tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67537792435786048422024-03-09T18:46:09.299-08:00Callan's Brush with Destiny: the Adventures of a Tinpot MichelangeloWhilst so ever there is one unpainted figure upon my shelf, I shall never die.Apathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-19551966358900662832016-05-26T20:25:00.000-07:002016-05-26T20:25:35.189-07:00In the middle of a great project.<br />
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Alternate Jacobite Rebellion 1745</h3>
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That's correct, folks. Tartans, sporrans and jocks a'strappin'. Conceived by Chris Mantzakos to throw fear into the hearts of pasty-faced Englishmen everywhere, for honour and love of the wee prince of Scotland with a strange Italian accent.</div>
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What if the Royal Ecossais raised a second battalion? What if British and Irish regiments joined the Uprising? What if the French made more of an effort? This may have been the army at Culloden.</div>
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So far only the Highlanders and Ecossais are complete. Figures are Front Rank generally, the dogs are Foundry and anything else I could scrounge, flags are handpainted, the tufts are Leadbear.</div>
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The basing is Impetus, following my idea of each being a small diorama in and of itself, reflecting the nature of warfare and the style of the individual army and unit.</div>
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Royal Ecossais, Colonel's colour</div>
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Royal Ecossais, Regimental colour.<br />
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Camerons.<br />
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Ardsheal's Appin Regiment.<br />
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Lord Ogilvie's Regiment<br />
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Glendessary's Ruddy Banner; Camerons of Glendessary, although sometimes attributed to Lochiels.<br />
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More pictures to come.</div>
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I<span style="font-family: inherit;">t's been a while since my last report. No apologies, just a nod to the vagaries of life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So to spring myself back into action, a short look at a project I've almost completed: French Ordonnance Army, mid to late 15th century, for the honourable Mr. Ross Cotsios.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first base I did, Impetus basing, was for a group of Perry peasants. What can you do with peasants to make them interesting? We decided to return them to their natural habitat: a pigsty. Harsh you might say? Monsieur, those cochons be damned co</span>û<span style="font-family: inherit;">teux. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I like to do at least one base in an army that shows something of the army's nature. Impetus lends itself to this, with big unit bases and plenty of military and social history to draw from. Then it's just execution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">More of these images will go up over the coming weeks and months. I'll share some ideas, and bitch a little, and we'll all have a few laughs. And just to give you a small taste:</span><br />
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CheersApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-56408838648219102992012-01-15T15:23:00.000-08:002012-01-15T15:23:30.925-08:00After a Leave of AbsenceMea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.<br />
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It has been many months since my last blog, but the only reasons I can give is that there have been massive upheavals in the the world of Callan.<br />
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In the space of two weeks:<br />
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- Lost my flat - had rented there for 18 years, owner wanted to renovate and make more money.<br />
- Lost my agent - she had a little girl and a family and her husband travelled taking family with him, not conducive to maintaining a business with actors.<br />
- Lost a friend to cancer - never easy to deal with, known the man for over 30 years . . .<br />
- Audited by Tax Office - enough said.<br />
- Put on jury duty - enough said.<br />
- All this on top of about 18 months of little or no activity in the acting field.<br />
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Needless to say, I was less than interested in recording my adventures in modelling, so . . . sorry about that, Chief .<br />
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Now that I am in my new flat, with my new agent, having by-passed jury duty, and resolved my tax issues, with a long-term voice-over gig to take me up to possibly October (playing Halvar the Viking in the new "Vik the Viking" animated series), I can set up my light box and start taking pics again.<br />
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To whet your appetite, work on my table consists of:<br />
- A complete rebase and revamp of a Revolutionary French army I painted over 20 years ago, for General de Brigade.<br />
- More Moghul Indians for the massive army already constructed.<br />
- Massive castle for said Moghuls.<br />
- Fully-lit landing pad for WH40K.<br />
- Assyrian 28mm army for Armati.<br />
- Dark Angel battle force, with suitably Gothic figures.<br />
and many, many more projects.<br />
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Never-ending.<br />
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I don't like leaving you without at least one new pic of work done, so here as a final tribute to Ian Trout are some pics of a non-figure job I did for him, about 20 years ago. Hope you enjoy.<br />
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While on the subject of Ian Trout, I can safely say that at the moment certain elements of his vast collection are up for sale to assist the family, and to get his armies back into circulation. If you are interested, please contact Anthony Pearson on his blog <a href="http://www.antsarmies.com.au/">http://www.antsarmies.com.au/</a> . I know for a fact that there are Foundry British, Perry Brunswick (full WRG army including limbers) and a huge Foundry French Napoleonic collection, a Prussian 7YW in Front Rank, a French Lace Wars in Dixon, as well as Assyrians, samurai, Hussite (with hand-made <u>wooden</u> battle wagons by yours truly), French revolutionary and Seleucid. Talk to Anthony, he is a very engaging and approachable man. But he is not a push-over.<br />
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On that note, a belated Happy New Year. May the best of your yesterdays be the worst of your tomorrows. And I shall endeavour not to be away as long as I have.<br />
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Cheers<br />
Peter C.Apathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-68929276284571166632011-06-23T20:23:00.000-07:002011-06-23T20:23:53.922-07:00Great service from Lifelites and Caliver BooksJust received my first order from Lifelites, a company that has created a lighting system for primarily Lego models, but that can be applied to apparently any type of model.<br />
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Here's the link: <a href="http://lifelites.com/">http://lifelites.com/</a><br />
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Check out their gallery and the system. Even a Luddite like myself can figure it out. Here's a couple of examples of the results using Lifelites:<br />
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I did, of course, cock up the order, leaving out a single cable that would have made it easy to complete the lighting plan I have in mind. So back online I went and ordered the single cable. The freight was expensive, nothing we as modellers don't expect, but Rob at Lifelites took pity on a lonely incompetemt like myself, said that he hated me having to pay so much for a single cable, and he threw in three extra cables, gratis.<br />
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Great service and more orders to come.<br />
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As for Caliver Books, sent an order in, quite a substantial one, for Minifigs. The order turned up in Australia, two weeks after payment, all present and correct, couple of extra figures (possibly for breakages). Dave and his crew are doing a great job in my opinion and deserve all the support we can give them.<br />
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Even when I realised that I had ordered the wrong figure, Dave was happy to rectify the situation. In an earlier order, one of the boxes went astray. Dave replaced the missing figures without cost, and the new pieces arrived a week later.<br />
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I have received excellent service from both these companies, and fully intend to support them in the future.Apathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-73428867853081351282011-06-16T17:52:00.000-07:002011-06-16T17:52:38.844-07:00Mighty Moghul Fortress (Part 1)Yeah, that's right, finally bit the bullet, started the Moghul fort. Thought it was about time to kick this particular pig.<br />
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I've been promising DV (known to many of you as Greatwhitezulu) a Moghul fort for many aeons now, and after the initial thought I just let it vegetate with all the other composting ideas in my head. But it was always there, niggling at the back of my mind.<br />
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Inspiration is easy to find. The fortresses of India are many and, yes, even varied. A few examples:<br />
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My plan for the fort was for a suitably awe-inspiring structure that could be placed in the corner of DW's bespoke game-table. It may be used for a siege game, or simply as an overwhelming symbol of Moghul dominance. If for a game the dimensions had to be suitable to take DV's basing system, so ramps, catwalks and walls had to be at least 50mm wide. This was really the only stipulation I was given, other than "not too heavy", and "elephant spikes in the gates, please".<br />
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The inspiration came from an illustration in the Osprey book "Indian Castles 1206-1526". Although earlier than the 18th century European influx, the picture at least gave me a starting point.<br />
