28mm French 7th Hussars Waterloo 1815

I like to imagine de Co figure as Baron the Marbot, the same that was present and described in detail the Bussaco campaign and battle, just some km from my hometown, Coimbra. He actually commanded the 7th Hussars at the Waterloo campaign, 5 years later, and kept leaving some fantastic accounts of the napoleonic campaigns.

All figures are Perry plastic miniatures, straight from the box.

Rapid Fire! Western Desert 1940-43 in 20mm - Italian aircraft

Theses are my Italian aircraft for the Western Desert up to now. Airfix and Super Models with acrylic stands.

 Cant Z 1007 Bis Alcione (SuperModel).

 SM 81 Pipistrello (SuperModel).

SM 79 Sparviero (Airfix). 

CR42 (Airfix). 

Fiat G50 (Airfix). 

              Reggiane 2000 (SuperModel).

Rapid Fire! LRDG

After seeing some beautifully painted LRDG in the Rapid Fire! FB and after the release of Altaya's LRDG Chevrolets, I just had to have a small force of those. Reading about the Barce raid inspired me to make three chevies and 3 jeeps (yes, yes too many jeeps, only one was necessary in RF terms...).

The Altaya Chevrolets were repainted as I attached too many figures, stowage and weapons that needed drilling and glueing.

The arab headdress was made with GreenStuff, as well as most of the interior stowage.

 Monty (Matchbox) itself gave a hand as he is seated with legs borrowed from a Preiser german figure, the one that is playing cards.

 The binoculars figure is the body of the Matchbox Humber figure and the legs of the Esci 25prd seated gunner.

 The striking Pink scheme, useful for the morning and late day.

All figure came out of the spare boxes, and included the Airfix Jeep driver; Esci commandos and Hasegawa tank crew.

28mm LOTR Minas Tirith

 And now for Minas Tirith. It was mainly made in heavy card and the usual styrofoam. This piece are in fact some 20 pieces, and the final result is this one.

The parts are separate for easy storage and space. One of this days I will show you my Osgiliath, but it still has to be built.

Not as many levels as in the movie. Just trying to pick the flavour of the movie´s model and, one day, wargaming it.

Kinder Eggs are good for eating and modelling.

My kid still must be thinking: " were is my cowboy´s tree?".

I built eleven  of the formidable trebuchets Minas tirith was defended by. Seven  are GW (glups!).

Dr Jackill...or is it a Troll as PC says?

28mm LOTR Helms Deep

During those mad years of LOTR I built a large collection of GW fantasy 28mm figures and accessories.

But the larger models- the fortressses and cities, for instances - had to be scratchbuilt.

Here it goes my approach to Helms Deep, using mainly styrofoam.

The door is one of the few elements made of wood and it opens with the help of some pegs.

The broken statues were made of Green Stuff.

The stairs are plastic glued to the styrofoam. This model gave me a big pleasure to build as you can work styrofoam quickly and with nice results. I tryed to use the same techniques I saw in GW magazines of the days ın which LOTR was rocking copying shamelessly those big modellers and painters they have.

28mm AOE1815 Waterloo- Marcognet Division

Marcognet Division with General D´Erlon himself leading. There is a mix of metal and plastic Perry minis and Victrix.

Flags are out of the box paper flags by Perry Miniatures.

The Aide de Camp of D´Erlon is also Perry metal. A nice moving figure climbing atop of his horse.

Some figures, like the 1st voltigeur, has Victrix and Perry parts.

The famous FN 100 Perry reference (plastic french Inf.) has loads of modelling possibilities allowing the Pokalem and the Bonnet the police to be portrayed in many figures, besides being able to create many different moving and firing figures.

"General D´Erlon, the British Heavy cavalry is coming . We are F******"

Drummers and flag bearers are Victrix plastics.

Rapid Fire! 20mm Painted Bronekaters

Finally I managed to paint the the Bronekaters....
I used web info for that purpose. Colours aren´t probably the most accurate but the final result is acceptable.

First, car spray all over.

Acrylic Vallejo colours were used. Nothing special, just the ones I had around: Panzer Grey; Lutwaffe Blue and Light Blue.

The flags were hand painted as well as everything else in that "wargaming  style" were we start from dark to lighter colours, drybrushing mostly.

The figures are German WWII Preiser, painted to look as soviet sailors.

The deck was painted with GW colours.

The river water was painted used the darkest green I had , followed by GW Snot Green drybrushing. The  angle between the boat and the water was painted black. In the end a little of yellow and white was drybrushed over the black to simulate waves.