First of the huts painted (Sarissa Precision K506)

 Online painting night tonight, so grabbed the first hut and primed it at 20:00. Roof was quick as I can do this in my sleep now. Stuck to 2 colours and water. The hut itself though.....

European wood....faded grey. Easy enough. Jungle wood seems to look a lot more vibrant but after looking at half a dozen pics on my phone I just started with a brown wash over the grey primer and try a few things. The end result is what you see now, and I stopped the clock on 22:30. I want to do the other 2 tomorrow, but in less time.

I just realised I seem to have misplaced the stairs....but not sure I actually miss it. If I can find them I'll add them.  

You can find this model for sale here: https://sarissa-precision.com/collections/far-east-15mm/products/smallvillagehouse-low?variant=7994195050540 (but I did add my own roof made of card to it)

 

It currently retails for 11,95 Euros . I Purchased this in November 2023 with my own money, no freebies here. (yes, it took me a year to get it built and painted......we all know how that goes)

Layover in Oosterhout - reference pics for weathering

 I visited a friend today and took a break enroute to rest my knees, back and everything else that hurts these days (I'm getting old and I have not even hit 50 yet. Joy) and just parked on what Brits would call an Industrial estate. I spotted a nice crane next to the canal but that was so fenced off I could not get any shots of it, so made the best of the surroundings to get me more reference shots of all of the weathering.

And a more annoying little thing.....Firefox is now actively blocking me from replying to your comments on my own Blog, claiming the embedded Google link isn't safe. But it does let me reply when using my phone, but I'm not a fan of holding and typing on my phone as it bloody hurts. Now trying to find a solution other than getting rid of Firefox and going over to Chrome.

More crates, and one of them is not like the others...

 Missed out on last nights online painting session due to a massive migraine, and my boardgame buddy dropped out tonight so grabbed some stuff on the table and got to work. In the end I only managed to finish a few more crates, and after putting them in the box with the rest of what I have painted sofar I really need to get going with making foam strips covered with tarp to quickly fill up a warehouse. My painting speeds is just to slow to get this box filled otherwise.

Still, pretty chuffed with these.

The white crate is for 0200 Hours. I tried to paint Eigentum der Wehrmacht, fucked up, and just added Streng Geheim. The joys of not breathing and using a 00 brush aka how to make your issues more severe....but at least the result is nice :)

Time to build some 15mm huts ( Sarissa Precision K505 )

 Time to start building something a bit more tropical. 90 minutes start to finish, 5 more kits to go (but not tonight). 15mm Sarissa Precision Planked style village house LOW K505 with a added tin sheet roof as this will pull double duty with my AK-47 collection. 

I want to try and build the remaining 5 this week, if I can keep this speed up that is 3 evenings and a bit of time in the weekend. Next week try and paint the lot.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. can wait for a bit, I need to get the energy for that back.

Cyberpunk Coolers JPEGs for printing

 My head, like my hands, is a bit overtaxed, so did some low effort stuff and made a bunch of JPEGs of Cyberpunk Coolers to be printed off in the future for the Minimart etc. 

This years Christmas treat to myself.

 I thought it was time to treat myself to the last remaining Wings of Wars rulessets I was still missing, and a starterset for the SCW. It's a pity the taxman hit me up twice, once with VAT in the UK and then with BTW here in the Netherlands, taking the costs up to a eyewatering 125 euros for 3 starterpacks of aircraft and 3 booklets, but that is what it is. Now to pack it all up and shove it under the Xmas tree and not think too much about it all.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Project, a overview

 I've been working hard, maybe a bit too hard so I've been all over the place..... so I've done a stock take to get my bearings right.

What I finished, my PIP's and my WIP's, and stuff that is yet to be built. I'm taking a few days off for a long weekend with the kids, and on monday I have another online painting group session planned. I'll focus for a bit on finishing the PIP and primed stuff, then try and finish all the detailing on the rest and prime and finish those too. We should be into Christmas or beyond by then. Enough here to keep me busy far into 2025.