Scale diorama tips and ideas
I just thought I would post a few photos of the Corsairs and the native guys I have chosen to repel these bothersome pirates. The corsairs are from Dark Alliance, sets one and two, and the natives are made by Caesar. The little boat is the medieval life boat by Zvezda, and will fit in […]
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18” (45cm) x12” (30cm). 3lbs (1.5kg.) Well the Waterloo cavalry charge is finally finished; there are 70 cavalrymen, 64 infantry and 21 Royal Artillerymen and it took me three hours to put it all together. As always there was a nervous start as after putting in half the infantry in the part square I realised […]
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11”x 15”(39cmx29cm) 2lbs 6oz (1kg) Well here we are folks, finally I have finished the swamp diorama, after a hold up getting the last of the Elves I required, the ones I called the angry Elves! They are the 2nd set of Elves and work well with set No 1. This is also true with […]
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This week I finished painting the Zvezda Life Guard Polish Uhlans that I have changed to Dutch Red Lancers, they are a great set with lots of detail so easy to paint. As there are a good number of figures in the set (18), I feel I have enough cavalry as with this lot it […]
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Well hello, Now I won’t go on about is the problem the world is experiencing at the moment as you would have heard it all by now; I just trust you are all well and coping with it in your own way. This week I have painted up the Vezda Cuirassiers set and they turned […]
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Well just an update on this week’s work. I have had this set of Italeri French Heavy Cavalry sitting around as long as the Red Lancers which I have only just painted, I hadn’t even unboxed them! Well these Carabiniers are my favourite French Cavalry so I must have put more effort into them as […]
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Well it’s just a short post on a few totally neglected figures I started painting in 2013 when I started out. I can’t remember why I stopped; I think I got distracted by the medieval village diorama which took a long time to build so they were just pushed aside … what’s that Marvin? My […]
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