Cops and Robbers (well people going about their own business for the most part)

  "Police and thieves in the streets
Oh yeah!
Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunition "

I've dug out my box of No Go Zone police and thieves from Warm Acre that have been lying around for months and finally put paint to lead.

So far painted up four cops, two paramedics, a hooligan, a law abiding citizen (or potential criminal), a vandal and a lady of negotiable virtue.

Also painted up a resin police van (of forgotten origin) and added some riot screens using aluminium car bodywork reinforcement stuff.

The terrain is made up of 6" square tiles of thin MDF which will eventually become part of my street fighting game. The fence and advertising hoarding is from Ainsty but I don't know if they still do it 'cos I can't find it on their website, which is a shame as I want some more.

Lurking behind the advertising is the one proper criminal of the bunch I've got painted. Or is he just waiting for his mates to turn up to play a game of rounders?

 Cops and Paramedics. I need to get an ambulance as well as a police car or two. Maybe a light tank.

The POLICE lettering on this coppers back was printed out on my printer at 900dpi, sealed in with matt varnish and glued on.

Painting my Grenadiers

It's been a while since I painted my MTP camouflaged British, so I've had to reinvent the wheel when it comes to painting a new batch of grenade launcher armed troops. So this time I'm going to record how I did it for next time.

First of all I searched for MTP on the internet and downloaded an image.

To get a base colour for painting I blurred image to get rid of all the detail, this I reckon will give the overall colour at a distance.

I then lightened the image and finally supersaturated the colours to compensate for washes at the end of the painting which will darken and remove some of the colour definition.

Then I found a small notebook where I had started to write down how I did it last time, which said 1/3 Olive Green, 1/3 Leather Brown, 1/3 Khaki, which gives pretty much the exact muddy green colour I got from my image processing. Oh well.

So I mixed up some base colour and painted all the camouflaged bits, I'm going to do the webbing plain green so it stands out more. The real stuff is in MTP, but I want it to stand out from the clothing.

Next colour is an off-white light shade, a mix of khaki and white, I painted bigish splodges all over.

Next is a light brown I got by mixing leather brown into the off-white shade. Similar sized splodges that cover up some of the previous white blobs making them smaller.

Next is a dark brown, smaller and thinner markings over all the previous layers.

 

Finally some very light small blobs here and there.

Next I painted the details, dark (deep bronze) green on webbing and helmet straps, black and green on the rifles, khaki boots.

After its all complete I washed it with GW Devlan Mud.

After the wash was dry I used a slightly lightened green on the webbing as a highlight, and then lightly drybushed with some Tamiya weathering stuff.

25mm African Militia

  Here are some of my African Militia photographed guarding a hill.

 Camouflage is not anything specific but inspired by some typical African camouflage patterns.

 The commander waits in the bunker...

 ...while his trusted lieutenant encourages the troops.

 One man guards the supplies...

 ...while down in the trenches the rest of the troops prepare for action...

 ...and pass out the ammunition.

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The figures are from the Assault Group 

25mm Modern British

British troops advance from the cover of the woods

British Troops L85A2, L86A2

British with L85A2/L123A2 GL

 The figures are from the Assault Group painted with the new MTP camouflage pattern. Berets painted up with the red/white hackles of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

Special Forces (Desert/DPM)

Taliban Squad Leader

I've just received 8 more figures with grenade launchers to round out the platoon, now I've got to remember how I painted the camouflage.

Next a couple of finished figures, a special forces type in mixed camo and a Taliban squad leader.