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FoW game
The Americans prepare to move.
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FoW game
Initial setup.
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FoW game
Shermans advance.
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FoW game
Stugs win this duel.
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FoW game
On Stug down. Would have been worse if we had blindly believed the armor ratings in the Army Builder list... I have to doublecheck why they were so blatantly wrong.
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Greek storage
The hoplites in a jar. Well, not a jar but an old Swedish army ammo box.
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Greek storage
Another view of my hoplite army in storage. The box bottom is lined with magnetic sheeting, which is almost good enough to hold figures based on metallic washers. Still wouldn't trust this for a car trip.
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Mr. Russia Competition
And here are the three contestants. On the left, Assault Group quickie, in the middle Black Tree quickie and on the right and old skool Black Tree model, all in glorious 28mm.
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Mr. Russia Competition
Closeup of the Assault Group mini. They actually come with bayonets attached, which is period accurate (the Russians gave bayonets to basically everybody, but very few scabbards or frogs), but unfortunately this guy lost his already in the blister.
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Mr. Russia Competition
Closeup of the Black Tree mini done in quickie style. I just blocked in the basic colors, drybrushed the metal slightly and then slapped Vallejo Sepia shade all over it. No attempt was made to include details like eyes or buttons.
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Dragons
Two white dragons, very old Grenadier figures. These came with a pseudo-viking handler, which I have misplaced somewhere.
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Mr. Russia Competition
Old skool Black Tree Russian I did years ago. This is the way I used to do basically every mini. Each color is washed and highlighted separately, the eyes and other small details are done even if not in too great detail. This level of detail takes me about an hour per figure done on batches of about 10 minis. The brown boots are probably incorrect, but there was huge variation in Russian equipment anyways and they could be civilian items.
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Mr. Russia Competition
No miniature review would be complete without a butt comparison. Let's face it, as the owner this is the side you usually wish to see on the table.
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Mr. Russia Competition
Another closeup of the quickie Assault Group mini. Limitations of the technique are most prevalent in the hair, I think.
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Mr. Russia Competition
Black Tree butts in line. The quickie mini is noticeably darker shade, but then again Russian uniform colors varied greatly.
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Agents
These are from Copplestone Future Wars line. Some of the guns are a bit weird but otherwise they make fine modern minis.
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Agents
My attempt at doing black in 3-color, using the Foundry paints. It's more like gray, if you ask me.
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Agents
If I was any good, I would have painted him up as Tommy Lee Jones. But I'm not so generic white male will have to do.
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Agents
I'm not really sure what I should have done to make them more black.
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Agents
The obligatory overhead view.
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Celtic storage
Here are my celts in storage, minus the cavalry component which is still exiled to the display cabinet in the living room.
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Dragons
The eyes didn't turn out too well.
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Dragons
As usual, I was pretty uninspired when I did this. These figures are way too easy to just slap one color on and wash...
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Dragons
Another frontal view.
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Dragons
Side view of the dragon.
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Westwood Tank Factory
Here's the Americans with magnets attached.
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Westwood Tank Factory
These are all Battlefront minis. I got them mostly because they are locally available, and because I don't have to pay postage, pretty much the same price as everything else.
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FoW game
The Germans are dug in.
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FoW game
Americans advance.
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