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Post by Didrik on Jan 21, 2005 11:59:53 GMT
Dear Princ August, After have been tin casting for more than 25 years. So are I surprised that you have never made an accessories to the 40mm figures. What I am missing is stew pan, mugs, plats, stool, barrel, coffin, etc…. That can be used to all of the different series you have.
Looking forward to see more figures coming out on the Vikings. Please make more people to the long boat. Regards Didrik
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Post by Prince August on Jan 27, 2005 9:51:45 GMT
Dear Princ August, After have been tin casting for more than 25 years. So are I surprised that you have never made an accessories to the 40mm figures. What I am missing is stew pan, mugs, plats, stool, barrel, coffin, etc…. That can be used to all of the different series you have. Looking forward to see more figures coming out on the Vikings. Please make more people to the long boat. Regards Didrik I have mentioned that more Longboat troops would be a good idea but then we have to make a longboat. How to manage that is the problem. Anyone come across any ready made models that might suit? Any suggestions? Accessories? Well I see your point that they may be useful, after all we do them for the 80-series of Napoleonics. But how would they work with the present fighting poses of our current Vikings for example?
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Post by Didrik on Jan 27, 2005 14:08:30 GMT
Hi, The longboat from Billing boats are for scale 1:25 but talk to them if they could do something for us. I will send some file I found on Ethernet about how to build a boat.
Accessories can be used to all the 40mm. If you take away all the wepons on the vikings and put bearmugs in their hand they look like they having a party.
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Post by Prince August on Feb 1, 2005 9:08:35 GMT
Hi, The longboat from Billing boats are for scale 1:25 but talk to them if they could do something for us. I will send some file I found on Ethernet about how to build a boat. Accessories can be used to all the 40mm. If you take away all the wepons on the vikings and put bearmugs in their hand they look like they having a party. Send us the file, we could make use of it. Send us the weblink (if available) for Billing boats. 40mm Viking having a party? Funny
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Post by miniatures on Apr 5, 2007 21:48:43 GMT
Cast accessories like barrels, chairs, and coffins are very heavy. They unnessesarily consume precious metal which could be used to cast more figures. Most accessories can be made from plastic card, balsa, card stock, or Philadelphia cream cheese containers. These materials are light-weight, and that's an important consideration for the megalomaniacs among us who want to build large armies, and still be able to transport them to the next wargame convention in a vehicle with 7.5 t payload or less. Here is an example of a baggage wagon compatible with Prince August figures. I've used the old artillery limber casting, and the wheels of the old 6-pdr gun. The rest is balsa, flat American toothpicks for the undercarriage, round European tootspicks for the rear axle, and tissue paper for the tarp. This is the prototype vehicle, which I never expected to come out this well. I just eye-balled it, banged the thing together in an hour or less, and it turned out ok. miniatures.de/html/int/18th-century-baggage-wagon.htmlThe same wagon body can be used for an 18th century ammunition wagen, in which case the tarp is replaced by a hip-roofed lid made of balsa or, more easily, from a piece of triangular moulding available at DIY stores. A 200 cm moulding costs less than 1.5 Euro and it provides enough lids for 15 ammo wagons. If you want, you can really go to town on the ammo wagon, strengthen the wagon box and the lid with metal supports cut from aluminium kitchen foil. Lay strips of foil on a kitchen towel or a foam mouse pad, and carefully press tiny, regularly spaced rivet-heads into them with a ballpoint pen. Use white glue to paste the foil strips to the wagon body. The glue will fill the rivet-heads and protect them from damage. A friend of mine developed this technique to build balsa wood gun carriages for his 30mm figures. He has a lot of spare gun barrels and artillery wheels lying around for just that purpose. www.miniatures.de/img/austria/12pdr.jpgI have been thinking of making the wagons from cream cheese containers, because their flat sides are big enough for one or two wagons. The PE plastic cannot be glued with polystrene glue, but superglue may work well enough to hold the thing together. Barrels, boxes, and mealy bags are available from your local arts and craft store. Miniatures kitchen utensils, pots, and pans can be found cheaply in bead stores.
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