New Bush War Releases and Work in Progress

Hi all,

 

as promised, I´m starting with the updates on what I´ve been up to in the last few months.

I want to start by introducing some new models I sculpted not too long ago.

Brand New Sets

 

 

African Riflemen

 

 

 African Tribal Warriors

 

 

Released a while ago, but not presented here before: 

 

 African Insurgents with Support Weapons 

African Insurgenst with AK Skirmishing

You can get these new sets at my homepage here

 

Or click on the banner: 

 

 

Work in Progress for the next batch of Releases: 

 

 

Portuguese G3 Firing

 

 

 

African Army - MachineGunners

More is in the pipeline, but you´ll have to wait a little longer for more pictures ;)

Lots of painted Taliban

Interested?  Get some at  www.enfilade.de/catalog/Taliban

New Enfilade Figures - January 2018

New Enfilade Figures are available - right in time to still count as January-Releases ;)


For our African Wargamers, we now have Machete wielding African Insurgents, up to nothing good...

In Afghanistan, heavy fighting has taken its toll, so we need some casualties to display this bitter reality on your wargaming table...

And - maybe a bit untimely regarding current events - a new Set of Women Militia is available. This new set features support weapons:

The shop has also been properly re-stocked with other sets - however, due to a wrongly labeled mould our Portugese with AR10 set will not be available for a little while. We found the mistake, corrected it, but now they still need to be produced and sent here :)


As usual, hit the Picture below to go right to the webshop:

As they lay dead

Just a quickie today - finished three Insurgent Casualties today which will be part of the next batch of releases.

Taking the Shot!

And now the last figure of the set - the kneeling Rifleman. 

Again, massive improvement over the old figure as I didn´t have a good understanding of the pose when I worked on the first iteration of the set.

That´s it for the Insurgents.  But other pictures are in the pipeline already! Stay alert!

Babai is Back!

This guy was already a nice figure in the old set, but I think I managed to bring him to a new standard with some small tweaks and improvements.

 

This guy was inspiratio for the mini back in the day when the original was crafted: 

And again, the old set for comparison:

"What was that noise?" - Insurgent Rifleman

Here we are again with the second figure of the reworked Insurgent set.

 

Again, compare to the old figure - though it was one of the better candidates of the old set, there´s still a massive improvement with the new mini.

Tomorrow, I´ll show you the most impressive figure of the set: The Leader aka Babai!

"Scan the Horizon" - Insurgent RPG

Hey all,

As promised, it´s time to reveal some of my painting results throughout the next days. First, we´ll start with a batch of Insurgents.  These are from the renewed Insurgents set released in October.

 

If you´d like to compare with the old set... here:

  

Stay tuned for tomorrow to see the next painted mini from the set!

A quick glimpse onto my desk...

Hey folks,

I´ve been silent again for a while, mainly due to holidays. There´s a lot going on both in my regular job, on the figure front and I´ve recently spent some more hours playing PC than I did throughout most of the last months.

Figure wise, I´m preparing to release the new batch of miniatures that I´ve presented recently. I´m also trying to push ahead on the painting front, getting some more figures painted up for the shop.

During October I tried to mix in some Renaissance Warfare stuff again - this Blog is called Rifles and Muskets after all, as it was always my intention to dig into this era as well. I somehow never managed. Still, my very long term project of building as Muscotive Army for the 17th century has come ahead somwhat - I´ve produced a few custom 15mm models for that purpose, but I´m planning to purchase a sizeable force at Totentanz Miniatures sometime in the future. They´ve recently released very nice Cossacks both foot and mounted that are fabulous for my purposes.

 You can see my current progress if you look closely, the infantry bases will finish my first regiment (yay) and the cavalry is the first step towards a mounted unit.

In the foreground, my figures being painted up for the shop.
As you can see, I´ve made good progress throughout the last week. As soon as I have a large enough batch prepared, I´ll start a photo session.  You´ll get to see each of these miniatures in detail, I plan to take pictures of every one of them, maybe even reviving the idea of a mini-related christmas calendar?

We´ll see how my productivity keeps up and if I´ll be able to pull that off!
Stay tuned for more. :)

"Watch your Step" - IEDs!

These devices were in the pipeline to get rebased on thin, synthetic cork bases. They are very early designs, left over from an age where I wasn´t as adept in painting and modelling.

To rebase them, I essentially rebuilt them completely. It´s very simple to create these IED-markers from scrap. Take some plastic sprues (preferably round pieces), cut them down to the right size and glue them onto the base. If you have thin wire, you can use them to further enhance the model.

