Photos of Models from Readers

"After me cometh a builder. Tell him I too have known." --Kipling, The Palace

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Photos from Readers
who have used the Major General's methods

If you have good photos of models you have built using the Major General's methods, scan them, save them as JPEG or GIF, and send them to majrgen1@grandecom.net

	David O'Brien
HMS Snapper is made from an old soapdish (or so David claims). The boiler is a plastic Kinder Egg with some Games Workshop parts for the door and gauges, and bits of plastic tubing and wire for the funnel and steam pipes. The decking is balsa wood.

Warship from Bow Michael Spencer
Michael has created the HMS Insufferable, a transverse twin-stack ironclad based on the ill-fated HMS Victoria (1890).

The hull is posterboard around foam board. The turret is a prescription medicine vial in a barbette made from a PVC collar. The stacks are PVC water pipe. The mast is made from tapered dowels and a golf tee. The deckhouse is sheet plastic.

Click here for a stern view and side view.

This submersible was constructed of a plastic Christmas ornament, cut in half, to which Michael added pinheads for bolts, a plasticard fin, a hobby knife protective cover for a cockpit, and the lenses of doll's eyes from a craft store for portholes. The figure is a French civilian from The Foundry's Franco-Prussian War line.

This is a unit of Ral Partha British Infantry in front of a building loosely based on the hospital at Rorke's Drift. Michael madeit from plasticard, balsa, and pebbles.

Tony Cane
Tony has built some superb armored trains for campaigning in 15mm.

This is an armoured train based on the one used by the British in Egypt in 1885. Compare it with the engraving shown on the Railway Equipment page. Tony says:

"The locomotive comes from ERTL's Thomas the Tank Engine range, and the wagons are scratch built on TT scale chassies. The TT scale is rather rare, being 3mm to the foot, but is exactly right for 15mm figures. The chimney, dome and boiler front have been replaced and the large plastic couplings removed. The sandbags are moulded out of Milliput epoxy putty and the rail and plate armour are styrene strip and sheet. For a closeup, click here .

Russian Train

In the Russian Civil War models at right, the locomotive armor, built from styrene and brass sheet, is very similar to that used in the Boer War. Figures and guns are Minifigs. Click for a closeup.

Tony's imposing RCW rail dreadnought is built from Peter Pig castings.

Gunboat and Dhows

The Royal Navy contingent, having got tired of playing with trains, decided that a proper gunboat was required. The result is based on HMS Heron. It is built from plasticard (sheet styrene to Americans) and a description of its construction may appear in a future issue of By Jingo!

Tony says, "I think the source of the design of the dhows is obvious. Thanks for publishing the templates; they must have saved hours of work."

David Kuijt Aztec Pyramid

David has created a two magnificent foamcore structures as camps for his DBA armies. The Moorish gate features cast plaster merlons, and the Aztec pyramid is topped with a hand-carved stele.

Does it really fit in the DBA camp size limits. Only David knows.

More photos and construction details are on his website, not to mention a fascinating feature on building a full-sized medieval pavilion and a beautiful handmade medieval bed. This man is a craftsman. We mere artists can only look on in wonder.

Gary James' Terragenesis site features a
science-fiction styled periscope
built after the fashion of the Major General's Tabletop Periscope .
It has lots of faux gadgetry, the photos are great, and the text is entertaining.
The rest of the site is well worth a visit also.

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