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I have to agree with Sean here Martin. I absolutely love my Peter Pig stuff and its the backbone of my Spanish Civil War stuff. I dont want to do miniatures in resin really. I jsut think it looks cheap and Im old school, like Sean, I like the look and feel of metal and I like being able to work with it.

That said, vehicles? I absolutely love the resin material for working with vehicles AND because I can actually model in a 3D space it brings an incredible amount of versatility within reach.

Anyway, the point is well made, I wont be pointing the way to my website on RFCM but I hope Ill still be accepted as one of the community? 

Well the range covers the entire gammut of the Italians in WW2 and its over 150 pieces at the last count so I would say that any of the vehicles that PP do will be duplicated, but then I would assume that you would address the most prevalent of the vehicles so I would expect it to be a given. That said though Martin, its also the case that the Spanish Civil War range, along with the Dutch and Japanese ranges we do cover all of the vehicles as well.

We just steer clear of the infantry as I havent decided what format I want to attack that market in yet.

I can see an obvious conflict here. Maybe it would just be more politic if I didnt post

oh and thanks very much for the recommendations for advertising Martin. I think I will hang on for paid advertising until we release our next big range which will be the Italian WW2 stuff. Missed the boat with the Japanese on this one but the Italian range is enormous so that could get some good traction.

Ive had a couple of people suggest reciprocal links. I think Im going to add a section on our About page. Do you have a brand icon you can send me to put on there by any chance Martin?

Hey Martin,

Thats all totally fair and I have absolutely no problem toeing the line at all.

Just so Im absolutely clear.
A simple line about a blog going into the history of vehicles used in different conflicts is OK (because this is the kind of writing that is my jam) using images of the models is OK so long as the models are coincidental to the historical content. Even posting a line saying new stuff is available is OK, just so long as Im not waxing lyrical about selling stuff that undermines the rules systems you have written.

Is that all correct?

Hi Martin,

Apologies Martin, I had no intention of hijacking the site. My thought is that our ranges support/are supported by Peter Pigs so it made sense to me, but if thats not the intended purpose of the page then thats on me and I apologise.

Can I ask how to raise awareness in the community about the models? Im guessing actual discussion pieces about the vehicles themselves and not the models would be the way to go?

and of course Id be very happy to put Peter Pig onto the Bayonets and Brushes website. Your figures are practically all I use these days

This does segueway into one really relevant question if I can though Martin? Scaling! Its the bane of my life. How do you go about scaling your vehicles next to the miniatures? Do you use true scale? Or do you follow another plan?

Hello once again, one and all,
Things over here at Bayonets and Brushes are starting to feel like they are picking up a head of steam and we have a slew of posts to share with you with bags full of miniature dice dealing miniatures.
We thought we would start the ball rolling with some new releases for one of our existing ranges (actually, other than the SCW probably our tentpost range) and that's the Dutch Metropolitan Army from 1940 and the KNIL from all of the fighting over in the Pacific.
These miniatures practically finish the range of vehicles that need to be produced for these two armies with the possible exception of a couple of Chevy light trucks and some home made armoured cars for the KNIL, but anyway I'm starting to wax lyrical, so without further ado please let me introduce to you the new additions to the Bayonets & Brushes family:
https://brushesandbayonets.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-chaps-in-clogs-and-khaki.html
All visitors are welcome and any comments will be read with great interest!

Thanks Martin, the Spanish Civil War range, Ive found, are perfectly accompaniements to your SCW range

When I finally get more time at the painting desk I'll be sure to share images

Hello all,
Well, after many months of toil, our Japanese range is finally ready for release. So I won't waste your time with any preamble, I'll just present you with our blog post introducing the range. Personally I think these are a perfect accompaniement to any of Peter Pigs Japanese infantry but I'll leave that up to you guys to decide.
Have a read and then come and have a browse. Any thoughts and opinions would be welcome.
https://brushesandbayonets.blogspot.com/2025/05/exploring-imperial-japanese-army-navy.html
By the way, in case anybody is wondering, I LOATHE Wordpress so much that until I can actually solve the hot mess express which is the blogging on a Wordpress business site I've just decided to go back and carry on using the Blogspot one. All the links will take you through to the website though if you're interested.
Lee
Bayonets & Brushes

(Just a few of many MANY examples at 1/100 scale)

Good God man! Your armies make mine look like finger painting!!!

Well done indeed! Very impressive!

Superb looking army. I agree with Anatoli; the mass effect REALLY nails it!!

Kilgore, thanks for posting a link to my blog. I just didn't think to do it myself to be honest as it was on my profile.

Quebec, glad you like them mate, hopefully there will be plenty more where these have come from...

...and Martin; really happy to have impressed mate. My Polish Black Brigade and my Slovak Rychla are probably the projects Im most proud of to be honest

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

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

This is a great looking army. Especially love your command base.Very evocative! Well done!