  

Yep it's a scratch build. It was an experiment of which I have one WIP photo:



Basically it went like this:

1.) 9 x 20cm (or was it 25cm?) pieces of 1.5mm sq or 1.0mm sq copper core from electrical cable
2.) wires twisted into tree shape
3.) electrical tape wrapped around trunk to discourage wires from separating
4.) pieces of cheap sponge torn up and threaded onto wires
5.) end of wires crimped over to secure sponge in place
6.) sprayed with black undercoat to crisp up the surface of the sponge
7.) wet Milliput smeared around trunk and exposed limbs, leaving a stalk that will be used to peg tree to board
8.) tree crown rough-painted with undiluted, cheap (ie not my Vallejos!) craft paint
9.) clump foliage is the most expensive part but straight from the pack is way to clumpy so I put it into my hobby blender for a quick whizz and I think the resulting smaller pieces will cover 4x as many trees
10.) tree brushed with exterior grade wood glue and clump applied
11.) when dry, tree shaken and gaps filled
12.) trunk painted

It seems like a lot of stages but each only takes a minute or two, perhaps a bit longer for applying the clump.