wargaming

Here's a small selection of what I have been working on recently. La Legion, Irregular miniatures with a Frontline CV 35. The bases still needed doing when I took this and the standard bearer needs a flag. Irregular miniatures Regulares artillerists. Irregular miniatures Nationalist infantry in gorillo cap. These are the same figures as I used for La Legion. However to differentiate, I omitted the detail from these guys caps. This is so that on the table, the Legion figures have a little something that separates them from the peninsular infantry.  Nationalist Panzer 1. This is a Britannia model I bought from Grubby tanks a few Salutes ago. Originally I made the terribly faux-pas of painting it grey, I repainted it this colour scheme las month and I'm much happier with it. The Panzer as I originally painted it. Also in this group is an old Hat FT-17 (they seen quite hard to come-by these days). I have cut off the tail, as I have seen pictures of FT...

Unfortunately, as you may have noticed, my new career in marketing leaves little time in the evenings (or none on a busy week) for frivolous things like making models and painting miniatures. However I have managed to get a few bits finished. The modern Africa bits are still going, I've got a Ferret and AML 90 half done, as are the moderns and SCW. I've also been repainting some of my GZG scifi miniatures, but lately, after re-watching Band of Brothers and seeing the new Airfix resin buildings, I have gotten back into WW2. I say back into, I did start collecting a few tanks and plastic miniatures a while back, but it didn't amount to much. I think the SCW overtook it. So anyway, I'm in the middle of building up a force for Too Fat Lardies TW&T (nice name). I've got most of a platoon of Brits done, and nearly as many Germans. The infantry figures are all from Platoon 20 and the tanks are mainly armourfast, but also there's a Raventhorpe Churchill tank, an Air...

The title and label of this post will probably make most of you think this evening was much more exciting than it really was. Yesterday afternoon I soaked an AML 90 armoured car, I bought recently from ebay (apologies if you were bidding on it as well),  in Dettol . According to the instructions  I found, you mix the Dettol with water, drop in the item that you wish to strip and leave overnight. Then you scoop the miniature out, give it a bit of a scrub in some warm, soapy water and hey-presto it's ready to go... ...Or not. I now have a claggy, black toothbrush (not that it was going to use it for my teeth again mind), a ruined washing up bowl, a kitchen that smells like a hospital and a 20mm AML 90 that is still covered in oily black paint. Oh and my hands are covered as well. But initially I was impressed, after a day, the milky dettol substance had flecks of black floating round the jar and when I hooked the miniature out, a lot of the paint had come off. ...

Not exactly new, I painted these at the same time as my first batch of RLI, but I stumbled across these pics still on my laptop today. The figures are Liberation Miniatures modern Africans, the RPG carrying figure is by Platoon 20. They are painted in a fairly generic way as I wanted to be able to use them for both Zanla, Zipra and other modern African insurgents.

Well there's been a bit of a painting drought recently, but over the weekend I finally got a bit of downtime and was able to paint up another stick of RLI. so for you enjoyment and to prove I'm still active here are some pics - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone