back to it

ok, basically I had a huge break from miniatures, doing mid-life crisis stuff instead. Painting figures sort of doesn't really fit with extreme sport, speedy cars, thinking of a tour of duty and buying expensive gadgets. I figured out that wife may not be too happy about those plans so I got myself a few cool toys thinking that, yeah, I might be getting older, but heck, I still have toys to play with. :-)

Well... the good news is that I ended with a new very nice digital camera (better pictures) and that I am buying DBN to start actually playing Napoleonics because, hey,.. life's too short!

6mm Afghan Battlegroup

Here is my battlegroup Commander. The commander is using a captured Soviet T62

Here is a local Headquarter with donkeys providing supply, Anti-Aircraft cover is assured by a stinger (left)

Second Headquarter for my Mujahideens. The group has taken refuge behind a captured BMP.

Here is the support for the guerillas. 2 x bases of Mortars, 2 x sniper bases, 2 x heavy machinegun bases and 2 x medium machinegun bases

Here is the guerilla. I suppose they are suitable for Soviet Afghanistan conflict, or something more recent. Although, I have a hard time "gaming" recent engagements. Understanding from a tactical perspective what is going on and what type of issue a unit may be facing may be more appropriate.

All in all, good fun to paint this battlegroup. Not so many CWC points, but good for small battles and engagement. The idea, originally was to play battles with -up to- 200-250 Afghan fighters.

The Soviets are almot done. I need to paint helicopters and Infantry.

Painting Afghanistan bases 6mm

Afghanistan, CO unit for Cold War commander

I have recently finished a Mujaheedin battlegroup for Cold War Commander (which is not very clever because I do not have the Soviets ready and would have been better off painting Hezbollah for my Lebanon 2006 project first...). However, before I am being asked how I painted the bases, here is a small "how to" tutorial.


First of all, I glued all the models on the base, covered the base with PVA glue and put some rocks then put the bases in a sand box so they are full textured. Next step was to spray the full base in dark brown.

Many moons after (when I managed to find a reseller that could sell GW foundation paints by pot) and heavily wet brushed the bases with GW's foundation paint Tau Ochre.

Next I drybushed the base with GW's foundation paint Dheneb Stone, and finish with a light dry drush of Valejo's pale sand.

Here is the base with the tank painted in Valejo's WWII Russian uniform and inked with GW's Devlan mud.

The final result, with the highligths and characters painted.

At this stage, I am not planning to add any vegetation. I hope you enjoy this mini-tutorial.

6mm Modern Syrians

Here are some Syrians that I painted over last week-end. I used the following link for inspiration on the colors : Syrian Army museum

T-72 Unit bi-color camouflage

T-62 Unit tri-colors camouflage

BMP-1s for the infantry support

And some artillery of course:


I will have to do all the bases, but this time I will try to be clever and make re-usable bases with a magnet to fix the vehicle on them (besides HQ and CO that will have fixed AFVs on their bases)

6mm Syrians preview

Here is a preview of the Syrian unit I have been painting last week-end. In total, there are 50 vehicles (T72, T62, BMP1, BRDM, ZSU, SP122mm).
More pictures to follow.

breaking the boundaries!

John, from http://picoarmor.com/ sent me some Modern Russian vehicles, planes and aircrafts.
These are very nicely sculpted 3mm models (or 1/600 scale). The range is quite extensive now, and I hope some Israelis, modern French and Germans are planned as well.

I will come back on these as I have first to finish the Hezbollah and Mujahideen bases, and I am actually starting Modern Syrians as well... not to mention that I will push for a small Soviet battlegroup for Afghanistan!

So I am pretty busy at the moment. Nonetheless, remains to be seen if sixtwentyeight is going to be threetwentyeight as this is my first try at something smaller than 6mm. I have no clue at the moment how I am going to paint them! Will see.

You can see here a 6mm model with 3mm models...

next on the painting table

Contrarily to my habit, I have based the figures first before painting them. It seems faster to proceed this way. We will see how easy it is.

So far on the painting table are:

• Mujaheddin force for Afghanistan
• Hezbollah force for Lebanon

I'm waiting for some GW Foundation paints to paint the bases, then I will be able to tackle the figures. I will probably do a step by step "how to".

Hezbollah HQ with a rocket launcher and guerillas unboarding a Toyota pick-up

Mujaheedin HQ with captured T-62 and a mule convoy