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It's been a good few years since I had a plog on a forum so there's a certain fresh/novelty factor me here.

I have a site and blog covering my sculpting endeavours so this plog is purely about the painting and converting aspect of said minis. If I'm lucky I'll also get my hands on some Anvil stuff and present it here too.

Quick note on the minis – the scale is not heroic. These are all smaller and finer than your usual multi part plastic minis. That said, current Napoleonic plastics out in the marketplace scale perfectly with my stuff, so much so I'm looking at doing some specific conversion parts (heads, arms and guns) to let people make the most of cheap plastic box sets out there.

Right now I have two forces in play but this will quickly bloom into a variety of different things, maybe terrain too.

Imperial Borderer’s – Napoleonic inspired gas mask chaps who are going to get dieselpunk support in the near future.

House Crowmantia – A downtrodden and poor slave state who are rising up against the Imperials with occult assistance.

All I have in production at the moment are the grunt troopers which is as good a place as any to start!

My 'nearly matured' skirmish rules have units sizes between 2 and 6 minis strong, with basic troop units being 4 minis strong. A full force is therefore around 30 minis, with support vehicles and mech's.


Minis are resin, cleaned up with soapy water and super-glued together. I texture the bases before painting and usually use white undercoat (GW spray).

Here are the 'display minis': used for conventions and such. These are a lot cleaner and plain but with this plog I can do my preferred dark moody and gritty style. Basic colour scheme will follow the display pics.










Resins prior to undercoat:




















Undercoats















Colour blocking – two coats of red, bronze for the armour, dark brown for the belts/boots/pouches/gloves and dull metal for the rifle. Water down some black (3 parts water to 1 part paint) and washed:









Obligatory scale shot (had to buy these just for the scale shots, hadn't bought/owned a GW mini in well over 5 years):

I'm surprised nobody has replied to this thread yet!

Crazy stuff you got there man! Noticed on your blog that you're also painting up stuff for Anvil's events, very curious what you'll do there!

Subbed. Been a fan of anvil for a while. Really liking the crowmantia and borderers. Looking forward to seeing more.

I remember seeing these when they were released and then apparently have completely forgotten about them!

Some good work so far, can't wait to see more.

Funny to see this thread revived after having been dead for about half a year

Miniatures of the North are offering their Desert Insurgent sets on a discount (£10 + P&P per set): http://miniaturesofthenorth.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/last-of-desert-insurgents-sale.html

Here more info on the contents of the set.