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Mike Harrop
ParticipantI’ve bit the bullet and ordered a bunch of Crom’s Anvil buildings, I can’t wait to paint them.
Michael, you were looking for generic Civilians to populate your town, Donnington Miniatures has a few Middle Eastern civilians sold as individuals in their Equiptment range along with a few interesting Middle Eastern musicians and Town Militia in their other ranges. They’re nearer to 18mmthan 15 but are nice castings.
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantI’ve always found Andy at Heresy to be pleasant to deal with, also Drew at Nexus Miniatures, he’s had a hell of a year but always has time to chat to customers.
Mike
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Mike Harrop
ParticipantThese and probably more in the last 10 years, beyond that I’m not sure.
Adler Miniatures
Angel Barracks
Antenocitis Workshop
Baccus Miniatures
Battlefield/Blitz
Black Cat Bases
Black Tree Design
Britannia Miniatures
Copplestone Casting
CP Miniatures
Crooked Dice Miniatures
Elheim Miniatures
Fenris Games
Fighting 15s
Four A Miniatures
Frontline Wargaming
Hasslefree Miniatures
Heroics and Ros
Heresy Miniatures
Midlam Miniatures
MiniFigs
Oathsworn Miniatures
Otherworld Miniatures
Old Glory
Offensive Miniatures
Perry Miniatures
Plastic Soldier Co
Ral Partha
Rebel Miniatures
Scotia Grendel
Sgts Mess
Shellhole Scenics
SHQ Miniatures
Splintered Light Miniatures
Studio Miniatures
Wargames Foundry
Warlord Games
Westwind Productions
Irregular Miniatures
Northstar Military Figures
Ainsty Castings
Crossover Miniatures
Vanguard Miniatures
Nexus Miniatures
Killer B Games
Gripping Beast
Mountain Miniatures
Beast in the BrochMike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantThose look wonderful, great work.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantI look forward to seeing your work, I’m a beginner too, I’ve tried almost every scale and period and its 6mm WW2 that I seem to excel, my 28mm and 15mm look so sloppy.
A few new bits done today.
Armoured Forward observer in Pz II, Officer in Pz II and Infantry Officer in Heavy Car.
German supply column with fuel tanker, some still painted in early war Panzer Grau.
3 SdKfz 222 and Raupenshlepper Ost PaK 40.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantBattlegroup would fit your requirements except for how it handles figures but with a bit of book keeping it should be doable. They aren’t covering every theatre of WW2 as yet, but they are working on it.
They’re designed for 20mm but would handle 10mm without changes.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
Participantlook forward to seeing more
There will be plenty more soon, but so far just rebasing.
Fuzzy phone pic of German Armour rebased, they look almost the same as they did, but took a lot less time to base up without all of the cutting. I’ve expanded the size of my command stands from 30mm X 30mm up to 40mm X 40mm
I’ll be getting on with some early bits too, a T-26b company and a company each of BT-5 and BT-7 along with early war command in T-26 and on Horses.
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantHello again. I’m back to painting and modelling the Eastern Front in 6mm again after a 6 month break. I’m starting with rebasing all of my previous efforts onto laser cut wooden bases, they work out cheaper than hand cut styrene and have no variation, I’ll update with pics soon. Popping all those tanks off of bases is a daunting task.
Meanwhile I’ve put in a nice big order at Heroics and Ros and Scotia (GHQ are out of my price range now 🙁 ) to cover mid to late war Germans and Soviets so expect updates thick and fast through August and September
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantMid grey highlighted to white in all scales.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantI’ve never had a problem with Pervy miniatures, I’m not sure it shows a mysoganistic side to wargaming either as my Mrs has a lot more explicit and pervy male and female miniatures and figures than I do and she’s a radical feminist.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantOfficially, no one dislikes men. Extra officially and in practice? Oh, my, yes. It’s a minority but they can be vocal.
In my experience, the men dislikers are also the feminists who are Trans Exclutionary and Sex Worker Exclutionary too.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantTheir 6mm WW2 stuff is good except for the infantry, weak ankles, incomplete casts on the strips, some figures only had feet, some only the lower legs, some only cast to the waist, others with missing arms. I got about 25 figures out of each pack of 50.
hope this helps
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantMiniature Wargames – Battlegroup, KOW, 9th Age, Dragon Rampant, Frostgrave.
Board games – Descent, D&D Adventure System, Dubgeon Command, Zombiecide
RPGs – D&D, Werewolf, Warhammer Roleplay.
Computer Games – I’ve not played a computer game in 6 years, despite only being in my 20s. I wasn’t raised playing them so I never got into computer of console gaming
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantI’ve thought about gaming Red Dwarf, but games scenarios seem a little limited, remember there are no other humans and absolutely NO aliens at all in the Red Dwarf universe, as for minis I’m not sure, in 28mm Nexus Miniatures should have a Kryten mini out soonish.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
Participanthey mike would love to see your work
I’ll post some here and on Facebook in the next week or two, once I’m completely happy with them.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantThe Orcs are looking great, I’ve just started sculpting 6mm Fantasy myself, starting with Dark Dwarves because big hats.
