Blotz Order Interlude - Hobby Night 17/12/2025

 Received the order yesterday after paying a rather painful amount of Euros to Customs. Still things. 

Well packaged, but a signed for envelope (as PostNL claimed) it was not.

Yeah nah. 

Nicely packaged in reusable seal bags, I love that.

And of course I have to build stuff right away cause attention span is for 

Anyway, at the end of the hobby evening......

Tonight I'll add the pressed fibre roofs and all of the windowsills, and build one or 2 extra walls in the infermary. Could also be thursday or the weekend, you never know. Once done they will go into the Stalker pile as these are for the Young Pioneers Camp.

Warbases Brick Garage PIP x2

 After 3 coats of off white I got started today while the girls were doing their homework. 

Going for the grey pressed fibre plate this time, weathered. As this is a lot more common this is a good test. Needs a bit more work but nearly there.

Went for olive green doors on both sides, metal for the garage door and wood for the side doors so I can do 2 different kinds of weathering. 

Next up is the insides and work on the brickwork. I'm aiming for something vaguely resembling this:

But who knows how that will end up :)

Generic Mossy Rocks finished!

I made these ages ago for Gorka Morka out of foam blocks, MDF bases and cheap filler, primed them and then....nothing for years. Painted them grey a few weeks ago, got them out this afternoon while the girls were doing homework and wanted to get them done today.

 

 And finish them I did. Completely knackered now. The moss green turned out to be brighter than expected, but it's good like this. Yes, I could spend more hours in making stuff "better" but stuff unfinished is not hitting my table, now is it? 

I've kept it as generic as possible, so it wil work for basically any of the 28mm periods I have stuff for. Just the way we like it, ey?

Leaves same as always with my die punch, but this time added a drop of colour and wash instead of just wash. 

It will work fine for Zona Alfa

Or any kind of Fantasy setting, like Verrotwood

The Last War - The Old Artillery - Finished

 Good enough for me. Not 100% like I had intended it to be, but it looks the part :)

 

 

Micro Arts Studio H00160 WW2 Normandy Stable with Dovecote (Pre-painted)

 

 

I picked this up just before the summer holiday in a sale with other items from the same shop. It's not something I would usually buy, I prefer to paint my own stuff.....but it does have a appeal to just build and be done. It's a nice kit, lift off base so you have, if you want it, 2 piece of scenery for the price of one. or in this case 3 as it comes with a dovecote.  Size is nice, a bit bright for my liking, but not everything in my collection needs to look like it has been in Eastern Europe for 50 years.  :) Will work fine with other items they have created.

Bought this with my own money and this is a average quality review. New currently 34,95 euros at the shop I got it from but can be had cheaper elsewhere, bought in sale for 26,24 euros excl shipping (and in hindsight not that much of a bargain if I'm honest). Compared to the previous kit this had a bit more damage getting out of the sprues, but we will see if we can fix that with a bit of paint. Eventually. 

 

My eternally unfinished Stargrave Pirate for reference. Poor sod....maybe one day....

 These will fit fine in my collection for Silver Bayonet, or for Pulp. or 02 Hundred Hours. 

The Last War - The Old Artillery - PIP

A bit of progress. In reality not as orange as it this, but I can't get my phone to take a proper pic.

Added the AK Wet Ground paste, painted the helmet red and used what I thought was but accidentally used a bottle of red blood. The helmet needs a decal or a rune on front, and some weathering. I'll add some plant life in the skelington and maybe a few red flowers. I added a gasmask on the other side of the gun and decided not to put down barbed wire on this. The gun will get some additional weathering, but I'm on the home stretch.

Now fingers crossed the base turns out as I wanted it......

Still so damn tired from yesterdays trip, good thing I'm in the hospital again tomorrow for the monthly check, jay....

A Daytrip to the TSA's Bring and Buy 5th of December 2025

 After weighing in if I should or not, I decided to take the trip anyway. Even if I would find nothing of my liking I could fill up my jerrycans with petrol (it's 40 cente per litre cheaper in Belgium, so yeah....).

Weather was pretty miserable, roads are still very Belgian (if you know, you know) and the trip uneventful.

It was a bit busy, as always, but not completely overcrowded. 

My most important purchase that had just been put out when I was about to leave (bloody typical) is a complete army for for AK-47. After a bit of back and forth I got it for a bargain. Army had been painted but never used in game (where have we heard that before...). I need to go over a few things and maybe get some magnet sheething for them and put them into their own RUB. I have the extra rules for this army so that is perfect :)

I paid about the same as it would cost me to order this, with shipping and the hit I would get from Customs, so.....happy. 

A addition to my rulesset collection to cross off my by now ancient Wanted list. According to Piers I have a mega bargain, and these sell for a whole lot more online. Well, into my cabinet it goes. (also I love it when sellers mark their stuff with a label and price, especially with my eyes!)

Lots of spares. 3 for 15 and the other box for 10.  I have gifted myself Baron's War and some boxes for it for Christmas, so these will go into my stash for later. 

Just for research purposes....not starting that period.


  

I picked up a blister in which recognised some Ghar, so for 4 euros I decided to take a risk. I ended up with 4 drones, a Distortion (?) cannon and 1 crew, and some Rebels, all outcasts. They should make a nice warband for a SciFi game I reckon. Nest to keep them in a bag to spend a hour cleaning them all up, assembling them and priming them white as pale skin seems to suit them. 

A really old Warlord Carden Loyd Carrier. I thought it was a MG carrier, but it seems to be just the normal unarmed tractor version. maybe it is destined to become a light gun or mortar tow for my VBCW BUF (something I have had in my mind for maybe 20 years now....) so maybe just make the occasional item to scratch that itch would be smart as I doubt I will ever make a full force for it. Something I, if I'm honest, should do more often instead of overinvesting? Also, why on earth does Warlord charge you 24 euros for a new one? These things are smaller than a matchbox!

After some Googling I found out this is a Cannone da 75/27 modello 11 with a 4 man crew. I pitched the idea to make scenery for The Last War, but maybe this too can make it into the VBCW box. Who knows. 3 euros was again a bargain. 

 

I saw these fences and thought they would work fine for Stalker etc. Just remove some of the flock here and there and add some of my own plants. Add some weathering but otherwise fine. You can never have enough fencing. 20 euros for the box. 
 
Then some books that my group had an interest in that I won't bother you with. Rogue Trader stuff :)

All in all a nice day out, but man I'm not very healthy. Took me a few hours to recover after arriving back home and tbh I'm still so damn tired. Did some glueing of MDF parts and a wash over the big gun I'm working on but that was it. Maybe I can get more done tomorrow. Well, something anyway.