Pulp-terrain: the tomb of the dragon emperor

Hi, here some nice terrainpieces I found at a local store in Belgium, It's a small cartonboardbox with several terracotta soldiers in it. The standing figures are 13.50 cm high.

The box contains:

- 1 horse

- 1 soldiers kneeling

- 2 different standing soldiers

- 1 functionary

Costprice: 3 or 4 euros!

Text inside the box, what it means I don't know my Chinese isn't the best! Probably about the terracotta army, etc ...

The figures in the box.

The figures standing.

I hope I inspired some of you to build the tomb of the dragon emperor for some pulpgames of just the lair of a mad but artistic scientist!

Greets,

VSF-project: African porters

Hi, here some more miniatures for my british expedition for my VSF-project. The porters are 25mm dixon miniatures from their nice Dahomey range.

A real nice range which includes mules, african warriors, french legionaires,...

http://www.dixonminiatures.co.uk

The 4 porters waiting for a paintjob and some more porters,... (if you know somebody with some more porters he want to get rid off let me know).

Greets,

VSF-project: Legion Africanus

Hi, here are some pictures of my members of the Legion Africanus which will be used as a sort of elite unit within the native force.

How the natives found the Roman armor?

"... three Roman legions led by consul Antonius Marcabo have succesfully conquered and captured the native capital of Mbuij Mayi, the spoils of war were great and praised by every soldier!...

Dozens of infidel temples were looted, thousands of houses were burned down, Roman rule was installed throught out the African kingdom!

Every day countless caravans of slaves loaded with loot were leaving the African kingdom heading for Rome...

But 3 years after the succesfull conquest of Mbuij Mayi, rumors of rebellion were spread! The son of the former king of Mbuij Mayi was gathering an army near the capital. Thousands, hundred of thousands native warriors were gathering, weapons were made, warsongs were sung!

The Romans now aware of the danger immediately sent out 3 legions of roman citizens, 2 hastly recruited legions of Roman colonials and 4 legions recruited among the African population.

Thinking of an easy victory they eagerly marched to the battlefield! What followed was a great disaster: the legions were scattered and destroyed by the immense African hordes.

Now the African soldiers were the looters and the surving Roman soldiers the slaves! ...

The Roman emperor enraged by this defeat destroyed every evidence of his failed colonial adventure. He ordered to destroy every monument dedicated to the great conquest of Mbuij Mayi and silenced every surving soldier or colonial."

The miniatures are made from Warlord Games legionaires and Wargames Factory Zulu heads.

A groupshot of the miniatures (2 with pillum and 1 with a shortsword).

Another groupshot.

A close-up of one of the miniatures armed with a broadsword.

I hope you enjoyed this small post,

Greets,

VSF-project: painted mini's 1

Hi, here are some pictures of my painted mini's from my new VSF-project;

All the big vehicles and apes you can see on this post are based on squares of 7 by 7 cm made of 3mm hardboard. The smaller apes are based on 5 eurocents, still the cheapest way to base my mini's (suggestions are welcome).

The basecoat is a cheap hardwarepaint: a kind of very dark grey almost black. The paints used as highlight are Gamesworkshop paints: skull white and chaos black which are mixed together in several different proportions. I have used 3 highlights on the apes,...

The bases are coated with filler and textured with sand and PVA. The stands were then flocked with 2 sorts of flock; a light green and foliage/forest mix. The bigger bases were also decorated with plastic aquarium plants.

Finally some pictures,

The smaller apes with a Wargames Factory British soldier.

The 3 apes on a row also with a British soldier. I have tried some eyes on the small apes but I don't like them very much however they are my first eyes and I really need to train the skill, ...

My small steamtank, painted in a square camouflage scheme.

Another shot of the steamtank.

One of the big apes' back.

He's looking angry,...

A big ape with a British soldier.

The three brutes together!

I hope you enjoyed the pictures stay tuned for more pictures and progress on this project,

Greets,

VSF-project: natives

Hi, here are some promised pictures of my native contigent. It's possible that some natives don't have arms of heads because I ran out of glue.

Don't worry, Monday I will replentish the glue-supply. The natives as I name them are Wargames Factory Zulu's, really nice figures!

Eight married warriors (or elites it's up to you)

A close up really love the native in the front right corner.

The ordinary native warriors armed with spears and clubs (10 warriors + some not assembled some which are not on the picture).

Close up of this contigent, really love the running poses you can make with the extremely nice figure set of Wargames Factory.

Greets,

(It's painting sunday :p)

VSF-project continued

Hi, another new post about my VSF-project. Still a lot of assembly and paintingwork but the miniatures are present.

- 15 wargames factory Zulu's (used as ordinary natives)

- 4 dixon porters

- 15 wargames factory Zulu's (elites)

- 14 wargames factory British

- 6 wargames factory British navy contigent

- 1 ral partha jungle queen

- 1 ral partha jungle lord

- 3 apes (cheap plastic apes)

- 2 canons (WW2, not really accurate with the victorian British!)

