The figure is 'stock' with no modifications and is mounted on to a UK 2p coin (as are nearly all of my Flintloque miniatures). The uniform colours are dark, bottle green with black facings and white detailing. I painted the beer stein in the same colours as one that my Mother-in-Law has, with foaming beer spilling out of the top.
Tony
Photo Two and Three - The first or main exhibition hall, photographed from the centre showing both views to the right and left.
Photo Four - The competition area, held in a separate hall.
Photo Five and Six - A Belgium exhibition showing true 'scratch building'.
Photo Seven - A Victorian Science Fiction flying machine with a fully modelled interior.
Photo Eight - A beautifully modelled and painted piece, showing a battle in the ice.
Photo Nine - Included because I am just in awe of the level of detail in this model, just breathtaking.
Photo Ten - The winning entry in the Fantasy painting competition. A 54mm Woodland Sprite or Dryad.
Photo Eleven - A bust of Banastre Tarleton.
Photo Twelve - The new 54mm Victrix British.
Photo Thirteen - A HUGE Spectrum Angel Interceptor - it must be over three feet long, the models in the background are 1/72nd.
Photo Fourteen - Warhammer 40K diorama.
Photo Fifteen - A 1/72nd scale Ironclad, included for inspiration.
Photo Sixteen - A resin War of the Worlds Martian Walker.
Photo Seventeen - A scratch built 1/35th scale Sci Fi Anime tank diorama.
Photo Eighteen - There were a lot of 'what if' or Special Interest groups, I particularly liked this subject and colour scheme.
Photo Nineteen - A 1/120th scale Moon Landing, modelled from a V2 rocket on a fantastic display base.
Photo Twenty - Another 'what if' subject - there were loads of these, but this gives a feel for what was modelled.
Photo Twenty-one - included just for the size of this huge Russian jet and display - it really was huge and dominated the display!
Photo Twenty-two - There were hundreds of such display pieces, this one was one of the better painted.
Photo Twenty-three - another display piece that caught my eye.
Having remembered to take my digital camera and take photos, here are just a tiny fraction of the thousands of exhibits, but these few were some that I found of interest, I hope you do too.
The board edges have been painted black and the whole board (minus the rocketship - which was covered with cling-film) was airbrushed with Matt Varnish.
The terrain board is 2 foot x 2 foot and to give an idea of scale the miniatures are 40mm tall and mounted on to 40mm round bases.
Throughout the construction and painting of this board there was one big question. Should I permanently mount the Rocketship, or have it removable? In the end I compromised and the completed Rocketship is mounted into the board but with the minimum of uPVA glue and the smallest amount of DAS modelling clay. If I ever want to remove it, I believe that I could, whether I will is a different matter altogether!
The second photo shows the skin tones, in my opinion the most important colour to get right with this particular figure. I used GW Blood Red/Vallejo Scorched Brown over Scorched Brown, then highlighted with Blood Red and finally some (very small) single stroke highlights of Vallejo Hot Orange.
Tony
It should come as no surprise that the re-worked sci-fi setting is based very much on the original Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven movies, recounting the story of a small rice village that is harassed by bandits every harvest time. The bandits are now becoming more demanding and now taking women and children.
The elders decide that to protect the village they must hire Samurai, but with no money they search out a group that will agree to protect the village for a payment of rice.
Three members are sent to the city to recruit the Samurai and the adventure begins. This illustration shows the seven samurai.
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So far I would give the series a 7 out of 10 (no pun intended), the animation and story are very good, but the music and particularly the Japanese singing does grate!