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That's all very well, you might say, but how may this be interpreted? Well, here we go:<br />
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First, the stuff that will be cut out. I will point out that this form is actually two layers of high density insulation foam mounted on gatorboard.<br />
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Now the bits to be removed:<br />
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1. Brown marks - top arrow ramps up from table level to the first gate where the ramp levels out, then it continues up to level out again between the two large round shapes (big towers).<br />
2. Red marks - rocky hillside into which fort has been constructed. This will be roughly hacked out in a technique I will show later. Rocks and boulders will be pressed into the surface to severely roughen up this surface.<br />
3. Dark blue marks - water feature. A multi-purpose water tank, used as an obstacle for attacking troops, as a bathing pool for Hindus and Muslims, and as a water source in time of siege. This is an example:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> 4. Light blue marks - a water covered walkway beind the covering wall. If you look at the picture above, you can see the walkway beneath the surface behind the wall. Nice change of level and water colour, I thought.<br />
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So these pieces will be removed from the styrene layers.<br />
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The brown marks will be two large towers, of the same design as the base of the tower in the picture above. They will probably be taller and built again of Hirst Arts, with matching crenellations and a flat surface to take artillery.<br />
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The cream marks are for the final gatehouse, again with elephant spikes on the door, and extremely ornate. Here are a couple of examples:<br />
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Here's a pic of the elephant spikes.<br />
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All in all, a big piece to undertake, but if I can pull it off it will be worth the wounds.<br />
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Might even try to throw in some lighting. Who knows? Stay tuned.<br />
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Cheers<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Apathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-11673209605019209542011-06-16T06:09:00.000-07:002011-06-18T08:37:57.450-07:00Albert Speer's LegoI like Hirst Arts blocks. I know some people have problems with them, but some people also like to hear their own voices gonging around in their heads just for the hell of it. To those people I say "Fie on you!"<br />
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With a little imagination and some forethought, Hirst Arts can be the basis of exceptional pieces, lending a titanic and substantial quality to a model, that cardboard or thin plastic cannot convey. Of course, at the same time the pieces can look blocky and heavy, without any real attempt at architectural interest or significance. <br />
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Like something Albert Speer might have made out of Lego.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>In my opinion, restricting yourself to only Hirst Arts when modelling may lead to exactly that sort of feel. I have found that following the maxim of "there are no hard and fast rules to modelling" has helped.<br />
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This was a neat little ruin, built for CBW as part of a much larger cityscape, which will eventually develop into a 6x4 foot table (if not larger).<br />
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I then hacked a hole in the lower floor and fashioned a burst grill from a GW photo-etch set. Just for a bit of atmosphere.<br />
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A surface of gravel and sand was spread out over the ground and floors, leaving the embossed plasticard to show the brickwork.<br />
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The rubble was a combination of resin pieces from Reality in Scale (cheers, Otto), pieces of shattered Hirst Arts bricks and columns, and bricks from a weekly collectible magazine that builds a medieval castle (after 100 weeks and about a thousand bucks - I gave up after about 6 weeks, although I do have the complete Fokker Triplane kit from the same company if anyone is interested, unmade and unopened - would like to sell, I'll don't have time - there is a website with a weekly how-to for it. Follow this link: <a href="http://www.wakelin.org/redbaron/magazineframe.htm">http://www.wakelin.org/redbaron/magazineframe.htm</a>).<br />
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As I laid the rubble down, I was aware of the need to have plenty of room for figures to be standing behind the cover provided. The apse will take a terminator base, the dome fits a sniper, plenty of space in and around the ruins for all manner of figure.<br />
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Painting was relatively simple. Sprayed various shades of brown, sand and black, in almost a camouflage style all over the model. Left the dome and wooden floor off to make it easier to paint and treated them in the same manner.<br />
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While these were drying, I made the bronze nameplate, out of plasticard and plastic lettering, and Scibor resin Templar shields. The plastic lettering came from Slater'sPlastikard (follow the link: <a href="https://slatersplastikard.com/index.php">https://slatersplastikard.com/index.php</a> ). I bent the pasticard sheet first.<br />
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I'm sorry, it's been a long day.<br />
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Anyhoo, after the paint has dried and, apparently, the fumes have dissapated, I dry-brushed like a bandit from a mix of brick red, tan, yellow and white, with a touch of black to dirty it up, through several layers , lightening all the time, throwing in some yellow or a bit of blue as my taste dictated until the final colour is as you see, sort of a dirty, battle-scarred, smog-blasted sandstone, very familiar to Sydney-siders (battle-scarred, not so much - peaceful place, Sydney, great for a visit, beautiful city, pissing down rain at the moment and cold - love it).<br />
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The wooden floor gets a drybrush as well as does the brickwork on the floors, using more red and tan in the mix, with a lighter yellow-brown highlight, and blackened at the edges.<br />
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Once all the elements were put together I was well pleased with the outcome. It can be considered complete, but there are a few things I might add, like a bit of foliage, vines up the front wall in places, grass tufts, just to age the piece a little, and maybe a bit more rubble on the dome level. The idea of some tattered battle flags is tempting as well, but one must be careful not to gild the lily. Detailling is fun, but also can be a pit of despair and can lead you into ever-decreasing circles of "touch-up".<br />
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You got to know when enough is enough.<br />
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So enough for now. But just wait until I start the step-by-step on the Moghul fort. You will all eat your heads with jealousy.<br />
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Cheers<br />
PCApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-34779358263263910732011-05-28T21:46:00.000-07:002011-05-28T21:47:48.817-07:00Back on the BlogDon't it just cheese you off when you go to a blog hoping, just hoping that there will be something new. And there isn't.<br />
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My apologies to all those who have patiently waited for some inkling of what I am doing. Part of the problem is that I don't like posting work I am doing for people if they have a blog of their own. Prime example is <a href="http://golcondarising.blogspot.com/">http://golcondarising.blogspot.com/</a>, DV's beautiful and informative posting of his adventures into 18th century India, and the rise and demise of Moghul supremacy. As far as I know every figure displayed has been painted by my good self, much to my surprise, considering that DV is now measuring the size of the army, not by number of figures, but by metres of coverage.<br />
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This sucker is BIG. Two years of work, for me. Lifetime of devotion for DV. Here is an example DV has already posted so I can break this rule a little.<br />
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So it gives him the chance to show his stuff without me pre-empting, and he has way more info on the units and period than do I. Check it out, you won't be disappointed.<br />
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However, it also means that I won't show the Skaven I have painted. I trust they will find their way to his other blog, <a href="http://cantgettheblognameiwant.blogspot.com/">http://cantgettheblognameiwant.blogspot.com/</a>. Much modelling goodness there.<br />
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The other reason I may take time in blogging is that I don't like repetition. A lot of what I do is similar to previous jobs. If you've seen one French line infantryman, you've seen them all . . . <br />
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<em>(Peter steps aside for a second, to muse:</em><br />
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<em>. . . which is actually a good lesson for many figure manufacturers. What is the reasoning behind producing the same type of figures that others have already produced </em>en masse<em>, and possibly better. How many French Old Guard grenadiers can there be out there? How many times will we see a new sculptor bring out another German WWII SS stormtrooper? Kudos to the Perry's for the Carlist list, well done Gringo 40's for the larger scale Mexican and American forces, and to all the others striving for </em>l'difference<em>. Prime example, DV with the new Golconda Indian range he is developing. Breaths of fresh air . . .</em><br />
