Completing my Jerrys and Ivans

I am very keen to start playing Flames of war but

until now it has only been a build up.

My friend Peter S donated all his old rule-books and 

armylists because it was version 3 but still it is very

playable to me. Next up was that I got an offer to buy a 

second hand large soviet army. And last year I bought

their counterpart(germans).

Still I wanted to make my collections more playable and

I lacked german aircrafts, german AA, german recon

and very important King Tigers and heavy russian artillery.

Last week I completed this with two buys.

When I opened the packages one of the two sellers also

donated 2 Marder(v1) and 3 Panthers. Very nice and

also for free. Thankyou very much Jens!

Next up will be to paint all these models in late war-colours.

The half-tracks looks very good and will not be converted

but I will put on som camo-nets and stowage for the right

worn down look.

Last but not least only 3 of the models had some damages

due to the sending but I will manage to repair this. :)

Sandbags based

Sun is shining and I have enjoyed some hobby-

work all alone. A couple months ago I made some

moulds in hobby-clay to make a plastermodel of

one of my sons feet. The extra hobby-clay resulted

in very nice-looking sandbag-shelters for my minis.

Now I have put some basing and also glued all

the loose parts together using pva. If you will try

this yourself I advise you to also put some strips of

tape under each base-plate to prevent them from 

bending when pouring some pva and sand.

The US-troops that will be used as cold war-infantry

also were updated with proper bases.

Last but least are some finds that will be used

in Necromunda ash-wastes. The heads with nice-

looking haircuts are from the range Spacewolves.

1,2,3 and a new mini is born

On the third of september my fourth "mini" was

born. She was real quick (the quickest so far).

In 5 years me and my lovely wife has managed

to produce 4 children and you must think that

we are crazy but this was the goal all the time.

The main reason to this very intense schedule

is to let the children grow up together and never

to be alone and someone said that the most precious

thing to give your child is a brother or sister.

The birth was the easiest so far and the mother

only endured 40 minutes of labour!

As a father I feel most, most proud!

The pictures show the minis in order with oldest 

placed lowest and the youngest on the top of this

row.

Imperial guard - bits and figures

 A couple of weeks ago I bought some figures and

bits on second hand to complete my small but growing

collection of Imperial guards.

First up are two very nice figures to complete my 

squad. The one with the eyeglass is a classic and I

have been looking for this chap to buy for a long time.

The second is a conversion and I havent decided yet

if I will keep or change the head because he looks very

"pirate". Next are nice base-plates and kneeling figures

that will end up as riot-police in my "Law and order-

skirmishgame. The range of bits will come to use on many

 of my troops and will add some fire-power. :)

The heads are spot on to use both to tank-commanders and

special-riotpolice. The vehicle-bits will be used both to

complete my magnetized (not solved yet) Leman-russ-tanks

and my scratch-built command-vehicle(not built yet).

On the last picture you can see my collection of Leman russ-

tanks before the magnetize-operation.

Pirates - special characters

During my vacation I got an offer to exchange some
of my 15mm-miniatures(medieval) for these plastic-
figures that I don´t know how is the manufacturer.
I think they all look very good and will be played
as special-characters when playing pirates-skirmish.
I will base them all with sand to get the right look
and also give the raw plastic some lick of paint.

US cold-war soldiers 28mm in woodland-camo

 First of all I feel very limited in myself after
building a garden-fence (15metres x 6 metres)
and on top of this our fourth child will be born
in 2-5 days.
Not much time for hobby-projects but my latest
project will be to convert some US Viet-Nam-soldiers
to US army cold-war/post-apokalyptic-soldiers.
Together with the soldiers I will also use some
vehicles and first out are some cheap plastic Humvees
and a M60/A2-tank and finally some recoilless-canons.
I have already some converted US-soldiers painted in
woodland-camo and they will get some very nice
support on the gaming-table.
The game-system I will use is probably Necromunda-
ashwastes or Fallout-miniature wargame.