Thursday 18 October 2012

PBI Yanks

I have struggled to get much painting done this week. I did manage to get these two MMG stands done for PBI. The miniatures are from QRF ( http://www.quickreactionforce.co.uk/ ) Nicely sculpted and cast (some of their vehicles are less well cast If I am honest, but not badly cast as I will keep buying more). The guns are 2 piece castings with a separate tripod and gun. Attaching the belts to the loaders was a little fiddly but worth the effort. They were easy no fuss to paint with deep enough folds in the clothes to be able to hold a wash. As the first US troops I have purchased from QRF I must say I am very happy with them. Most of my other US troops are Battlefront and a smattering of Peter Pig. Now though having used these I will look here in the future as I like the sculpts and the delivery speed is pretty good as well.
As you can see there is a mold line on the helmet, second picture, loader on the left. It only really shows on the picture and hardly at all in real life. It just shows what a flash will reveal. As mentioned above I have struggled to get much painting done, a lot of the reasons were that I was waiting to get some basing materials which I managed to secure at SELWG. I can no longer use that as an excuse. Since SELWG I have started to re-base the mechs, as I bought some proper bases for them. I have also started the next few stands of US PBI Infantry (only 6 but still it needed to be done.)
That's today's post. Thanks for reading take care and I shall do my next blog post on Saturday. All the best Clint.


6 comments:

  1. They turned out well and very true about those QRF vehicles!

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    1. Thanks mate and it's good that we are all of a mind when it comes to QRF vehicles.

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  2. They are nice, and I agree about QRF vehicles too; had some not so good stuff from them, and some of the infantry was very spindly as well

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    1. I have not encountered spindly infantry from QRF. But is not to say I will not in the future. I shall keep my eyes peeled for them, Great to check things at shows when they are tradg.

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  3. Nice one Clint, they look great!

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