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<em>Peter returns to his regular broadcast)</em><br />
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I will break the rule a little just to show examples of the Wargame Factory figures I have used in conjunction with Pig Iron accessories, and Back2basix bases.<br />
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Simple figures conveying the less well-trained cannon fodder of the WH40K Imperial Guard. Kept the bodies and arms with weapons of the Wargame's Factory stormtrooper, and added heads, backpacks and pouches from Pig Iron. Trench bases are de-rigeur for resin base manufacturers, and they add a rough atmosphere to the piece, courtesy of Back2basix.<br />
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There will be about 80 of these Russian-types, as support for the Vostryans. Think of them as opolchenie, militia if you will. Then I'll start on the Germans, as support for the Death Korps of Krieg.<br />
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Can't leave without one colourful piece. This is such a good machine, the WH40K Ironclad Dreadnought, big, bulky, heavy armaments, lots of flat surfaces for designs and additions. All in all, a cracker of a piece.<br />
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I made this one up to be newly minted, a fallen hero recently incarcerated in a new tin can, ready for his first mission. His awards are few, and he is ready to make his mark. Possibly, as the base indicates, in clearing a space hulk. He would make a good additon to an expanded Blood Angels terminator squad.<br />
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I kept the scheme simple, not too many designs, a Forgeworld brass photoetch Blood Angels symbol, all to emphasise his first foray as a dreadnought.<br />
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The next blog may be of interest. I'm going to do a step-by-step, I hesitate to call it a tutorial, more a journey, as I put together either a Forgeworld Crassus Transport vehicle, or the Forgeworld Marienburg Landship. Eventually I will do both, as well as the Chaos Dwarf Iron Daemon. Give me an idea on what you would like to see in the poll of to the left there . . no higher . . . your left . . . no, the other left . . . that's the one.<br />
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Cheers and thanks to everyone for your continued patronage.<br />
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PCApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-31804747025404696822011-04-28T22:52:00.000-07:002011-04-28T22:52:23.714-07:00Sometimes it's the Little ThingsAfter the marathon blog of the other day, maybe it's time to slow down, relax and just appreciate some pieces without all the brou-haha.<br />
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Won't say what the price was, my mother may read this.<br />
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Hope you like. Going off to watch Carlton play Sydney in the mud tonight, with my brothers. <br />
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Go the mighty Blues.<br />
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Cheers<br />
PCApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-7852402122920324812011-04-27T13:45:00.000-07:002011-04-28T15:46:23.550-07:00Finding the Best in a Tenuous SituationIt's 4.35 am.<br />
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I hit the sack early thinking, okay, voice-over in the morning, have to be there at 9.00, booked for two hours, get an early-ish night, wake up fresh.<br />
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Doesn't happen. As is all-too-often the case these days, sleep is interrupted, not by outside noise (actually the peaceful sound of a long and sustained rain shower at the moment), nor by the need to relieve myself (a new wrinkle in getting older, I have noticed).<br />
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What happens is the inner alarm goes off as my subconscious reminds me that the industry I have devoted much of my life to (acting) is slowly going down the gurgler, and that the voice-over I am doing in the morning is a mere shadow of the workload I used to do.<br />
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Now, compared to the problems of others, this is a small and probably meaningless hiccough. Many would see it as such. And I agree. I so very much agree. I always believe that things will get better, that change is around the corner, "Onward and Upward" is always my call to arms. <br />
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I know, I just know deep down where I keep my deepest beliefs, my warmest memories and my coldest fears, I know it will get better.<br />
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But sometimes, just sometimes, when the rent is due, when I am reminded how old I am, when I see the latest offerings from networks and studios out for a quick buck at the expense of taste and talent, when I see that a 15 year old barely-talented boy, famous for a haircut and being discovered on Youtube, is writing his auto-biography, or a woman herself hardly out of her teens, who feels she needs to wear a meat suit to be noticed, is complaining about how hard it is to earn millions and be a superstar . . . sometimes a touch of despair creeps in.<br />
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Where do I go? How do I dispel this feeling of pointlessness and insignificance? Strange to say I go to something even tinier than me.<br />
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Can't say it makes me feel that all is right with the world. I doubt that anything could do that. Not that I'm not hoping. <br />
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But I look at something like this and realise that within that world, specifically my small corner of it, there are good things, things to be cherished, things of which I can be justly proud, things I have worked hard to achieve. And all the petty injuries, failures and defeats, the panic and despair, all the regrets start to take a backseat. They don't disappear altogether (again, nothing could achieve that), but they don't have quite the significance they had when they managed to wake me from a well-earned slumber.<br />
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For a while I can enjoy the results of my work, and I am reminded of other achievements, acting performances that have pushed me beyond the expectations of my peers, painted figures that came together with clarity and painting skill in a moment that was unexpected, a scene in a script I was writing that reduced me to tears or had me laughing a deep belly-laugh that caught me by surprise.<br />
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And right at that moment, I know things will get better.<br />
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Here endeth my very personal discourse.<br />
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<u>THE BLOODY STRIDE</u>:<br />
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CBW came to me with a box of Perry War of the Roses archers. Now CBW is a willful young man, he doesn't hold with the "GW is the only range of figures to be used with WH or WH40K rule sets", oh no. Don't get me wrong, he loves the GW figures and Forgeworld, and all the other eye-openingly expensive figures that we all drool over in our own special ways. But he also understands the power of a well-earned buck.<br />
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So he came up to me one day and said "Turn these into a Dogs of War unit, I reckon they'll come up a treat." He used a sobriquet for me as he always does, but I won't embarrass myself by repeating it.<br />
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His request prompted some thought. The Perry box set is full of plasticky goodness, 40 figures all told, 28 archers, 10 polearm troops and 2 command in the configuration I eventually chose. And all for less than $30 AUS.<br />
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Now, I'm not going to compare prices, but that's not too damn shabby.<br />
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And, at the risk of repeating myself, this is what I came up with:<br />
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Here's some more:<br />
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Second: basing, stole this idea from Dave Taylor (thanks, Dave). Normally, GW basing is in singles and in some instances it makes sense, space marine squads, small units, and so forth. But if you have a large unit, what is the point? So long as you can remove the requisite numbers for casualties, how they are based is of no real concern.<br />
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This is how I configured the basing:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Nine files across and four ranks back. If you do your maths, it comes out to 36 figures, but I'm only using 32. Nine figure frontage, four figure side, gap in the middle. Or you can say that the unit has 36 figures, they are still straggling in. Justify it, who cares?<br />
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And I made a simple movement tray out of card and a length of square model-ship timber. As you can see plenty of individuals, a couple of threes and fours and a nice big command stand, suitably foliaged and displayed. The bigger bases give the modeller a chance to create little individual vignettes that will compliment the larger grouping.<br />
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I'm sure others have hit on this form of basing, but for a first try, I'm quite chuffed with this.<br />
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I call the unit the Bloody Stride or the Red Legs. The back story is simple: troops were raised by Baron Dietrich von Orken-Fleischeberg*, for defence of the cattle industry and abbatoirs developed by the Baron (as his name implies) and studded around the mountain owned by the family, since it was taken from orcs three hundred years earlier by the Baron's noble ancestor, Friedrich <em>ohne örtlich festgelegten Aufenthaltsort</em>**.<br />
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Baron Dietrich's youngest son prevailed upon his father to allow him to use the troops he had raised to lead an expedition across the sea to lands reputed to be rich in gold ("cities are made of the stuff, Papa"), and precious gems ("and you tread rubies beneath your feet"). His father agreed to the expedition ("if you will only shut up and let me read the paper"), giving the boy, Wenig-wiener*** by name, a small selection of the less reputable men in his forces and one drunken sergeant called Errol. He also gave him a ship, the "Fliegenschweinefleischrinde" ****. And so armed off they went.<br />
