What Are You Painting Now?

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(Draft for an RPG.net review)

What’s future-retro and full of rust? Why, it’s Tiny Furniture’s “Junk cart”. This post-apoc miniature has the back half of a 1950’s car (maybe an Edsel?) and two construction beams to pull it around. Perfect for a game of Fallout or any other post-apocalyptic game. The deck lid of the trunk has been removed, and a big pile of retro-future junk is there, too. This is a multi-piece miniature, with a removable junk pile so you can have an empty junk cart, or put something else in it. Thematically, you will probably want the car and junk rusted, which would make the miniature best for intermediate painters. Beginning painters, of course, can easily paint this miniature, if they prefer to give it a brown wash instead of rust effects. The miniature has pretty much no mold lines, and assembly is easy. Both unpainted and painted versions are available.

The miniature has multiple pieces: two construction beams that serve as handles, the back half of a 1950’s car that serves as the back of the car, two different pairs of tires (you only need one for the cart, so the other two can be used as junk or attached to the handles), and a removable block of various retro pieces of junk. The block of junk can be turned around. The junk pile junk are, from most noticeable to details : a car door, a tire, a suitcase, a gas can, some gas cylinders, a futuristic case, wooden chests, and some bottles. That’s a lot of detail, all of it future-retro-istic. The pieces fit together easily. In the pictures, I just use putty.

WIP and Review :
TF : https://tiny-furniture.com/products/junk-cart

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2 more minis finsihed.  See my project for better pics

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Another set of Kingdom Death survivors finished. Full project entry here: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1467945/

 

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We’ve got a spammer her @tgu3 @nakchak

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(Rough draft for a review on RPG.net. More Tiny Furniture Reviews : https://www.rpg.net/reviews/search-review.phtml?productCompany=tiny+furniture&orderby=category&showinfo=publisher

Tiny Furniture’s “Guillotine” is a multi-piece set, including guillotine, basked, and unfortunate man’s head. The miniature may be purchased by itself, or as part of Tiny Furniture’s “The Execution Day” set, which includes “1) Gallows and Scaffold, 2) Executioner axe and chopping block, 3) Guillotine, 4) Pillory, 5) Torturer”. Both the “Guillotine” and “The Execution Day” miniatures may be purchased unpainted or painted.

Like Tiny Furniture’s other miniatures, their guillotine miniature has great details, even having a rope and tie down the side, pulley atop the blade, and various metal fasteners. The platform, where the victim would be lain down, is a single piece, rather than hollow, making it less likely to break apart. Assembly is pretty easy. You can even use putty (with superglue) to put the miniature together, if you wish to take it apart after play for safer storage.

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Recently I’ve been working to finally finish my DAK force (28mm Warlord – Bolt Action) from the not-so-recent boot camp.

Infantry and artillery:

 

Officers and MG-34s in platoon/squad support role (bipods).  Radio man has yellow shoulderboard piping for signals troops.  Rest are white for infantry.  Brown cuffbands approximate DAK (wasn’t going for a specific sub-unit).

Kfz-69 / Horch 1A staff car

This SdKfz-231/8 armored car took a lot of damage when my painting table collapsed about a year ago.  Tried to put her back together, re-primer, re-base color … lost some detail but tried to make the most of it.  Markings are for 15th Panzer Division (33. Panzer Aufsklärungsabteilung, presumably).

Opel “Blitz” trucks.  Markings are for 21st Panzer Division, generic motorized infantry on the medic truck, and 90th Light Division.

 

Experimented with putting transfers on the wooden plank sides of the trucks.

Officers try to keep control of the chaos.

Last look for the whole force at once.

 

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So this weekend, I just did some painting. Nothing fancy, no electronics or flashing lights or moving motors. Just straight up painting. This little fella was to go with a Jabba the Hutt I painted a few months ago, when I first discovered contrast paints.

I haven’t yet made the throne (though I do have the arm rail currently printing, and some gargoyle faces to go on the front, for when I have sculpted something out of foam) but already he looks at home on top of my wet palette.

So I got to thinking – wouldn’t it be cool to make a Jabba’s Palace diorama?

I don’t have any Star Wars legion minis – and I’m a bit far into this 3d printing lark to justify spending tens, if not hundreds of quids on plastic minis (my wife would kill me if she caught me buying minis after the amount of time and money I’ve spent resin printing!). But I did find some interesting characters; and all for free.

This mini is actually a 1:12 scale model, scaled down. I don’t think it’s anywhere near as nice as a “proper” 32mm version. But it’ll do for painting practice…

If you’ve going to have a Jabba’s Palace, you’ve got to have an Oola, dancing for him, right?

