Second Sino-Japanese War

 This is an all new project, chinese VS. Japanese WWII.  All figures are from Pendraken, the chinese are mostly WWI german and WWII german guns, as germany supplied most uniforms for the nationalist chinese and most weapons were licence built german weapons such as the Pak 36 and the MG34 etc..  Even the K.A.R.98.  The Japanese however are basic japs.

 Japanese aircraft mix it with american built fighters, The chinese used alot of aircraft from many nations.  Here is a couple of Boeing P-26 Peashooters and Curtiss F11C Goshhawk Bi-plane.   I scratch built the aircraft for this project as I couldnt find the aircraft in 10mm.

 Here uis a skirmish for a small farm, chinese troops holding the farm are about to be over run.

 Chinese Infantry advance supported by tanks, Here a vickers 6 ton and a couple of Panzer I tanks, in battle we found that the british built vickers 6 ton did well against the japanese tanks, but not as well as the T26.

Japanese troops now holding the farmhouse fire on the chinese flank.  There would have been alot more to this and maybe a Batrep but the batteries ran out to the camera so it has to end here, but here is the first glimpse of the new figures.

Camp

Spanish succession Camp, but can be very generaic for most periods.

6mm Napoleonic

 A unit of Napoleonic polish line infantry

 Russian Guards

Russian line in greatcoat

6mm War of Spanish Succession

 Austrian Regiments, all figures are Baccus and paited to nationality

 British Regiments

 Dutch Regiments

Hessian Regiments

Scratch built DIY Trees 10mm Scale

 A quick DIY guide to making your own trees, with minimum of cost and time, lets face it who doesent need more trees! 

 What tou need is milliput (or any tough modelling clay), Wire, a wooden dowel or pencil your choice, and some moss.  The moss is available in the UK for £10.00 from any hobby store and will do more than 50 trees, but you can also use a 79p bathroom sponge paited green and make it even cheeper.

 First twist 2 strips of wite together bent around the wooden dowel, as you twist them bend a couple out each turn to spread the tree branches out.

 Now you have wire trees, with lots of branches, the loops around the wood are bent outwards to make a base for the tree.

 Stick them to card or any other base you like and rub a little clay into the wire, you dont have to do this but it makes it look better, then brush over with PVA mixed with plaster or anything rough, on smaller trees I find bakeing soda mixed with PVA is good, this gives a grip for the moss as moss wont stay stuck to metal.

 paint them, I reccomend whight and gray for light green moss, dark brown for dark green and so on.

 Decorate the base, I use graven and sand with static grass, but its your call.

 Stick on the moss and you have lovley trees.

 A picture of a tree next to 10mm scale figures, perfectly scaled and themed for the African front in WWI, but it could be anywhere really.

a 10mm Tree next to a 28mm Tree to give you an Idea of scale, the 28mm tree is made with the same method but with an extra wire and larger ofcourse.  Good luck with it and I totally hope you get alot of ideas from this.

6mm American Civil War Buildings

 A Barn on the left and a small Family house with Balcony and folly on the right.  They are make out of a card frame with modeling clay sculpted to them.

2 seperate pairs of shacks or town houses depending on where you put them, fit in more or less with any period america.

Marion Roman

A  pic of Essex miniatures Marion Romans.