Continuing the model kit assembly, I've finished these chaps, ready for stowage and painting.
Soon be time to reclaim my corner of the kitchen table, so I can resume painting.
As ever, thanks for looking.
Continuing the model kit assembly, I've finished these chaps, ready for stowage and painting.
Soon be time to reclaim my corner of the kitchen table, so I can resume painting.
As ever, thanks for looking.
Happy New Year! So, with the Civil Powers taking control of the kitchen table (AKA my workbench), painting ground to a halt over Christmas and into the New Year. So, with little to entertain on tv these days and lots of long dark days and nights, what better than to assemble some of the kits that reside in the stash, some of them for several years, others more recent.
First up, a real quick build from First2Fight, a PzIIC - very much like assembling one of the smaller Zvezda 15mm kits, but this one in 20mm. Needs a bit of jazzing up with some stowage.
So, not a bad group of vehicles assembled over the holidays, I'm quite pleased with that little lot. Should keep me out of trouble for a few weeks.
Thanks for looking.
Another bring and buy bargain, a mixed bag of Caesar WW2 German winter infantry in camo smocks. The only figures missing were LMG teams, which I made up with some MG34 armed Panzergrenadiers from Raventhorpe.
The platoon with a recce infantry section at the front. The recce section is painted in all white camo, while the rest wear a mix of white and more regular camo gear, some with white smocks, others white overtrousers. I notice for the picture that I have managed to put one figure of the recce section in with the HQ section.
I still need to add some snow to the bases, I will probably use my favourite recipe of baking powder, white paint and PVA glue.
So, last post for the year. What a year 2020 has been! Here is to 2021, new and effective vaccines and the end of Covid-19. Happy New Year and thanks for looking!
I recently ordered a mixed lot of figures from Raventhorpe, which included a couple of packs of WW2 British pioneers (three figures per pack). The figures are armed with a flamethrower, Bangalore torpedo and pole charge, making them really useful for lots of battlefield engineering tasks.
I was impressed with the example photos of the new Plastic Soldier Company ultracast SS Panzergrenadiers, so decided to give myself a pre-Christmas treat and ordered a box. At almost £20 plus postage for a box of 35 figures, they are not cheap, working out at over 57p per figure. I was also somewhat surprised at the box content as there are 6 MG34 teams of 2, 3 prone firing and 3 advancing. However, that leaves 3 kneeling commanders, 3 NCOs with SMGs, 3 Panzerfausts and 20 figures armed with rifles. Now, my calculations suggest that for a platoon in PSCs premier WW2 rules system, this leaves you short 1 rifleman, which seems a really odd mix, especially as my box contained sprues which had been cut up already, so presumably are a mix and match from the casting machines.
The image below shows the basic 30 man platoon that can be assembled (I opted to use the advancing LMG teams, saving the firing teams for another platoon), but there is an odd figure from another manufacturer - I will let you try and figure out which and from which plastic figure set.
Pose quality and sculpting are excellent (as might be expected given their Adler pedigree) and they are nicely equipped with water bottle, bread bag, gas mask canister, entrenching tool or spade and bayonet sheath, and a scattering of zeltbahns. Riflemen appear to carry the Kar 98K, NCOs the MP40. Those armed with panzerfausts also have a slung rifle. Loaders for the LMGs carry ammo boxes and one has a belt of ammunition draped around his shoulders. There are quite a variety of poses, walking, running, aiming firing, loading, etc., which makes for a nice mixed look to the unit.