Airfix Medieval Foot Soldiers

                Sometime during 2010, I've purchased a lot of soldiers on e-bay and I've found two

beautiful medieval figures. It  was the  first time I painted something else than WW2 and i like it

a lot....Then I've got a commission for a complete set of Airfix " Medieval Foot Soldiers" and  

this was a great challenge for me.             

                                                               

 Here you can see the front cover

 of the Airfix box. These figures
 are great!  Excellent poses and
 very nice details on clothes and
 weapons.





         I've decided to paint the figures according to the box style  and  make  my  own variations
 in colors so, some  figures with the same pose will have a different color  combination.  Only the
archers were painted in the same colors so they can form a company of the same banner.I like very
much the result, even though my painting skills was not so advanced at that time...

        So, here you can see some pictures of the final outcome......In the first two pictures the bases
are incomplete. Later I 've finished them with static grass..

      I've also made some scratch built  ladders that looked much better than the  plastic ones  provided
 with the box.

         Here is the full project with all the figures and some of my additions,  like the ladders and the
wooden spikes for the archers...

      This Airfix issue is on more of my  " do it again " projects for the future. Even maybe a small diorama of
a battle scene.......


      Thank you for visiting my blog...........See ya!!


            

Airfix German "Waffen SS" Review

      Continuing the journey to my older projects, I would like to present here, another Airfix group
of soldiers. The figures are part of the classic "German Infantry" issue but , this time, painted in German
special forces colors,known as"Waffen SS".The references for the uniform was the classic "dot M44" camouflage colors.This camouflage was also on the "Panzer Grenadiers" uniform.

 

 

      Here you can see more realistic bases, with mud and dirt effect.Also a small attempt of weathering.
The figures are finished with matt varnish so they are not so "shiny" as my older attempts. This project is painted sometime during 2011....In the future I will paint a complete set of  "Waffen SS" including some
conversions I have in mind....


Thank you for reading this.........and...........see ya!!

Airfix German Infantry Review

     Today I would like to show you my previous attempts on Airfix "German Infantry" figures.
One of the most common set of Airfix figures of the 70's.A lot of modellers had start their career
with this set and I'm one of those...
     I 've tried several times to paint figures from this set but the last time was about two years ago.
As you 'll see in the pictures below there are some mistakes in the uniform colors and there are no
weathering or shadowing techniques.

  Here is my first try.......
              sometime during 2009.....
   

.....I still like them......

      In the group below some things have been corrected ,but the trousers could fit more to Afrika Korps
rather than regular infantry!Although some shadowing has been applying on the jacket and looks good
with the insignia......Still no face details!

   

           In the near future i will try once again with these figures to make a complete set of this Airfix
issue, to a more realistic result.I have also try a conversion of these figures to Waffen SS but we will
talk about it in the next post.....


   Thank you for visiting my blog.....'till next time......see ya!!

Airfix 8th Army Review

    Somehow I should start this journey and I've decided to do so by sharing some of my older projects.

A lot of figures have been destroyed in my beginning mostly by using too much colour, wrong varnish(!),
even wrong colours!! Some of them, I like them until now, even though the techniques used were very poor

to none.

    Airfix figures are, as usual,  the first "victims", and here you'll see two of my attempts of painting British

"8th Army", also known as "Desert Rats".

    In the first two pictures you can see the first group that looked nice to me, even though the colours (of
the uniform ) were wrong and there are no weathering or shadowing techniques.Not even face details!

   The mould lines haven't been
cleared and at some point  they
look bad! In this group was the
first time I used insignia.
  Not correctly though.....

 

      The next group was much more detailed and with the correct uniform colour and face details.Also
there was a conversion (only in colours) of a "British Infantry" figure to a Desert Rat....Here you can see
my first attempts in weathering and shadowing techniques.




 Bases are still empty, just painted...
From that point you can see some nice
detail in the figures faces, not yet very
realistic.Much more like comic
 characters!

  
        So these two attempts where the only ones worthy to display.In the future I will try again for a more
realistic result.I have some more of these figures, including an officer.I just want to search a little bit more
about insignia and how it was placed on the uniform.
       In the next posts i will continue the review of my previous Airfix projects (British Commando, German
Infantry, etc.)


        Hope you enjoyed our first journey as I did..........see ya!!!


      

Let's get started!

Welcome to my blog!

After few years of painting figures I've decided to make this Blog 
in order to show my work, to take advices from other people
and to discuss any matter about miniatures... 
I'm more in the 1:32 figure miniatures , but I plan to work with
anything that's fun for me!!

My painting - crafting station

I hope that this blog will help me to advance my skills and also
will be a nice journey in the world of miniature modelling!!!

Thank you for reading this!!