New old crates, painted

 Painted up and finished varnishing the crates I picked up at Figz 2 weeks ago.

 

 

Simple, basic and most generic paintjob so it works for everything 28mm scaled (Stargrave model for reference)

They are Fischer Price GeoTrax crates from their toy train range, no longer in production. I'll be sure to keep an eye out for them at swapmeets and Goodwills in the near future. 

 

Won't be painting anything for a while, got diagnosed with Bursistis in my left elbow and it hurts like a Son-of-a-<bleep>. My issues Bingo card is filling up quick. 

Bacon Buddies

 Pig pen for Nam and AK-47 (though pork in a Islamic country.....yeah, let's ignore that bit)

15mm pigs from Peter Pig, scrap MDF base, some matches, ribbed card and plastic H0 Faller fencing, cut down a bit to fit in better with 15mm. My first time trying out wet mud and earth paste from AK that I picked up for The Last War. Works like a treat I say. Not much else to say, need to make a few more village items, but maybe better to focus on a few figgies now.

New Junk

 Took the girls to Figz (wargames show) today, just to say hi to some fellow gamers and do a little shopping. It was nice but not very busy as a Belgian Modelling club had their event on the same date, which was a pity. 

The girls had 10 euros each to spend and after milling about the place, trying not to kill eachother or dislocate my shoulder and wrists too much, I picked up a few (well, a lot) of packs of tufts at 50% and also tree stumps etc for Stalker. Then we had to go back to pick up a few packs of.....resin spiders. Ah, those are my girls allright :) (also, going for the 50% off box as well as we talk about the value of money a lot, and spending it wisely. Yes, this hobby ain't the best for it but hey better than drugs, smokes or alcohol)

 At the used kits/toys and bits store I picked up another 1/72 walker tank to use a s a scenic wreck for 15mm, a 1/110 (or 1/120) War Junk that I'll be updating a bit to 1950 standards and see what I need to modify as well to make it more 15mm compatible. Great to plant in a river in Vietnam as well. 

Lot's of bits, tired, cubes from some game that will be painted as wooden crates for 28mm, small 1/72 guard shacks I'll just sand down a few mm to make them 15mm, 2 packs of 1/48 Jersey Barriers for Stalker and other moderns

Back home I crashed hard, my health is not the best atm. When I woke up again I gave the girls dinner (it took me that long to recover) and together we cleaned 2 boxes, and added a note with their ideas for what to make with what spider, what colour, what details. They really want to have a proper go :)

28mm Undead Gargoyle....something

 Last year I bought this model from a local models reseller. It is officially a, <checks notes>, Aviarch Harpy from the Teratic Cohort from Warcry. Cause sure, why use normal names that you can't copyright ey?

Did not like the head so tossed that into the bits box and used a Beastman skull from GW's most excellent Citadel Skulls box (now that is a box that is worth its price if you ask me). The model arrived broken (missing wingtip and minor bumps etc) so fixed that, only the wingtip repair failed so I thought, wht bother. Added some rocks to the base and glued big ol washer underneath for support and to stick to magnetic sheeting. And as usual, it stayed in the todo box for almost a year?

Primed it bone, gave it a good drybrush, tried some glowing eyes (it's passable) and sprayed it gloss for protection, then matted all the bone and did the bloodwork and tufts. 

I'm not sure what I made tbh. While working on it, it feels it can work as a generic undead enemy or a boss level figure for Silver Bajonet, Horror Games, maybe Deth Wizards, Mordheim, be a Necromancers pet. So I'll just call it a Undead Gargoyle and call it a day.

15mm Mooring Pontoon

 Mooring pontoon for the future harbour. Metal hull boat is a 15mm resin cast from The Scene in the UK (now defunct I believe?), with a bit of scrap H0 roof to cover it, and the gaps and sides filled with superglue and flour. Rusted it all out to heck.

Should also work as a floating bridge support or a towed barge with cargo. Heck, mount a AA gun on it, why not. 

Finishing a quickbuild (9 months later) - 15mm Fishing Boat (or Mistery Machine)

 I finished the fishing boat I started in August of last year, see here: Quickbuild Fishing Boat

I added a mast, resin tires, more netting and then the top light broke off, then reprimed it and it sat abandoned in a box for 8 months, until refound during one of my many, many cleanups (though it never seems to get much cleaner, funny that).

Spent 2 sessions painting it and getting it ready for pictures, and yet again I realised while checking the pictures on my PC that I had inadvertently painted a somewhat familiar scheme.

Just a bit less bright than this....

Also, I need to make a few docks, I should prep some of the big blocks of wood I have with filler to make concrete piers or something.

 Anyhoo....

"One of the many small fishing boats fishing for sardines off of the coast of Wadiya, KG 3 is nice and bright with the usual eyes on the bow to ward off bad luck. To date, she has never burned down and only dragged a naval mine once"

She is one of a set of 4 boats from Kibri, set 39160 which can be had for about 20-ish euros per 4. 

Space, more Space, all the Space!

