Use this thread to post pictures of your Piggie armies in all their glory.
I'll begin adding mine on my return to blighty.
Watched 'green berets' so here is my attempt of Col Kirby (John Wayne) and his men
What did you think of the film, Stewart?
I found the whole thing a little hard to swallow - notably the wooden acting / let's-all-line-up-to-get-shot assaults during the action sequences.
Have I perhaps misinterpreted the whole thing?
Simon
It was entertainment
Stewart
Not sure if I should be seeing a picture but nothing is showing.
That will be my fault.
I received an admin email - apparently from Stewart - asking me to remove the first picture.
I duly unticked the first attachment box, and the first picture disappeared, while the second remained.
The second one has now gone too.
Sorry folks - this is probably something I need to pick up with the other Simon in due course....
I have added the pic to the original post,
Oh yes - all good - thanks, Stewart. I thought my first admin task might have gone horribly wrong - thanks!
Simon
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Opps - sorry that was an attempt to attach a photograph which does not seemed to have worked!
Chris
Here are some Romans that I have been working on over the last couple of months or so. Two full Centuries with some Aux support. All of the figures in the Centuries are PP including the officers. Most of the others are also from PP,but not everything else is, for example the Onagers are from Essex Miniatures. Also the basic cart structure for the mobile artillery are from another manufacturer but the bolt throwers and some of the crew as well as the shields are all PP. I am currently contemplating a larger vehicle which whilst not historically accurate will be fun as I like modelling projects.
Nice work. Are they based for any particular rules or for maximum versatility?
Each figure is individually based on a penny, one of the newer ones so they can stand on a magnetic strip in their box for safe keeping and transport. They are not specifically based for any rules.
The movement trays I made are to allow then to be set up in formation as actual centuries but then only require three items to be moved as opposed to 84 per century.
I guess however they could be mounted on any number of size trays for all sorts of rules as people wish.
I am doing some PP Egyptians as well and Celts (Britons) but as they are not PP I guess I should not post them here. I will post the Egyptians at some point though. I have a few ECW units I am doing as well so need to photograph them at some point.
Very nice duncan
This one. The Confederate army for Shiloh (using BBB rules and PP 3mm figures and scenery):
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/3mm%20ACW%20Peter%20Pig/IMG_1855_zpssqhvtmv9.jpg)
Forrest' Cavalry:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/3mm%20ACW%20Peter%20Pig/IMG_1857_zps1elsvrwv.jpg)
Arkansas troops:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/3mm%20ACW%20Peter%20Pig/IMG_1854_zps6t6urnne.jpg)
The Reserve Corps:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/3mm%20ACW%20Peter%20Pig/IMG_1853_zpszghisr0b.jpg)
Same war different scale - PP Confederate and then Union artillery in action, plus the train. Really should get round to sorting out my PP ACW infantry and cavalry.
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/ACW%2015mm/Photo0222_zpsx52deurs.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/Longstreet/IMG_0968_zpsba35f128.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/Longstreet/IMG_0962_zpsbff8abd8.jpg)
Very nice and what a train..
Every ACW gamer ought to have one!
Train does look nice and shiny. Good to see it on proper scale track as well. I have seen people try to pass off both N gauge and HO instead of investing in a length of T, it makes all the difference.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/FBk_URbPhxVR4D8C6BqliWuP2LE7H3R0HHDvYqKgJFSq4LnuRwdOuNGXpiLbOpjsixjvBqVP_i9g=w1024-h624-no)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VEze0MSmx66ekQB7pptwbNMScQnL5uxNRauU6eNtDtVfWWJ75BItu3dmIrO7DyFuvodISmPbQCuF=w1024-h851-no)
I have finished my first ECW House. I have added the pub sign to make it into the Inn 'The Droopy Dragon' My painting of a dragon with a drooping tail is not very good but it is very small. I have mounted it as most of you know I hate having to pick buildings up and move them to put troops on the square. Therefore I have laid out the grounds on a 6" by 6" tile to be able to just about squeeze three ECW Foot movement trays onto it.
PS. Not sure why the images are not showing? I have followed the guidelines and got the link etc which I inserted as described. However if you right click and open in a new tab they seem to open OK? Anyone got any ideas?If it does not work I will have to post on facebook or somewhere. Let me know as I have more images but did not want to blindly post them when they were not showing up.
you did the right thing with the link Duncan. It must a 'funny' with Google photos. I just ended up copying the direct image link, rather than the google share. I've never seen that before
Simon
Duncan,
The image doesn't work for me as I'm not signed into a Google account - I suspect others may be in a similar position.
Can you host a copy of it elsewhere (e.g. post a copy to tinypic.com)?
