Polish Submarine Class Orzel and Wilke - navwar 1/3000

The Orzel (eagle)  Class subs saw some service during WW2 with the British and having found a great online history of the Polish naval forces during  the war, I'm quite keen to get some British ships so I can play some of the battles. By far the smallest 1/3000 boats I've painted so far (not including the 1/10,000 scale Jutland fleet I abandoned years ago) I have some trouble telling  front from back!

 I also squeezed in three Wilke Class subs which I think were used for mine-laying amongst other duties. 

Between them the Polish subs seem to have had mixed fortunes, one at least sadly lost to a British minefield laid on its route after it had left port. Sounds like one hand didn't know what the other was doing! Even this sad event can be replicated in the rules I use as patches of 'difficult' and often dangerous terrain can be discovered and stumbled into.  Some Jasolka class minelayers are next up, so thanks for looking. ;)

28mm fantasy characters

Here's a few figures I've just finished for a friend -

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Thanks for looking :)

Prussian Hussars 15mm Franco Prussian Wars

Just finished  four  regiments of hussars for use with PoW rules for the 19th century. I think that's all the Hussars I need for a Corp plus attached Cavalry division. The majority are either Lancashire or Outpost troopers; all the officers etc. are probably Essex and thus a little bigger.

I would like to say I had fun painting the edging around the shabraques, thirty white triangles followed by thirty coloured triangles for each figure, but I can't.

 It wasn't fun.
Where are the painting nanobots I dream of?

1st Leib Regt. of  Hussars

Somehow this shot has  highlighted the difference in size, they don't look that bad - honest :)

2st Leib Regt of Hussars 1870

I chose the 1st and 2nd Leib regiments because they're black, mostly, and arguably 'elite'. Same goes for the next regiment -  the 3rd (Brandenburg) regiment which performed well in combat and adds a bit of colour to the sea of dark blue uniforms.

3rd Regt Brandenburg Hussars

Last but not least are the hussars of the 5th Regiment (Pomeranian). These are  dressed in madder dolmans; I checked out several shades of madder and couldn't really decide which  shade to go for. If you think its a way off, you can let me know.

5th Regt hussars ( Pomeranian)

So there we go, twenty four figures with sixty triangles a piece.... I make that.....

... a lot of triangles.

Fishing Friar- Conversion of 20mm Valdemar figure

Here's something I entered for a duel at Bennos Figures. Didn't do too badly and I learnt a lot on the way as it was the first time I tried to make  realistic water.

I also experimented with Noch laser cut printed foliage. Not overly impresed with these though. The bullrushes are a little weedy and the seed itself is very flat, so I painted it to look a little more three dimensional.  I've just realised it would look great with a vignette of 30mm flat figures.

Had fun painting a 1/72nd carp and perch from Preisser. The  figure is  from Valdemar Figures I believe. I converted him to a  monk, expressing my inner hermit!

 I tried to showed the various layers of geology as the river had cut through them over time. 

Originally the  sides of the vignette showed the  underlying stratigraphy, but this was lost when the resin water glued the shutters tight and I had to incorporate them.

The water took ages to dry, used capillery action to climb up my shutters and spread across the grass! When the shutters were removes the still soft lower layers started to bulge out. Plastic sprue was used for the branch / rod and human hair  for the line.