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The Scale Models/War gaming discussion and pictures thread.

I've got one of these, except painted a desert camo pattern, with the silly wheels removed, and a painted pilot and far more realistic cockpit added.

Looks the absolute shit.

But I don't have any photos because it's at my dads and I've not flown it in about 5 years =[

Might get back into it when I got a job, as I just found out there's a brushless motor upgrade :P

 
TeddyBhoy said:
Bit the bullet and starting making that diabolical Airfix WW1 set because someone stepped on the box whilst I was out. My god its worse than I first though, even the tanks are badly done making them hard to glue together. The infantry, well I can't even consider looking at them all, I attempted the emplacements but they're proving nigh on impossible to figure out and assemble as none of the peg arrangements fit any of the holes in the bases (not that the pegs are long enough or the holes are wide enough)
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Are you taking it back?If not, how are you getting one and is it as hard as you thought?

 
I can't now thats why I had to start it.

It's not "hard" you could have a child do it easilly, but to do it to any degree of decency is hard as what you're presented with is poorly cast crap that doesnt line up or is covered in flash lol. The MG's and mortars don't go on their bases and theres no instructions for them so they'll need to be jury rigged some how. I got halfway through a tank and gave up as it was so not interesting or enjoyable, I'm reluctant to re-visit it to be very honest. Gutted I spent the money on it!

 
TeddyBhoy said:
I can't now thats why I had to start it.

It's not "hard" you could have a child do it easilly, but to do it to any degree of decency is hard as what you're presented with is poorly cast crap that doesnt line up or is covered in flash lol. The MG's and mortars don't go on their bases and theres no instructions for them so they'll need to be jury rigged some how. I got halfway through a tank and gave up as it was so not interesting or enjoyable, I'm reluctant to re-visit it to be very honest. Gutted I spent the money on it!
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I found the MG problem when I bought some British WW1 infantry along with the ww1 artillery. Probably sounds mean but, thanks for buying it, you saved me £25!

 
I can say the experience has put me off ever buying anything produced by airfix again, will be making a point to avoid anything they make even if it means going without something I need!

 
For the diorama and probably most if not all I will just make without too many if not no sets. For my D-Day one I may need some kits though, already bought this for a bargain (said before but got some pics now)



When it's done will hopefully look like so:



And the troops:









Will probably get some stuff from here but not too sure:

http://www.amera.co.uk/product.php?range=l

Just a wee "sneak peek" of a huge d-day one I'm planning while I'm stocking up on stuff for the WW1 one.

 
I've had that when I was much younger, is the back still open? I had the shells stood up by the gun ready to be loaded

 
All the mold lines - especially down them barrels and the random flappy bits of plastic.

 
I know, I'm annoyed because all the airfix aircraft and ships I!0've bought have been fine! But the soldiers well......

(Well not annoyed you know what I mean lol)

 
BBrotherwood said:
Just done be sucked into buying GW tools :P there overpriced and not always what there cracked up to be.
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The new GW tools are BEAUTIFUL.

Well, the clippers are. They honestly have outdone themselves with those. Everything else is pretty much the same as you'd expect, the clippers though are REALLY good at not sending bits flying, most hobby clippers I've used tend to want to play aggressive hide and seek with small items that have excellent projectile properties when clipped from sprues.

To be fair though, when I first started doing GW minis, I went to superdrug and got a nail-care kit - containing mini-scissors, nail clippers and a couple of files.

Aside from when I'm out at a GW store or my local club, I never use any 'real' tools, I mostly either use the bits from superdrug (which not only enable me to remove and tidy up my model parts, but also allow me to do my nails at the same time in order to be one fabulous motherf**ker) or random bits I find in my toolbox.

The reason I stuck with the nail clippers? They curve in on themselves slightly where the blades meet, meaning you end up with the tiniest remnant of sprue on your parts which is then easily filed down. I've tried hobby knives and because I'm a northern-monkey with hands the size of the average dinner plate, I tend to either gouge chunks out of stuff or end up with cuts/slices in models - easy to fix, easier if avoided in the first place.

Gonna get some more photos of my minis tomorrow I think...

 
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Finius said:
The new GW tools are BEAUTIFUL.

Well, the clippers are. They honestly have outdone themselves with those. Everything else is pretty much the same as you'd expect, the clippers though are REALLY good at not sending bits flying, most hobby clippers I've used tend to want to play aggressive hide and seek with small items that have excellent projectile properties when clipped from sprues.

To be fair though, when I first started doing GW minis, I went to superdrug and got a nail-care kit - containing mini-scissors, nail clippers and a couple of files.

Aside from when I'm out at a GW store or my local club, I never use any 'real' tools, I mostly either use the bits from superdrug (which not only enable me to remove and tidy up my model parts, but also allow me to do my nails at the same time in order to be one fabulous motherf**ker) or random bits I find in my toolbox.

The reason I stuck with the nail clippers? They curve in on themselves slightly where the blades meet, meaning you end up with the tiniest remnant of sprue on your parts which is then easily filed down. I've tried hobby knives and because I'm a northern-monkey with hands the size of the average dinner plate, I tend to either gouge chunks out of stuff or end up with cuts/slices in models - easy to fix, easier if avoided in the first place.

Gonna get some more photos of my minis tomorrow I think...
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Where can you get those online?Or are they from this shop?

http://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/suppliers/40399-GWModels

Thanks.

 
So I dug my camera out and had a good dig through my display cabinet this morning for some decent models to show off.

The good news is I found a couple.

The bad news is my camera was running out of battery so I've not even got photos of a fifth of the collection.

The worse news is that my camera, despite being a top-of-the-range D-SLR when purchased, how transfigured into a potato and the off-camera flashgun has broken - what this means is that the on-camera flash has exposed EXACTLY how awful my painting is, though I will say that at least everything does look a LOT better in the flesh which is good.

The traumatisingly awful news, is that this is going to be REALLY heavy for anyone on mobile.

First up I've got GW Skaven:

-Couple of shots of the paint scheme for my clanrats. I only do these guys quickly so rather than them looking uniform have been varying the color of the cloth they're wearing to break up the units without having to REALLY focus any attention on every model, the brown-cloth is for slaves:





-Packmaster & his ogres:



-Packmaster on his own:



-The bossman, Ikit Claw (IMHO, coolest small character in WHFB):



-Warplock Engineer:



-Doomwheel based:



-And finally the Warpfire Thrower:



 
Next up I've got the GW-addicts staple, Space Marines, pretty much everyone I know who has ever been into GW has used them, I never got sick of their all-round winability and stuck it out. Besides, mine are Black Templars so they're better anyway, all the other chapters are sissies and heretics.

-Couple of photos of my Sternguard, the middle guy changing his mag is a mashup of kits, but the actual mag change I had to put together myself:







-Vindicator, probably the most awesome looking tank in the game:



-Terminator Chaplain:



-Jump Chaplain:



-Tech Marine & Servitor (The CAT objective marker from the previous release of Spacehulk - too cool to not use for something):



-Assault Terminators & Marshall/Chapter Master in Terminator Armour, made from several kits:









-One of the limited edition captains released this year:



-The other limited edition captain:



Couple of random GW heroes, both dusty due to being on a shelf rather than in my display cabinet for a while:

-Assault On Black Reach Warboss:



-Illuminor Szeras:



 
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