Polar Adventures -Snowtroopers painted

Managed to finish off painting my snow troopers this week...hopefully the photos do them justice

As mentioned previously these guys were all bought from

http://www.fouraminiatures.com/page2.htm

The bases still need to be finished off but at least a few of the these are now painted - I think I might get bored of white by the time this project is finished !

Polar Adventures - More Figures & supplies

Postie was good today and brought me two parcels - just a few more figures for the Polar Adventures project...

Earlier this year I had the fortune to see 'Silent Invaders' Skirmish Scavenge and Survive game in the flesh at BLAM and had the pleasure of pushing some lead around his fabulous snow covered town.

The lead in question came from his own range of figures and some of these are ideal for the 'armed civvies' I want to have at my Polar base.

For the full range head over to his website

http://www.miniaturemojo.co.uk/

Of course I had to include these guys from Copplestone

http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=HA

The Polar Adventurers

The Inuit

The Huskies

By chance I work very close to 4D the model supplies shop in East London (nearest tube Tower Hill) so a quick trip at lunchtime saw me bring back these goodies...

White Flock

Fake Snow

We'll see how these work out in a couple of trials in the next few weeks

cheers

Eric

Polar Adventures - part 2

So here is the second part of my Polar Adventures thread...

Part 1 can be found here...Polar Adventures Part 1

With the weather breaking for the better I was able to get down to the shed and start on the base boards for the Polar Adventures project.

I started with the standard 9mm MDF squares that have become the terrain boards of choice in the shed. These are all 50cm x 50cm square. Sixteen boards cost me c£28 cut from my B&Q (New Malden) - Its best to buy the really big 8ft x 4ft sheets and to get the store to cut them for you.

I did try Champion timber but they wanted £24/sheet plus 50p per cut - so B&Q won hands down.

First up I primed the boards with white emulsion paint.

Once the primer was dry I liberally covered the whole board in PVA glue and then covered the whole board with sand, grit and ballast. This is a messy job !

With one board done I covered a further nine before running out of basing material. This reminds me that I now need to find an alternative stockist to Modelzone now that it has gone belly up. I left all these boards to dry overnight.

This morning the boards got their first coat of paint - again white emulsion (as it cheap). I plan to put on about three coats the top one being acrylic for a stronger bond.


Hopefully you will agree the 'snow & ice texture' is coming through.

Drop by again in a couple of days to see how these have worked out...

Cheers

Polar Adventures - Part 1

Happy New Year

Apologies that things have been a bit slow on the blog update front but I have been rather busy over the Xmas period and so not much Eric time..

However hopefully the New Year will see a new purpose and of course the start of my new project - Ice Station Omega - an Antarctic/Arctic skirmish game set in the near future

To kick things off I managed to order a few bits in the run up to Xmas and was successful in passing off the packages as Xmas presents to myself!

First up are some rather splendid chaps called Snow Troopers,. I bought twenty in total so this should sort out the first force. What you can see in the photos below are the figures remounted on washers (they come with slotta bases) and primed grey then white. Proper paintjobs to follow.

These guys can be sourced from here

http://www.fouraminiatures.com/page2.htm

Now of course these guys are going to need vehicles and after asking around I was drawn to the vehicles sold on the Daemonscape website  there are the four tracked versions formerly made by GZG.

They can be found here

http://www.daemonscape.com/contents/en-uk/d5_01.html

Yet to decide on the paint scheme for these.

Cautionary note these models will require pinning before assembly

Coming up soon will be the first posts of the gaming table and my attempts to create snow & ice...

Part 2 of Polar Adventures can be found here

Polar Adventures part 2