New Release: 28mm 1:56 New World "Kitchen" January 19, 2017 12:06

The Kitchen has been released as a supporting building for the large "Tidewater Home".This building may also be used as a workers rural farmhouse. Please watch this  space for another workers farmhouse version, due soon.

Inspired by photographs taken by Ron Carnegie (Thanks Ron).This building is suitable for a range of periods, from French-Indian Wars, through American War of Independence to the American Civil War.

Regular readers of this blog and my Facebook page would know that I am not big on doing interiors to buildings for a variety of reasons. I could not however, ignore the chimney being such a dominating feature. An open fireplace seemed essential.

This lower status building has engraved split wood wall cladding and shingles to the roof. Shutters, both opened and closed are supplied for the two back windows and the window in the gable end.

New Release: 28mm 1:56 New World "Tidewater Home" December 31, 2016 15:38

The "Tidewater Home" is a typical Georgian Colonial style building that could be used as a wealthy landowners dwelling or a tavern. Ideally suited to gaming battles in or around Virginia. Many period features are included: cornices with denticles to front and rear, a classical pillared entrance and ventilation grilles to name a few.

This buiding would be suited to gaming the French Indian Wars, the American War of Independence or the American Civil War.

This model is part of a new range of kits inspired by wargamer, blogger and historian from across the pond in Williamsburg, Virginia: Ron Carnegie (pictured). Ron's blog can be visited by clicking this link:https://cryhavocwardogs.wordpress.com

I am grateful to Ron as he has supplied me with so many inspiring images to work from. A range of smaller, supporting buildings are now "on the drawing board". It is a pleasure to collaborate with Ron and share his local knowledge. It has greatly assisted me in developing authentic looking models.   Please watch this space or "like" the Charlie Foxtrot Models Facebook page for news of new releases.

Eastern Front House review by Chris Harris December 1, 2016 21:07

New Release: 28mm 1:56 Pantile Stables November 24, 2016 16:57

The fourth kit in the "Pantile collection" the stables comes with a full set of doors for either open or closed options to the front facing. Another resin / MDF hybrid kit, an essential addition for Napoleonic Peninsular Wargamers.The last picture shows the relative sizes of the first 4 kits in the collection.

New Release 28mm 1:56 Pantile "House 3" November 24, 2016 16:56

"Pantile House 3" is now available in the webstore. The third building in the pantile collection is a lower status, smaller dwelling. One new feature in this model are the shuttered upstairs floor length windows. Open or shut options are included in the resin / MDF hybrid kit.

New Release: E-Gift Vouchers November 23, 2016 11:32

Gift vouchers can now be purchased from Charlie Foxtrot Models to the value of £5.00 and £10.00. Simply adjust the number of vouchers before placing in the checkout cart to reach your desired amount.

An E-Voucher will be mailed back for the total sum. This voucher may be forwarded electronically or printed and given as a gift.

New Releases "Brains & Hearts" November 13, 2016 18:17

Designed at a customer request,(I believe for use with the boardgame "Elder Sign") the "Brains & Hearts" are both available instore.

The hearts can be used for tracking life in roleplay games, board game or zombie skirmish games.

The brains can be used for roleplay, boardgames or skirmishes representing: fortitude, spells, craft etc.

Both sets are cut in 3mm acrylic and are approximately 20mm x 20mm.

New Release: 28mm 1:56 "Pantile House 2" November 11, 2016 14:04

The second release in the collection. "Pantile House 2" is a higher status dwelling with tiled balcony, optional security grilles to downstairs windows and full length window with balconette. MDF with resin kit now available instore.

New Release: 28mm 1:56 "Pantile House 1" November 11, 2016 11:06

Suitable for Napoleonic Peninsular War, Spanish Civil War, Italian WW2, Wild West Mexican or even pirates of the Carribean settings. This kit is the first in a new range of MDF and resin hybrid kits from Charlie Foxtrot Models...for a step by step tutorial on how I achieved this effect..please see the previous post.

Tutorial: Prepping & Painting the Pantile Kits. November 11, 2016 11:05

For this tutorial, I would like to walk you through step by step on how I achieved the "rough cast" weathered look of the "Pantile House 1". This model is the first in a range of themed kits. Having resin  components and very textured walls: I took a different approach from my Eastern Front or Normandy buildings.

