Fred's 2015 Painting Diary

[Techno]

Looks good to me, that man ! 
Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice Fred

[fred.]

Thanks chaps.

After loads of procrastinating these flight stands were dead easy to make and seem to work well

[Matt J]

They look great Fred, consider that idea nicked. I was going to ask where you got the rods from but Amazon seems to be my friend 

[fred.]

I got mine from eBay. Mainly as I could get singles fairly cheaply. These are 3mm which are quite bendy, and I don't think would work if much loner than the current 15cm

[fred.]

Managed to grab a couple of quick photos of the wadi pieces



Need a something to fix the sand in place, and maybe a bit of dry brushing on the dark steep walls.

[fred.]

Not done a lot of painting the last couple of weeks - I seem to have spent a lot of time working on our groups home brew fantasy rules, these had been parked for a while as we have played a lot of Epic Armageddon in the first part of this year. But we have got back to fantasy gaming the last few weeks, which has led to a major review of the rules as we haven't played them for quite some time.

Did do a bit of modelling of the weekend - made up some curved sections of wadi. And stuck together another half of the Perry 28mm Afrika Corps box set - so although two desert projects, both in completely different scales!

Did manage to get in another game of Warband with my eldest daughter (well 2/3rd of a game, we ran out of time)

We played Lizardmen against Dragon Men (looking rather arabic in this outing)


The deployment, lizardmen in woods, dragon men in the distance.


Towards the end - both sides have lost a few units on the left flank. The Men are pushing forward in numbers on the right. The lizards are tying to back off into the woods to gain a defensive advantage as they were all forest walkers.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good looking game there!

[Techno]

....And nice piccies, too !
Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Thanks chaps

Good looking game there!

I think you are being generous, but thanks anyway! It was a fairly quickly put together one, and half the units are just blu-tacked to sabot bases 

[fred.]

28mm DAK


Got the last few stuck together, and filled the arm seams with a bit of putty.

Unusually for a Perry set of figures, these ones are a bit short of rifle arms - there are a few too many MP40s to easily make up a whole platoon - managed to work in a couple of pairs of 8th army ones to fill out the numbers.

I like the fact that with no effort to mix things up that you can create 36 unique minis from the same bodies, just by picking different arms and hats.

[toxicpixie]

I recognise those winged helmets in the back... They an old Citadel Regiment of Renown from the pre-slotta days? I have some in terrible paint jobs from fourteen year old me in the loft somewhere

[Techno]

Nice work again, Forbes ! 
Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice job on those Fred.

Just sold my 15mm DAK, Glasgow, Stockport, Hong Kong and somewhere is Australia!

[fred.]

I recognise those winged helmets in the back... They an old Citadel Regiment of Renown from the pre-slotta days? I have some in terrible paint jobs from fourteen year old me in the loft somewhere

Yep, the old skool Knights of Origio. Given a quick tart up, and it gives me 30 sword and shield guys for Kings of War.
The crossbows in front are of a similar age.

[toxicpixie]

Cracking stuff, nothing like a bit of old school action

[fred.]

WWI Aircraft

After finally getting round to painting some of the WWII 1/300 aircraft, I realised I need some decals for them - but just buying a few decals would be too simple, so I got some WWI aircraft too.

The first ones I have put together are the early war ones - I have to say these are some of the fiddliest models I have made - the under carriages with struts and wheels, and the struts between the wings of the biplanes - then trying to get the wings offset the right amount. And only 2 of these were biplanes    8 more late war ones - nearly all biplanes ....



Back row: German Rumpler Taube, 2 seater recon, 1914.  French Morane-Saulnier N, 1915, British BE2 2 seater light bomber

Front row: German Fokker Eindecker late 1915, German Junkers CL1 1918 (an interloper in this line up), British Sopwith Tabloid

[Techno]

Good grief.

Never knew a plane shaped like the Rumpler Taube had ever existed.
Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

It really is the first generation of planes - a collection of string and paper!



I don't think this is the correct way to land one


Must have been very brave to fly one of these - let alone to fly one in a war zone.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

And you've not bought triplanes yet!!!

This is why when Wing of War came out with prepainted WWI we all breathed a huge sigh of relief!
Good luck old friend!