Sunday, October 30, 2016

Abyssinian Crisis: Mehal Sefari - just some test figures

In order to approach the rendering of the skin colors found in Ethiopia, which in the original range from dark brown to reddish skin tones, I did some tests with different color and wash combinations, and after finding some schemes that worked well, I wanted to test the effect on fully painted figures.So...

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Abyssinian Crisis: 1st Half-Platoon Mehal Sefari - Conversions Part 2

As it turned out, the Wolseley helmets of Perry unfortunately do not fit to the figures of Copplestone and Empress - the Perry figures and accordingly their helmets are simply too delicate and do not look suitable on the filed heads.This can be seen well on the photos of part 1, so I started again from...

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Zeitreisen: Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster

Im Sommer in kühlen Museumshallen unterzutauchen, um der Hitze zu entfliehen und dabei noch etwas für die eigene Bildung tun - für mich und meine Tochter war das in den Sommerferien verlockend genug, um uns auf die Fahrt gen Norden zum Panzermuseum Munster aufzumachen. Und die letzten Tage hatte ich...