 Had a productive weekend installing 2 new Ikea Pax, giving me another 234x200x59 of storage space, and just got back home from picking up and installing a used Billy bookcase for downstairs.

With the extra space on the first floor I can keep all of my precious....painted stuff only 1 flight of stairs up instead of 2, one of them being the rickety folding wooden one that I would not want to trust with my life (but will have to till I save up for a metal folding one).

 End result, lots of extra space, down more cash than I would have liked, and twisted my other knee for good measure while doing yardwork today. Bring on Cybernetic enhancements, I say.  

Now to sell some more stuff so I can afford doors for it.

Monument Groupbuild - The Roundabout Monument

 

In 1906, the first roundabout was built in Wadiya, starting a world wide craze and the obvious lie that the British created the first Roundabout in 1907. Its creation was documented in The Wadiyah Times on opening day April 1st 1906, sadly the records were lost when the paper burned down in 1965.

To commemorate the 50th year since its creation, a large monument was erected in the middle of the roundabout in 1966. This did create a sharp increase in donkey related fatalities, something the Department of Tobacco, Donkeys and Firearms strongly denies. 

This was my backup entry after I wrecked the original one. I hope to get that fixed somewhere in the future. Dimensionally it is overly large and I left off most scale specific items on this, so it is also playable for 28mm. I've made a "after the Revolution" copy as well to use after the loss of a game or to recapture it. Just for funsies. I'll post up the other entries as well after the deadline expires. 

 

 

Gunbird invades Peleliu - Bookkeeping finished

 After using my free time to crunch some numbers, I think i have it all noted down.

Japanese Scenario 1: 

• Infantry - more than enough, plenty of spares from the Army Box alone. The LMG's will come from Peter Pig (in stock) but I am lacking 2 so added a pack to my order.
  
• AT-Guns - enough in the box for the scenario, loader teams will come from Peter Pig (in stock)
• HMG - same
• Sniper and Spotter - Peter Pig (in stock)
• Off table 81mm - I can pre order this blister that has 4 teams of 81mm and a Observer team (always useful in Battlegroup). available from July 5th so I will wait.
• Grenade L. battery - Enough in the Army Box and I have spares from Peter Pig

Japanese Scenario 2:

•  Infantry - still enough left overs in the Army box, and a few from Peter Pig so ok
•  Rifle and Mortar spider holes - enough spares to cut a few apart, no worries
• Snipers - more in the Peter Pig pack
•  Timed Mortar Barrage - use the models as counters
• HMG - sorted
• Type 90 75mm gun - 2 of these in the Army box so sorted. 

 So besides chasing down a blister of 81mm mortars I'm ok for the Japanese.

USMC Scenario 1:

• BAR - I have 9, I need 18. Noted this for a order with Peter Pig
• Infantry -  I need about 60, there are 25 normal joes in the army box, the rest is NCO etc. I need to go over my Peter Pig USMC stash again for this, but I am coming up short.
•  Forward HQ - sorted
•  60mm mortar teams - I need 3, I have 2. So added to the order for Peter Pig
•  30.cal teams - 2 in the box, just what I need and i have spares from Peter Pig
•  LVT-2 - will be 3D printed
• Bazookas - Box has 2, I need 6 - Added to Peter Pig order 
• Demo man - just sculpt the charge bags on the models. 

USMC Scenario 2:

• If I have painted all the infantry for Scenario 1, I just need to add 3 BAR's and 9 more men, so added those to the PP order
• Forward HQ - sorted
• 30.cal teams - sorted
• Captured Type 92 - already working on it
• 2 Corpsmen - I'll use spare loaders suitably painted.
• Captured Pillbox - I'll reuse 2 from the previous scenario and modify another to be more American
• Barbed wire - I'll knock those out in an hour, easily sorted
• LVT-2 - I'll use the one from the previous scenario 

 

Now....let's get it on :)

So, I dropped my entry for the Monumental Build :/ Long live the new entry I suppose.

 Yeah, gotta love those hands of mine. Was finishing up the putty work and, as happens all too often, my hand just suddenly said Nope. Puttywork ruined as I was working outside, all warped with bits of dirt and sand in it, a leg broke off and the plastic split at the seam. Just great. To get it all back to where it was will take 3 hobby sittings at least, and I simply don't have that time left till the deadline.

So, don't enter then? In my own competition? Not a chance.

I grabbed some more wooden playblocks from the attic, glued 2 each together and sanded them a bit, based them up on a big round base and added some supports that will double as a architectural feature. Then used my cordless drill to ram 2 holes into one of them. You see, i will be making a Before (the Revolution) and a After (the Revolution) momument in Wadiya.

What the monument is for, the backstory, what it looks like painted up.....that I will show when the deadline has passed on Sunday 18th of May 20:00 GMT, So consider this a teaser pic.

A very wooden pose....

I now have 2 hobby sessions left till the deadline.

Banged up Silo

 3 years ago I painted up 2 Silo's > Double Silo 

Today, I finished a third :) There will be loads more as I find them supergeneric for various scales, even if they are originally for H0. Next up I should paint a few more that aren't knackered though...they are great for the Zone.