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Ich war schon ganz verzückt. "Was, malen kann der auch?" 😁

Excellent. It's amazing what a bit of sun can do for the mood.

Nope, not this time. They gotta be done and ready for varnishing and decalling by the recipient for their birthday by next week.

The casts are identical, so of course I gotta make them look a bit different so they look like people.

Resin casts of what looks to be certainly hand-sculpted and certainly a while ago. Two parts, BIG old screw in the back of their helmets, metal mount for screwing them into their bodies at the bottom of the necks.

Usually a reason to break out the oils and have fun, right?

Sometimes, in between things I get to paint, I get to paint things which are a bit out of the ordinary for me. Here's two race driver dudes, 1/12th scale I suspect. They're for a Tamiya model car. Still very much WIP, apart from everything else, Mr.beardy's wonky eyes should give that away. :D

Good to see some Lard represented at Tactica!

I have vague memories of a proper fanzine (black/white, stapled) of this name (well, in German) or a very similar one at a model store back in the day :) Nothing to do with this magazine, but it triggered that memory.

Good to hear. 👍

Looking very cool. And there can't be anybody in the world who does not enjoy the look and idea of tiny little hinges.

Thanks very much!

cheers! :)

Heyhey, here's the Light infantry of Barcelona! All plastic (except for one drummer and the colour sergeant); Spanish line with some looted French gear. What a fun unit.:) Hope you like them! #wargaming #miniaturepainting #miniatures #napoleonic #wargames

In general and for 15mm i would say go larger. My smallest ones iirc are on large FoW squad bases.

Oh yeah, even just civilian spotters should work nicely for insurgents I suppose( you could even make it a scenario thing for the US player not to know which one's a JOP!).

Oh yes, that's a good one. (IIRC the Lardies sold resin ones themselves, right?

Last summer I was handed the Warlord/Italeri "battlefield accessories" kit to make things of it. Also very useful for JOPs (as simple stuff as sign posts will work.

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Cheers!

If I just wasn't so horribly lazy about JOPs in 28mm. :D Or for Sharp Practice.

For Normandy: supplies, little hut, forward observation position

For the Italians: Field HQ with lunch table, blown-up tank.

Large enough to see on the table, doesn't fall over, isn't harboring a colony of toxic spiders.

I made a few in 15mm a while ago. Random truck, officer talking to bedouin as troopers pose with camel, blown-up tank with officer next to it who encourages men to go to battle.

Anything will do.

Oh, that is snazzy.

The whole process of a hand-scupted figure cast in metal is magic.

A digitally designed figure I don't think will ever have that. Yes, they are very sharp and precise (but so is a really well made cast), but they very often lack texture or organic-ness. It's just different.

Yup, that's my thing as well. I really enjoy the timeless quality of a hand-sculpted figure, appreciating what the person who sculpted the figure was thinking and how they were working, occasionally thinking "how they did they do that so precisely?".

oooh, major Playmobil flashbacks! :D

(can't believe this is still/again available)

Perrys news! That makes me happy. I have zero ambition to wargame that period as well, but then my lack of ambition has taken me to strange places in the past...

Congrats on your taste in music. Also on the other thing, I guess. ;-)

...a shame, but probably my largest collections of WW2 figures are ACW Confederates (because I was late to the party and everybody had Union already) and WW2 Soviets. :D Oh well.

For instance, I'm also very cautious about which figures I showcase at wargames shows. Not necessarily bringing WW2 stuff to larger/more public event has always been a thing, but even at the closer-knit, smaller wargames shows I don't bring WW2 any more. Or ACW. ...

Come to think of it, I'm rather sure I saw more floral pattern shirts at wargames shows than "historically/ethically questionable" ones. It's all good in Wargameshausen, I think. Always a matter of outsider's impressions though I think, and one bad apple can spoil the Strudel.

Not that I ran into such shirts at wargames shows, mind you. 'Worst' I saw one time was a dude wearing a Tiger tank t-shirt, which isn't something I would wear (but then I'm not one to judge other's attire). In general, historical wargamers strike me as the less likely to wear silly history shirts.