British Patrol

After a long break, I´ve finally returned to finishing some British Troopers for my Cold War Setup.

These have been painted recently, using all the new tricks and shortcuts I´ve acquired in recent months - rather quick paintjobs in fact, painting 7 or 8 minis within a few hours.

So the result is not suuper tight, but good enough for the scale.

Hope you like it - more (and better) stuff is coming up soon before I´ll disappear in silence again while being away from home for a holiday break.

French and Germans painted

I recently painted some French and German  Infantry (Enfilade Figures DEU-03 and FRA-01) on commission.  These pics are also on the website, but in case you´re not actively following every change there, I want to share them here as well... ;)


French Infantry Squad in Woodland Pattern (CE)

German Commandos with G36k in Arid Desert Camo (Tropentarn)

Sorry for the rather dark pictures :(

A refreshing Dose of Mutagen

Hi all,

another small update, a nice sideproject that came up almost by chance.
My best friend was over at my place again and he brought some of his old Rackham / Confrontation Miniatures over to play a small scenario.

Before playing we decided to pimp some of the old models and bring them to a better painting standard. A challenge was issued along the line:
"if you can make that mini look good again within the next 1-2 hours just go ahead"
...
and of course I could not resist this speed painting project.

So I grabbed the airbrush and started priming, basecoating, shading and adding highlights with the brush until I had this result within about 2 hours:

I would have added some more funky base clutter, but my friend insisted to keep the base plain, so I just painted on a pseudo desert-floor as a compromise.

Considering the very limited time for this project, I am super happy with the outcome!

All in all, a very fun project - I should do these time-limit projects more often, they force me to really break things down to the raw core.


Unfortunately, the Warrior was ultimately killed in the ensuing Skirmish, but not before he had taken down one of the opposing figures in a lopsided fight with the odds stacked against him, so Job well done!

Another Contractor and the Dictator

Number two of the Personal Protection Detail  and a very rare picture of our VIP, hardly to be seen in the public these days, constantly in fear of abduction or assassination...

Private Protection Detail - Military Contractor Preview

As announced, the resculpting of old sets continues. After almost finishing the new Africans with Battle Rifles (photo turned out crappy so I didn´t upload it) I have reworked the Set containing the African Dictator / General and his protection detail.

Actually, the name is not really that fitting - you might call it VIP with Personal Protection as well.
So, here is the first foreign mercenary hired to protect my VIP:

As you can see, he is also suitable for other theatres and might even be doubling for a CIA operator or SpecOp Operator in light gear.

Very versatile figure, and I hope the set will be more sought after when the rework is done.

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

French CE Pattern

Today I took some time to paint the first half of my new French Infantry Squad.
The chosen camo scheme was French Central Europe (CE) pattern painted with:
VJ Iraqi Sand
VJ Ivory
VJ Black Grey
VJ Dark Sea Grey
VJ Tan Yellow
VJ Dark Flesh
VJ Russian Uniform Green
VJ Light Brown
GW / Citadel Graveyard Earth  (you can also use VJ US Field Drab, pretty similar)
 and a tiny drop of GW Agrax Earthshade and Reikland Fleshtone

Here´s the preliminary result so far:

I also took the pic to see the imperfections, which are sometimes very hard to spot on the mini - easier to see on the magnified picture. Might have to touch up the faces somewhat. :)

But so far so good I think.