Michigan soldier models.

[major bill]

I have three of these display cases showing Michigan uniforms. I have not worked on them for a while. I have 44 figures in all. I still have room for 5 more. I have kind of lost interest and thought if I did a post about them,. it might motivate me to do 5 more figures.

Some figures are better than others, but I am limited by the quality of available figures to convert.

 

[iron bender]

Great display. I'd like to see them all. Young man in the 1st, bottom right, needs to consider turning his bayonet in for a more efficient pig sticker.

 

[major bill]

Note these two are the same basic figure.

A couple more figures.

i understand that our polite forum members are hesitant to say so, but i do understand that I have like zero talent with models. I enjoy it and I do not really care that i am not at all good at it. No worries, I am poor at so many things that being very poor at modeling is the least of my worries.

 

[iron bender]

I feel ya bro. However, your guys are awesome! I think it's great work. They look amazing. And....it's a small glimpse into what was what the men wore. I've been breezing over the modelers on the Bay who sell ready to go AP Hill and Meade, plus some. I loved painting 15mm to 54mm when I was a kid. I built some WW2 airplanes with my boys back when they were kids. I need a new hobby again.

 

[R. Porter]

You do better than I ever did! I stopped when I was young; before I thought about accurate unit uniforms or anything that wasn't in the instructions.

 

[rebel brit]

That's a great display and must be very popular with the kids. Suggest finishing the other 5 and attaching luminous labels stating 'NEW' with date added.

 

[Jim in Wisconsin]

Those figures look good to me. I'm not trying to be polite, they really look just fine. I'm sure you know more about the correct uniforms than most people - getting the colors and details as close as reasonable is all that counts. Keep going!

 

[7thWisconsin]

Those figures look fine to me! Any wargamer would call them "table ready." I paint in a similar style: block colors, not a lot of shading. I've seen it described as "flat style." Really it was how everybody painted their wargaming miniatures 40 years ago and is a valid artistic expression.
How did you mod havelocks? I use aluminum foil. Cheap. Easy to cut and manipulate. Takes paint well.

 

[major bill]

Those figures look fine to me! Any wargamer would call them "table ready." I paint in a similar style: block colors, not a lot of shading. I've seen it described as "flat style." Really it was how everybody painted their wargaming miniatures 40 years ago and is a valid artistic expression.
How did you mod havelocks? I use aluminum foil. Cheap. Easy to cut and manipulate. Takes paint well.

I think on this one I melted sprue in liquid model glue. I cut card stock to shape. Soaked the card stock and pushed it place and shaped it.

On some I did a fair amount of shading but often did not like the result.

 

[7thWisconsin]

Oh - I used to use card stock but found it hard to bend. Now I only use it for straight things like slabs of armor.

 

[rebel brit]

How did you mod havelocks? I use aluminum foil. Cheap. Easy to cut and manipulate. Takes paint well.

You could also try Kneadatite or as it's commonly named Greenstuff. It's a two part epoxy putty that will stick to the figure without glue.

 

[7thWisconsin]

That's true. But like a lot of modelers who grew up in the 1970s, I was heavily influenced by Shepherd Paine's dioramas. (The ones that wee featured in Monogram model kits.) He used a lot of found items and emphasized household items as modeler's tools.