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Post by Gentleman Ranker on Dec 8, 2020 6:09:47 GMT -9
Here are a couple of vehicles I've made up recently. They're intended for the tabletop and skirmish gaming so I've been mainly looking at smaller stuff that will actually be able to show up in a scenario without dominating the battlefield too much.
These are Dave Winfields free easy to make kits available at his website. (Thanks for the recommendation on these Vermin King).
They've been downsized to 1/72nd by printing at 50 percent or so, depending on whether they're 1/35 or 1/32nd. At this size I just printed on standard printer paper, folded and glued the extra white space on the sheet to the back. I can't get little flaps to fold at this size.
These are intended for use but perhaps because they're just paper, they're a bit flexible and so I reinforced after the fact with chunks of corrugated card and paper so that they'd stand up to more handling.
I think they're great for battlefield models and really easy to make up.
The M113 looked boxy when it was just plain, so I printed up another one and glued it to cereal box cardboard. I cut out the hatches and doors and the track guards and glued them on to the original model. Just that little bit of clumsy detailing goes a long way to making it look really good. I'm really tempted to start fiddling with more detailing on the next one. Next thing you know it'll be sandbags and petrol cans and machine guns and netting and....
Thanks for providing these to the community Dave.
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Post by emergencyoverride on Dec 8, 2020 7:07:36 GMT -9
Those turned out great!!
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Post by Gentleman Ranker on Dec 8, 2020 8:06:05 GMT -9
Thanks emergencyoverride. I was really pleased with them, especially considering it's just printer paper. All credit to Dave's design and texturing skills I think!
I'll post more vehicles and pictures when i get the chance to write them up.
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Post by Vermin King on Dec 8, 2020 8:07:47 GMT -9
He does an exceptional job of getting a model as simple as possible by using his texturing ability. I wish I was half as good
I haven't done his Santa Model T Hotrod in a while, but while perusing the Easy Builds, I think I might make that WWI truck in fire engine red and put Santa from the T behind the wheel. Of course I will have to do something about all that white showing on the insides of the wheels
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Post by Gentleman Ranker on Dec 8, 2020 8:33:25 GMT -9
He does an exceptional job of getting a model as simple as possible by using his texturing ability. I wish I was half as good I really like what Dave did with the windscreens and side windows of the jeep and Landrover. Just that hint of sky and colour variance gives it a little added pep.
I've seen your cars in the downloads, Vermin King, I think you protest too much. I think you're really great at shape and form. Some of those curves are really impressive.
I made a Paper Forge T72 tank in 1/72 scale I picked up off Wargames Vault. Paper Forge do all their stuff, intended just to be printed on paper and that's what I used for this.
It went together okay. I'd particularly looked for a tracked vehicle where I didn't have to make all the wheels for the tracks!
The turret is a fairly complicated shape, made in two halves and stuck together after. The join is always going to be visible. The bit that covers the root of the main gun (mantle?) is just a 2D piece seen from above. I'm not sure how I feel about these things.
I accept that there are going to be imperfections, because I'm not great at building. I'm not sure how I feel about imperfections that are there because it's not designed to be perfect?
I get that on one level it's a representation, rather than a model. Perhaps the level of abstraction for that mantle is just slightly more than that of the rest of the piece so that it's jarring to me?
The barrel is rolled paper, which I'm pleased with.
The hull is stiffened inside with cardboard, the same way I did with Dave's jeep etc. A paper internal brace for the hull is included in the kit but I didn't discover it until I'd already bodged something up myself. Heh,ho!
The turret revolves using a rolled paper pivot which is cool. I don't like the white around the turret machine gun. Again, I think it looks like a different level of abstraction to the rest of the model. If I make another one, I'll trim it closer.
The detail on the hull and turret is quite nice. It feels like it's sketched with just enough shading to give depth to features. Paper Forge only do three or four vehicles but they're not expensive and I may pick up another one or two.
More vehicles and some figures when I get the photos sorted out.
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Post by Vermin King on Dec 8, 2020 9:36:41 GMT -9
Your issues mentioned with the tank bring me back to AirDave's work. Somehow he always seems to know whether you can get away with simplifying something on the model. Of course, he's been doing this a long time. There really have only been two glaring things that he did that I really disliked -- the rocket nozzle on the 60's Batmobile and the body shape of the speed record motorcycle. That's pretty amazing considering the size of his catalog
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Post by Gentleman Ranker on Dec 20, 2020 2:40:22 GMT -9
Osrinian regulars approach a small campsite but a closer look reveals a display of death in the night.
