doctorphalanx

The Foot bases are particularly packed and dark so I needed to optimise the use of light/bright colours. These artificially vibrant colours ...

Spaced out in comparison to figures on other bases, the Croats, Dragoons, Cannons and Commanders demand a fuller and more conventional appro...

Arquebusiers (using Baccus mounted Dragoon figures). The vivid green sleeves pop close up but generally the addition of sleeves is underwh...

First major use of a magnifying glass which I found helpful in this instance. In accordance with my plan for 'Getting in Sync' ...

Faces: Visible from 15" at a low angle. When it came to adding detail to these 6mm Thirty Years War figures, I had to think long ...

Not Thiry Years War and not 6mm, but indicative of what actually shows up in smaller scales. Since last Monday 'social distancing...

I had to patch the basic dark brown coat twice as a result of my mistake in using a white gesso undercoat instead of a black one. I am repea...

An impressive array, but further patching is needed because of the white undercoat and inconsistent mixing and application of the brown pa...

Cannon and Commander: a black undercoat would have been better... Since my last report I snipped off all the pikes and improved the bas...

Bendy pikes. I levelled the bases with Tetrion filler and then textured them with thinned PVA and fine sand. In larger scales I’d have b...

Swedish pike-and-shot, Swedish horsemen, Detached shot, Cuirassiers, Dragoons, German pike-and-shot, Croats, Arquebusiers. I've bas...

Commanders and Cannons I had originally intended to put three mounted figures on Commander bases but sometimes less is more and I think...

Original plan for Horse Original plan for Light Horse These photos show my original plans for Horse and Croat Light Horse. The t...

German and Spanish Pike+shot The non-Swedish Pike+shot units include Imperialist, Catholic League, Spanish and other German Foot fightin...

A test base of Swedish Pike+shot sitting temporarily on Blu-Tac. Command strip forms second row of the pikes. I've been looking forw...

Suggested unit basing for 15mm etc in Tilly's Very Bad Day In Tilly's Very Bad Day each base represents a brigade. When I was g...

Some of my 10mm American Civil War figures: I am basically following the same methodology. This is a rough and incomplete draft of my pl...

Thirty Years War musketeers I'm not sure exactly what units I'm going to end up with at this stage but I can make some provision...

Battle of Lützen 1632 As I eventually want to use Tilly's Very Bad Day to play historical scenarios, I thought I'd better get a...

Scottish musketeers. After some more thought I decided get some additional figures types: WEC05 - Musketeers, Shoulder, Monmouth cap ...