My French & Indian War stuff (1 Viewer)

[Big Miller Bro]

I've sculpted a whole bunch of combinations with the French coat and the British Coat but have only made copies of this one torso/leg combo- to be honest I'm not entirely happy with my resin results. They need a good bit of clean up so that although a hobbyist wouldnt mind spending 5 minutes cleaning up a figure a consumer might- I'll have to rethink my drop cast mould idea lol...

Though I only have the one body set done up I've been doing a whole bunch of head swaps onto AIP bodies- the good heads will go on BMC Mexicans to make Spanish Naps...




Although the BMC Mexicans make many different uniforms good for 1812 gaming...

 

[Fubar]

Very nice. Are you making resin molds then? I havent given that a try , yet. Don't know the 1st thing and at present I dont have the room in my shop.



I like your BMC guys too.
I painted a bunch as French Lights and about 30 of them as Naussers. Had to paint on much of the uniform detail but they look fine.

I dremeled off the detail on some Russians today and am TRYing to resulpt the uniforms and details for a Frenchman.

Sketching out a Bunch of Frogs I want to do. Thats a lot easier than sculpting them but I'll bash my head for a while till I get something decent.

Fub

 

[Big Miller Bro]

yeah- I wanted to make molds to allow people to do their own but I'm not certain people will want to fiddle as much as I do with them lol

 

[Big Miller Bro]

the imageshack pics are pretty tiny so I've posted a larger version here:


http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/49335236/

 

[Big Miller Bro]

Finally got a British torso cast up:

That is the 3 different leg combos. I'm gonna do some more diarama shots when I get more figs done.


You can see that even though my paintjobs are terrible the figures (mostly) cast well:

 

[Big Miller Bro]

Some of my extra Miller Bros heads on BMC Alamo Defender bodies

Some of my resin cast proto-types

 

[Big Miller Bro]

More pics of proto-type resins. The Grenadier Sergeants halberd is just a proxy till I get a metal one as in resin it is to fragile lol. I only proto-typed 2 of 4 British Torsos and 1 of 4 French but I'm glad I did as it allowed me to make some changes before doing the set.

 

[Big Miller Bro]

 

[Big Miller Bro]

Some more of my 54mm Fremch- but with new poses and metal castings finally. The officer is a Prince August Prussian officer with one of my heads replacing the Prussian one.

 

[Big Miller Bro]

 

[plasmapulse]

That's a very nice pic.

 

[kilted vampire]

Looks like the painting is getting better. Nice!

 

[modwalls]

Nice pics Jay, I like the painted back ground affect, I will have to give that a try. Then again I need back ground foreground trees, barrles, etc. Good Stuff, Mike.

 

[Big Miller Bro]

Thanks! The really nice paintjob in the front left was the one I had a pro paint for me- he is amazing and the skin tones are very 'true' I find. PM me if you would like his contact info as he is amazing.

The rest of the redcoats are all my normal stock paintjobs lol- and the background is just a quickly painted canvas to give the minis some context lol. I also use some black ink pens as a mix media. In this pic I also layered the depth such that layers further back are muted to help give the illusion of distance. I've been practicing a lot of painting to see what I like and what I dont cause I hope to paint some larger 'battle' pics later this year.