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That sounds right Bob. I purchased several Ozmade kits at a steam festival in Maitland in 2006 from a guy who was located on the NSW Central Coast. He had the Ozmade range and a sort of modular range of Napoleonic wargames figures. I wish I had purchased more before he disappeared.:) Mike...

Will do JB. I ended up redoing them again last night as I thought they were too big and used a brand new X-acto blade which seemed to work better. I have seen video of the GW people using the putty with Vaseline. It looks like it works well- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNSvo3NR92Y They...

GW putty! I had a play with the two-part epoxy party last night and made an attempt at putting the hair on the Brunswick Hussar helmet plumes. It shaped very well but found it quite dry on the surface when I cut the pattern into the putty. Is there anything you can add to it to soften the...

Malcolm, Another one for making castings available. There are some desirable figures and ranges among those All the Queen's Men figures, the Colonial figures are very desirable (there aren't a lot of Boer War figures around). I have always thought that line that making castings available...

Nice work Kirk! That Slim figure is a favorite. I've been chasing one for a while. I haven't seen the Alexander figure before and it looks like a nice sculpt. Scott

Drawing some inspiration from diverse sources today! Firstly JohnnyBach's Life Guards thread. Secondly the Australian politician Christopher Pynes book 'A letter to My Children' where he writes "My father and I would use the now-vacant bedrooms upstairs to handpaint Napoleonic era model...

Brad, Thanks for the info regarding the pipes. The painting instructions for the Valiant figure suggest the pipe should be painted white as well. I am thinking for the mounted figure I will paint it brown as per the wooden shown in your post. The uniforms being largely black I am planning on...

Pretty much painted the horses apart from some shading and now starting on the figures. My Valiant Miniatures Brunswick Hussar kit has arrived too so will start making swords and sabretaches once the figures receive some paint. Still have to make some blanket rolls for the saddles as well. Scott

Just throwing this into the ring Malcolm. I notice in the war-games and modelling worlds that 1/48 and 1/56 seem to be increasingly popular for figures and armour, with the figures becoming far less like the traditional wargames figure and more like a model soldier. 1/48 armour kits seem to lose...

That sounds interesting Malcolm. Those Tommy's War figures are beautifully sculpted and seem to attract the modellers/painters on other military modelling forums. I've often wondered how many of those kids who paint the fantasy war-games figures make the jump to larger figures in historical...

I will add that book to my wants list. I am currently reading R.F Delderfield's 'Seven Men of Gascony'which interestingly pretty much starts with the battles of Aspern-Essling and Wagram from a French perspective. Delderfield wrote the book in 1949 and it may well be one of the first books of...

Opportunity there! Some of those figures are definitely worthy of repair and repaint at the starting prices. The commando with the bike definitely looks repairable and not too difficult repaint. I'm sure it would be worth more than its current condition. Someone have a go at them:smile2: Scott

Thanks Larry. I found the putty you mentioned. Scott.

Slowly making some progress with these figures. I Have been painting the first horse and experimenting with blue colours for the facings. There is some variation in books and illustrations as to the shade of blue. ‘Uniforms of Waterloo’ by Haythornthwaite, Cassin-Scott and Chappell describe the...

Nice painting John:). There look to be some great relaxed poses in the Prince August range. Particularly like that standing French soldier with the mug and bonnet de police. Scott

Looking forward to seeing them painted Konrad. I posted a small catalogue of the kits in post 8 of this thread- http://www.treefrogtreasures.com/forum/showthread.php?50681-A-New-Hope-Design-Samurai&p=654971&highlight=#post654971 They should paint up nicely. Scott

Larry, Those Airfix conversions look great! Can I ask which brand green putty do you use? Scott

Have been working with the damaged horse first. Straightened the legs out first in hot water before stripping the paint and glue from it. Reassembled and found a lot of gaps. Filled the gaps with filler and realized that I had inadvertently put some filler into the sheepskin texture mounted...

Thanks Mirof and gents. Yes that is the image the figure is modelled upon. The blue looks very blue/grey in the image. Some I have seen painted use a lighter blue though I suspect that colour is how the blue is meant to be. Scott

Scott, Not a movie, but a documentary series called 'Ancient Black Ops' on the History Channel recently went into depth about various ancient groups and their tactics. Worth looking out for. Scott