Nippon army project (Part one)

Hello! Time for me to build a new project, this year I planned to realize a “Hobby phantasm” of mine, collect and paint a Nippon Army for WHB. For once no Citadel miniatures in my project, I fell for another venerable old school miniatures range from the 70’s… Dixon Miniatures. 



Dixon Samurai blister back

This miniatures studio was established in 1976 by Trevor  Dixon when he left Hinchcliffe Models. Trevor was the principal sculptor but some young artists joined him for a time. Mark Copplestone and Mike Owen started their careers at Dixon. White Dwarf published in their advertising pages numerous Dixon advertisement of Dixon, until the issue N°95.

Trevor Dixon 2012 and a Dixon advertisement published in White Dwarf in 1986

So, Dixon Miniatures range occasionally suffers of critics about his ‘Pumpkins head’ and their proportions can sometimes shock the new school collectors but… I don’t know why… I love them J They’re really nice to paint and they have enough details to make a good work. Proper Old school but always on the run and recurrently  published in the wargame press. The icing on the cake, you can buy their miniatures one by one on their website catalog.

Wargame Soldiers & Strategy N°1 Oct 2003

Wargame Soldiers & Strategy N°1 Oct 2003

Wargame Illustrated N° 355 May 2017

Wargame Illustrated N° 355 May 2017

Wargame Illustrated N° 270 Dec 2010

I started to paint this project since one month but I admit the progression is very slow compared to my precedents projects. The reason is the arriving of a new member in my family, welcome to Raphael J Perhaps a new painter for the Nico’s painting studio J 

Pictures  of the Nippon army coming soon.