WIP miniatures

Pz.38(t)'s painted, ready for transfers. Also some of the british tanks I'm working on - also painted and ready for transfers. front to back: Vickers Mk.VI, 2 Cromwells,a Comet, and a Matilda.

Whipped up some Soviet Aero Sleds in the last few days: RF-8 GAZ-98K Aerosan - 1/72 Ace Kit, pretty poor quality and extremely fiddly to put together, I wouldn't recommend them unless you really like Aerosani and have a lot of patience and enjoy gluing tiny struts into place.

First aerosan built: The struts were difficult to clean properly due to being attached to the sprue in many places


All 4 built, with snow bases made up and crewmen added (from the PSC T-70 kits) Somewhat wonky...


Painted: Thankfully paint covers a lot of sins!

Finally got around to sorting out my Royal Italian Army:

This was what I started with - unpainted miniatures on carboard bases - the way we had played for years. Minimal effort, but looks like crap


Then partway through sorting out the infantry. Base colors on and glued to balsa wood bases, then did a wash of nuln oil, and finally a highlight on the shirts, skin and helmets


The finished forces. Bases done and vehicles painted and with transfers:






And the most fun to do - The supply train... a field kitchen preparing pasta. I couldn't resist

Base colors on - next step is a light wash and then transfers

Built a Vickers 6-ton / Vickers Mark E for my Chinese. One of the harder kits I've built, and the first time I've come across photo-etched metal parts.
It is by no means perfect, and I still have to build 3 more before getting on to painting (which should hopefully cover a lot of failures!)

First Vickers 6-ton complete:

Scratch built some Field guns for my Chinese force. These could potentially be Gai Liang field guns. I'll fix the guy whose head I shaved off with some modeling putty.

Chinese infantry mostly finished - just need to base them.

The power of Nuln Oil - along with metalics, the only citadel product I use (all the paints are cheap acrylics - mixed by hand)

Here's the reference image I used (from Osprey's Chinese Civil war Armies 1911 - 1949)


My miniatures before Nuln oil - purposefully painted brighter than the end result I wanted:


After Nuln oil - looking pretty good, ready for basing:

Chinese Vehicles and field guns undercoated. Next step is a dark wash, and then fine black borders of the camo pattern with a fine brush tip permanent marker. I also have some blue sunbursts printed out to use as transfers.

They dont look great right now, but hopefully the wash, camo borderlines and transfers will bring them to life

Some of the finished Chinese forces - The vehicles have had a dark brown wash, and a grey highlight for a bit of dust. Our Shanghai table is coming together as well!