Bam? Boo!

 As I want to get a lot of semi finished stuff done this week, I grabbed the unfinished set of Bamboo, covered the bases with Thyme and will coat them again tomorrow.

Then I grabbed more bases, and realised I am out of the ones I used before so just grabbed whatever I had on hand and just got on with it. I don't often tune out but oh boy I needed all the tuning out for this. 

 

Tomorrow I'll do some more work and hope to have this lot finished by Wednesday.

 

Built a Sarissa ruin as well that I would like to get done this week.

And now my entire house smells like Thyme

Top right is the original lot, I grabbed as many bases as I still had left and just started making more. But I'm running out of long stems of bamboo, but we will see how much more I can make. 

 

How I store my gaming mats (as of now)

 I want to keep my mats as close to my gaming table as setup as keeping them in the attic where it gets hot as well as really cold ain't the best place I think.

I modified a Ikea Billy cabinet by not assembling the centre section in the designated location but a bit higher so rolled up 4 feet mats can stand upright in their carry cases, and I keep using the shipping crad containers as well as I put a big sticker on it with what mat it contains. I drilled extra screws in the sides to make sure the newly located middle section stays and it is all done. This way I can fit round 10-11 mats of various sizes with ease. On the floors above (that I need to sort) I'll put down my folded fleece mats. 

Northag in 3mm - Primer time

 A bit bright, but it is 3mm and they will get a wash etc, so I hope it will work out. Once the tanks are painted I'll do the bases, add black trim, put the white stripe on front and maybe some sort of marking on the back. 

AK-47 Air Support Group Build - Finished!

 This MiG-19W as flown by Polkovnik Abdelmajid ar-Arkoub against the <redacted> in 1973. This aircraft was assigned to the 2nd Fighter Bomber Interceptor Recce squadron "The One and Only" of the Wadiyan Airforce.

12 of these were donated as a goodwill gesture by the NVA of the DDR, with 11 arriving in December of 1971 as deck cargo on the MV Käthe Niederkirchner (1 fell off after a unfortunate incident involging seagulls). They were quickly repainted in Wadiyan Desert Camouflage and updated to their standards, giving it the "W" moniker. After a 6 month workup the squadron became active in mid 1972, and quickly beloved by the population surrounding of the Base aérienne 3 "Capitaine El-Raffiki". 

Highly rated by their pilots, the aircraft flew several succesfull missions against <redacted> and racked up a impressive kill list. Many enemy fighter aircraft and installations were destroyed, and any UN claims about destroyed hospitals, goat farms and orphanages are pure propaganda.

"1-358" was lost after the Crew Chief had the bright idea to speed up the roasting of Shawarma by using the exhaust of one of the engines. This worked like a charm, till he accidentally kicked off the brakes and slammed his head on the gunsight, knocking him out (allegedly). "1-358" then sped up between the semi closed shelter doors, ripping off part of the wings, speeding across the airbase before coming to a halt at the local goat farm next to the base. And exploding in a pretty spectacular fashion. Shame about the prize goat Fatima II and her many, many offspring, but she was great with some hummus and garlic sauce in the end. To this date that area still smells like delicious grilled goat. 

It was a fun build. I could have done a lot more but deadlines are deadlines, so this is where it ends.

  

BSSCF2025 - Deadline tomorrow, better get cracking!

 Quite a bit to so, but I needed another teaser pic for the LAF.

Ak-47 Air Support Group Build - Putting on some colour

 I wanted to grab my airbrush....but I can't find them.

Fine, I'll use spraycans....but I can't find my AK Putty. 

Fine, I'll order some online so it is here tomorrow. None left in the entire country.

Fine, I'll use masking tape and just get very annoyed. And then the first spray came out powdery.

For the love of.....


Anyway, much frustration later the basics are done.

Tomorrow gloss up so I can add the decals, then modify them. Try and do the basic cokcpit and any other details I have time for. 

AK-47 Air Support Group Build - Rocket (pod) Man

 Only final cleanup is now left, and the hope that tomorrow we have more agreable weather so I canprime and maybe get the first layer of camo on.