Welcome to my ramblings on this subject. I guess that most (if not all)
visitors to this page will already know what all this is about so there's no need for me
to explain much. In a nutshell, this hobby is about making and painting toy soldiers. The
table below features a few of the figures I've painted over the last few years. I hope to
soon be able to show the work of other painters & sculptors.
| Drummer | Caporal | Blood | Franco |
| Lassalle | Pawnee | Sailor |
My approach to the hobby has changed considerably over recent years; I'm not as serious about it as I once was. Competition no longer excites me and I'm content just to while away my time having fun at the workbench. My productivity (always low) has waned to a point where I'm now almost at dead stop! I guess you could say I've been 'in development' for 2 years or so and things are looking brighter for the future. My sculpting skills are improving and I plan to spend much of my time in the coming months honing them.
I've added 2 pictures of old favourites of mine; the Metal Modeles Foreign Legion bust was the first bust I painted
and the Uhlan was my first Derek Hansen figure. I still look at these 2 figures from time to time and I still get pleasure from them - not from a technical standpoint (or even an aesthetic one)
but because they remind me of the time when I was most fanatical and enthusiastic about this hobby.
Lee Chandler recently photographed a couple of pieces for me (thanks Lee!) and I'm happy to show the results here. The first model is David Grieve's latest 90mm figure, a Sgt of the 95th Rifles. I painted it in both oils and acrylics.
The second piece is a 1:9 bust (as yet unpainted) of Major General James Wolfe. I used Magic Sculp over a core of Milliput for the bulk of the sculpting. The queue is made from copper tape wound around a wire/milliput core. The pedestal is made from sheet plastic
with a piece of abrasive paper set into the front panel. The facsimile of Wolfe's signature and the years of his birth & death are made of thin strings of Magic Sculp.
I belong to the Gravesham Military Modelling Society. Why not check their site?
I had a hand in getting the site up & running but it is now in the capable hands of Gary Norris and his wife, Val.
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These are 2 of Adrian Bay's recent figures. I don't know the titles, but I'll ask him to provide details soon!
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When Lee Chandler was photographing my most recent pieces for me, I asked if he had any pictures of his own work which he would allow me to post on this site. He obliged by passing me a fistful of pictures!
The first 4 of those are available to view here.These WW1 pilot busts were sculpted by Mike Good and manufactured by Kirin. Lee painted them primarily in oils over a Humbrol undercoat. Bill Horan took the photographs.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
1917
HANS GOERTH
1918RAOUL LUFBERY
1918
RICHTHOFEN
Two more of Lee's figures are these classic pieces, again manufactured by Kirin and photographed by Bill Horan. The ever-popular Culloden Highlander was sculpted by Mike Good and the WW1 Leutnant is from the hands of Derek Hansen.
HIGHLANDER 
LEUTNANT
4 more of Lee's busts - he likes busts! Melanie Gibson as Willliam Wallace was sculpted by Mike Good and produced by Kirin. The 93rd Highlander was sculpted by Raúl Garcia Latorre and manufactured by Elite Miniatures.
Blücher & Wellington are 2 of the 3 'Waterloo Commanders' sculpted and produced by David Grieve. Lee is also responsible for the photography of these pieces.
WALLACE 
93rd HIGHLANDER
BLÜCHER 
WELLINGTON
This is one of my favourite of Lee's figures. It depicts T.E. Lawerence.
The conversion is simple yet splendidly cunning; the camel and bottom half of the figure are from Verlinden and the figure's top half is from Kirin.
I'm pleased to be able to show the work of 2 gentlemen with whom I spent some time last October.
Mounted Dragoon by Stephen Wiebe. He used the Historex Inniskillin Dragoon (with a modified resin head) matched to their grazing horse.
The rider's legs are sculpted with Magic Sculp, as were the hair & crest. The fingers were re-made to grip the canteen more convincingly. The figure was painted with oils over Vallejo. The water for the pond is clear casting resin.
Bust by Jon Harbuck. '33rd Alabama Infantry, Army of Tennessee, Franklin, 1864' This is a 200mm kit sculpted by John Rosengrant and manufactured by S&T.
Jon has added a feather and made slight alterations to the Lorenz rifle. He also added a cuff to hide the wrist/hand join. The blanket roll and hat have been textured. Painted in oils over acrylic, Jon used plenty of earth tone greys - lots of yellow ochre, burnt umber & buff titanium. Note the convincing cut & contusion!
