Here is the mix of very assorted figures, largely finished:
Below: Left to right, stirrer cowboy and two metal chess pieces, chunky, high bases hidden by flock.
ACW infantry largely complete - light blue uniforms are of Union reserve and certain volunteer regiments. Far right is a Confederate drummer.
AIP U.S. soldier from War of 1812 with base flocked
Modern infantryman painted as a genetically engineered trooper and weird robot/cyborg
Technolog barbarians: A light flesh wash worked well on those exaggerated muscles. I always work back into the figure with lighter highlights and especially with heavier flesh washes they can look muddy without these. I love the Technolog figures although not their overlarge feet so I ight disguise these with flock when I base these.
Yet another zombie: I was looking at the blog, Death Zap which has some great ideas for Horror/SF. The SF fantasy game, Turnip, also is a good reference for degraded, even rotting looking figures. With my figure, even for a zombie, he is not that degraded but I deliberately glued flock to his body, something I usually avoid - like the, er, plague.
Here is a metal hollow-cast cowboy, possibly Hilco. I'll give him more of a sheen with varnish but I don't generally use high gloss. I like the old lead hollow-casts even though they are often a little crude. Unless they are buried in the ground or kept in moist conditions they are generally, structurally, very enduring. The ones I generally pick up are not pristine - why should they be unless never played with? That is fine with me as I like to repaint them.
Timpo, on the other hand, are very vulnerable to breakage but these two Confederates are resin copies. The prone figure's carbine barrel broke off; I guess I'll replace it with metal wire (groan).
I like to obtain civilian figures and these two are recent production 1/35 kit figures. These are meant to be rolling barrels. However, they are very small compared to 1/32 figures.
Here is the 1960s hard plastic drink stirrer painted. I could have added a pistol in holster but decided the guns were handed in to prevent gunplay in town, although that means less game play for me!
The WW1 German trench raider is made from an airfixWW2 and is copied from an old Airfix magazine article. I made this decades ago but spilt paint on him so I had to partially repaint. The flesh wash gave him a tanned appearance.
Chess piece. I like priest figures, especially as I introduced rules for their 'magic'.
The right hand figure is a rubbery plastic swaggie or tramp. He would make a passable dwarf.
I think I fixed the eyes on the medieval figure.
This artist's paste is good for building up small details like moustaches. I used it to replace a broken finger on the nurse.
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