Pirate Lass!

Ahoy me maties!

Remember my Pirate Lass? Well she's finished now... She didn't quite turn out how I wanted at the beginning but is good enough for me as she is now. Her eyes will need re-doing and I will probably add some wash to her hair.

Here are the pics:

Listening to: "The Matrix, Soundtrack"

Great War Artillery Part IV

Well they are finished! Both crews and the gun and caisson have been finished today. I will give you some impressions here and I have sent more pictures to the HäT site where you can see more of them in some time.

Meanwhile here's some eye-candy!

French set:

American Set:

Cheerio Sander!

Listening to: "A Tribute to the 4 Horsemen" by several artists.

More Great War mini's!

Hoi

As I am posting pictures of figures I have painted way back in times when the weekends still offered some decent painting-time here are my German Gun crews and Heavy weapon figures. All HäT stuff of course!




Gun crew



The caisson. This will be the only one I will paint up as stationary. I will use the other 3 in the set with the horse team and limber when it comes available.




From left to right: minenwerfer, Maxim Heavy Machine Gun, Rifle-grenade launcher, Trench Grenade launcher.



Left: anti-tankgun and right: LMG team



The flamer team: I included a different hose between them but it is too thick. In the future I will seek out a better hose for the teams I still need to do.
Even more pictures of these German Heavies and the ALH have been sent to the HäT website http://www.hat.com/ so if I am lucky they will be up there soon!

Australian Light Horse

Hoi!

A few months ago (way back in the days of ample free-time) I re-painted my Australian Light Horse testshots from HäT. At first I had them painted in a sandy-khaki colour but after watching the movies "Gallipoli" and more importantly "Light Horsemen" I have re-done them in the more appropriate greenish-khaki. I also understand the bayonet charging pose better now, cheers Young Stan and all you ANZACS over there Down Under!

Well here are my renewed and based ALH.



Mounted poses.

Dismounted poses, there's also a horse-holder but since I have only one spare horse I am waiting to finish this one.
Some brilliant sites for reference:
http://www.awm.gov.au/units/ww1.asp
http://www.lighthorse.org.au/
http://www.grantsmilitaria.com/militariaphotos/gallery_default.asp?cmd=reset
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-equip/1915.htm


Listening to: "Industrial Silence" by Madrugada

Great War Artillery Part III

Hoi There!

As you can see here's a WIP picture of the (almost) finished French Artillery Drivers and riders. The hands need some highlighting and I am still thinking what to do with the eyes. Since these will feature in my wargames army I am considering to not paint them...



More updates are coming up...

Listening to: "Steal this Album" from System of a Down

Great War Artillery Part II

Well work is progressing steadily. I have begun painting the French limber riders and drivers and I have based the 'ground crews' and gun/ caisson as you can see below.




The above are pictures of the front and back of the French crew



And of course these photo's show the American (ANZAC in my case) artillery crews.






Last but certainly not least some shots of the Caisson and gun assembly. By now you will have noticed that although these figures are testshots, I have based them for wargaming. I used to put my painted test-figures onto specially made bases but since I have ran out of my supply and they take up loads of space in my cabinets I decided to use the figures in my wargames armies right away.


Keep watching this space for the painted figures!

Listening to: "Death Magnetic" the new Metallica album.

Great War Artillery Part I

During the Weekend I was able to prep some of the new HäT testshots I mentioned a while ago. The subjects involved are Late War Artillery sets for the USA and France. Both include a 75mm gun and caisson but my testshots only included one for the Americans. Funnily enough I will use my gun for the French as I will paint the American set up as Commonwealth troops and give them metal British guns.

here are the sets as I got them and after cleaning up.

The French set:



The American set (including the gun and caisson in a phase of semi-completion).

The top row of each photo shows the limber riders and train drivers. Each artillery set will include the appropriate riders and drivers but a separate set of limber and horse teams will be released later to save space and money. Top notch thinking from the guys and galls at HäT!

The bottom two rows are made up of the gun crews themselves as you can see. I am assured that the "nice" yellow colour of the French figures is only on the testshot sprue.

Here you can see the riders and drivers impaled and ready to receive the usual black basecoat:



More will follow soon!