Friday, February 28, 2014

2nd Battalion BEF, completed

Finally finished the 2nd Battalion for my early war British collection


Command platoons



The majority of the figures are from the most excellent Zevezda range, though there are a couple from Airfix and Revell in the mix also



This is the battalion support company


I managed to achieve a reasonable amount of variation with the figures and their poses, and I will try to apply similar practice to the creation of the third battalion.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Road Trip pics

A few pictures from my recent trip to New South Wales...


Fort Scratchley was built during the 1880s' to protect Newcastle from (at that time) a possible Russian attack


As history would have it, the fort did not see active service until June 1942 when it engaged a Japanese submarine which attacked the harbour area and the industry around it


The tour through its subterranean galleries is quite cool 



This is fired everyday at noon



Formerly a 'disappearing gun'


One of the guns that engaged the Japanese submarine


Battery OP


This Matilda II is located in Singleton NSW and saw service in New Guinea.

Friday, February 21, 2014

Italeri - US Half Tracks

Finished these yesterday


Nice little models, well engineered, and no flash


All of about ten parts each, very good wargames models


Partly undercoated on sprue


Vallejo Dark Green, black wash, then two stages of lighter dry-brushing


Decals from the spares bag. I usually leave nation markings off this sort of kit so that the Russians can use them as well; made an exception with these



Could easily pimp these up a bit more, but they'll do for now. I have enough of these to mount two companies of US Armoured Infantry. Nice kits, x2 for $20.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

A New Sabre

A couple of pictures of my new F86


This one is modeled landing gear up 


It was a present from Paul http://plasticwarriors.blogspot.com.au/?view=classic and very very cool it is too


Great paitwork all round, a really authentic looking finish. It needs some minor panel beating owing to the usual perils of the international postage service, but nothing too major 


This is a cool addition to my Cold War aircraft collection. Quite a few scenarios from this era allow the NATO player additional jet fighter elements owing to the western allies superiority in this area at that time. 

Thanks Paul.

Saturday, February 15, 2014

A visit to Col's

Just completed a 2500km roadtrip on my bike, part of which included a visit to Col's from http://scratchbuiltarmour.blogspot.com.au/



I took a few pictures of Col's collection for you to see




This model is quite simply outstanding, the effort and attention to detail impressive


Col has an excellent figure collection too. Some of these are very rare, and hopefully he will post some more pictures with details in the not-too-distant-future


Col and me. Similar age, background and interests. "We love you Blogger!"