Here is the first figure of the 3rd rifle group. When i finish this rifle group, hopefully until the end of this week, my first digger section will be ready for battle.
Start of the 3rd rifle group
Paul Hicks
A digger MG group
Here is the MG group of my growing ANZAC force.
A very nice group of figures with lots of character.
The gunner on his own:
And his assistant:
Another “8 Ball”
As a brake in between painting lots of ANZACs I painted a crew chief for my Sikorsky H34. You can read more about the chopper model here and here. The crew chief figure is, like the pilots, an Empress Miniature sculpted by Paul Hicks.
Here is the crew chief before glueing the figure into the chopper:
And here he is in the chopper:
2nd ANZAC rifle group
Here are the next four finished models. That brings me up to two complete rifle teams. You see the second team above the first team can be seen here.
Above is the fourth soldier of the 2nd rifle group.
Taking aim
The next ANZAC digger this one looks like staging an ambush.
2nd digger 2nd rifle group
This one is armed with a additional M79 blooper gun. Really nice action filled sculpt.
The diggers get a second rifle group
Here is the start of my second rifle group for my ANZAC project. Again an Empress Miniatures figure sculpted by Paul Hicks. Many of you asked about the color palette I use on these. So here it is.
So above you see how I remember the paints I use. In this case you see a printout of a Flames of war painting advice published for there 15mm figures. I don’t use their color palette but it is easier to write up mine. I don’t do that always like this. So the palette I use. All colors are GW contrast colors. For the uniform it is a mixture of 1 part Skeleton Horde and 3 parts Plagbearer flesh, no contrast medium added. I paint two layers of this. For the skin use Gulliman flesh thinned 50/50 with contrast medium one layer only. For the webbing I use two different colors to get a bit variety into my figures. First is Militarium green without contrast medium added. Second is Agaros Dunes also without adding contrast medium.For the boots I use Cygor Brown. For the rope and the first aid kits I use Nazdreg Yellow. The gun, grenades hair etc I don’t use contrast colors . Instead I use the traditional layering technique with Vallejo paints. For the grenades e.g. I use German Uniform . I hope that helps a bit.
Here are some more pictures of the figure I finished yesterday:
First aid
Here is the next ANZAC figure or more a figure group. A digger medic giving first aid to a wounded ANZAC soldier.
A very nice small vignette showing a medic caring for the wounded.
More to come next week.
The new Vietnamese civilians by Empress Miniatures
Last week I got the new Vietnamese civilians from Empress sculpted by Paul Hicks. Very nice figures indeed . I ordered each figure twice as I wanted to change one each by swiping heads or adding some green stuff to get an even wider variety of miniatures. So above is a female civilian, the left figure is the original the middle and right pictures show what I did.
Left original right the changed figure
I will paint them up over the next coming weeks . Paul Hicks sculpted the same miniatures with weapons! So you can swop miniatures in your games and turn an innocent villager into a VC!
Pictures by Empress Miniatures
The first complete digger fire team
Above is a picture of the first completed fire team of the new ANZAC project I started a week ago. Below are pictures of the 4th missing soldier of the fire team.
Next will be an M60 MG team.
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