15mm BEF

[Leman]

I have had a Peter Pig BEF army for quite some time, but inspired by reading some good books on the opening of WWI, plus some successful experimentation with Vallejo green brown and green ochre, as well as being impressed with the new 1914 rules, I decided to put brush to metal. Unusually, but I think quite successfully, I based the figures and textured the bases before painting. Someone mentioned that they complete an army before painting the bases so that everything matches, and this seems like a very good idea to me (and helps prevent half finished armies - a crime of which I am guilty). Base sizes given are 25mm x 25mm for machine guns, 50mm x 25mm for cavalry and infantry, 50mm x 50mm for artillery.

[Malbork]

Very nice.

What colour(s) did you use for the MG? Like the effect.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice.
The HMG should have a green sleeve...

[Leman]

It's not a Vickers. Some of the units sent out in August 1914 still had the older style maxim with the brass cooler. Colours for the machine gun are:

Stand - Vallejo gunmetal
Ammo belt - Vallejo beige
Water can - mix of Vallejo military green and olive green
Hose - Vallejo black grey
Cooling sleeve - GW Gehenna's gold then topped with Vallejo gold

Machine gun based on the painting in Osprey Campaign Mons 1914 showing Pvt. Sidney Godley VC holding off the Germans at the Nimy bridge.

[lowlylowlycook]

Very cool looking guys.

[toxicpixie]

Superb work!

They look storming.

Interesting on the MMG (or is it just "MG or HMG at this point?!), didn't know they still had Maxims in service in 1914!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I sit corrected

[Redstef]

good stuff

[Techno]

Great work, Andy !

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

Thanks chaps; I'm really rather pleased with the way they have turned out so far. Next I'll do another battalion, but with some head swaps for variety, then on to some cavalry, as I plan to have a go at Nery using the 1914 rules.

[fred.]

They have come out well.  But then they are a very good subject matter!

I'm waiting for delivery of 1914 rules - I was hoping to be able to use my 30x30mm based troops.

[Terry37]

Very impressive work! I like Peter Pig figures and use them a lot in my Weird World War armies because I can usually find everything I need form them. They are also well detailed and paint up nicely. Hope to see more in this effort!

Terry

[Leman]

They have come out well.  But then they are a very good subject matter!

I'm waiting for delivery of 1914 rules - I was hoping to be able to use my 30x30mm based troops.

Having read the rules I can see no reason why 30x30 wouldn't work. There is some explanation in the rules about so many this to that in measurement, but it simply boils down to one mm = one metre, so that it looks right with 12mm figures, so I guess 10mm on 30mm frontage would be fine, or 15mm on a square 30mm base. I just went with their suggestion because I was starting from scratch, and to be honest, their 12mm figures are at the top end of 12mm. I also have my 8" squares cloth, so even on bigger bases I can still use them for Square Bashing.

[paulr]

 

Nery is an interesting action, we did it a while ago with ITLSU

[Norm]

They look rather nice sculpts.

[fred.]

Having read the rules I can see no reason why 30x30 wouldn't work. There is some explanation in the rules about so many this to that in measurement, but it simply boils down to one mm = one metre, so that it looks right with 12mm figures, so I guess 10mm on 30mm frontage would be fine, or 15mm on a square 30mm base. I just went with their suggestion because I was starting from scratch, and to be honest, their 12mm figures are at the top end of 12mm. I also have my 8" squares cloth, so even on bigger bases I can still use them for Square Bashing.

Thats good news. I'd thought the photos on their website looked like square based figures, but perhaps I hadn't looked too closely. It does seem to be a game with very little information about it.

[Leman]

I'll start a thread on it on the rules board.

[Womble67]

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

[Leman]

I tried a slightly different style with the second battalion, giving the flesh a GW Reikland flesh wash and the rest of the figure a ......... Sepia wash, which seemed to produce a richer tone than Agrax Earthshade (which I tried on one casualty figure). I still used Vallejo satin varnish and then magic was to finish off:



I have also done one stand of Germans, again using GW washes (or shades as they call them). I finally settled on Vallejo Light Grey as the basic uniform colour. When completed the face and hands got the flesh wash again, the buff helmet covers the sepia wash and then the rest of the figure Nuln Oil. All in all not too bad, but when I come to doing more Germans I think I will use the burnt umber undercoat rather than black. The figures were again finished with satin varnish followed by brown Magic Wash.

[Techno]

Looking good, that man ! 

Cheers - phil