Major Ballsup's Hobby Shed

After finishing off the last of the Sikh-Wars figures I realised I had very little left to paint apart from 12 Perry Miniatures plastic ACW and a sprue of five Great Escape Games Gunfighters. I'd got these to combine with a pack of NorthStar Cultists to make these sinister critters (more here ).  There's 5 bodies and 5 pairs of legs on the sprue and a plethora of arms and heads.  I think they'd be enough to make 10 different enough figures, which is what I believe you get in a full pack.  I only use 28mm for skirmish games now, so I'm interested in making them as different as possible hence why I  tend to only buy the odd sprue.  When I made the cultists I complained that the hands on these Great Escape figures were massive.  There's still a few like that but it seems they were more the ones with the older, larger Colt pistols.  The ones with the Peacemakers look much better.   They painted up really nicely.  There's lots of details...

2022 to date has been the year of 20mm figures.  All my figure painting has been in this scale and the other week I felt like a change. Inspired/intrigued by pictures I'd seen of the 28mm Northstar Cultists, my initial idea was to kitbash these with some Perry Confederates. I ordered up some sprues from SGS Models and they came very quickly.  However, I felt the Confederate arms were too slender, so I went back on SGS's site and ordered up some Great Escape Games Gunfighters.  A couple of days later, these arrived and looked a more similar heft.  I chose the arms with the earlier weaponry as my fictional Apocalyptic/Dark Old West is pre-Civil War, so I didn't want Colt Peacemakers, of which there's a plethora on the Great Escape sprue. With some judicious application of Greenstuff and cutting I managed to attach the arms to the Cultist bodies and they came out OK.  One thing I'm not too keen on is the size of the hands.  They're MASSIVE!  What is it wi...

I had a reasonable bit of hobby time this week and I managed to get a few bits done.   Painting/modelling   I completed painting the artillery crews for the Anglo-Sikh Wars but couldn't finish them as I was waiting for the bases to come through.   While I was waiting on the bases for the artillery to arrive, I dug out and completed my last few figures to represent FLN fighters for the Algerian War.  You can see them here . I started on the three additional Sikh dragoons to bring the unit I'd completed last year up to full strength.   Research & Reading I've finished reading The First Anglo-Sikh War by Amarpal Singh.  The second half is a battlefield guide so I just read the battlefield descriptions of the time.  Not much point reading the modern directions and info as I don't see a trip to the Punjab happening anytime soon!  Incoming! A few bits arrived this week: On Monday a sprue each of Perry Miniatures Confederate infan...