You are doing a excellent job at sculpting, working at 6mm is a hell of a lot harder than it looks.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantA lot of my Orcs and goblins are yellow, brown, orange, pale skinned, dark skinned, grey and black, whatever I feel like at the time – I think I’ve got 3 green goblins in my entire collection of miniatures. When I paint my Hobgoblins for alongside my chaos dwarfs they may be getting done goblin green….maybe.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantThanks everyone
I’ve picked up a bunch of landing craft from Scotia Grendel for Overlord beach assault games, firstly I have practiced my ship colour on a LCI (late) that I couldn’t resist ordering at the same time event though it’s more suited to the Pacific and Far East
Still awaiting decals and crew but I quite like it, Scotia Micro-models are much nicer in person than they appear on their website, nice and inexpensive too
C & C welcomed as usual
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantI have just seen this. It is making me want to scrap my 20mm forces that I will never have space to play the BG series with and invest in some 6mm WW2.
Thats exactly what I did, I only use my 20mm for Normandy Firefight now
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantCheers AB, the extra stowage is all your fault, seeing all of the H+R stowage that you added to your sci fi tanks
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantI base 2 minis or a HMG team etc. to a 20mm round base and 3 minis or a AT gun etc. to a 25mm round base, a typical Russian platoon for BGK is 35 minis or 9 25mm bases and 4 20mm bases plus appropriate support weapons.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantWaffle detail?
T-34s and their variants had tracks that looked like waffle texture, I.e. Small square holes, the armourfast kit didn’t.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantMiniatures
6mm WW2 Germans, Soviets and now Americans and weird WW2
28mm Cult TV, GI Joe Cobra Tanks, weird WW2Terrain
6mm Railways, linear obstacles, burnt out AFVs
28mm Villains secret lair/Nazi superscience bunkerMike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantI think £4.00 – £7.00 is about the maximum I’d pay these days, back in my GW buying days i’d have spent up to £20 on a single guy on a metal horse like Archeon or Balthazar Gelt, not anymore though, I’ve become quite reluctant to part with cash as I became older.
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
Participantlove the commander popping out the hatch, is that a conversion?
It’s a officer from GHQ German Infantry pack cut in half at the waist and a new arm sculpted holding his binoculars, I still need to add the hatch covers which I forgot to do before I painted them.
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantMike Harrop
ParticipantI do use I-94 decals usually but I only have just white outline German numbers, so I’ve picked up black with white outline and red with white outline too for a bit of variation.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantI’ll happily pay £1.00 – £2.00 for a 28mm foot figure, more for the individual rather than rank and file I.e. £4.00 for a Crooked Dice mini. Though I begrudge paying the £1.70 ish for a single 6mm tank from GHQ which uses about the same amount of lead.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantI’ve managed to get a few more bits done on my Ruskies
Firstly my NKVD officer writing orders at his field desk (Irregular and C in C)
A platoon of NKVD border guards supported by a Maxim and Mortar (H & R WW1 and WW2 Russians)
A KV-2 and lend-lease White Scout Car (C in C)
2 Gaz-67 jeep for my NKVD blocking troops and 3 BA-10 armoured cars (GHQ and C in C)
2 tows for Zis-2 guns (GHQ and C in C)
Transports to motorise another rifle platoon and their Infantry gun (a mix of GHQ and C in C with troops transplanted from H & R trucks)
And finally a few Don Cossacks (Irregular)
As usual C & C welcomed
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantMy mrs is fine with it as long as we don’t cut into each other’s budgets for hobbies and Doctor Who audios, and the local mental health teams encourage my gaming as it keeps me calm (seriously, I have borderline personality disorder and I need to keep distracted)
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantI’ve also abandoned a naps project in both 28mm and 15mm, I also chucked in my 28mm & 20mm WW2 bits to concentrate on 6mm which is coming along nicely for once. It seems like I give up on most things not 6mm nowadays, though my 28mm spy-fi and cult TV is steadily growing.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
Participant6mm GHQ, Baccus, Heroics and Ros
18mm AB and Blue Moon
20mm Elheim, CP Models, AB, S & S Models, Warmodelling
28mm Crooked Dice, Heresy, OtherworldI’ve not had any truly bad minis for a while, though Skytrex 1/72 WW2 stuff was a bit crap and Irregular 6mm are a bit hit and miss
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantWonderful work, well done
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantMike Harrop
ParticipantFor this weekend I’ve got to finish my river – four curves, two short straights, a tiny straight with a boathouse and a ford, while that’s drying I’ll be getting on with my 6mm NKVD boarder guards and whatever tanks, trucks and guns that I can finish. If I can find the time I’ll paint up Moulder and Scully in 28mm from Nexus Miniatures.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantThanks for the kind words everyone.
@Norm Smith – the rivers are made with 5mm thick MDF that came in the packaging of our new oven, a typical section can be between 30cm – 80cm long and 17cm wide without warping,
@Alexander Wasberg – the bridge is 2 kebab skewers to span the river with toothpicks glued on top.Ask and you shall receive, here’s a few pics I’ve taken of my current set up for a small skirmish game set in 1943 Russia, no river on these photos though.
An aerial view
Some other shots across the table.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantThanks all, @editorMike – it can only be a good thing that it doesn’t look like a conversion 🙂
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
Mike Harrop
ParticipantYes, it was a flatbed which was removed and the whole back was added to make it into a bus.
It’s further up this thread as a WIP
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Mike Harrop
ParticipantMike Harrop
ParticipantI’m a big fan of the look and playing style of WW2 Soviets, I’ve got a force in 1:35 for Normandy Firefight, 28mm for Bolt Action and again for Secrets of the Third Reich, 20mm and 6mm for Battlegroup and BKC. When I played 40K I had Ice Warriors of Valhalla – which is pretty much the same thing too.
Mike
"This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we may all be dead!" The 4th Doctor - Horror of Fang Rock
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