Monday, 29 April 2013

Brothers of the Broken Sword!

Hoi,

An unusual subject for today's update I might say. I have finally found time to paint up some of the GW Deathwing Terminators I have lying around.
Among the terminator mini's awaiting paintjobs are some old white metal Deathwing in need of re-basing, some newer plastic termies with Thunderhammer and shields and even the new Dark Vengeance Terminator squad.

This finished squad has powerclaws and looks quite fearsome, if I say so myself. As always it was a pain to paint the white terminator armour, I think that for the next squad I am going try out the olive-coloured basecoates that are so popular at the moment.

Anyway here they are: For the Emperor and the Lion!





Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Overture 1812" by Daniel Baremboim

Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Rocroi

Hoi,

As I have said often before: I am not very fond of commissions, yet now and again I find myself painting figures for other people. The figures below were in my collection a long time until I finally realised I was not going to use them having sold most of my 30 YW figures. Therefore I have now painted them up as Spanish for Uwe's great Rocroi diorama. They should be accompanied by some more pikemen when I have time to paint them up.



Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Uno" by Green Day

Friday, 19 April 2013

Black Lancers

Hoi,

A long time nu update, this is due to the fact that real life sometimes creeps up on you and demands more of your attention and time then you want to spent on it. But hey, I guess that's life right?
That said, I did find a little time to finish up some more loose ends on the painting desk. Here's one of them: the HäT Brunswick Lancers.

They hail from a mixed boxset of Brunswick cavalry including 3 lancers and 9 hussars. I have painted up the 3 lancers of the set and combined them with a testshot figure from an earlier sprue to make this 4 man unit.




The uniforms came from this brilliant site.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Prison of Desire" by After Forever

Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Vehicle showcase: Rolls Royce Armoured cars

Hoi,

Yet another instalment in the vehicle showcase series brings you my resin Rolls Royce armoured cars. These are about my favourites. I have bought two at the Crisis in Antwerp two years ago and they painted up a treat. I painted one to resemble an European theatre car and the other in suitable colours for Africa or the Middle East.



















Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Fireball" by Deep Purple

Sunday, 31 March 2013

Happy Easter!

As the title says: Happy Easter Everybody!



Cheers Sander

Saturday, 30 March 2013

Colonial Cavalry testshots

Hoi,

After receiving the latest batch of HäT testshots (the Von Lettow Vorbeck sets and some colonial cavalry) I was very keen to get cracking and so finished these up double quick. Several of these chaps have separate arms so you can create quite a divers looking unit. Each sprue also includes 5 rider poses for every 4 horses. This is done to make a better officer- OR ratio. It also meant I had an extra trooper left. So I took out on of my Italeri Scott's Greys horses and made a little conversion...





And the conversion:





Cheers Sander

Listening to: "iUNO!" by Green Day

Thursday, 28 March 2013

Vehicle showcase: truck

Hoi,

Another part of the vehicle showcase series today and I bring you a plastic kit truck. The kit is an RPM 1/72 72402 Mack AC 'Bulldog' Type EHC. As this was going to be a wargames model, put on a base, and played with; I left all the fiddly details off and slapped it together as fast as possible. I have left the canvas hood separate so I can exchange the loads as needed for scenario's.







Cheers Sander

Listening to: "The Black Album" by Metallica