Book time!

Got home from work at 10.45pm and these are waiting for me. This weekend will be one of reading!

Long time no see..

I's been a while since the last post,  mainly due to life in general, but also as I discovered that the blogger app didn't want to post my posts, though it said that the posts were posted. So I will do a little summary of the lost posts in this post;

I have begun to model some more in 1/35, and I intend to make a quite large diorama with the monstrous Karl Gerät along with a pz-IV and a wrecked t-34.
This is the first time I work with photo etched brass, not that I have avoided it, but anyhow.. it is a lot of it, and super many small pieces in the kit overall.

I have also started with Flames of War again as I discovered a lot of players in the next town, and I went for panzers!

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Russian tank!

As the start of a quite large project the t34 rolls into the workspace. There will be two more vehicles in the diorama, one quite large and german, king tigers are small by the way... ;-)

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Corsair

A little plae got my attention a few weeks ago in a hobbyshop in Gothenburg. I got the first few bits assembled and have the interior ready for painting.

Onward and upward!

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BFG

This weekend me and my dad was at a model meet. I will post more from that later, but I just got to show you this badass monster gun I found in the trunk of my car when I got home..

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Bolt Action Americans

Before Xmas I got a thick letter from a little island west of here out in the atlantic, and inside were a number of bags filled with 20mm americans waiting to be painted, and then they waited a little longer.. But today before work they got primed, and when I got home I spent some time painting for the first time in quite some while.
The picture do them no justice, but I save quality for when they are done.

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Porsche Tiger

Early this summer I got this model kit from my little brother of a Porsche Tiger in 1/35 and a few infantry soldiers, which he had gave up on quite early. I happily took it and secretly built it to give back to him at his birthday in late summer. I hope he is as happy as I am with the result!

German Infantry wip

After reading through the "bolt action" rules I felt I had to paint some more infantry to test the rules with, and since I have only painted 1/3 of my "plastic soldier company" models it was easy to get moving!

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Action with a Bolt?

Well... Lets just... Another.. Umm.. Crap?

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Where is my package?

Still waiting for maelstrom games to send my order of Dropship Commander. Where is it?
Meanwhile I can enjoy another little gift for myself that arrived today.
David Finkels book about Rangers in Iraq, and the soviet attack on Königsberg by the german commander Otto Lasch. I hope these will give some good hours of reading!

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British Commandos

FINALLY! I never seem to get any posts here, but I have been fiddling with a bit of everything, including trying to learn to play Force on Force, including some new buildings but more of that later.
Yesterday at work(!)* I finished these boys, and today I based them, they are platoon 20 minis.

The pictures went somewhat color-crazy, but the reality is somewhere between the photos. Klick to see the bigger version:

*I got one of those jobs this summer with sometimes little to do, but with the need to stay sharp(e) and frosty.

Panzers!

Just finished some tanks for my 20mm or 1/72 ww2 germans. As I haven't decided which division these guys are from, so I have waited with the numbers and markings.
The Panthers is a Italeri 2 models kit, and the Pz IV are Plastic Soldier Company 3 models kit. All of them a quick build and nice model to paint.
I added some of PSC's infantry to show the tanks size, klick to enlarge the pictures.

Ze Germans!

I got some Plastic Soldier Company germans in 1/72 scale, and here some of them are painted, I have'nt decided about the bases edge as I thought about color coding different units. Hope you like them, I made a variant of the Oakleaf ss-camo, and I think it turned out quite nice. The medic is a favourite as he stand out in a way that is'nt too obvious. (wash and dirt on the white made sense)

Sunshine on my panzers!

It's too good weather to stay indoors fiddling with plastic today, so I took it outside:

I got my hussars and 20mm germans this monday, yesterday I assembled some infantry and today I wanted to see how the tanks looks like in person. It is wonderful sitting in the sun while gluing again! I got a little stuffed by all the shakos so I'll assemble and paint the hussars after a short vacation to a war torn france.

Opel and Pak 40

I found a plastic kit of Airfix Opel and Pak 40 a few days ago, finished it last night.
The windows are made from thin plastic, I think it look better with than without.
Bases are made of old student id-cards. The grey uniforms looks a bit blue, but in reality it is quite nice. My first gun in 20mm scale, what a blast!

More mini tanks

This weekend I finished the rest of my meager 6mm collection. I might add some infantry someday, but for now, I think I'll focus my ww2 stuff to 1/72 scale. Not that I have any of those inbound, oh no...
Anyway, I think these will be enough for a small firefight someday, it is fun with those small side projects.

Shermans and Stuarts

Tigers, Panzer IVh and Sd.Kfz 222

Tiny boccage table finished

Now the table is finished, just painted the edges black so they won't stick out so much.
The trees are handmade from wire, and I have soaked all the foilage with a watered down white glue after the initial gluing so it will stick, and it's much harder too.

I really like how this came out, and for a smaller Song of X or FoF game the size is quite good. The paper houses I made earlier can be used here too.

The different tiles match up against each other, so the layout can be varied from time to time.

 

 A Tiger on a hill, overlooking the fields and spotting the Shermans soon be aware of its precence!

 Shermans rolling down a dusty road, is there something ahead? Oh, the tension of a tank!

Shermans vs Tigers

I had some skytrex minis HoTT based a while ago, but since then I have found lots of interesting websites, such as this with too much inspiration to let my poor minis look like drybrush victims of a broom. I took some of them of their bases again, and gave them some real paintjob!
I begun with some base color, then a thin black wash, a second base color for the tigers, and a highlight before painting tracks and freehanding stars and crosses.

Too bad I can't seem to get good macro shots, I tried a lot of different lights, the sun is recharged and even then I cant really seem to get the real color on the pictures. Well, here they are, enjoy and remember, they are in 1/300 scale, a man is supposed to be 6mm next to these "beasts" (bugs?).

The tiger looks big when placed next to the sherman, but not when placed next to anyting else!

Small Town 2

I have begun to base some of the houses, more details to the bases will be added, but you can see how they are coming along now.

I have finished some more buildings that are awaiting bases, but these will be different as they will be situated in a town instead of the countryside.