447 - God is in the Details (More W-i-P)

Yay! Uncharacteristically true to my word, I managed to get some more painting done the last couple of nights, and I had fun (for once) painting some details - namely the blue rim round the mugs of the soldier and the NCO enjoying their brews:

Now, I checked for the historical accuracy of this classic kind of enamel mug, and I found such a variety of 'issue' mugs that surely at least a few of the Toms would've had this design. In this case, the officer has a brown mug and the driver (who also has a moustache if you look carefully on image 2) has a dull metal one.

Tea mugs are important.

Interestingly, in taking this pic I noticed that I hadn't painted the stock of the NCO's submachine gun. This is out of habit: all my other SMG-toting NCOs have the brutally metallic Sten gun, but this fellow appears to have been blessed with a Tommy gun. I'll remedy this forthwith.

Oh, and in other news I got another couple of steps complete in the assembly line of my 3rd Platoon for Flames: it'd probably be a reasonable target to set for myself to have completed my whole 11AD force by the end of the summer hols, I should think.

To help in this goal, I've also just purchased a brace of the gloriously simple drab-painted 40mm Bofors S-P Anti-Aircraft vehicles.

I'm likely to have another stab at some 40k modelling/painting again next week...

- Drax.

446 - Interesting Scenery (28mm)

Hullo, All.

After a week in Amterdam with work, it's back now to bombing to-and-from Portsmouth to help take care of my dad, but hopefully the hobby should be BACK ON for a few eveings at least this week.

In the meantime, I saw these really characterful barracks huts on a well-known online auction site (UK; six days left). They're exactly the kind of narrative scenery I love, and I thought (a) I wonder if anyone might be interested in these, because they're great, and (b) I wonder if anyone knows who manufactures them...

Pic used without permission sought...but there's no such thing as bad publicity, right?

If you ARE interested, they're currently standing at 99p + £4 p&p - seems like a bargain to me, but I'm cutting down on my 28mm stuff and besides, accumulating scenery seems a waste for me as I've not played a game of 40k in my house for five years now.

This should be the link: [here] - if not, the description is as follows: "6x Barracks Army/PoW Camp Hut - terrain scenery – Bolt Action 28mm WH 40k".

Keep well - more to follow, with luck.

- D.

PS: Are these Nissen Huts?

445 - Back in the Saddle Again

Did some painting.

First time in a month.

= win.

[stupid late-night mobile phone pics...grrrr]

- D.