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. 

Sarissa Precision P040 City Hall - MDF build completed

 The kit is now completely built. I added scraps of MDF as windowsills, and replaced the MDF columns with dowel. Those will be glued in place once painted. In this case I'm thinking about glazing with a full sheet of transparancy and glueing the top on and just call it a day. With no floors inside there isn't a real need for it? We will see once I paint it up, for now it is in the  (rather long) cue.

I'm not going to weather this to hell. I can see this being used anywhere from 1700 till the earth has gone to shit, as a city hall, bank, library, investment banker HQ (wait, in that case it needs to be burned down) or a nice extra home for a 28m Aladeen (when, if, ever). But formost it is going into my Post Apoc collection.

Blotz 28mm Nursery Greenhouse finished

I honest to god do not know when I bought this. It could be well over 10 years now, at a Crisis show even? I started it but got burned out several times by the placing of panes of glass, and then putting it in a box where it stayed for years on end, only to add a few more panes, get burned out again, etc.

 But I'm calling it done now. Yes, I could do a ton of more work on it.....but she is good enough now. Time for closure. 

 The Blotz 28mm Nursery Greenhouse currently retails for  5.83 GBP excl VAT and can be found here:
Nursery Greenhouse


I added a base from scrap card, used only one of the potting benches that came with it (and I'm not sure they still do as it isn't mentioned in the text). The oil can is a 1/35 Italeri one, and the blue canister is just a bead. I used various leaves from my collection, even punched ones out of real leaves, and some tufts, but kept it base so it can still properly lift off. Lot's of blister packaging was used for the glass.

Sarissa Precision IM03 Marshport Refinery WIP - 90% done

 I spotted this kit in a battlereport a while back (I think) and I liked the look.

Kit currently retails for 34 euros but I picked it up in the Black Friday sale, so 10% off. 

Assembly was pretty easy, nice big flat parts. But I did notice a few things.

• One of the short sides of the top part of the building comes with no laseretching at all. I have no idea if this is intentional as the shops paintjobs make that impossible to check.
• You can't lift off the big roof as is without having to remove the other top section (unless you snip off a section that I will show later, then you have no issues)
• The very spindly top part of the roof that is meant for the original lettering. That won't survive past the first game (so I took most of it off) 
• The shute that ends up above the railtrack is just a open box with an opening
• The top part glues down on top of the roof of the first floor, but that leaves space between the 2 openings. 

I do not need the rail system as I have my own, so I removed that part.

I've added 2 magnetised 30x30 bases to the top floor roof (ignore the loose bit beside it) and cut down the sign on the big roof down by half, and added scrap MDF inside and on the side to make it a lot stiffer

 

Added trim to the roof of the chute, with the forementioned blank side panel next to it. 

Added extra strengthening underneath the covering and added card on top to make rusted tinned sheet

I noticed some flexing on the inner wall so strengthend with more scrap MDF

I will not be using their vents so need to fill in the 4 lower holes, and already used some scrap and a swizzle stick part to make a plank to store some painted stuff once the kit is 90% done

And as always....

A new tinned roof.

 

I need to magnetise the sign and then cover it. It will get a Zona Alfa suitable marking, which can be covered with a magnetised sign of my choosing afterwards.  For the top part of the building I will make 2 swappable signs with magnets in the base. This is the way.

Edit:

As mentioned, I did not like the connection of the top part to the roof section so added scrap MDF to close the opening on the sides so there would be no gap.

After glueing everything the top part turned out to be 1-2 mm out of alignment with the ground floor. I glued a bit of scrap MDF behind the nub opening and now it sits perfectly