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The annual NJHMA EXPO 2011 is coming soon! Stop by and take a look...Sunday September 11th, 2011 at the WAYNE PAL For further info: http://www.njhma.org/expo-2011/Flyer.pdf

I've tried to do my homework by researching but I am really coming up short ...hardly any luck at all. This is after 2/3 days of it. Anyway, does anyone out there have any references (pictorial) for Russian members of the Russia America Company in Sitka, Alaska, c.1804??? The Battle of Sitka...

After one does this hobby for a few decades or so, you amass quite a few books on certain subjects (your favorite modelling historical time, etc.) and pretty much exhaust what's available as uniform or costume reference illustrations on that particular time. Or so you think.... But there is...

Twenty five years before the Navajo and Commanche Code talkers of WW II, the Choctaw did it in WW I. These men joined the army and were not even citizens at this time, and helped hasten the end of the war by baffling the excellent German code breakers, who knew American troop movements before...

I've done a whole bunch of searching trying to find out what musical instrument a troubadour (or minstrel) would be accurate for 15th /16th C. ? Or maybe even earlier. Just can't seem to find anything definitive on it...would a mandolin be OK? Appreciate any help on this one...

Saw "My Boy Jack" on PBS last night... an excellent, although very sad, film about Jack Kipling who died at the battle of Loos in WWI. I have given my opinion before on a film or two, and they have pretty much universally not liked too well. But this one is different, I promise..Daniel Radcliffe...

For the past few weeks (or maybe days-it all runs together for me), I've been reading these excellent posts and looking at these fabulous pieces from Russian painters and enthusiasts. I think their painting disciplines and approach makes them so great as a group; but they seem to have some...

I am carefully informing the readership that there is a film out now (British production) that is titled "Centurion" with Dominic West in the lead role...and is about Roamns stationed in Northern Britain...they are fighting the Picts throughout, the review states. And it is bloody, and gory and...

Bill Millin, who courageously played "Highland Laddie" on D-Day leading his comrades into battle, passed away in Torbay, England, his family said. Bill was 21 years old at the time, and defied enemy fire at the time while his friends and unit members were falling all around him. He was unarmed...

Thought you fellows might like to see my singing duo Goth and British chieftain, large scale (120mm). Seriously, I had the British chieftain almost done a long time ago (sans hand, shield, and some costume details); pushed him back to the back of the bench...for whatever reason.... Then, more...

Well, I'm on an "Amazon" kick so I've been knocking them off one by one, assembly line style. There seems to be no one definitive description or evidence to exactly who they were, and they span so many hisorical time periods, that I used "women warriors" as my guide. There are some, sketchy...

At the risk of posting in the wrong thread, I did see this film this morning, and it is flat out great...now I'm a traditionalist and I go with Sean for James Bond and Errol for Robin,etc., but this film is right up there with the original...and something different in the whole genre...before he...

I'm going to need to make some water in a diorama I'm working on...it will have to be deep ocean water, with a wavy surface, and will have an ocean going canoe in it. My question is: what are people using these days to represent water/ I have my old methods, which were tedious, but adequate for...

How does one change an error in the title of a new post...I tried "edit" but it would only allow change within the text of my post...not the title?

This is a 75mm ancient Irish Chieftain and his wolfhound, sculpted in A+B epoxy and a mixture of Sculpeys and that. Some Preiser bits and pieces also. As per the pre figure research: Evidently, shoes were not worn at this time yet, although robes could have been made of silk or plaid wool. A...

I would imagine this is probably the most ancient of all ancients... this vignette portrays a group of Australopethicus Afarensis..."Lucy", and her immediate family...about 3.2 million years ago. Olduvai Gorge is part of Tanzania and is a main area of reseach and discovery. Lucy is in the...

Well, as I thought, these are the worse photos ever posted in the history of planetFigure...all I can do is apologize, but if I'm going to be a contributing member, and I work almost every day on figures, being disabled....then this is it. I'll try to improve in the future, but I really don't...

First, let me say that I am positively Neanderthalic when it comes to the PC, cyberspace, computers... whatever it's called (oh, and photography too). So when I say I need a tutorial as if teaching a 7 year old, I'm stone serious. That's just the way it is. Duh-h-h. Me no can help it... Anyway...

I'd like to try sculpting a bust or two...what is the scale most of them are done in these days? Is it all over the place or pretty much constant? Thanks

I've noticed a few threads where a black primer was used...now I can never hope to paint like the examples I see here on this web site (unless time is reversed and or I come up with a pair of new eyes), but is there an advantage to using black over the usual grey (or whatever) primer? Does...