Evil Bob's Miniature Painting

Here's another of the older projects I did a bit back. I will probably continue posting some of the older work mixed in with the newer work to try and catch up a bit on the blog.

This is an order for a 20mm WW2 French force. All figures were FAA.






There was also 28mm and a 15mm orders about the same time that should pop up here in the future.

Here's some shots of some 20mm WWII Japanese and US Marines we did for a commission. The Japanese are from SHQ Miniatures and the US Marines are a mix of SHQ and FAA Miniatures.

First up the Japanese:






Next the Marines. These were painted to match an earlier purchase by the customer and adds additional figures to his collection:

A customer contacted us about a 1/72 scale (about 20mm sized) Vietnam commission. The commission would use figures made by both Italeri and Pegasus. He wanted both sides done at the same time to he could start gaming immediately.

The PAVN (North Vietnamese) were manufactured by Italeri. :


Close up view of the PAVN:



Next up are the US Marines. These figures were manufactured by Pegasus:






Both kits were made from a softer plastic, with the Pegasus kits the softer of the two. I washed the sprues and then set about finding the right glue. I took a trip to the hardware store and picked up a few packs of glues made for softer plastics. Then I cut off a few pieces of sprue and tested the glues.The best that I found is the one pictured below:


This glue formed a nice solid bond. The packaging is easy to use with a fine dropper hole making it very easy to control the amount of glue placed at the bonding site.

We used our usual cheap Walmart flat black paint for a primer. I did a test spray first to make sure it would bond to the softer plastic and it worked like a charm. Next both sides received an airbrushed base coat is an appropriate color, then the brush painting began. Despite the horror stories one hears of the difficulties of working with soft plastics the job went pretty smoothly. The figures took paint well and I used a bit more of a washing technique on these than normal to pick out the details better. I'm quite pleased with the way they turned out.

One of the orders we had for delivery at Fall In was a bunch of 20mm WWII German infantry. While I was getting these done I also knocked out a few 20mm German vehicles. All of the infantry figures are made by FAA and the vehicles are from Britannia.

I had previously did an order of German Wehrmacht for the customer. There were roughly the same amount of figures in that first batch, mostly riflemen, submachine guns, and machine gunners. This batch adds more options such as pioneers, panzerfausts and panzershrecks, MP44's, and mortars.







I had a few 1943 15mm vehicles to do so I dug out these 20mm vehicles and finished them up. They weren't part of the order (and are for sale) so I used them for display on the table and when I get the chance will add them to the webstore.





There's many more pictures to get up of things we completed for the show: more RPG characters, Warhammer Bretonnians, War of the Roses cavalry and artillery, terrain, and more! As I get the chance I will get more posted.