Wow, it is amazing how long it takes to update a blog. The usual reasons, lack of personal discipline, the awful blogger app that will not allow photos to publish, a loss of painting mojo lasting three months and the attrition of real life.
So what have I been up to? The above does not sound constructive, however I have been chipping away at many projects. Here are the highlights below:
1. Went to SELWG 2017. A great little show, more hobby focused with some great table games. More intimate than Salute.
2. Built the Sherman Firefly VC plastic kit by Warlord and discovered the joy of Testors dullcoat.
3. Rediscovered OO gauge railway modelling and resurrected a project from a decade ago. Above is a kit of BR 07 shunter converted into an MoD Barclay 275hp shunting loco. Below is a rake of Parkside Vanwide and Palvans with a Horny VGA painted up as internal user wagons for the MoD. Painted and weathered acrylics.
4. Paint a clutch of 1/56th scale 'B Vehicles'. Top photos shows the radio truck from Corgi, Anyscale models CMP 30Cwt truck, Perry 5'5'' Howitzer and Warlord K2 Ambulance in prep in the background.
Corgi Diecast Diamond T tank transporter and Warlord Firefly being varnished in dullcoat.
Richard Humbles scratch built Matador truck being base coated. A good spot of the Facebook sales pages!
5. George Washington in 28mm from the Wargames Illustrated 'Giants in Miniature' range. Also painted is a Regiment of Eureka's Marbleheaders and Perry Miniatures Lee's Legion.
6. Defrocking the M7 Priest. Model from the Priest SPG by Warlord games modified to become a 'Kangeroo APC' by blanking off the gun mounting, removing the shell racks and adding some plastic card armour to the fighting compartment. Added to this has been two RAM Kangeroos and some more Universal Carriers.
7. Prussians Et Gloria. Eat, Sleep, Paint, Repeat... bulking out the 28mm Napoleonic Prussian regiments with the 19th, 24th and 25th Prussian regiments. Photos show the Perry plastics. Two metal regiments of Foundry Prussians were also painting with a start on the new Warlord Landwher.
