Figure painting update

Two weeks ago I finished painting 115 Moro's for a commission.
Then I painted my remaining Obelisk and Pulp Chinese, they were a lot of fun to paint. Also finished 8 Egyptian diggers for archaeological games.  Next I painted a  TSATF 25 man unit of Chindits, a heavy weapon's unit of 2 mortars and 6 crew and 4 machine guns with support. Then I rebased the Pulp movie unit, based my 25 TSATF Gurkha (WW2) unit and another 2 mortars with crew; 12 misc. figures including Frankenstein's monster and the Creature from the Black Lagoon; 4 more Egyptian diggers; rebased my US Navy 1920s unit; and, based one of each of Tiger's new Sand Pebble Sailors.  I love these TAG Chindit/Gurkha figures, but I'm not sure how I'm going to use these, maybe fight some Tongs, I don't really want them to fight against the Japanese, maybe Malaysians if I can find the natives.  Tiger is working on Aceh natives for the Dutch Colonials to fight maybe I can use them.  At the Gurkha museum they had some really great displays and a couple of worthwhile autobiographies from the 1950/60s that were brilliant, sooo.

Mars/VSF/Aether scout boats

We got a bunch of these at Target for .99 each for four different ships, but only two different body types.
The first ship was a challenge for awhile, then I saw the possibilities that the bumps and protrusions could infact be painted to simulate propulsion systems or some such.  So all I did to change this was to cut out the orange life preserver on the front, cut a gun position with sliding overhead door, I glued a floor in for the gun to sit on and may add a black background piece.  Unfortunately there was only one of these ships, but got seven of the others just below.

The first thing I did was to pop the deck off of each ship, then cut off all protrusions from the body.  Then I made a templete for a wood deck to sit within the body.  I cut three wood decks, simulated decking and gave them an ink wash made with rubbing alcohol so it will dry fast and not warp the balsa.   I added a brass rod and a model plane prop to this one below.  I then tentatively put the deck in place.  I took the original deck housing and inserted a block of balsa for some heft then added the  white plasticard to give this new deck house some height.  I used 1/2 inch straight pins to hold the plasticard to the balsa and orange deck house, did not work out too great but OK enough.  I used a couple of Ramshackle armored hatches to provide some protection to the pilot.  The two plastic things in the bow represent a bollard to tie the ship ti a landing mast.  The gun on top is from Richard Houston- part of his alien gun collection, unfortunately no longer in production.  There is also a hatch and ladder not visible on the rear of the deck house.

This ship body below I cut down by an inch, just to make a different boat body, the gun is again a small alien gun by Houston, the protective shield is made from some piece from Ramshackle backed by thin plasticard that I tried to make look like it had rivets.  I used a Tandy leather pounce? wheel I got from Hobby Lobby.  It comes with three different punch distance wheels.  Running this across the card makes a dimple on the reverse side that looks just like a rivet.  I just need to make an open pilot house for this.

 This ship has a square deck house with armored view slits and hatch by Ramshackle.  I don't really care for this pilot house. I used grooved plasticard and L shaped edging by Evergreen, the edging was enhanced with the pounce wheel rivets.

New Photos

These recently finished projects needed some photos so I took some today along with the latest from Tiger.

This first photo is our 28mm hardsuit I modified with a scratch built backpack and flame thrower.  The suit is a slightly modified Belgian dive suit from the 20's.

This is my first model painted from the Old Glory Chicagoland Buildings.  The roof does fit very well but it is OK.  The interior has been painted and we are considering what to do with the building, I think it will turnout to be a print shop specializing in money in the back room.  I got the printing office from RLBPS's Frontline collection, should be a nice place for the cops to raid.

These two photos, exterior and interior, are 'a la' Grim's Plasticville structures.  This building is a converted firehouse for the local gang, where they brew booze and can hang-up and spread arms to torture good guys (that's the red thing on the left). Plastic scale lumber was used to board up windows on the street side. Sprue bits have been used to make electric and water connections. 

This is the latest from Tiger Miniatures, Pack Mule 04 - the left mule I think is random pack mule, but the right mule carries a machinegun.  The gun could be water cooled Browning or a Maxim.