And Boba Fett watching on from a dark corner somewhere. (yes, I know, I dropped him and broke his gun off – it’ll get fixed, promise!)

And the gratuitous Lloyd Shot, of course. But wait…. what’s that in the background?

These bad boys are next in my painting queue! I can’t decide whether to base the characters, and place them into the diorama after it’s built, or glue them in as a permanent display piece. After all, even if I *did* play Star Wars Legion, I’m not sure there’d be much use having Sy Snootles on your team, would there?!

 

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The Oola looks wrong… the actress (and her daughter who did double as her mother in the special edition extended dance scene) are much more… how to you say it? Fragile? Nimble? Tiny?

Other than that I’ll add “buying a 3D printer prevents you from buying proper minis when the mrs sees it” to the list of “why not to buy a 3D printer” 😉

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@sundancer –  I agree. I understand the argument that a lot of sculptors make about their female proportions. But there’s got to be another way of making a figure look feminine at arms length and one inch high than just sticking a massive pair of knockers on it! I’m pretty confident in slicing models up in Blender (and after this weekend, even at rigging and reposing a model, as I did with Max Rebo) but resculpting them it just a bit beyond my “hack and slash” skills right now!

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my Cygnar army gets some added firepower with a Storm Strider finally finished

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I have now finished my Iraqi Army armor force for upcoming games / content on the 1991 Gulf War (15mm Battlefront, various sets from Team Yankee and Fate of a Nation).

Next up, Infantry! (ugh …)  I have a box of 140+ 15mm Soviet Cold War infantry I’ll be working on … half of this will be painted as 1991 Iraqi  Army infantry (plenty for this project), the rest will stay as Soviets for various Cold War games in the future.

Emergency Miniature Work – 15mm USMC Super Cobra

First platoon of T-55s I had to do the best I could with T-54s from the Syrian “Fate of a Nation” set. Note the unit markings on the bore evacuators. Apparently that’s where the Iraqis put them (various yellows, greens, browns, sometimes with white stripes). Also added antennae.

 

A platoon of five BTR-60 infantry carriers. Drilled small holes for the antennae.

 

Second platoon of tanks. These were kit-bashed into an approximation of Type 59 Type IIs. These were Chinese knock-offs of T-55s … but then subsequently upgraded with L7 105mm rifles and rudimentary laser range finders. So an upgrade of a knockoff? Yeah, weird. But those L7s made them pretty dangerous in 1991.

 

Second platoon of T-55s. Note these have side skirts, the others did not. Wartime photos show plenty of 1991 Iraqi T-55s with both configurations, some with … some without.

 

The Iraqi Army had plenty of ZSU-23-4 Shilka SPAAGs in 1991. However, I doubt many of these would be left when then the ground war actually started on 24 February 1991. Nevertheless I have two of them here just in case their USMC opponents will get cute with their AH-1 Cobras and AV-8B Harriers (or hell, F/A-18 Hornets).

 

The whole Iraqi force.  Next up … Infantry!

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Painted up as a WW1 pilot of the Royal Flying Corps, he could be used in several different games. But I plan on using him as the objective in the Downed Pilot scenario of Blood and Valor by Firelock Games.
Figure by Pulp Figures.

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Would you believe… Medieval toilets? ~8)

(Rough draft for an RPG.net review. More more Tiny Funiture reviews, see : https://www.rpg.net/reviews/search-review.phtml?productCompany=tiny+furniture&orderby=category&showinfo=publisher

Tiny Furniture’s “Medieval Castle Toilets” is a three-piece resin miniatures set, consisting of a one-piece stone toilet, and a two-piece wooden toilet with a cover. (If you want a fancier chamberpot, look at the Noble’s Bedroom.) Tiny Furniture miniatures have an incredible level of detail, and these miniatures are no exception. The wood has wood grain throughout, visible at at tabletop distance. The cover of the wood toilet fits just fine. You can distinguish the individual stones, as well as see the texture. You could also use the wood toilet as a small tub, but that might be a little gross. Although these are based on castle toilets, they can be used in any wooden structure, such as an inn, or stone one. The miniature comes in both an unpainted and painted version. Tiny Furniture also sells an outhouse.

Tiny Furniture catalog : https://tiny-furniture.com/products/search?sort=0&balance=&categoryId=&min_cost=&max_cost=&page=1&text=toilet

WIP and review on Reaper : https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/93121-tiny-furnitures-medieval-castle-toilets/

 

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Another batch of Kingdom Death Monster survivors. This time with Screaming Antelope Armour. Full project entry here: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1467945/

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