The tents are the Medium and Pup tents from Dave Graffams set. The background and tiles are as ever, Crooked Staff; as is the mysterious crate (from his Print and Play textures). The deceased are some of Tomoko's steel warriors. All of the sets come with an array of dead figures. It's a faintly disturbing subject for "modelling" but from a wargames perspective it's very useful!
Tomoko's Steel warriors also provided the living versions of these troops, the Keno Infantry (South).
Having discovered the bodies in the camp, the Osrinians are now on the search for the perpetrators of this hideous war crime.
I used my regular style of bases for these figures rather than the ones provided. This required some careful measurement to assemble the figures for the machine gun and mortar teams as the firing figures have asymmetrical bases and I had to cut slots in the foam bases a specific distance apart.
I think they look lethal though!
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Post by Gentleman Ranker on Dec 20, 2020 3:06:23 GMT -9
I think I just lost a post! Damn! My own stupid fault. Ah well. I'll try to recall what I'd said. Deep in the Grognardian borderlands the Osrinians discover what may be the perpetrators of the camp massacre; Grognardian Separatists. This is Tomoko's re-issued Aktash Offroad car in it's Imperial?)Guard colouring. The Hull was pasted to cereal box card and I think it needed it for sturdiness. The thickness meant for some ungainly joins though , particularly at the side of the bonnet. The chassis and details are plain paper. I like the way the details turned out. The bumpers were quite fiddly and the wheels I made with a disc of corrugated cardbourd wrapped in the parts from the kit. I particularly like the modular options Tomoko provides for the hatch and the alternatives are at the front of the the third picture here. GR
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Post by Gentleman Ranker on Dec 20, 2020 5:37:02 GMT -9
More shots of the rest of the band of brothers; Tomoko's Keno (South) Infantry
Tomoko provides a graphic showing the correct way to trim miniatures with his sets. He, presumably has experimented with various ways to trim the figures and knows what will make the figures look their best, so I followed instructions!
I'm particularly impressed with the machine gun and mortar crews. I suspect they'll be very useful in my skirmish games. I picked up this set because they were, for some reason, on sale at the time and I wanted to try out one of Tomoko's sets. They're a true 25mm and my usual style of bases looks a little big on them.
I really like the figures, they're a really neat drawing style and don't look overly fantastical. They're "realistic" if I can use the term about an organisation that's not real!
I understand that all the figures and vehicles were originally created for a near future/post-apocalyptic wargame that is now, not happening. I will have to look through the figures and vehicles to see what real world (or Imagi-Nation) analogues they have. They are so nice, it would be a shame if they didn't get put to use.
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Post by Gentleman Ranker on Apr 8, 2021 1:13:55 GMT -9
I've been busy but I've not been posting. Some recent acquisitions.
In Finger & Toe's Shanty Town, a gang meeting is taking place between members of El Cheapo Minis Gang Folk.
Luckily they are being observed from the shadows by the Blue Creeper, one of the alternate colour version of Okumarts Mini Playset Assorted Supers.
Unfortunately one of the gang members, lady of negotiable affection, Candy has spotted our blue hero and is about to raise the alarm; AK47 style!
Will our hero, stoop to smack a lady? Even to save the day? Will Candy wink at the moustachio'd hero's presence or is it time for some fully automatic rock and roll? Tune in next week folks, same Hero time, same Hero channel, to find out!
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Post by Gentleman Ranker on Apr 8, 2021 5:40:21 GMT -9
Another post in the increasingly inaccurately named military vehicles and soldiers thread!
Some figures I referred to in one of Antohammer's Publisher threads.
I've made up some of his Crime Novel Characters and found a home for them.
Lovely stuff Antohammer!
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Post by Gentleman Ranker on Apr 14, 2021 6:42:39 GMT -9
Meanwhile, far from the meagre attractions of the Shanty Town in Fatdragonopolis, Lady Power [OkumArts Assorted Supers mini-playset again] is caught emerging from a townhouse crime scene.
"Halt and explain yourself!" The military chap is one of Slick Miniatures Modern Troops in the standard desert cammo with a Western European load out. I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced by Slick's belief that all modern troops look roughly alike and are mainly differentiated by their weapons but the figures do look really cool and echo the look of modern British in Afghanistan quite well.
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