Steel Penguins braying

[Steel Penguin]

Braci is all together and im slowly finishing the filling and rescribing,  ive an initial white primer on to see where the extra works needed.   Finished 3 28mm figs  as well  from the westwind vampire hunters box,  Quincy, Mina, and Lucy.  Jonathan has got some paint on   Gauldalming, van Helsing and dr Seward  are a lot further behind ( theve been UCed and had the flesh done but no more)  and ive done some clean up and prep on some resin scenery.

65 figures  2 pieces of scenery  and 3 models.

slowly trying to get some stuff finished and off the desk again, but not too much, its always spoken in whisper in wargames circles, but supposedly if you finish you last figure, the gods smite you       though at my ratio of purchase to paint ill be seeing in the next millennia 

[Steel Penguin]

more progress on the fearless vampire hunters, Jonathan, dr Seward, and Lord Goldalming are done, van Helsing is still to finish ( hes not inspiring me at all)   And an Ainsty resin Celtic cross on stand done
68 figures, 3 pieces of scenery, 3 models

[Steel Penguin]

just need to put the name on Van Helsing and hes done
69 figs 3 pieces of scenery  3 models

[NARSES2]

Sod Van H what about the Kate Bekinsale character  

Mind you I looked at a couple of resin figures of Buffy a few years ago and none looked anything like the lady. Now painting that would have been a labour of love  

[Steel Penguin]

Narses im afraid there not that identifiable,  I was only able to id the 2 female chars in the pack due to Mrs Penguin being a fan of the book!  ( I go  which one is which?  Mrs P reply's Lucy is the blond! ).
As my next fit of enthusiasm I pulled my 48th Jaguar box out, and found that ive got 2 kits in there,   so ones going to get done as a laser painter centre line fuel, 1 LGB on inner pylon one designator pod on the other,  the 2nds going to get the centre recce pod, and twin tanks load,  then I had to search out crew      why do company's do kits with all the bang and wooshy bits BUT NO CREW!!!!!!!  I have a couple of spares in my Hasa crew sets, but not many for any other now...   Still plastics washed down and spent the day drying, I can start on assembly and internal painty bits later ( hopefully).

[NARSES2]

  then I had to search out crew      why do company's do kits with all the bang and wooshy bits BUT NO CREW!!!!!!!  I have a couple of spares in my Hasa crew sets, but not many for any other now...   Still plastics washed down and spent the day drying, I can start on assembly and internal painty bits later ( hopefully).

I've a few 1/72 scale pilots sitting around doing nothing. You are welcome to them if you want them ?

[Steel Penguin]

Thank you for the offer Narses, but im a 1:48 scale bunny  penguin, so they would be a little out of place 

[NARSES2]

Ah, right 

[Weaver]

Sod Van H what about the Kate Bekinsale character  

How about this one?  



Anonymous "Female Werewolf Hunter" from Copplestone Castings: http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=CC

Got a couple of these with the intention of converting one to a Jet Girl figure (the other's a spare in case I screw up) . Done nothing with them yet though...

Side Note: go look for the Underworld outtake reels on Youtube. It's hilarious watching Kate go from badass-vampire-with-guns to "oops sorry, just little me..." in the blink of an eye as soon as she makes a goof. 

[Steel Penguin]

thank you weaver,    I think ive got her stacked away in the lead mountain somewhere   the one problem is that shed not fit in to the Victoriana style of the empire of the dead ones ive finished,  but will go well with my modern near future slum scum.

[NARSES2]

Ah I didn't look for anything "generic"  Copplestone do nice stuff

[Steel Penguin]

in my eternal optimism  I though id see if I can get 1:48 modern pilots, and if any are cheaper that £15 for the hasagawa pilot / ground crew set  ( 6 pilots £15) 
   if I want anything like a modern RAF crewman  its a fiver a pop   for zots sake!  at that price its almost more to put the crew in than the flaming kit cost! ( my tonkas and jags are all cheap  / second user)  and no one apparently thinks that the army lynx's should have crew.....
still if I get the hasa ones ill have lots of figs to convert and mix and match for ground troops / adventurers  etc

[Weaver]

Ah I didn't look for anything "generic"  Copplestone do nice stuff

You get a lot of generics like "Time travelling doctor with scarf": licences are such a nuisance....

[Weaver]

in my eternal optimism  I though id see if I can get 1:48 modern pilots, and if any are cheaper that £15 for the hasagawa pilot / ground crew set  ( 6 pilots £15)  
  if I want anything like a modern RAF crewman  its a fiver a pop   for zots sake!  at that price its almost more to put the crew in than the flaming kit cost! ( my tonkas and jags are all cheap  / second user)  and no one apparently thinks that the army lynx's should have crew.....
still if I get the hasa ones ill have lots of figs to convert and mix and match for ground troops / adventurers  etc

These PJ ones work out at £3.85 each, though you'd have to factor in postage, of course: http://www.pj-production.be/en/9-figures-1-48

They also do a Navy Lynx crew that arn't too different to an Army one.

[Steel Penguin]

alas Weaver those were the "cheap "  one on Hannants     £4.50   close enough to a fiver for ranting 

Narses  for good "generics" have a look at Ainsty castings http://ainstycastings.co.uk/index.php/cPath/57/osCsid/2bdc9d979cef15a4027bf2f02c335f29
and crooked dice  http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/

some lovely stuff on both sites in 28 mm  ( large / heroic size 28)  ive got a lot of it,  the Federation troops I had at cosford are crooked dice ones