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After an uneventful trip, they landed on far jungle-covered shores, inhospitable and smelling slightly of rising damp and kerosene. Before they could get off the beach however, from the jungle burst a horde of slavering . . . Lizardmen! Not wholly expected. The first to fall was Errol, who tried to offer the lead lizards a draught of ale. He went down, his head split open by an obsidian axe, still giggling and singing a song about a feral cat called Tinkles.<br />
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The rest of the men turned tail and fled back to the jolly-boats that had brought them to shore. At the very edge of the water, Wenig-wiener drew his archers and halbards together and ordered them to cover the now panicked and disorderly fleeing. Man after man dropped, impaled by thrown axes or hurtling arrows, but the small band gave as good as it got, and the lizards started taking significant casualties, so much so that there was more blood lapping around the legs of the fighters than sea water.<br />
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In a moment of respite, as the lizards gathered for another attack, Wenig-wiener ordered the retreat of his men and they all took to the boats. Arrows and spears followed the retreating men back to their ship.<br />
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As the pitiful remains of the rear guard assembled, exhausted on the deck, the cabin boy, Lars, pointed out that their leggings were all red. The blood had soaked into their clothes. The significance didn't dawn on them at that point, because they suddenly noticed that not only lizard-filled canoes, but also flying lizards were starting to congregate around the ship. The prudent decision was made to weigh anchor and get the hell out of there.<br />
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It was decided later, when they all got home and the story was told, that an added layer of toughness could be given to the Baron's indifferent troops by associating them with the ill-fated expedition and the deeds of the rearguard . . . sort of making his cow-minding troops vicariously hard. All his troops were given red leggings, even the officers' armour had red painted leg plates, and new banners were given to the troops. They showed a tristar of running red legs and the words "Blutiger Fortschritt"*****, and the trumpeter's banner held the words "Stellung in einem blutigen Meer"******.<br />
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The Baron took to hiring the troops out to anyone who had the wherewithall, and they were found to be quite effective so long as they stayed in a tight little bundle, were close to water and someone beat the bushes for skinks and geckos.<br />
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Wenig-winer was put to work in a meat-packing plant, where he eventually stumbled into a seasoning vat and expired, although it was commented that his skin had never been so tender or fragrant.<br />
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Hope you enjoyed. This was quite a long post, but it's now 6.20am, and I am feeling a lot better. Thanks, guys, makes it all worthwhile.<br />
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Cheers<br />
PC<br />
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* Basically "Orc Meat Mountain" - whether it is for the victory over the orcs, or because Friedrich had all the captured orcs impaled on poles and planted on the hillside, about 2,000 all told, is unclear.<br />
** <em>ohne örtlich festgelegten Aufenthaltsort</em> - of no fixed abode<br />
*** Wenig-wiener - "little sausage", nickname from his mother, who was singularly unimpressed at his birth.<br />
**** <em>Fliegenschweinefleischrinde</em> - The Flying Pork Rind<br />
***** <em>Blutiger Fortschrit</em> - The Bloody Stride<br />
****** <em>Stellung in einem blutigen Meer</em> - Standing in a Bloody SeaApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-20822931454477414812011-04-26T23:40:00.000-07:002011-05-01T08:03:07.837-07:00The 3rd HussarsI have always had a soft spot for the French 3rd Hussars. So when the Perrys brought out their boxed plastics, I had to give it another go. For it was not the first time I had painted these uniforms. Oh no . . . it wasn't . . . (dramatic music sting)!<br />
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It was most certainly watching Keith Carradine as Armand d'Hubert, swaggering through "The Duellists", that first stirred my passion for this uniform. Airfix plastics, Minifigs (15 and 25mm), Foundry, and now Perry. I think I have painted these guys at least a dozen times, not including large scale, 54's and 90's, New Hope and Poste Militaire. Anyone remember Series 77? I do indulge.<br />
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I have painted other hussar units, other nationalities, but I always return to the boys in grey.<br />
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This time it's a little different. All the others have been Imperial. This time it's Republican. Chris Blaxland-Walker got a hold of an old Republican French army I painted for Mark baker, many aeons ago. After a quick chat, it was decided to go thoroughly berserk and build a huge Republican army, using Baker's boys as a base. <br />
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Baker's old army will be rebased, new figures mixed in with the old to build demi-brigades using all manner of figures, and new regiments will be formed. The 3rd is the first of the new formations.<br />
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It is a 14 figure formation, based as 3x3 figure bases, 2x2 and a single. This way, all 14 can be used or it can be cut down to a 12 figure unit. The Perry figures are too good to not use them all.<br />
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I have them in summer campaign dress, <em>sans</em> pelisse. Hopefully the Perrys might bring out a metal pack of 14 pelisse-wearing top halves for winter dress. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAAmxKEPNnMFpuL1qIv4NppuPCHH-gpbz0j_fAx0YcPYiFQSq9pnFP7a0ssN7WlAB8D3vkcr0hopLsHn1kZ0IuBpzscAxaND9uorSDHLO8LsRku9YT0gqSjUgcLNcwhp8SQv5A00w-lNA/s1600/IMG_0733a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAAmxKEPNnMFpuL1qIv4NppuPCHH-gpbz0j_fAx0YcPYiFQSq9pnFP7a0ssN7WlAB8D3vkcr0hopLsHn1kZ0IuBpzscAxaND9uorSDHLO8LsRku9YT0gqSjUgcLNcwhp8SQv5A00w-lNA/s320/IMG_0733a.jpg" width="275" /></a></div>The uniform was drawn from Histoires et Collections' French Hussars 1786-1815 Book 1., as principal source, as well as numerous texts, pictures and sources gathered over the last 40 years. The one thing you notice when researching the 3rd is that before 1804 they are arguably one of the least documented unit in the French army. There are few contemporary illustrations and little in the way of written material and what there is, is a little misleading and confusing.<br />
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Case in point: in the H&C book there is a nice illustration of a 3rd Hussar trumpeter, unusual in that he is wearing a grey tailed coat without distinctions (crimson piping or turnbacks) and a bicorne.<br />
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To my mind this goes against nature, but was intriguing at the same time. Dare I construct a 3rd Hussar unit without the reverse colours usually associated with trumpeters at the time?<br />
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You're darn tootin' I can.<br />
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And this is the result:<br />
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Using a plastic dragoon body and arms (Perry), a Victrix head, and Green Stuff for the tails I created a trumpeter of the 3rd circa 1793. His lace is silver, as it was for officers of the regiment, the tails are plain (no turnbacks), the horse is grey, the sheepskin is black.<br />
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I blame the colonel's wife. No real reason, just saying . . .<br />
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I shall now ride off into the sunrise, to the lonely sound of the whistling wind and the irritating sound of a whistling nostril.<br />
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More blogs to come.<br />
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Cheerio<br />
PCApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-18206209324018486322011-04-02T20:22:00.000-07:002011-04-02T20:22:04.066-07:00Dwarves and Hairless ChickensWhen one thinks of Dwarves, one thinks of Celto-Norse berserker types <em>a la</em> Tolkien, horned helmets, chainmail, knot patterns on every surface, etc. Occasionally a painter can move away from the stereotype and work on a different style of the vertically-challenged, beer-swilling psychos.<br />
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West Wind Productions have produced a series of very interesting figures and one of my patrons, Chris Blaxland-Walker de Medici provided me with the opportunity to partake of their fare.<br />
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I like them. I like getting away from the established norm and playing with a different concept. So a couple of Macedonian style pike blocks were right up my alley.<br />
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As a nod to the Celto-Nordic ambience of the dwarves, I have used some Nordic design features but the appearance is purely cosmetic.<br />
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My other patron, David "Julius II" Veasey (<em>Il Papa Guerriero</em>), has given me permission to rest from building his Golcondan forces and I can attack the backlog of WH40K that have been taking up room for the past few years. These include Tau, Kroot, Necromunda and various Marine units, as well as the Space Rat army, presently in pre-planning.<br />
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In keeping with the otherworldly aspect I chose a colour pattern of deep green as the base skin tone, with lighter green undertone for belly and the inside of limbs, with deep red markings. Talons, beak and spikes were in bone, which to my eye always makes for a vicious appearance.<br />
