Thursday 29 August 2013

28mm Painted Victorian Sci-Fi Tanks and Armoured Cars, adding to the Great Painters collection and.......

.....pimping Edwin!

Some nice pieces of resin and metal from Ironclad Miniatures for the Victorian (Steampunk and Pulp also) warfare shenanigans, two different forces............

28mm Copplestone figure for scale purposes........















Curt "Norse God" Campbell over at Analogue Hobbies has painted me a little piece of wargaming joy for my collection for something I did for him a while back and I've got to say it's cracking!



.........and Edwin over at Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist is having a competition and giving away books (which he also sells) but no picking the book on the Khyber Rifles as that's going to be mine!


107 comments:

  1. Tanks are looking pretty good. Have had my eye on them but not bought any....yet!

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  2. Thanks for the promo Francis!

    Those Ironclad steamtanks are very nice, aren't they?

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  3. Those are some fine looking tanks! Still hoping to see a science fiction battle later this year.

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  4. They look pretty nice. I wouldn't want to stand in their way at least.

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  5. Very nice stuff! I like steampunk. The crew from Analouge Hobbies looks great. That is intended an eye catcher in your collection.

    Regards
    Bruno

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  6. Hola
    Que buenas piezas,me gustan
    un saludo

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  7. Those are groovy. Hope you win that book.

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  8. Those tanks are cool. You have quite a collection now.

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  9. Very nice, I love the ironclad steamtank line

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  10. Nice work Fran, are they recent paints or are they from when we had a job we enjoyed?

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  11. I quite like the breadbox. Kind of orky-looking.

    FMB

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  12. Fantastic tanks Fran, That navel served gun looks ace as well

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  13. those are some dangerous machines! Great work, even Ray says so above!

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  14. Great work, Fran!
    Those ironbeasts look really devastating.

    But when do we see you play a game with those Victorian beauties who prepared lately?

    Cheers
    Stefan

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  15. Just stunning well done sir!

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  16. Awesome tanks and the guys with the black background really stand out, it was a nice choice

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  17. Are these gonna be part of Franonia? What ever happened to that anyway?

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  18. Those tanks are amazing looking. Love the blue.

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  19. Great looking AFVs. I really love the steampunk style models and I love what you've done with them.

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  20. Great looking vehicles. Enjoy putting them into the field.

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  21. General! Your attack tactics are impeccable: You drive full force into the face of the enemy with hellashish loud armor garbed in garish blue and green. Hail Franonia!

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  22. There's so much cross-over between VSF, Steampunk and Pulp, it confuses me. Nicely painted Fran!

    I did see that posted on Curt's page and think they are most excellent.

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    1. Technically all the same to me, figures can cross over for some of them but I'm probably wrong.

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    2. You probably are you silly man person.

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  23. Love the miniatures Fran. One of that was train, looks so classy. So Franonia is all set, are you helping Obama he would love an additional hand to handle Syria.

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  24. I am so looking forward to seeing the Ray play with these in Posties Shed! (Ok that might not actually ever happen, a nice chap young Ray but not his cup of tea I would think . Still his loss). Thanks for putting the copplestone in for scale it makes it easier to judge the size of them. As always nicely painted.

    Best of luck with that book. I shall pop over to the blog in question and comment to that effect.

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  25. Beautiful tanks, I do like the metallic colors...and the sailors are really great too!
    Phil.

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  26. Oh how you tempt me with these! Love the colour schemes, that blue is particularly good and what a cracking gift from Mr. Campbell!

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  27. Lovely paintjob on those steam powered ironclads.

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  28. They look real cool Fran , but I keep thinking I could probably scratchbuild something like that, for cheaper, if only I could get motivated...

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  29. Great stuff Fran. Like the windows.

    Those figs that Curt did are crazy - nice work there.

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  30. Very unique vehicles that you've painted up perfectly.

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  31. Steampunk! You are going to tempt me to get into yet another new subject after looking at those beauties.

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    1. I'm sad to say I'm happy about that, the plan worked.

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  32. That is some fine, fine steam punk work Fran and lovely little item from Curt!

    Christopher

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  33. Fran, those tanks are the sh*t! I really like the brass bracing on the gatling gun barrels. I'm thinking I need a few of these as additions to my Quar collection. Dashing over to Ironclad now...

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  34. These models are very nice, and your painting work is perfect for them; "retro", I think.

    Very nice "panzers"!!!

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  35. You have got the Steampunk bug haven't you there Fran and the results are stunning

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  36. I've got a few of those tanks myself. Only one has been painted so far... but another one is on the warmup track!

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  37. cool gun crew, nice addition Fran

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  38. They're very good (as always), but will you ever get them into action ?

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    1. I love this set! Your steampunk collection just gets better and better. Like Mr. Z, I'm begging to see this out on a tabletop one day. I have no idea quite what it'll look like but COOL is my guess.

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  39. I truly love that green coloring... and wow those navy guys have such mean looking faces!! Lucky you, Fran, swapping talent.

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  40. I like when you do steampunk. It came out great.

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  41. Man, you'd need a ton of firepower to puncture through that skin.

    Though, you'd think they'd cover the smoke/steamstack a bit better. One unlucky grenade and...

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