Warlord and Perry Miniatures produce sets for various nations. I've chosen to get American infantry for wargamming. To get the painting right, I decided to start with support weapons.
The Warlod set comes with 30 figures which doesn't give you a platoon and the Perry set has 45 figures. Both sets have multipart figures so you can vary the poses and weapons. I also obtained the support weapon set from Warlord. These are single complete figures. The set contains a 60mm mortar team, sniper and spotter and finally a flamethrower along with an assistant. Everything was painted using Lifecolor paints with a couple of Vallejo colours.
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The 60mm mortar comes in three parts, the barrel and support.
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There are operators, a loader, commander and ammunition carrier. I glued the gunner onto the base but left the other two removable.
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The base came in the set. I covered it with filler with tile grout added. This was painted brown. When the figures were attached, I painted on some dilute Mod Podge glue and coated it with static grass. Blowing gently on it makes it stand up.
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The flamethrower team is made up of two figures, the flamer and an assistant.
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After gluing the figures onto the circular bases, some filler was applied before painting.
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When the figures were painted, static grass was added.
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The two man bazooka team comes from the infantry set. These have a core body with seperate arms and head.
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The figures don't have small bases like the support set does, so were glued onto bases. Since the figures attach straight onto the base, filler wasn't used.
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The static grass was glued straight to the plastic base after it had been painted brown.
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The 30 calibre machine gun comes from the Perry Miniatures set.The gunners have seperate arms and heads. They don't go together as well as the Warlord figures, but are OK.
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The bases were painted with PVA glue and 'chinchilla dust' stuck on before painting brown. The gun and ammo box was glued on before painting.
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The figures were glued on before the static grass went on.
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[CaptionLast up is the sniper team which come from the Warlord set. The sniper is armed with a Springfield rifle with scope. The spotter has a Garand.
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The had filler applied. Before it was set, the figures were pressed into position and removed for painting.
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I used longer static grass for these as I wanted to hide the figures a little.
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I flattened the grass a little behind them as they would crawled into this position.
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