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.

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grimsby wargames club web site

for anyone who has noticed and wondered were the grimsby wargame club web site has gone, it was being looked after by a club member who has decided he no longer wants to maintain it and it has now ceased to be there.
a new site will be up and running soon as far as i am aware along the lines of a site/gallery/forum type site.

not sure why Jason gave up on the site after doing such a good job over the years but these things happen from time to time.

as soon as i have the new site address i will post it here and hope people pas it on,

work in progress

after a gruelling task of painting almost 500 figures it has been a nice rest to do little and that little is something for myself.

so far i have a small squad of Spanish foreign legion on the go along with the foundry downed German air crew both for the Spanish civil war project but the air crew could do for the rest of ww2 as well. a nice little set but not at today's prices, had these air crew for a good few years now and paid less than a quid a figure for foundry 28mm says how long i've had them..

this empress barricade is almost finished just needing some static grass on the base after a matt varnish and something has been finished this week...

as its been a relaxing week i picked up a copy of captain correlli's mandolin one of those films that passed me by for a good few years and i was quite surprised to see the correct equipment for the Italians ans Germans for a war film made before saving private Ryan, story was ok very impressed all round with it, now i suppose its back to the rapid fire battalions with some of my own bits added in to brake up the pace a bit.

2 days and 91 figures done

at long last i have finished my 10 rapid fire battalions for commission work, a hard slog it has been at times with this last 2 units being finished off this week end, in fact the Americans were only undercoated at 7am this morning and now they are done. another 91 figures for the monthly total.

and for my next paint job i have started to clean up some empress Spanish foreign legion for the scw project

also included in today's lot is this us para in an attempt to get the Normandy uniform right, under normal light this looks ok but not under flash light.