- 2 machineguns (aeronef or steamwalker,...)

- 7 warlord legionares (members of the Legion Africanus)

- 3 ral partha velociraptors

- 1 ral partha upgraded lion (odd standing lion with a sword and armor,...)

- 1 ral partha ordinary lion

- 2 pterodactyl riders (riders are wargames factory zulu's)

- 3 giant apes (cheap plastic apes)

- 1 small British steamtank

- 2 small British observation balloons

- 1 adventurers zepplin (under constructing)

- 1 explorer (made of wargames factory bits)

- 4 aeronef crewmember (also made with wargames factory bits)

- ... more to come

A picture of a part of the project, British, Zulu's and the legionaires on the right frontside).

Tarzan and his ape companions!

The 2 machineguns, were part of the airfix coastalfort.

I hope you enjoyed it, upcoming more detail pictures and maybe some paintjobs!

Greets,

Scratchbuild WW2 fleet

Hi, I'm finally posting again, the exams are finished! Now just waiting for the results ...

The next project that I'm presenting is my scratchbuild WW2 fleet, the ships aren't based on real ships they are just made with some artistic freedom. They are based on extremely hard cartonboard on which some pizzas are packed. The waves are made with filler which I smeared on with a small square stick.

The paintjob is done with just some cheap hardwarepaint; colours used are Fuij as basecolour and Tenerife for the drybrush part. The water will be painted in Mykonos blue and a lighter tone of blue that isn't named.

All the ships were constructed from plasticcard, cartonboard and pieces of wire fences. (for the turrets)

Four torpedohunters.

Two aircraftcarriers.

A tanker and hospitalship.

Four battleships.

Six submarines.

I hope you enjoyed my first new post!

Greets,

Ral partha's tarzan and a native queen

Here's a picture of my Ral partha tarzan! Ok, his real name is less exiting :p Also on the picture, you can see a native queen and the 3 velociraptors. All this miniatures are part of my VSF-pulp based adventures in a lost world inhabited by natives, dino's and mad Prussian scientists!

The tarzan-guy is also an inspiring one, I'm planning to make a treehut for him and his ape companions. The native queen has also inspired me to make some other terrain!

But with the exams on the doorstep everything is on a hold (maybe some posts with a few pictures that I had already taken for emercency purposes :p).

Greets,

American Combat Engineer Battalion (15-20mm)

Here are some pictures of my new battalion "American Combat engineers Battalion". They are manufactured by Esci/Italeri named "US soldiers" I think? They are armed with bazookas, mine detectors, rifles, pistols and machineguns, ... really outfitted for their job!

Battalion exist of

- 1 commandbase (1 figure)

- 4 squads of 4 bases (32 figures)

A part of the battalion.

The entire battalion.

Some of the soldiers, ...

Greets,

Wargames Factory: British firing line

Today I'm presenting to you fellow wargamers the eagerly awaited review of the Wargames Factory British firing line box! This box has been eagerly awaited by colonial fanatics in an attempt to recreate Rorkes Drift and other major colonial battles with British involvement.

General information

Such as the entire Wargames Factory range, the miniatures inside the box are made of hard plastic and scaled 1/56 which is approximately 28mm. The miniatures inside are colonial British who defended the outer territories of the British Empire throughout most of the Victorian age. The miniatures are dressed and equipped for the Zulu Wars but could be used for the Indian mutiny, Boer wars if you aren't to picky! And if you are a Victorian Science Fiction lover you can simply use them to defend england against prussian invaders and mad scientists! Or use them to crew your huge aeronef fleets!

The box

Such as previously said, the box contains a British firing line existing out of 20 colonial soldiers. These soldiers come with a variety of bodies, arms, heads and headgear, this allows you to create an unique army and the possibility to convert endlessly! The box is made out of sturdy cartonboard and is decorated with some rather nice artwork! Nice boxes to nice to throw away, so I just keep them to storage other wargame stuff! you can never have enought boxes to store stuff! Each box includes 4 identical sprues as shown beneath.

Opinion:

To sum up: a nice box of plastics of which the manufacturer is a real player on the relativly new plastic miniatures wargame business! A result of this new innovation is the possibility to game large scale battles or smaller skirmishes with zulus and colonial British without going bankrupt! With a retailprice of $14.95, €14,90 or £11.50 this box is a real bargain!

http://www.wargamesfactory.com/

On the otherhand there are some minor issues such as the fact that the miniature heads are lacking hair, so you must choose between a helmet or a bald soldiers but you cannot make a soldier with a bare hairy head! Another issue are the huge hands but as said the new boxed set of wargames Factory is worth the money!

Greets,