Tag Archives: 28mm

Second Russian House WiP

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Brian Burger

Started another Russian farmhouse on Boxing Day evening, this one slightly bigger than the first at 4″x2″. I mentioned in the previous article that I used coffee stir sticks for the wood siding. The workbench photo below should explain some … Continue reading →

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Pack Up Your Dinosaurs

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Brian Burger

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” ― Ray Bradbury Should you wish to have more dinosaurs to pack … Continue reading →

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Minimal Maxim Basing

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Brian Burger

I’ve long been a fan of putting figures on the smallest bases they’ll fit on and that’ll keep them upright, when you’re doing individual bases for skirmish gaming. Almost all of my 28mm pulp and historical figures are based on … Continue reading →

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Hairy Apemen!

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Brian Burger

Missing Links? Yeti? Sasquatch? Some other sort of yet-undiscovered ape-man? The result of Mad Science? Any or all of the above? The two big guys are from Pulp Figures, PLT-7 Hairy Hominids, the two smaller figures are from Uncle Mike’s … Continue reading →

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The Reds Are Coming!

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Brian Burger

There’s 43 Bolsheviks off my painting table and ready for action, finally! One Maxim MG crew, some officers and NCOs and a whole lot of ragged, barely uniformed riflemen. Almost entirely Copplestone figures, and I mixed freely from the regular … Continue reading →

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Half-Timber Barn WiP Part II: Thatched Roof

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Brian Burger

Picked up a cheap towel to use as thatching. Here it is in a quickie late-night photograph, glue still wet on the roof of the half-timber barn.

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Half-Timber Barn WiP

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Brian Burger

Something for the English Civil War/Thirty Years War table, as well as for pulp games set in the quainter parts of the UK or Europe! All those crops gathered from my fields have to be stored somewhere, after all. The … Continue reading →

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Photos from My First Thirty Years War Fight

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Brian Burger

Sunday the 29th of May we got together to do a four-player 1,000pt Field of Glory: Renaissance battle; this was bigger than had previously been attempted and was my first actual game in this period. I badly bent a rule … Continue reading →

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ECW Painting, Other Randomness for 28 May 2011

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Brian Burger

An entire week since my last substantial post! The horror, how will our dedicated readership cope? I’ve been painting up an English Civil War/Thirty Years War storm this week, filling that inevitable post-Lead Painters League void with 40-odd plastic pike-and-shotte … Continue reading →

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LPL5 Week 10: Gunga Din (1939)

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Brian Burger

The final round of LAF’s Lead Painters League 5 was another bonus round, this one “A Scene From The Movies”, with bonus points for two teams and a vehicle or scenery piece representing a scene from a well-known movie. I … Continue reading →

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