Cofalu ACW Figures

Today again a before and after story. Found this figures in a big bunch of other figures and first I didn't know what brand they were. Thanks to the help of some friend on Facebook I know now that they are Cofalu toy figures. French brand. 

Before I painted them I had one from the Confederation and two from the Union side. As I only have three figures I decided to paint them all as Union infantry figures. They painted really nice, also because they don't have that many details on them.

When I asked on facebook what figures it are someone made a remark on the officer about the gun and the sword. It took me some time to find out what he ment but now I know. Maybe someone else can find out what it is and give the solution in the comments.

Here are the pictures of the figures one by one so you can have a good look at them. I hope you like them.

Painted in 2023

- 20 mm:

    - Figures: 2

    - Horses: 8

    - Cannons: 0

    - Wagons: 2

- 28 mm

    - Figures: 0

- 54 mm

    - Figures: 3

Imex 518 Conestoga Wagon

Here is the second of three wagons that are painted and based from the Imex wagon range. The third one will be posted another time. 

This wagon was bought by a second hand auction but was in bad shape and I had to rebuild it as good as possible. Here is a picture how it looked like when I started with it.

I think I can be happy with the final result of this wagon. I have seven more of these to do. Here you can see it when you get it in good shape. 

http://plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=692

Here some more pictures of the finished model. I hope you like it!

I also found a picture taken by Mr Brady, a famous photographer of that period! 

Painted in 2023

- 20 mm:

    - Figures: 2

    - Horses: 8

    - Cannons: 0

    - Wagons: 2

- 28 mm

    - Figures: 0

- 54 mm

    - Figures: 0

Imex 513 Chuck Wagon

Finally I found some time to post something here. I painted a lot of figures but I didn't take pictures, maybe because I'm to lazy, and also because I have so many projects ongoing. I also have been busy by collecting 54 mm figures that I missed in my collection. So now I will post now and then a bit of my work.

This Imex Chuck Wagon, is one of the two wagons that are in this set. The other one is a Prairie Schooner, but that one isn't painted yet. I did some others but that will be for another post. Still have to do some work on the base. In the mean time I hope you like this one.

http://plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=464

Painted in 2023

- 20 mm:

    - Figures: 1

    - Horses: 2

    - Cannons: 0

    - Wagons: 1

- 28 mm

    - Figures: 0

- 54 mm

    - Figures: 0

Storme - Anicius

This is a figure from a very old collection of figures that came with a pack of coffee from the brand Storme. I believe in other countries they came with Mokarex and Mokalux coffee. And as I'm always in to paint something else, this was a great figure to paint. Nice sculpted with not to many details. Size of the figure is 54mm and painted with acrylic paint.

First I show you the end result and then how it looked when I received it. I think it looks much better now, but that is of course my personal opinion.

After

Before

In progress

Base marking

And a couple more of the finished figure

I hope you like it what I did with this figure. And if you have some of these figures lying around I can only say this, paint them or send them to me! :-D

Some links:

- https://www.mirofsoft.com/mokarex-storme/

- http://www.mokarex.fr/

Painted in 2022:

- 20 mm:

    - Figures: 50

    - Horses: 4

    - Cannons: 2

    - Wagons: 1

- 28 mm

    - Figures: 5

- 54 mm

    - Figures: 11

Timpo 4005 Union Infantry

Painted again a set of Timpo, this time the American Civil War Union Infantry figures. It contains only 4 poses like the other Action Packs from this brand. But it are nice figures to paint. Nothing special just the usual Union uniform. 

It looks like 3 of the poses are soldiers, and one an officer. But I'm not sure because he is wearing exactly the same uniform as the others. The only difference is that he is using a pistol, and not a gun. 

And this is what I used as example for the uniform. Fantastic comic books by the way!

I hope you like them!

Painted in 2022:

- 20 mm:

    - Figures: 50

    - Horses: 4

    - Cannons: 2

    - Wagons: 1

- 28 mm

    - Figures: 5

- 54 mm

    - Figures: 10

Asterix and the "vlaai"!

It could have been the title of a new Asterix adventure, but it isn't. It just the contribution I made for the multiple figures painting competition at the FIGZ meeting, of which the pictures can be seen in my previous post.

This is something that started years ago, and now it is a tradition at the meeting that I bring "Limburgse vlaai" as a tractation to the organisation and contributors of the meeting. the "vlaaien" are made of green stuff by my good friend Dirk in 2015 but he couldn't paint them in time so he gave them to me. Finally this year I found the right inspiration to do something with them and with the bubble gum Asterix figures I've been given by my other great friend Remco, I had the perfect combination. And the result can be seen here. Pity enough no prize with this work but it was fun doing it. I hope you like it to!

Thanks Dirk for making these "vlaaien" and thank you Remco for organising a day full of fun! 

Oh and if you are wondering where that Asterix is, well he is hunting wild boars together with Obelix, otherwise there would be no "vlaai" to show, because Obelix could have eaten them! :-D

Painted in 2022:

- 20 mm:

    - Figures: 50

    - Horses: 4

    - Cannons: 2

    - Wagons: 1

- 28 mm

    - Figures: 5

- 54 mm

    - Figures: 6