Updated for 2026 I’m once again in the planning stages of a Vietnam wargaming project. After previous attempts in 10mm and 20mm, I’ve now decided to go for 28mm. There’s just so much more detail on the miniatures that for Skirmish games, I now consider 28mm the way to go. […]
After procrastinating for years (literally), I’ve finally managed to finish 12 Empress Vietnam-era USMC miniatures. The paint recipe is described here. The Empress miniatures are very nice with realistic proportions, and go together well with the few Gringo 40s miniatures that I have finished earlier. This means that I’m once […]
As I had already hinted at in my post about Clan Mech availability, I wanted to build and paint a typical Clan Wolf Star and ended up with two Timber Wolfs, one Stormcrow, one Mad Dog, and an Ice Ferret, to use the Clan names. One Timber Wolf is the […]
I’m mostly a miniatures wargamer. My main games have been Battletech, X-Wing, Infinity, and Star Wars Legion. I’ve also played most other Star Wars miniatures games: the West End Games Star Wars Miniatures Battles, Imperial Assault, and Armada. I also have my share of experience with traditional hex-and-counter boardwargames. Battle […]
After trying various paint schemes throughout the last 3 decades, I’ve now settled on a straightforward green scheme for most of my Inner Sphere ‘Mechs. Green is suitable for at least the following units: SLDF and hence Eridani Light Horse Lyran Regularss Davion Crucis Lancers ComStar in battle, as the […]
Gundam is a long-running Japanese anime franchise featuring large combat walkers (Mecha). The hobby of building plastic model kits of these Mecha is known as Gunpla, and to my knowledge the most popular form of plastic kit in Japan, with many new models being released each year. Availability in Europe […]
I’ve finally found a paint recipe for 28mm US Vietnam troops that I like. Most period photographs show the uniforms to be pretty green, whereas many paint recipes that I’ve found are too dark or too much on the brownish side. I also struggled with highlighting. I’ve used Vallejo Olive […]
The Tau (or T’au, as they are written now) are my favorite Warhammer 40K faction – as a matter of fact, they are the only faction that interest me both from a lore and a visual standpoint. I’ve long resisted the urge to start a Tau army (I even own […]
I’ve got a bit of a love/hate relationship with airbrushing for painting models and miniatures. You can get great results, but you need quite some time for preparation and especially cleaning afterwards, so you probably want to plan an hour or so for an airbrush session. There’s also a learning […]
I recently stumbled upon AK Interactive’s weathering pencils. They look like normals pencils, but are made of a waxy substance that is water-soluble. To get this ouf of the way: The ads make it sound like they might be The Best Thing Ever, but they are certainly not magic. Getting […]
Paint schemes According to the fluff, the Tau use appropriate camouflage for the environment they are fighting in. This means that you could use pretty much any paint scheme that you want, as long as you come up with a backstory for why this serves to blend into the environment. […]
These are the PanOceania miniatures I have finished so far. I started out with the Operation Icestorm and Beyond Icestorm sets, and then added more miniatures. I decided to stick to the “official” paint scheme, as blue is my favourite color! I have plenty more waiting to be painted, next […]
