had a photo session at the Grimsby club last night, originally it was going to be with malc for the club site. but he was ill. so just did what i could for myself but left my ww2 with Dave for in the week with malc.

so here is some of my warlord 28mm Romans 140 figures making 7 cohort bases

bovvington 2010

bov tank museum, Finlay visited the place after many years of wanting to, loads to see, very surprised with the amount of ww1 tanks on display. and on the size of them.
interwar wars interesting from the small size of the vehicles, on to ww2 the main part of the place from my point of view just wish they were all runners and not shells, but still looked after and preserved.

Italian tankette small as a car

panzer 2. shame the had no panzer 1's

sorry for the delay in posts

being ill, and not having the motivation to do much paint work,, has led to a down turn in production.
i have picked up the new warlord plastic Germans with the aim of doing them up. first impression is good. a shame the ammo pou hes are not separate to the figures as this would help the pose choice better
as for these pictures, i was taken out for the day last week, unknown to me it was at a place called tanks a lot



were we got to drive FV432 apc's and Russian BM21 tanks and to top the day off me to drive a chieftain tank over a Peugeot car, most fun i've had in a while, cant thank family and freinds enough for that day out
most recommended

its been a while

well it has been a while scince i last posted, not managed to get much painting done, total for august is only 42 german paras, i did go to Eden camp over the bank hol weekend were front line reenactment group were playing the guards as it is an old pow camp,
a shame the vehicles are in a poor condition, all in need of repainting and looking after
still it was good to see some old friends i have not seen for 20 years, after that weekend i went into hospital for a week now sat at home on recovery leave, may even get time to lift a brush or two,,

on a good note i have picked up a box of the wargames factory sci-fi shock troops,

on first look. not bad, good poses, nice chunky weapons and plenty of spares

they should paint up a treat and fit well into combat zone games or even make better imperial guard than games workshop make. and a damn site cheaper as well

looking better

second attempt at painting jap tanks,
much better ressult after going for Vallejo reflective green base with German camo Brown and dark yellow for the camo. not sure if i should have waited to get flat yellow but went with dark yellow in the end.
then after painting the other 3 tanks in reflective green i find an unopened tin of humbrol 79 uniform green (the colour airfix recommend for jap armour)

month total for june

well its a bit late in coming due to finding out my cancer has returned after 6 years in the clear tomorrow i go for a ct scan to see how much more of me needs to be cut away what fun more hospital food!!!

anyway on to the total for June a mere 112 figures finished not bad but not as good as last month. so far this month i have been looking into making a start on my15mm japs inbetwen other projects. with not having many books on the subject of jap armour i picked up the osprey book on jap armour tactics as it was in the local model shop, and after a good internet search i found little on painting jap tanks as in colour patterns etc.

and as i last did jap tank kit (airfix chi-ha) over 20 years ago i cant remember what colours to use.

look for German camo patterns no problem but the poor far east is a bit left out on the net.

i did find this pic of a 150mm shore defence gun looking similar to my 20mm scale ones,

as for jap colours i tried army green with bestial brown and yellow not 100% happy with it, i should go with Vallejo reflective green i think. (if anyone has any ideas please let me know)

also finished this week is 42 Germans in SS autumn oak leaf pattern and another 3 battalions started.

at last something for me.

at long last ive painted some figures up for myself, it seems strange after doing so many for other people to do myself some figures.
not bad as on Saturday after work i went down to Norwich and across to duxford with a friend to collect a couple of model kit collections, i was in a merc sprinter with 4 meter load area and we filled it to capacity, never known one person to have so many unmade kits

anyway the figures i have done are the foundry German air crew i know the condor legion had a brown uniform and side caps not peaked caps but as they are also for ww2 the will have to do for both games with rescue the crew as a scenario type of game. just need a 1/48 scale bomber to make as a wreck for terrain

also still on the Spanish civil war era more Spanish foreign legion figures just needing matt varnish and static grass adding .

and i also finished this Italian 90mm gun in 1/72 scale but in 15mm scale it makes a good ex navy ship gun mounted for shore defence also needing grass adding and matt varnish.