Some of my Chinese in the Back of Beyond

[marianas_gamer]

Thanks much fellows! So here are some more recruits for the Dogmeat General. Some may think that these are Do or Die troops but he has correctly identified them as Railroad Police. As great a terror to passengers and freight forwarders as they are to any bandits. So pay up!

Here they are in action in another fly blown railroad station

And again....

A reserve company is next on the painting table and then a local spear levy. Than Americans.....

[juergen c. olk]

great looking troops,really like the train station.

[Beast of Bukhara]

They are fearsome looking bunch I'll grant you

I love their baggage on stacked up on the platform I rather fear the hat box and trunks contain something more gruesome than than a change of linen.

[Vagabond]

Don't think I would like to catch a train in your neck of the woods, those Railroad Police are pretty scary guys.

The glimpses of your terrain are intriguing, especially this and the previous post, have you posted bigger pictures of them elsewhere? 

[marianas_gamer]

Vagabond,
Thanks, here are some of the threads on my terrain for the Back of Beyond.

Mosque
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=82655.0

Chinese Houses (scroll down)
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=3577.msg1011621#msg1011621

Marketplace and village
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=73266.msg893540#msg893540

Railroad station, coal bunker and water tank
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=71358.msg868540#msg868540

Pulp and Back of Beyond  houses, walls, and misc.
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=50988.15

[Mason]

Some wonderful stuff in this thread, Lon.
 

Back of Beyond from the Back of Beyond.
 

[Vagabond]

Hi LB

Thanks for your quick reply, you have some very nice buildings there, I especially like the colours of the mud brick village.

I don't suppose you have the colour palette you used do you.

I have a plan to build something similar but I don’t seem to have the eye for mixing colours to match real buildings. I’ve just repainted some logs cabins for the 3rd time and still not happy with them, they look pretty enough but not true to life.

Don’t mean to derail your thread, keep up the good work.

Take care

John

[marianas_gamer]

Vagabond,
I use the same paint combination for all of my mud brick buildings and structures to give uniformity. I figure since they are built of local mud they all have the same composition.  All start with an undercoating of flat black Rustoleum spray paint. After that I use craft paints. I initially used them because they were all that were available here on Guam (another kind of Back of Beyond as Paul just pointed out) but have found that with proper mixing they usually match the more expensive paints except for flesh tones and they are quite inexpensive. The Tramp Steamer fees here are murder so this is much appreciated  .
The initial layer is Anita's Chocolate Brown, followed by Anita's Coffee, and finished with Anita's Nubby Linen. Unfortunately, Anita's no longer produces Nubby Linen so I will soon have to mix to match. Cheers.
LB

[Vagabond]

Thanks for the info. The colour charts on line only show chocolate, so it looks like coffee maybe off as well as nubby linen

Doesn't look as if we get Anita's in the UK but there is a brand called Americana which I'll investigate
Cheers

[marianas_gamer]

Thanks Paul!
Here is one of the Dogmeat Generals' Reserve Companies under the watchful eye of their commander and a staff officer.  Although these are not equivalent to his front line companies they are perfectly fine for cracking peasant heads and "containing" local protests and demonstrations. Notice that they could not find a uniform tunic in stores for the big guy.



Here they are deployed in garrison ready to quell disturbances, perhaps over that new tax to cover the Generals' gambling losses?



Comments and critiques always welcome. I personally think that some of the faces need improvement but this perhaps reflects  the quality of the troops 
LB

[WuZhuiQiu]

Very nice work! How did you model the long-leaved vegetation that appears in the first couple of pictures?

[marianas_gamer]

Some new cannon fodder for the Dog Meat General. This time a village spear levee. This is the first time that I have used steel spears, definitely not the last though.  I can assure you that no matter the morale of these troops they are eager to get stuck in!.... if the enthusiasm for which they stabbed their painter counts for anything 



Here they are in action. Fierce in defense of their town but destined to roll on the ground with lead in their guts.



Another action shot.



I am pretty pleased with how the bamboo spears turned out. They were fiddly but worth the effort to my mind.

WuZhuiQiu, sorry to take so long to respond to your question.  The long leaved vegetation is from a Chinese made grass matt that I bought at a craft store. Similar matts are used by other folks for fields etc. However, I have never found another of these nor seen one.  I cut strips from the matt, glued them to craftboard, spackeled for weight and texture and painted everything. Spackeling has kept the edges from curling very well.

Next on the painting table are some Americans from the Siberian Expedition and then back to the Chinese, probably more poor bloody Infantry.

[coggon]

Nicely done Lon-very nice

[Bugsda]

Good work Lon, the bamboo pikes look cool. I'm looking forward to the Siberian expedition 

What about some grass on the bases?

[Mike Blake]

The figures are fine but I really like the bases on the first lot - that combo of two shades of mud seems to work extremely well. Like other responders, I intend to try it myself on my 54mm figures...