Here I chose to paint them green, like discarded artillery munitions, but you can probably use all sorts of colors to create piles of junk where explosives might be hidden using the same building blocks cut from leftover sprues.

I painted the wires blue and red for an extra eye catching effect. The rest of the piece is created using the usual basing techniques.

Tomorrow,  I´ll show you more terrain.

Suspect Individuals

Here we go with the next minis which I actually finished last week. Again, these were long time residents on my rack of to-do figures which I picked up and finished rather quickly.

These shady individuals will make a nice addition to my Afghan Insurgents or Civilian groups, creating all kinds of confusion on the battlefield.

Painting-wise, I´m not too happy about the skirt on the right figure, I certainly overdid the contrast and created an almost metallic look with too hard edges. I tried to fix it several times and finally fed up with it and left him be.  It will probably not hurt too much when looked at from a tabletop. distance.

Tomorrow, I shall reveal what these two have been up to...

African Rebels & Women Militia

After a long time without an update here, I´ve got another set of pictures for soon to be released models.

As part of a commission, I´m currently working on another set of three Women Militia fighters. The first batch of two sets with 7 figures will be released when these are produced. The entire commission is planned to be around 20 figures strong, but the buildup will be very slow as the customer wants to pay them bit by bit and I need space in the production moulds for other figures,  The sets will be publicly available when released, which keeps the cost down for the commissioner and still makes it worthwhile for me.

 The third model is almost ready, I´m sure a photo will appear in very short time :)

Furterhmore, I have prepared a replacement for the very old  African Insurgents with Kalashnikovs.
The old set was among the very first that I produced - I´m hoping that more people use them as Opfor now that they have proper models with a nicer look.

Both sets are probably coming Late October or Early November!

Old and New - Replacing Old Minis

Hey folks,

small update in between to show off some new sculpts.
These two are built to replace two very old and dissatisfactory models in one of my Insurgent sets:

I tried to keep the poses very similar to the originals, but I changed the arm on the RPG-gunner, hoping to improve castability without having his arm cut off.

Going into the remoulded set of INS-04, which has to be moved to a new mold anyway.
These include the original figures.
If you can find the models that are being replaced, you win nothing but will feel great ;P

Mai Releases at Enfilade Figures

Hi folks,

after a very long period of silence, I am finally able to present some new products at Enfilade Figures:

Cold War Bundeswehr Panzergrenadiere

Modern German Commandos 
 

Modern British Infantry

 Russian Support Weapons

African Irregulars with SKS

Taliban PKM MG-Gunners

Click on the pictures to get to the right category, the banner above to get to the main page or take the plain old link: www.enfilade-figures.com 

"In the tight spot" - Part II - Code Red Ambush Scenario

After getting stuck in a vicious ambush, the battle hangs in the balance. US Forces have taken casualties and are creeping ever closer towards exceeding their threshold for defeat, but have now taken up positions to launch their counterattack in the south.

"In the tight spot" - Part I - Code Red Ambush Scenario

Last saturday I had the opportunity to set up a scenario at our monthly gaming day. As usual, I used the opportunity to playtest some aspects of the game.
This time around, my intention was to test a potential scenario setup that had hence been tested just once. The scenario was set up with the help of the scenario generation procedure I devised for the rules.

More on this might be discussed in a separate dev diary as soon as my thoughts have matured and undergone more testing. 

The US force of two infantry squads in Stryker ICVs plus attached MG and command team found themselves surrounded on their patrol route through Resistobynsk, a troublesome hotspot somewhere in Eastern Europe...

"Waiting Game" - Taliban PKM Gunner

And I´m back with a more regular schedule on my blog. The next batch of stuff is ready for presentation, so I´ll be feeding you with some more pictures throughout the next few days.

Starting today with a new Taliban, utilising a resource that his western foes with all their timetables, budget constraints and pressure by internal politics are lacking:  Patience.

Stay tuned for new stuff tomorrow!

"They´re on the left flank!" - Insurgents with AK

And another set that has been waiting to get painted for quite some time: Insurgent Small cell with AK:

www.enfilade-figures.com/shop-insurgents

"Get over here!" - Insurgent Leaders

Finally finished painting the new Insurgent Leaders from the last batch of releases:

"Wait for my Signal" - Insurgent Support Weapons

As promised a few days ago, I´ve now completed the last figure for the new Support Weapon set.

Now I´m currently working on the two more insurgent figures for the set containing three leaders... and new sculpts!