Author Topic: 28mm Ardennes- Building - page 4! (Read 13637 times)

tancrede · « **Reply #30 on:** January 12, 2016, 02:24:23 PM »

Excellent painting !

tomrommel1 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 13, 2016, 09:34:24 AM »

very nice indeed

aircav · « **Reply #32 on:** January 13, 2016, 11:21:36 AM »

fantastic painting

.:Gunslinger:. · « **Reply #33 on:** February 11, 2016, 03:18:58 PM »

Hi,

thank you so much for the kind words!

I did manage to finish all the Germans aswell, having two complete squads for Operation Squad!
Somehow I didn't find the time to take pictures of them until now...

The image isn't 100% sharp, but I think you will be able to see most details. As with the American soldiers, I wanted to give them this battered, dirty look (something that really transcends across Antony Beevor's book about the battle of the Bulge: soldiers from both sides fighting in absolute grim conditions in terms of weather and supplies).

I hope you like them!

Currently I'm working on a typical farmhouse of the Ardennes region, pics to follow soon!

Stay tuned!

Cheers

stoessi · « **Reply #34 on:** February 14, 2016, 03:09:11 PM »

Hey Marc,

Really good looking miniatures that you are presenting here. Having seen them in real life already, I think that the pics don't really do them justice (although they look nice on the pictures already).

Looking forward to seeing more from you.

Cheers,
Thomas

von Lucky · « **Reply #35 on:** February 14, 2016, 08:40:31 PM »

They look nice and gritty.

tomrommel1 · « **Reply #36 on:** February 15, 2016, 02:18:01 PM »

.:Gunslinger:. · « **Reply #37 on:** February 15, 2016, 09:44:45 PM »

Hi,

thank you for your kind words! Much appreciated!

Here is an update...having painted all of the needed minis (well...I think I'l paint a few more, just to have a bit more variation. Especially for the US soldiers...I want to add some troopers in regular Army uniforms to replace the Paras.)
I am now working on the first of the buildings I want to put on the field later on. Inspired by the great gaming tables that Alcal and other LAFers showed here in the WW2 section, I want to put as much effort in the terrain than in the miniatures themselves.
However, due to the fact that I'm only a poor student, I don't want to spend to much on terrain. Therefore I plan on making the buildings out of cheap materials (plaster, foamcore, wood, card etc).
I want my buildings to have the typical look of the Ardennes region, and Northern Luxembourg in particular. I spent quite some time in that area last year for an internship and have thus collected enough reference material in terms of pictures.

I struggled alot with the typical stone walls in the beginning, until a fellow hobbyist gave me a few of his plaster casts for those types of walls...the material he send me being incredibly brittle and fragile I made a silicone mold and used extremely hard plaster to cast these walls.
Now that this hurdle is taken I think the next buildings will be done much quicker.

A lot of detailling is still missing, the house will have full interior when finished and the outer walls need texturing aswell.
For this I would like to hear what you use for creating the wall spackle effect of facades...I used filler but the foamboard curled very much

Enough chitchat, here are the pictures:

Please let me know what you think!

pocoloco · « **Reply #38 on:** February 16, 2016, 07:07:43 AM »

Those Germans look at least as good as those US paras

Great work with the building so far, it will surely look grand when finished. Have you considered using Vallejo products for the sparkle effect, they might not warp the foam board. Or then some kind of a more faster curing filler should do the trick.

Gunner Dunbar · « **Reply #39 on:** February 16, 2016, 08:24:06 AM »

Great looking figs, and the house is coming along nicely.

Rob_bresnen · « **Reply #40 on:** February 16, 2016, 09:10:48 AM »

That is an amazing start. As one of the gamers lucky enough to vertigo game regularly on alcal`s terrain I can say that as you are trying to emulate algal you are off to a cracking start.

SiamTiger · « **Reply #41 on:** February 17, 2016, 08:20:13 PM »

superbly painted. And all of them are Artizan? Couldn't find all of them in their store. Do you have the codes at hand of the miniatures you used? Especially the NCO.

grant · « **Reply #42 on:** February 17, 2016, 08:45:00 PM »

Fantastic work!

.:Gunslinger:. · « **Reply #43 on:** February 17, 2016, 09:35:24 PM »

Thank you all for the nice words!

@Siamtiger: the German commander is from the "SWW079 - Late War Germans (Winter) characters" set. Somehow it doesn't appear in the shop, but I did find the set through Google. The rest of the Germans are from the Late war sets (Late War Germans in Smocks) aswell as the Late War Germans(winter) sets. The guy with the MG34 is a conversion basing on a Late War German with a K98 and the MG34 comes from an Artizan Designs german Fallschirmjäger.

I used milliput to texture the outer walls of the house. It doesn't curl up and the texture is very good - I will post pictures tomorrow!

Mason · « **Reply #44 on:** February 17, 2016, 09:47:03 PM »

This is a truly stunning thread that I have only just discovered.
Top notch brushwork, so much character in those fellas.
The photography, scne setting and scenery is equally wonderful.

Top drawer, sir!

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