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The Knarlocs are Forgeworld resin. And some of their best pieces, in my humble opinion.<br />
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More to come, painting another troop of Kroot right now, then more Necromunda for D"PJ"V, and probably Republican 3rd Hussars for CBWdM.<br />
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Cheers<br />
PCApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-79951085060002298662011-03-28T03:57:00.000-07:002011-03-28T04:07:00.387-07:00Reasons to go Blind: 6 and 10mmI am far too nice for my own good.<br />
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I know, a little out of left field and some would argue that I would be hard pressed to understand the word "nice", but even so.<br />
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A long term retirement project of my long-time friend, Mark Brandon-Baker, is to collect the opposing armies of the English Civil War, Royalist and Parliamentarian with a smattering of Scots. Hoorah, I said, forgetting myself and using my outside voice. "In 28mm, using all manner of beautifully sculpted figures by a variety of manufacturers, don't worry, we can get Perry and Foundry to work together?" I asked, my hands clasped together against my cheek in child-like delight, tears brimming in hope-filled eyes.<br />
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I confess, there was a small sob that escaped.<br />
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"No," said Mark, a cheesy grin playing around the lower half of what can only be called a face because it occupies a place at the front of his head, "of course not, nothing that difficult. I want it in 10mm."<br />
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Hope clattered noisily on the ground, like a cast iron pot of week-old pea and ham soup.<br />
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(Actually, Mark was very apologetic about the 10mm scale, and not at all as I have portrayed him. Mark is one of nature's gentlemen and a better friend could not be found. He believes that ECW and Zulu Wars are best constructed in 10mm, to give a full visual impact. I have to agree with him, especially for the big engagements.)<br />
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Now don't get me wrong, I appreciate the beauty of all miniatures, all shapes and sizes, big and small, including the malevolent and smug 10mm scale, and it's malignant dwarven cousin, the 6 mm. <br />
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I just feel the need to retain my eyesight for a little while longer.<br />
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I had already undertaken 10mm, in the shape of the GW Warmaster figures, having painted several armies for Ian Trout, many years ago. I was younger then, more arrogant, better postured. I felt myself invincible.<br />
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I started the Baker project with fear and loathing, predicting disaster, and the rising threat of glaucoma. I could only hope that it would lead to prescription marijuana, a small benefit.<br />
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Imagine my surprise when the first units turned out not too bad. Mark insists on building his armies from the cavalry . . . down? Loves his mounted troops does Mark. So the first order was for Royalist cavalry, eight by eight figure units, one unit of which is seen below:<br />
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I started with a dark brown undercoat, and simply applied the colours on top, respecting the black outline between different pieces of clothing and skin. The dark brown also provided the blackened armour. A lighter shade for the clothing and buff leather was applied, giving highlights.<br />
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I normally drybrush horses to give a hair texture, but in this instance straight brushstrokes were easier and more controllable. The addition of red plumes and sashes to denote Royalist troops, and hey Presto, ipso facto, coitus interruptus, the pieces were complete. <br />
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Has to be noted that without the red plumes for Royalists and orange for Parliamentarians, the troops of both sides would be virtually indistinguishable from each other. It can only be imagined how many were killed in close melee by their own side, by mistake. Even the difference between red and orange may not have been enough at times.<br />
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Mark's plan is for his forces and battlefield to look like this:<br />
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It will be beautiful. Hope I will be able to see it. Probably not, the Roundheads are on the table now.<br />
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I have painted 6mm as well. I have two battalions of Austrians post-1810, Heroics Ros figures. I was going to build the Austrians at Aspern-Essling in 6mm, with one Ros pack equaling a unit. In other words, 48 figure battalions. After the first two, I laughed hysterically for about half an hour and gave it away as a bad joke. I retain these two units to remind me of my folly.<br />
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You never know, I might try it again someday. <br />
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And then again, I might flap my arms and fly to the moon, accompanied by the pigs winging their way out of my butt.<br />
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A boy can dream.<br />
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Cheers <br />
PCApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-49198564619785161512011-03-18T16:49:00.000-07:002011-03-18T16:49:11.733-07:00Napoleonic Spaniards - a couple of picsThese were part of a project I did for Ian Trout. He's always wanted Spaniards, and I had the opportunity to paint a few Front Rank pieces for him.<br />
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I'm happy with these, especially the hand-painted flags. Hope you enjoy.<br />
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You may have noticed the lack of "witty" banter on this blog. Apparently I have been engaging in it, possibly a little too much for the taste of some. Heaven forbid that I drag the narration of the hobby into an area where it is not only informative but entertaining. That would go against nature.<br />
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And apparently letting the figures speak for themselves is all the rage.<br />
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Of course, I will continue to write as I see fit in future blogs. And my figures are quite capable of standing up for themselves.<br />
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Don't like it? Welcome to go elsewhere.<br />
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Besides, it's not as if I'm advertising . . . I'm just sharing my figures.<br />
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It's been a pleasure . . <br />
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PCApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-64885074995990326052011-03-08T22:13:00.000-08:002011-03-11T23:08:01.188-08:00A place in the sun - Part 2.As you will remember, our erstwhile hero, fresh from other adventures, had completed the construction of the single storey Moghul building. Here is a scene from our last episode:<br />
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With the Tamiya "Grit" applied to the roof, it is time to cover the cardboard base with gravel, then spray the piece and set it aside. I usually leave it overnight, but if there's a rush even I am willing to take a risk and give the piece a couple of hours before drybrushing. If I am working on only one of these pieces, I try to have other projects going at the same time, so there is no downtime waiting for paint to dry. For example with this piece I also worked on Dwarf shields, Dutch East India Company flags, and prepared other figures for painting. <br />
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Watching paint dry . . . I shudder at the thought.<br />
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I have built and painted several buildings for David over the past few years, and I fluctuate between "Dark Yellow", "Light Sand" and "Tan (USAF)" for the base colours. I generally like to use "Nato Brown" for the flocked areas on a base, as it gives a richer contrast to the earthy tones of the building. It doesn't really matter if some of the spray extends up the wall, this helps to give a grimy feel to the lower section of the wall. The knowledge of this comes from a deep familiarity with rising damp.<br />
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Finally the base is drybrushed and a mixture of Noch and Stiflor grass tufts are added. Where were we before the invention of grass tufts? The whole is sprayed with Testors Flat varnish to seal.<br />
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The painting section is actually the quickest part of the procedure. I hope you agree that the final effect is quite satisfying. For other pics check out David's blog:<br />
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<a href="http://golcondarising.blogspot.com/2010/12/for-furt.html">http://golcondarising.blogspot.com/2010/12/for-furt.html</a><br />
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This link goes directly to a post on one of his buildings. Check out the rest of the blog, some great stuff there, even if I do say so myself.<br />
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I will do more of these landscape posts. The next big one is a Moghul gate section based on a variety of Moghul fortresses. The following pics give an idea of what I am facing.<br />
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Remember to make your cheques out to the Society for the Prevention of Poverty to the Wind-swept and Interesting.<br />
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This has been a public service announcement for no-one in particular. We now return you to the regularly scheduled broadcast.<br />
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Cheers<br />
PCApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-1412713234636676932011-03-04T00:05:00.000-08:002011-03-24T04:53:05.866-07:00A place in the sun - Part 1.Friday afternoon. My cutting board and workspace are virtually empty. This goes against nature. The universe laughs with malicious delight. I feel naked and exposed.<br />