From the following picture you can see the resin roof & chimney stack. Further resin components are to the side and rear of the kit. An MDF capping stone and a plastic component completes the chimney assembly.

First, I glued the walls to the floors and, once dry, glued in the thickening 3mm inner walls to give real depth to the structure. I then glued on the blacony, door arch, and window sills. I left off the windows and doors to make texturing and painting easier. For this image, the doors and windows are held in place with clear tape.

Before I started texturing the walls, I took a craft knife and distressed the sills and the door surround. For the door surround, I reduced the thickness on a few selected "stones".

The resin roof needed slight filing to sit comfortably on the 1st floor. If sanding or filing resin or MDF, work in a well ventilated area or outdoors and avoid breathing in any dust.

Using a spatula, or thumb in my case; apply filler (I used quick drying polyfilla readymix) thinly in a random way so you do not have a pattern. I have now completed 4 buildings and have used 2/3 of a 99p tube of quick dry filler.

Do not aim for total coverage; leave some lower areas of bare wood showing through.

Where you left some bare exposed wood, coat with PVA and cover with fine sand. For the image above, I painted the kit and the sand looked too patchy. I went back with the polyfilla and blended over some of the sand to merge with the previous plolyfilla layer. The kit did not need painting at that point, I did it so you could see where I applied the second coat of filler.

I used an acrylic made by "Americana" called Honey Brown in the recesses of the filler and where I thought a bit of shade was needed.

Next I mixed Honey Brown with Crafter's acrylic Tan 50-50 mix and drybrushed with a large brush. I then used pure Tan followed by a light drybrush dusting of Americana acrylic Bleached Sand. To bring out the fine lines in the door surround and give a little shading under the balocny and below the windows a wash with Games Workshop Agrax Earthsade was applied.

The roof and chimney pot were base coated with a Dulux mixed testerpot emulsion "Sumatran Melody 2" and highlighted with a light drybrush of "Sumatran Melody 3". A final dusting with Bleached sand and a light wash of Agrax Earthshade finished the job.

The windows and doors were spray primed then hand painted with a mid brown. I used the mid-brown with a little grey to highlight followed by a wash of Agrax Earthshade to finish.

The windows were glued to clear "blister packaging" sheet using Unibond solvent free glue. Once dry, I used scissors to cut the window frames off the sheet and trim to fit. I then glued the frames in place using PVA. The curtain is a piece of paper that I painted in rough stripes using Wargames Foundry 3 shade Austrian White.

Having the majority of the model painted using drybrush and wash method, this kit was very quick to paint. With the windows and doors separate also speeded up getting the model "table ready".

News: Delivery delays 2nd -11th November October 25, 2016 14:23

Charlie Foxtrot will be attending "Crisis" in Antwerp this November.

We will be staying over and taking a holiday while in Belgium so orders will not be fulfilled during 2nd to 11th November.

Machines are running and orders fulfilled right up until close of business on 1st.

Orders can still be placed and will be worked through in date order on our return.

Please accept my apologies for this disruption in service.

EMails will be actioned, again in date order, on our return.

Colin

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2 New Releases: Bolt Action 2 "Tokens & Template" & "Muzzle Flash" October 18, 2016 20:37

New from Charlie Foxtrot Models is a totally "unofficial" template and token set. These are my take on the BA2 gaming aids. Being clear they are discreet in use and do not visually clutter the gaming table.

The 4" template and 1" tokens are cut in 3mm acrylic and comprise of the following:

9 x hidden (no eye),2 x immobilised (no tank moving),2 x turret jammed (no rotate),2 x air / artillery strike (gun sights),5 x snap to it (the square hole is cut to fit a 16mm order dice),2 x indirect fire (the square hole is cut to fit a standard 12mm D6)

I have used pictograms to portray the event and make them useable in any language.

1 x 4" HE template. The template has: double 1", single  2", 3" & 4" and D6 scatter markers. The double 1" is for autocannon fire. All the 1" tokens can also be used as 1" HE too.

Muzzle flash tokens are for the night fighting scenario and are cut from yellow light emitting acrylic.