New Project!

Well, after another one of my famous off the grid absences...I'm back. I've started work on a new project. Something I never thought I would be interested in. A 15mm Zombie apocalypse. The 15mm wild west table is down and the blank slate awaits...


Maybe its too much Walking Dead, maybe I've painted too many historicals, I don't know. I do know that at this past Fall-in I saw a 15mm Rebel Minis set of figures and all the trimmings for a game in the toys for tots auction. It looked awesome, so awesome I chased the set up to 1,100 at that point I made a sanity check and thankfully my rival was clearly more committed than I.

Well since losing the item I've been obsessed with making one on my 10x5. I have tracked down all the parts need to make the buildings and have painted tons of Rebel Minis, I sill have a few hundred zombies to paint...


Here is a test stand of 15mm living dead. I am fairly pleased. I am doing 60 single mounted and mix of stands with various numbers of zombies.


Here are some of the buildings stacked up and ready to go, the ones on the bottom right need painting and customizing.


A shot of the police, swat, riot police, bikers and chemical response team...


The US Army...


I have to work on civilians, rioting civilians, and armed civilians. I'll post more pics once I begin laying the city out.

Who makes the buildings in this photo?

They look familiar, appear to be modular and pre-painted. Does anyone know who makes them???

A Few More 15mm Wild West Photos

I don't have much time for text but here are some updated pics of the 15mm Wild West table. I still need to add "fort Apache" at the base of the mountain but most of the table is set up.

Below is a shot of the prairie leading into marsh at the foothills of the mountains...

A shot of the town, yet to be named, or "The Town With No Name," for now...

A shot of the road leading out of the mountain pass. The stagecoach is Minifig...

One of the mining camps in the mountains...

A glimpse of the teepee's, I still have to paint the minis for this section. Note the mountain lion in his den (rocks in the lower left)...

A shot over the mountains looking back towards the ranch...

Another big picture shot...

The ranch, inspired by McFarlan's Ranch in Red Dead Redemption...

The horse coral behind the livery in town. Note the tent city in the lower left.

The town is loaded with civilians and small details. I have to complete the building interiors but Ill start getting some more details pics up soon!

New 15mm Wild West Table

I have been gone for some time but I've been working on a few things. The main miniature project has been 15mm wild west. I've set up a table that is a mash up of plains, high plains, open range, and mountains. After playing so much Red Dead Redemption I was motivated to create the following:

This table represents the bones, I have a fort/ trading post to add and a ton of other finishing details.

From the mountains looking back to town

I have a herd of buffalo I'll put in the plains...

The fort will go at the intersection of the left turn before town on the shot below...

28mm ACW 2ND MISSISSIPPI Foundry minis

I finished my 2nd Mississippi Foundry minis a while back. They came out great but these pics are pretty bad. I'll get some better shots soon. I painted them mostly in blue battle shirts trimmed in red with a few red fireman's shirts here and there. Each man has a white Mississippi star most on the hat but a few on collars and sleeves. These were a lot of fun to do and makes for a really cool early war unit.

28mm Redoubts

Happy New Year! I wanted to get some pics up of the redoubt pieces I have been working on. I got them from Acheson Creations at Fall-in in G-burg this past November.

They look very good with some simple modification. I found the texture to was a bit lacking in detail so I added sand, a quick dry brush and some static grass and the look is fantastic. Overall the product is great and the price is even better.

I made 2 angle pieces out of the 50 cent log wall sections he sells. These are very useful for making custom sections.

An example of a larger redoubt

One sepia shot to hide the flash wash out :)

One thing that was missing from the product line were end caps, a good way to to end the line you set up. I made my own using spent gift cards for the base and match-up edge, green stuff, and a row of the 50 cent gabions. This worked very well.

Gone but not Dead

Well, I'm still here. I've been pretty damn quiet online but Im still painting where I can. Here are some shots of the latest projects.

Bears, one of the lady's xmas gifts

Perry siege guns. I dont have much use for them, the bases come out of the emplacement...love these big guns!