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Damn altruistic, I be a'thinkin'. And spares me from another manic-depressive spiral.<br />
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And clears out some of the crap I've got hanging around the house. Big plus.<br />
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First the major components are gathered, so I may commune with them in an atmosphere of mutual appreciation of the journey we will undertake. Life is a journey, time is a river, the world is a village, the door is a jar. <br />
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So much for zen.<br />
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Anyhoo . . .<br />
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The pieces are part of a kit bought by David Veasey from Najewitz Modellbaushop. The link is:<br />
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<a href="http://www.lasermodellbau.de/">http://www.lasermodellbau.de/</a><br />
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Check out the gallery for some of the buildings I have made using these kits.<br />
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Resin walls, laser-cut roof and roof supports. Gives quite a scope to the variety of buildings that can be created. And don't forget, all sins can be covered with superglue, Squadron Green Stuff, paint and flocking material.<br />
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Nice texture on the walls, open windows with great middle eastern shapes. The resin can be cut, though not easily, but perseverance pays off. The following pics show a building I made, where I cut side walls in half to create an upper storey with balcony. None too shabby.<br />
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And back to the job at hand. Laser cut wooden pieces for roof support. More anon.<br />
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Clean up of resin ensues. Excess resin is removed from windows and doors and from the little holes above the windows. The tabs are removed from the top of the wall. These are locaters if an upper storey is to be built. As this is a single storey, off they come.<br />
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The wooden supports are placed and glued into these little holes.<br />
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You might have noticed the domes in a previous pic. These are two halves of a water tower from a model railroad kit, specifically Faller N222143. Using the dome pieces leaves a variety of girders and ladders, sure to be useful in future projects. No part of the animal is wasted after the kill.<br />
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The dome is sanded back to remove the weld lines leaving a smooth surface and is glued to the roof section. Two open trapdoors in the roof are also closed as are the doors in one of the wall sections. <br />
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Now the fun bit. I found this product in my local art store. Sticky backed grillwork. Well, that's what I use it for. Just peel it off the backing paper and apply.<br />
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By placing it over the windows, sticky side to the wall, it creates a great grill effect for middle eastern and Indian buildings.<br />
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Don't worry about the sticky side facing out of the windows, paint will cover it thus negating the sticky effects. (Only here will the word "thus" be used - I promise).<br />
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I am left with the backing paper, but here's a thought:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>The sticky stencilling is about $3 a sheet at my art store (Eckersleys for those in Oz) and comes in a variety of designs. <br />
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For example the leaf design on the dome and the curlicues below the arches are from this range. If I can remember the name of the manufacturer I will post it. But in the interim I would suggest checking out the scrap-booking section of your local arts and crafts shop.<br />
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The next step will be filling, painting and landscaping, so stay tuned.<br />
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Ain't it grand? It's all too damned wonderful, to be sure.<br />
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Cheers<br />
PCApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-57173059582039976462011-02-26T04:00:00.000-08:002011-02-26T04:00:15.377-08:00Mighty MumaksGotta love the Mumaks. This is a piece I worked on about three years ago. Originally in the Veasey collection, it now resides in the swiftly expanding Blaxland-Walker collection, along with many other LOTR pieces. Many, many pieces.<br />
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I love this beastie, and it was great to get my hands on it again. I spent many hours with a pin-vised drill bit, superglue and a pile of satay sticks, but I think I got the look I was after.<br />
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The model as it comes from the box was intriguing but just didn't quite have the savagery I remembered from the movie. It needed sharp pointy bits and many of them. Basically I decided that wherever there was a bamboo pole terminating on the howdah, it was going to be extended and occasionally bulked out.<br />
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It was just a matter of drilling the holes to accept the satay sticks, and using superglue to hold them. Most of the satay bundles were simple, consisting of three sticks, two short, one longer, tied together roughly with a thick rigging thread used in rigging wooden model ships. Some were a little more substantial, but the method was much the same. Cut sticks, drill holes, insert sticks, wrap sticks with cord, holding sticks together and covering join between sticks and plastic.<br />
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The tusks were another story, but just as simple. I took lengths of cord and tied smaller satay sticks sharpened at both ends along the length of the cord at equal intervals, about 2 cms between each stick. I then wrapped the length of cord around the tusk. The cord length was about 20 cms.<br />
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I experimented with hanging banners from the howdah but it all looked too busy. Especially with the suitably savage-looking designs painted on the mumak's hide. Saved time and trouble. And with the crew installed the beastie was more than ready to instil fear in the hearts of the Gondormen.<br />
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The following are samples of the crew painted for the mumak. I chose a colour scheme different from the advertised GW and movie theme, as I wanted to represent one of the other wild desert tribes. A soft tan brown with blue accents and turquoise stone decorations seemed to fit the bill.<br />
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Here is a little taste.<br />
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I was going to do a little editorial about LOTR the movie, but I can't be bothered. We all have our opinions and they are never going to match up absolutely. I loved Lord of the Rings, loved Star Trek (the new one), I hated Harry Potter (all of them and the books, elitist, class-based fantasy rip-off of the Famous Five, Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden Chronicles kicks Potter in the head . . . sorry, ranting), I thought Avatar was beautiful to look at but sucked as a story (come on, let's be honest, <em>unobtanium</em>, what the hell, was it trying to be a Flash Gordon serial in the 1930's? . . . all the millions Cameron spent on his 3D experiment, would it have killed him to fork out $10 for a legal pad and a pencil and write a decent script . . . and don't get me started on Sam Worthington, what a black hole of talent . . . sorry again, sorry, another rant).<br />
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You see, I get emotional about these things. So occasionally I will drop in a little snippet of my opinions, but I will try to keep them in check.<br />
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That's the kind of guy I am.<br />
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So while I sip my last martini for the evening, I'll say goodnight and goodbye 'til next we meet. When you're this way again, join us here at the Starlight Ballroom and Grill where the girls are free but the drinks are not. Don't forget to tip your waitress and next time . . . try the veal.<br />
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Signing off<br />
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Peter C.Apathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-7368925563202599602011-02-12T16:36:00.000-08:002011-02-12T16:36:50.585-08:00Sumerian DBA in 28mmI am fascinated by the rise of cultures and their collapse. Lessons can be learned, as they can with all history, but none more so than in the ways in which humans find a civilising place in their environment, and the many ways in which they can screw it up.<br />
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The later Roman Empire always held this fascination, less for any sudden collapse, but more for the way in which it slowly meandered off to the side, to be replaced by yet another group of humans looking for their place in the world.<br />
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</tbody></table>The Sumerian city-states didn't seem to have the time to meander anywhere. Their collapses and defeats were quick and decisive, and seemed to follow the Dynastic Rule of Three: the first <em>lugal</em> (<em>lugal =</em> big man, king) established a city (like Ur or Lagash) and its control over the surrounding area, the next <em>lugal</em> (usually a son) held and expanded the territory (at the expense of other cities), and finally a last <em>lugal</em> (again a descendant of the first man) lost the lot.<br />
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This continual rise and fall was the product of an agrarian civilisation: agriculture led to surplus, which led to taxes to establish urban growth and organisation, which required a defensive system to protect this way of life from other aggressive city-states, under the control of the <em>lugal</em>, the priest-king, men with names like Gilgamesh, Lugalbanda the shepherd, Dumuzi the fisherman, and Lugalkidul.<br />
