Warbases Brick Garage Electrical work

 A bit of soldering wire, scrap card and MDF and enough superglue to make you cry.

30 minutes well spent and a little 3D effect added to a otherwise flat kit. 

Warbases Brick Garage WIP x 2

 I had been cleaning and sorting today and these set aside for later. DHL was supposed to arrive within an hour or so so I thought I might as well set at the dinner table and build. These will be for Zona Alfa. 

I picked these up last year I think. Yup, 2025. So slow.....disohonorable.

I cut off the sides of the door so it looks like an open door on one of the garages.

On the other one I did the same thing with the garage door and set it ajar. 

Tonight I'll do the roofs and plan out the paintjobs. 

Oh, and DHL showed up 3 hours later....while I was out picking up the kids and almost home again. Cause of course.

Sarissa's Black Friday Sale 2025

 Well, considering I have a couple of kilo's in the attic (MDF, not the powdery stuff) I really should not order anything, buuut....

I only picked up 4 kits this time.

28mm City Hall is a new release. This is for my 28mm Post Apoc collection. I already picked up some wooden dowels to replace the columns with. 

Also a new release is the 28mm Drive In. This will go fine with the screen I made shortly after getting run over in 2015. I think it is time for it. Might change the name though.

I spotted the 28mm Marshport Refinery in a battle report a while back and I had it on my list for Stalker, so in the order it came. Will get a new roof and the top frame will be removed. 

And the German Airfield Control Tower. Worn down, it will work perfectly for the Russian base in my Stalker collection. Will most likely have to severely harden the handrails as they look like card to me and I want them to last. 

And that is it for this year. I don't expect to receive any of this before Christmas, the Post is pretty swamped as is. And I have plenty of other stuff to build before these....

Sarissa Precision N610 Extra Weatherd and Damp....finished

 That was fun. These little ones build and paint up so fast compared to my 28mm stuff, but I really should get cracking on finishing one of those soon. Maybe next week. 

Anyway, same kit, different kind of weathering. In this case pretty damp and not cared for for a very long time. 

And a quick comparison to the previous one.

 

Sarissa Precision N605 - Small 2 Storey House - WIP

 Assembly is simple and quick. The shutters on these are rounded at the top which is nice. The footprint is the same as the ruins, and the roof and first floor lift off quite nicely. Think I'll got for a weather yellow wall and green shutters this time. Also need to cut a add on roof out of foam so it fits Vietnam better, and then tile that.

Same footprint as the ruins, with a little concrete pad for the front door.

Just realised this would work as a burnt out shell as well, if you leave out all of the card bits. Hmmm...

Maybe add some planters in front of the open windows?

Plenty of ideas, but for now, it can dry so I can coat all the card tomorrow. 

BSSCF2025 - Final fotoedit

 

Another N610 - But now a lot more weathered WIP

 A lovely (albeit solitary) hobby evening, and all of the weathering is done on the new (well, is it really new.....) house ruin. Let it all dry and tomorrow evening it's time for the leaves, debris and other plantlife. 

15mm can paint up really quick if you stop (over)thinking about it. 

Sarissa Precision N610 and N613 WIP

 Another N610 ready for paint, but this one will be painted as something that has been destroyed years ago. We will see if I can get that done tomorrow evening.

Also assembled N613 Single Storey Souk. This can dry tonight, tomorrow magnetise the front so I can add signs so it fits Afrika, Vietnam and any Arab speaking country. Just swap signs when needed. I'll leave the roof bare so I can add water tanks or little gardens on top, again when needed. 

Sarissa Precision N610 - Destroyed Small House - 15mm

 I picked this up in last years Black Friday Sale (I think....could have been the year before?).

Comes with a 1x MDF sheet and 1x card sheet with parts. Cleanup is quick as always, minimal nubs. Assembly is quick, you can't really go wrong here tbh. I left off the ruined 1st/2nd story roof rathers/floor/whatever it is (I really don't know) that you can assemble hanging down into the open floorspace. I just put that into the spares box for a future project and snipped down a few of the planks that extended a bit too much for my liking. 

Currently retails for 9,99 Euros. Destroyed Small House - 15mm

White primercoat, sponged another wite coat, grey coat and dark washes, details in red, last ashy highlight and she is done for my 15mm AK-47 and Vietnam collection. Went for the "This just burned down"-look. Might make another in a "We don't go there anymore...." look, not sure if I have more of these.

 

 

Bam? Boo. Done!

 It's good enough. All of the bases have now been Thymed. I ordered a big bag of the stuff for future needs as it is pretty good scatter. 

41 bases done. Once it has all dried and the excess removed, into the box they go and grab the next unfinished project and repeat. 

A nice mix of sizes so they work for a lot of things. I am happy it is done. I have way too many things languishing in a box cause the enthusiasm is gone. But if I push myself just a little bit and sit at the table while the girls are doing their homework, an hour here or an hour there gets shit done. The 2 a week hobby nights are the cherry on top. 

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.