Cheers,
Simon
Yes, similar as above.
http://s1146.photobucket.com/user/smeecham/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-12/81EADCA9-80B5-4D13-816F-883F8F1148DD_zpsmwxv0lvg.jpg.html
(http://i1146.photobucket.com/albums/o521/smeecham/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-12/8651F840-B70B-43CC-998B-5C5F493BB4C6_zpsgf0lzi5x.jpg) (http://s1146.photobucket.com/user/smeecham/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-12/8651F840-B70B-43CC-998B-5C5F493BB4C6_zpsgf0lzi5x.jpg.html)
Nicely done Stewart. I do like to see a vehicle on a C20th command stand. I'm currently working on the WWI Russian car for a Belgian command stand. Have moved from ITLSU, which didn't play out as well as I'd hoped, to Contemptible Little Armies - bases instead of individual figures.
My Spanish Civil War Carlist Requetes
Lee
Wow, those are lovely, Lee!
Thanks for sharing - and welcome to the Forum!
Simon
Thanks Simon, always happy to be part of a modelling crowd...
Cheer
Lee
Very nice. Particularly like your basing.
Thanks Radar.
I actually hate having to do basing because it just takes me so long to work up to a basing standard that I like. Im happy with these ones though.
Hopefully the rest of my SCW stuff will be up to it as well
;D
Lee I too find basing a chore, to a point. The adding texture and paint to a base feels like a major inconvenience, I think it is because for me mentally the painting process is finished, yet this is a continuation of it.
I quite like adding the greenery, feels like the figures come alive at that point. Certainly ECW cavalry do, as they are just 50 shades of brown until then, the greenery somehow makes them look right.
With 15mm to fit PP basing I approach it the other way round. I stick the figures to the bases, undercoat, apply the texture (PVA glue with sand scattered on), paint and dry brush when the glue is dry and then paint the figures. That way I don't end up dry brushing the bottom of the figures and when I finish painting the figures that's it, there's just the sense of satisfaction and a dark chocolate ginger biscuit to celebrate!
Brian
There is a satisfaction too in "painting the unit" from the outset - all based up and a completed unit as soon as the figure painting is done. I love this approach conceptually and feel convinced it must save time. Until I dab the wrong colour on the wrong model as I'm trying to feed the paintbrush between legs, etc. Of course, SimonC would say not to sweat the small stuff that no-one will notice anyway, and I'm sure he's right! It's what I'm doing for my WW1 forces (British to date - simple colours) and actually works well.
Simon
Of course I doff my cap to those of you dexterous enough to employ such a tactic. I'm far too cack handed for such an approach. Probably explains why I much prefer two part cavalry - I'm ham fisted.
I'm with you on that one Radar. I have never managed to get on with basing figures and then painting them. In fact when I have bought ready based 2nd hand figures I spend time removing them from bases so I can paint them. So for me it is paint the flesh first to give a figure "character", then the uniform, and lastly equipment and weapons, before PVAing the bases, coating in sand and painting/highlighting/static grassing the bases. I also varnish the figures on the bases before applying the PVA.
I too also prefer two piece cavalry to one piece.
John
Some good points well made there.
Personally I do all of my painting by firstly doing a trial figure so that I can test out the colour schemes and contrasts and make any adjustments that I need to before I paint too many of them and make a mistake all but unfixable (because of my own laziness probably!)
Once I'm happy with the trial figure ALL of the other figures are glued along batons of wood so I have unrestricted access to all parts of a figure so that I don;t have to pull some sort of gymnastic contortions to get in there with my brushes.
Once all figures are painted and based Ill stick them to their bases, grout, sand and paint with the foliage going on last.
There is always paint overlap when I paint the bases so I jsut do a final touch up on the shoes once everything else is done to bring back some uniformity. If the ground is supposed to be less dry than in Aragon though I will probably leave the overlap and just explain it away as mud on the shoes...
Personally Im happy to pay this trade off in exchange for unrestricted access to all angles on a figure :)
:D
I hotglue my figures onto nails, That way I can turn them easily to paint it also makes priming easy too. I have odd ends of wood with loads of holes to drop the nails into.
First Cossacks off the conveyor belt.
Awful figures but I do like the Hetman.
look good to mke
Derek
Well here goes, the first painted figures/vehicles.for my AK47 armies: for the dictator force and the People's revolution force. Next project make up for the militia force, once I have cleaned and primed.🤓👍
(https://i.postimg.cc/xJNYb752/IMG-20240821-103552.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/xJNYb752)
(https://i.postimg.cc/xqbTkkpz/IMG-20240821-104820.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/xqbTkkpz)
(https://i.postimg.cc/cKb0CZQh/IMG-20240821-105328.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/cKb0CZQh)
Very nice
Stewart
Very nice, I like the General with the bunker :)
I assume they are for the new rules that are being play tested at the moment?
Howard
The Dictator is in front of an arm's stash and the PPF Commersar is standing on a distorted building/bunker.🤓👍
Good work Kevin. They will look good at the Presidents Parade Day!
Game on the 6th September?
Might be T. Though U or V might be out by then.
A very nice little collection there - well done Kevin!
Simon
Good work Kevin.
Nice flag too.
martin :)
Couple of neat little armies there. Like the way you've modelled the currugated iron roofs.