So this is a bit of a different one. My girlfriend is a keen cricketeer. As such, I picked up this cricket game for the OO model railway (when it gets rebuilt).
I've finally got round to painting them so thought I would show them off.
The models are from Langley Models.
Slightly different update for today. I recently collected a couple of free figures from ChillCon earlier this year, and have got some paint on them.
The first is the Sir Gobbo free figure you got for attending. Here I've based him on an MDF base, and added a spare Chinese z-gauge model rail tree from eBay as a sapling.
The second is a Shattered Soul from Terra Regalis, which was being handed out as test models for Two Thin Coats paints. These are a simple one piece model, that I think could benefit from a different pose, as it's arm really blends in.
These have mainly been test pieces for new techniques. The Shattered Soul was used to test wet blending and edge highlighting, while the Gobbo was used to further test speed paints over a zenithal base, particularly the metallic silver.
Speed paints aren't perfect and I definitely think they benefit from over painting with proper paints for highlights in most colours, they are a quick and easy way to lay down some base coat and shading. The silver works well for large areas of flat metal but is quite bright and benefits from a dark wash to tone it down. In this case I used Army painter dark wash and gun metal to shade and highlight, before adding rust/weathering with Light Tone and Strong Tone.
So today's update is the latest addition for my Soviets, 10 OT-34 flame tanks. These are Battlefront models and have both the 76mm and 85mm turrets.
These strengthen my collection for an Operation Bagaration game I hope to run later this year.
Today's models are some more T-26 and BA-10 armoured cars.
These used to be in my Finnish force and are Zvezda and Command Decision models respectively.
This month I've built new Battlefront models for the Finn's, rendering these ones surplus. Rather than selling them, I've recycled them into my Soviet force.
This brings me to 10 T-26s for the Soviets.
More should follow soon as I've been doing more construction in the background.
I wanted to post these earlier, but a varnish accident (Colour Forge is a lot less tolerant of temperature difference than Vallejo) and a holiday prevented this.
These are 5 Zvezda T-26s. I hope to repaint my finnish T-26s to Russian to match, when I get the new Finnish T-26s complete (These are being built at the moment).
Finnish T-26s in progress, new battlefront models.
Today we have a some tokens.
Last weekend I attended Corrivalry, a UK flames of war competition. I didn't do badly, I came 5th and joint 2nd in the painting competition. My army is below.
So I have managed to get my medium and heavy Soviet mortars painted, which is useful as if gives me both options for my Soviet force.
Also another 17 models painted!
So the secret project is revealed, I've been working on this 3D printed Astute class submarine a friend did for me.
Interesting project as there are limited photos of these especially below the waterline, as such I've gone for a limited paint scheme, black with a few details in Grey or Dark Green.
The base is white based MDF which I edged with iron on strip.
So, another year, another annual summary blog post.
What can we say about 2024? Well, looking at the graph below, it's not been my most productive year.
However, it was at least better than 2022s progress, especially when you consider that I've moved house twice this year (and the pre/post work that involves), and lost my permanently set up painting space.
So what have I achieved this year?
Firstly, my Late War Germans got a big boost, with the following completed.
My Soviets gained a lend lease Tankovy of 21 Grants and 10 Stuarts.
For 1:72/OO railways I completed the following:
