Lowlands Terrain Small Storage Warehouse Finished

Happy with the way it looks so calling it a day. Can go straight into my Stalker collection as well as my Post Apoc when it doubles as storage for the Red Star Brewery. Nice kit to work on, I can reccomend it for super generic storage, and this will look fine when painted up as new too, or modern with graffiti on the sides etc. 

Only addition made is the card covering the MDF roof and the red star, otherwise stock.

Lowlands Terrain Small Storage Warehouse PIP

Getting there. Still a lot to do. 

 

 

AK-47 Militia Build - The Miltia 120mm mortar painted, now just needs crew

 God knows where they dug up this old fossil....

Battlefronts 15mm scaled 120mm that they sell for the Germans, Russians, Egyptians, Iraqi's, Bietnamese, etc....so this might be a bit hefty for the Militia but it just says Mortar, so something with a little more Oomph is nice. That and I have loads of these in my spares bin.

Lowlands Terrain Small Storage Warehouse

 

Picked this and 2 other kits up from a local creator (10 min drive to pick these up) and this is the smallest of the 3. 

 

Nice TT Combat like feel to the MDF, nice lift off roof and comes with 1 crate, 4 solar panels and 2 AC units as well. The light lasering on the floor and door is nice to keep intact while painting. Made for 28mm but if I am honest as always, make a fake door in the side and you have a nice large warehouse for 15mm as well. Or a hanger for a stubby aircraft? Need to paint it now.

 

They tossed in a free 0-10 counter thingy as well in MDF, for which I don't have a need but it was fun to paint up 

AK-47 Militia Build - Dir, the 1st T-34 Rebel Tank PIP

 No kids for Christmas, and meds making sure I'm not hungry I just spent the day sorting stuff, cleaning and grabbing the occasional small snack, no Xmas dinner this year, or tomorrow. Well, there was but that is now in the freezer.

And then I took an hour or so for myself this evening to grab some washes to paint Dir, the 1st T-34 tank for the Militia (Rebel) Build. I did not get as far as on Rumh, but that is ok as I need to do some more prep work and putty pushin on the third anyway and what work remains (white markings and barrel, crew,tracks etc) can be done when I paint that. At my current rate that will be somewhere next year I think.

Dir (درع) means Shield in Arabic. The crew are....for lack of a better word, "conscripted volunteers"

The 2nd T-34 (and third tank for this unit) will be īmān (إيمان) which means Faith.

So Spear, Shield and Faith. Tank is a Battlefront T-34 that I got in a joblot. I hope that explains why this and the other T-34 have their commanders cuppola glued on the loaders side. For a fantasy like this it is perfectly fine....

...Crap, now I feel I should equip some of the spear guys with a shield......dammit. Oh well, still more than 20 days left I suppose....

Blotz B28-WW2-102 and -104 Built. Well, mostly.

 The 28mm Hospital Hut and 4x Barracks Hut I received last week are now 90% built. Roofs have been strengthend and fitted with pressed roof plates. I added a internal wall and a rail for the Hospital Hut to better fit in with my plans. I'm still looking for suitable supports to lift them 5mm or something thereabouts, and I need to glue in all of the window sills. Now that all the top work is done I can get started with those, but the fit for them is extremely tight so it is quite a chore. After that primer, but for now they are going back into the box as these will get painted in one go. Well, the 4 barracks anyway, the hospital can be painted seperately as it needs more work and doesn't perse need the same exterior color as the rest. 

 I picked up some new MDF from a local seller that has priority now as I want to get those done asap to make promopics for them as I found them very pleasant to contact. And it helps they live a 10 min drive from here. Their models have a certain TT Combat flair about them that I like, but without the card bits. And all of that will be used for Stalker/Post Apoc as well. 

 

 Oh, and the Hospital Hut needs a new door. 

AK-47 Militia Build - Rumh, the Su-100 Rebel Tank PIP

 I don't have a lot of time today so focussed purely on getting the tank as far as my enevrgy could take it. It needs markings (which need to be weathered) and I need to write the name on the barrel. Then do the trackwork and some parts of the base. Final detailing after the basing.

 

Rumh (رمح) is Arabic for Pike (the weapon, not the fish). Backstory is that the Militia "found" this and other T-34 based tanks in a outdoor long term storage base in some backwater on the coastline. She's not pretty, but she runs (for now) and the gun works. 

AK-47 Militia Build - The Old Gun PIP

 I grabbed a plastic German 105mm gun from the Battlefront spares box after grabbig these photos off of the Internet.

These are from the Syrian Civil War and are a rebel gun circe early 2015. Although you would think it is a German 105mm, it is not. It's a Yugoslavian one and some details are different......but not enough to bother with for this build.

After posing, basing and giving it a coat of primer and having that harden nicely, a solid hour of work gets me to here:

Once the crew is finished, I'll base them together, do the base and add the lanyard for firing the gun. 

AK-47 Militia Build - Clothing WIP

 For the basics of the clothing I've used nothing but my sets of AK markers. trying what I can and cannot do with them. I've mostly used the historical markers this time. They work fine but I'm not sure how long the tips will last.

Tried using at least 1 bright colour per stand, when possible. Also did a few (very fake) camo's to see what works with the markers....but that got messy real quick, so if I wanted to do that I'll use the brush. 

While fun to do, I'll only do this for bigger items. The ammo crate works just fine, the camo pants does not so that might be a redo. This is the guncrew btw. 

AK-47 Militia Build - Skin

 I'll be honest. As much as I enjoy painting scenery, I really don't like painting figures 99 out of 100 times. Yes, boo, hiss, eat me.

But these guys aren't going to paint themselves, so.....

1 coat of Army Painter Speedpaint Hardend Leather for all of the skin. It will do. Once everything is done, a coat of matte should tone the shiny, sweaty, muscular.......<ahem> The models should be nice and flat then. 

AK-47 Militia Build - The Basics

 Time to get my thumb out as the deadline is Jan 17th. 

 

 All the infantry bases are ready for primer, the vehicles still need some work and/or a base. 

12 bases of regular Militia = 84 pts

2 bases of RPG Militia = 28 pts

1 base of HMG Militia = 14 pts

1 base of Mortar Militia = 20 pts

1 Militia Towed Gun with Tow = 30 pts

3 Militia Tanks = 180 pts

2 Militia Trucks with AA = 60 pts

All bases are magetised.

Greenstuff World, do you even know what Quality Control is?

 Maybe it's me being a former RMA, but this is really pissing me off.

In the last order I made I picked up UNIT9 figures - Roadrunner Bob 54mm

 

 A 6 euro model to get me over a certain treshold, seemed nice to use as a statue for the AI Wars remembrance in Cyber Punk, or something. 54mm figs are good for that.

Model arrived, and the left elbow has a massive shift and was barely attatched. Fine, I think, I can make it work as a broken statue, but first email GSW about the issue. The reply was an apolagy and if I wanted to make another order so they could ship it in that order. No, I would not, I made enough this year thanks. Ok, they would send me a new one.

That just arrive and for the love of God, it has the exact same issue! I know orderpickers just get a slip, pick the stuff and box it, but what a colossal balls up and waste of time and money this is. 

Well, let's fire off yet another email then.....

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 :)