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This protection was made up of close-formation infantry, skirmishers and battle wagons. It was a system that would last for nearly four thousand years.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unknown<em> lugal</em> from the Ur stelae</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>The best quick read for the history of the period is Susan Wise Bauer's History of the Ancient World, a no-nonsense coverage of the known information based on up-to-date research and historiography, with the bonus of not having to wade through tons of historical speculation. It simply tells it as it appears to be. It also covers available histories concerning areas usually avoided by western scholars, like China and the East. By no means exhaustive or particularly deep, but the sort of history I wish I had in high school to set things into perspective.<br />
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Back to the Sumerians.<br />
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</div>Infantry made up the bulk of the armed forces taking part in this never-ending round of rises and falls. Long leather, bronze or copper studded cloaks, sheepskin or leather kilts and bronze or copper helmets were worn by the massed spears of these armies. The troops were armed with a long spear that appeared to be carried in two hands, indicating some length.<br />
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</tbody></table>Other troops included loose formation infantry, either axe or spear armed, with apparently no armour.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Assembled forces of Sumerian lugal - by the great Angus McBride</td></tr>
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The Sumerian military system finally collapsed when it was confronted by stronger and more innovative attackers. The Akkadians, under Sargon I, and subsequent kings would eventually bring the Sumerian kingdoms under their control, only to lose them again with the rise of Third Dynasty of Ur, the kings of which used Akkadian mercenaries to bolster their forces. Sumer, however, would lose to the Babylonians, and would never again return to its former power.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">17th Fires Brigade, US Army, ziggurat of Ur, May 18th 2010</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Other feet now tread upon the remains of Uruk, Lagash, Kish and Ur. <br />
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I met a traveller from an antique land<br />
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone<br />
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,<br />
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown<br />
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command<br />
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read<br />
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,<br />
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.<br />
And on the pedestal these words appear:<br />
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:<br />
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'<br />
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay<br />
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,<br />
The lone and level sands stretch far away". <br />
- Percy Bysshe Shelley<br />
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A cautionary tale.<br />
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Hope you enjoyed<br />
PCApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-7709662810836131972011-01-27T01:41:00.000-08:002011-01-27T01:41:36.471-08:00French and Indian WarsJust thought I would throw some historical into the mix. These pics are from the collection of Gavin Akers depicting troops of the French and Indian Wars, taken during a skirmish fight played several years ago, soon after the figures were finished. Gavin did the basing.<br />
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Cheers<br />
PCApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-91983218757365079182011-01-23T00:18:00.000-08:002011-01-23T04:46:24.865-08:00Orky HardwareThere is something about Orks. Nasty, dirty, vicious little bastards. But you gotta love them.<br />
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Better shot of the armature.<br />
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This piece was a combination of the old Epicast Spleen Ripper body, GW chassis and partial gun barrel, and two FW side sponson machine gunners.<br />
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This is the FW Ork Kil Krusha and a complex little monkey it is too. What you see is not all you get. The back is open for some beautiful interior detail. Painting it was a chore but very satisfying, as it had to be painted in separate sections (not easy to do). It was, however, immensely satisfying to see it all fall into place. It isn't truly awe-inspiring until it is all together. And the pieces fit together with the least amount of fuss and juggling, surprising considering how complex it was. Part of CBW's Collection.<br />
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Back view, with the master gunner pondering his fate inspired by his pet squig, while a powder monkey ejects a casing. This pic does not do the interior justice.<br />
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A small squadron of FW Grot Tanks. Interchangeable grots, track mountings, turrets and weapons systems allow for a huge amount of variation in the vehicles.<br />
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I like this piece. Also in CBW's collection, it is one nasty hunk of machinery, constructed from the GW kit without any additions or kit-bashing. Doesn't need it. <br />
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Another Killa Kan straight from the box, a suitably scarred vehicle.<br />
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Organisation is based on the old Roman maniple, or unit of five. An operation team can be of any multiple of five, lending a degree of flexibility, and harking back to the times of severe depletion of manpower when units could sometimes consist of only two or three surviving Marines.<br />
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I think it helps with fantasy units and figures to have a bit of backstory, in order to inspire my modelling and to give the figures a solid foundation. The units then retain a degree of "reality" within their own universe. Probably a throwback to my background in film and theatre writing, but it seems to work.<br />
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The animals we have as symbols in Australia are the kangaroo and the emu, both on our coat of arms . . . and both found in our restaurants. Food for thought . . .<br />
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Peter C.Apathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-62117841896889574942011-01-07T21:51:00.000-08:002011-01-07T21:51:08.317-08:00Gargant: an Epic Man Against Machine Story - Part 2.Okay, so all the preliminary stuff was done.<br />
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The casing, or bottom section of the gargant was suitably beaten up and reworked to resemble a battle-hardened war-machine. I placed as much battle damage on this bottom piece as I thought the Gargant could aesthetically bear. My idea was that this was the spot that would receive most damage as the Gargant crashed through buildings and fortifications, and took weapons fire. Higher sections would consequently take less damage and have a cleaner aspect.<br />
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The casing was given a black base coat in preparation. I tend to use brushes more than anything else. I don't own an airbrush. They worry me. I don't seem to be able to get the damn things to work properly, and they tend to spit at me. I may come to terms with air-brushing eventually, but at the moment we agree to disagree.<br />
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So, out comes the No.8's. A massive dry-brush ensued, with several layers defining the details, and reminding me what had been added. There was a fair amount of detail, especially at the back, which had received two additional constructs, but more of that anon. <br />
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Then areas were masked in a rough checkerboard pattern, and several pale tones, based on black, tan and increasing amounts of white, were applied leading to an off-white highlight. Don't forget, this is a big piece, so colour will cover a larger area and therefore stand out, especially white against black. Having brilliant white would be a little stark.<br />
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This shows the base of the Gargant almost completed. As you can see, too big for the light box. There are better pics so be patient. The feet are attached, the huge phallic cannon is in place, and you might just make out the honking great chainsaw armature jutting out from the side. This is one of the surprises I mentioned in Part 1. <br />
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I just felt the casing was a little barren in front and though it had firepower in the cannon, needed something that could cause a real mess of any opposition close-up. Imagine a Lumberjack Special hurtling towards your specially commissioned command Rhino. That would put the wind up anybody.<br />
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This pic gives a pretty good idea of the paint job. The checkerboard pattern slowly disappeared under the weight of rust, dirt and smoking ruin, becoming more symbolic than defining. The plates were given different colours in some cases, to emphasise the salvaged and repaired nature of the Ork philosophy. For example one shows part of an imperial eagle. Can only imagine what that may have been ripped off.<br />
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The feet having some colour stand out a little, like the Gargant is wearing it's best sneakers. They had been painted nearly two years before I did this whole process, but they proved too pristine and so I beat them up a bit and made them a little more deadly. I thought of having impaled bodies on the spikes, but that may be gilding the lily. Leave them wanting more, I say.<br />
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The chainsaw is built straight from the box, being a part of GW's plastic Gargant. Nice and nasty.<br />
