Airfix WWI French Infantry painted up in khaki to represent WWII troops. It’s a nice old set and has plenty of different poses.
Something new off the workbench, a set of Strelets Colonial British Infantry. The figures had practically no flash and are quite easy to paint up and are made from a sturdy semi-hard plastic. I can’t say I’m too keen on this type of figure, but after painting them they do have a cartoonish kind of…
A few shots of the S-Models Italian L3/33 tanquette by Carlos de la Concha from the Brazo de Nelson Wargames Club. These are for a small Italian / Commonwealth campaign in North Africa that our gamemaster Iván Cáceres has put together for our wargaming group.
I finished these three figures off last night. Veteran plastic fans will recognize the body from the old Airfix USAAF set. The heads are from Esci figures. One’s for North Africa, and the other two for Europe I did the head swaps about a year ago and they had been lying half-forgotten until I came…
The car’s a 1/76 Oxford die-cast ready-painted model of some British car from the 30s or 40s, but the make and name of the particular car that it’s supposed to be escaped me (I threw the box out after I bought it) but Paul from the Plastic Warriors Blog was able to point out that…
Note : Adapted from an article published by the author on the old MiniatureZone website in 2000. Polythene figure conversions ; simple replacements of helmets, heads, limbs, torsos & other body parts There’s a huge selection of small-scale plastic figure sets of all types on the market with wide and varied poses but in…
I’m posting some pictures of three 1/72 IGB kits of WWII British trucks that my regular wargame “enemy” Juan had bought specifically to use in some desert wargame scenarios. Chevrolet and rear-view of the Troop Carrier IGB Bedford Radio/Wireless Truck.
The figures are a mix of old 1/76 scale “Matchbox Anzac Infantry” and “Airfix Australian Infantry”. There are also some simple conversion jobs with a few helmets replacing slouch hats, and a couple of figures from other sets slipping in there too. On some of the bases you might notice some offcuts of plastic plants.…
A couple of the scenarios in the Berlin campaign that our wargame group was recently gaming needed some squads of “elderly policemen”, many of whom had to be armed with just handguns. I used figures from various sets of Germans from Revell, Airfix, Caesar, & HaT, and even some of Orion’s sets of cops-n-robbers and…
A picture of the new Pegasus 20mm WW2 French Infantry painted by Carlos de la Concha from the Brazo de Nelson wargame group.
