It's a Small World - the modelling thread.

[reiver33]

The figures are from ‘Flags of War’ and are clean castings with a lot of paintable detail (000 brush time) as opposed to some where it’s there but virtually inaccessible. You could probably have a go at painting the eyes, but these are only to a ‘wargames’ standard!

I’m still working on the Royal Ecossais and they’ll put in an appearance in due course.

 

[Toby Frost]

Space orks!

 

[reiver33]

More 28mm Jacobites - the Royal Ecossais. I had to take some liberties with the command stands as the pack as supplied (a) doesn’t feature a musician and the drummers I sourced from an alternative manufacturer turned out to noticeably smaller, (b) the ensign is in a kilt and I’m avoiding painting tartan for as long as possible, and (c) one of the standard bearers was in a bit of a flamboyant pose at odds with the ‘steady’ look I wanted.

Hence I’ve co-opted General Murray and a French general from the War of the Austrian Succession as regimental commanders. So sue me...

 

[Toby Frost]

They look great, especially as a unit. Do you play games with them?

 

[reiver33]

I’m painting these for a friend, for use with the ‘Black Powder’ set of rules. I’ve been wargaming for over 50 years, but painting has always been at least half the fun*.

*An elastic definition, which includes painting 112 pairs of 28mm Roman boots in one go...

 

[Toby Frost]

I'm much more a painter than a gamer these days - I used to play quite a bit of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, but I ended up feeling that it and 40,000 weren't really worth the effort. I do like painting the models, though, especially the older ones, and I've been wanting to try out some of the smaller skirmish games, especially Silver Bayonet and Stargrave.

 

[Pyan]

*An elastic definition, which includes painting 112 pairs of 28mm Roman boots in one go...

Oh, yes, *koff*, 26 3-pounder guns in 1/350 scale...

 

[Foxbat]

I picked up a PC game called Naval Art (only £12). It is essentially a 3D ship building programme. I bought it because I just don't have any space for models so I thought this might be a nice virtual alternative. Some folk have used it to build spacecraft so it appears to be fairly versatile.


You can, if you wish, film battle scenes using the models that you build but what I find really neat about this programme is that it can feed your design to a 3D printer (I don't have one but I can dream).

I've gone through the tutorial and I'm just about getting to grips with the basics. I think it will take months of learning and making mistakes to get anything good out of this so I have nothing to show right now.

I did a bit of searching and found a model of one of my favourite ships in the Steam Workshop.

I think this person has made a pretty good job of Chitose.

 

[Foxbat]

I decided to design and build my own battlecruiser.

I give you the William Wallace (still only partially built)

I'm not sure if I'll continue this experiment. It's totally infuriating. There is no manual and a slightly better than useless tutorial. Many of the features are undocumented and I've spent time searching the internet regularly for answers to my problems. I found hull formation quite difficult but I managed it eventually. I've even made a couple of hull sections and saved them as prebuilt modules for future use. The guns, masts etc. are also prebuilt modules that came with the software so, in that sense, I suppose it's no different to adding guns and masts on a plastic model. There are lots of modules available for download in the Steam workshop. But here's where it gets tricky. I needed to scale things like handrails and steps but, although you can scale simple shapes, you can't do more complex things (at least not within the software). After a lot of searching, I discovered that you could scale these but you have to manipulate the save file and rescale it there.

This software works to a degree but there shouldn't be the need to delve into file editing. I wonder, if I continue, how many other obstacles will appear. Still undecided.

 

[Toby Frost]

This is a scratch-built ork robot. I started it many years ago but I decided to finish it off and give it a repaint. Sticking on all the extra details was surprisingly fun.

 

[reiver33]

Pyrrhus and the lads, on holiday in Italy...

 

[Foxbat]

While perusing my way through Britmodeller.com I came across these shots of a 1:200 scale model of the Titanic. The modeller (superbly skilled in my opinion) built this as a commission. I did a bit of searching and the kit (excluding PE and figurines) comes in just shy of £400. Add all the other stuff including the builder's time and I shudder to think what the final cost was for the commision. It is truly a work of art.

 

[Toby Frost]

Wow!

 

[Ursa major]

Is his next commission going to be the iceberg?

 

[Rodders]

That is really beautiful.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

*Iceberg sold separately

 

[David Evil Overlord]

OW! I STEPPED ON A LEGO!

 

[reiver33]

Yet more 28mm AWI for a friend (he finishes the bases to match existing figures); 8th, 22nd and 43rd Foot.

 

[Pyan]

Excellent, even down to the pre-1800 Union Flags.

Just added this to the stash - it was discontinued years ago, but I found one online in Australia, of all places:

 

[reiver33]

The flags are GMB, who do a great range.

The only ship model I have is the Prinz Eugen, to be placed, unobtrusively, across the room on a shelf until I call in off-table naval gunfire support for a Flames of War scenario set in East Prussia...