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A word about rust. Some may say that I have gone overboard with the application of rust, obscuring what would otherwise be spaces for beautiful Ork graffiti and other scintillating objet d'arts. To them I say, fie on you. I'm kicking this pig, go get your own gargant.<br />
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The base colour for the rust was Model Master's Rust, with the addition of yellow and white for highlights, and Tamiya XF-8 Flat Blue for shadow.<br />
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The cannon was enhanced with more bits from the GW plastic Gargant as well as two Forgeworld resin gretchin. Not much to say about this, it's an extremely overbearing lump of firepower, and protruding from the beast's belly as it does, leaves little to the imagination.<br />
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At the back I wanted something a little more business-like, more domestic. In my mind this is where the garbage bins are kept. So we see the back door, with a steam powered mechanical something next to it, probably to open the big sliding back doors that have the yellow and black stripes painted on them. <br />
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Jutting out from the back is the verandah, or back porch, made from a large piece of flooring again from the GW Gargant, and for the wall a section cut down from the GW resin barricades, with three heavy weapons added from the Forgeworld Ork weapons pack.<br />
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And on the other side is a small gretchin turret, taken from the GW plastic Ork truck. Basically when the porch was test-fitted, I realised that there was a huge empty space and the whole thing felt out of balance. So yet again I, the intrepid miniaturist armed only with an Exacto and a dream, attacked a defenceless plastic toy and denuded it of all dignity.<br />
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Don't care, looks great.<br />
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And that is that to date. The next piece of casing (the next level) will include window treatments, interior decoration and a crashed land speeder - maybe.<br />
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Stay tuned, boys and girls. Best is yet to come.<br />
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Cheers<br />
Peter C.<br />
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PS. Encore again. Love this piece. Another for Mr.Pearson and apparently a favourite of us both.<br />
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In all things, humour. Else what is it all for.<br />
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PCApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-1390514611805497052011-01-06T21:29:00.000-08:002011-04-09T21:36:37.680-07:00The Beauty of FlightFound this piece of footage on YouTube. The birds are A4 Skyhawks with the RNZAF, originally with the RAN Fleet Air Arm, 805 and 724 squadrons. My father commanded both these squadrons at various times during the late 60's and early 70's out of RANAS Albatros near Nowra, and off the HMAS Melbourne.<br />
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These particular aircraft were later sold to the RNZAF. This footage shows them as aerobatic aircraft, a subsidiary role to their roles as front-line fighter-bombers. My dad had started the team in Nowra in the early 60's, using these aircraft and performing many of the sequences shown in the clip. The team was called the "Ramjets".<br />
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The interesting thing about this aerobatic role is that although the Skyhawk was also used by the US Blue Angels aerobatic team, the US team used modified Skyhawks built especially for aerobatics. Neither the Australians nor the New Zealanders modified their aircraft.<br />
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This pic is of my father and the men of 805 in 1973.<br />
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And not to leave out my mum, back row, second from the right, HMAS Cerberus, about 1955.<br />
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Peter C.Apathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-19826760572227422782011-01-06T01:53:00.000-08:002011-01-06T01:53:28.311-08:00Gargant: an Epic Man Against Machine Story - Part 1.You might have noticed the Work in Progress (WIP) List over there somewhere to the left. And you may have noticed the entry concerning the Armorcast Great Gargant. <br />
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This little piece of kit belongs to my friend , Anthony Pearson, and he gave it to me several years ago now, to build, convert, individualise and otherwise pretty up, as a remarkably devastating WMD in his Ork army.<br />
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So, you ask, Mr. Clever Pants, why have you not completed this task? Because it scares three kinds of bodily fluids out of me.<br />
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Firstly, the size: this beast is HUGE, I mean mega-big. And although it is made of resin, it is heavy. So lifting and holding while painting is prohibitive.<br />
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Secondly, how do you take something that is actually quite expensive and only available occasionally on Ebay, and have the temerity, nay, the BRASS, to drill, cut, saw and mutilate the casing, then add a variety of bits, pieces and such-like, as well as obscuring much of the piece with shattered plates and battle damage, Green Stuff modelled laser blasts and heaps of rust?<br />
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And finally, by adding your own ideas and additions, are you detracting from the original design, or do you have a responsibilty to make your own mark on the piece?<br />
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While struggling with these moral dilemmas, resulting in deep therapy sessions, interviews with experienced and knowledgable men of letters, and constant, frantic, sometimes fruitless experimentation, Anthony kept looking at me with his puppy-dog eyes, and made me feel guilty.<br />
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So I said stuff it and got stuck in.<br />
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I don't have earlier pics of the piece pre-conversion, but this shows the original idea for a colour scheme, which I loathed with a passion. It also shows the beginnings of the battle damage, with plastic plating cut off the GW plastic Gargant kit, a Green Stuff laser blast above the square plate on the right, and extensive rust texturing, using various grades of sand and crushed talc, liberally applied with wood glue. The red tinge on the rust is from Forgeworld weathering powders. Thought it would work, eventually disappeared under the paintwork and weathering.<br />
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Here is more of the damage, with a peekhole cut out of the raw, trembling resin. A small section of the GW Gargant, a box with a gretchin inside, was glued into the hole and surrounded by plate.<br />
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And the back with more rust, a few plates, Forgeworld resin Ork glyphs and bits of mechanical detritus including a wall heater to demonstrate that nothing gets wasted when Ork mekkies get their hands on someone else's crap.<br />
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You will notice the three arches in the casing. I kit-bashed and painted the pieces that would eventually reside in these openings, the two feet and the giant phallic cannon, finishing them before the main casing. I like to do this if there is anything that I intend to add to a piece after major painting, be it shields, flags, or any equipment. By simply adding them when the major work on the main casing is done, I don't feel like I have done a massive job of work taking many days, only to now have to face fiddly pieces of detritus that tests my patience. I also seem to do a better job on them.<br />
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Funny that.<br />
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This is the right foot. Fire Dragon for comparison. Big, isn't it? Spiky bits courtesy of GW Gargant.<br />
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I don't have pics of the cannon separate from the casing, unfortunately. Anthony may, so bear with me.<br />
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The next Part will have pics of the almost complete bottom section, including the cannon and feet, and a couple of extra additions.<br />
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Y'all come back now, y'here?<br />
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Cheers<br />
Peter C.<br />
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PS. As always, I return for an encore. A smaller Armorcast Gargant, also owned by Anthony, also getting the treatment and waiting the brush after a black undercoat.<br />
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</div>The machine gun on the right shoulder gives an idea of scale. Still hefty, but a little less threatening.<br />
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PCApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-20050097503113099502011-01-04T18:20:00.000-08:002011-01-04T18:20:41.004-08:00Ants ArmiesCheck out this website. many Eldar, Ork and others I have painted over many years. Also showing the upcoming Dark Angels:<br />
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<a href="http://www.antsarmies.com.au/">http://www.antsarmies.com.au/</a><br />
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Cheers<br />
PCApathostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14613691636452774966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753779243578604842.post-11311385966837138552011-01-04T14:32:00.000-08:002011-01-04T14:32:55.608-08:00The Bashing of KitsI get a kick out of kit-bashing. I enjoy taking someone's idea for a figure and expanding on it, whether it be as simple as adding a couple of ammo pouches to a WH40K Imperial guardsman, or going to town and transforming a figure extensively.<br />
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Then some sharp black fatigues, and a Dragonforge base (my favourite, the Broken Wasteland Set).<br />
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And voila! a tough squad leader for a 10-man kill team.<br />
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Other examples:<br />
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