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March 9, 2021 at 10:34 pm #1621045

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The name of the country in Welsh makes a bit more sense when you realise that the Latin name for Wales is Cambria. Cymru is pretty close to that… Wales is a similar root to Wallachia in Romania and basically mean ‘land of the foreigner’ in old English…turns out we English have always been dicks to everyone. 😛 People don’t think of the Welsh as being ‘Romanised’, as the saying goes, but they were. Also three geologic time periods are named after Wales! The Cambrian, obviously, the Silurian (named after an ancient Welsh tribe), and the Ordovician (named after another tribe). Just more useless facts I have in my head for you all!

In hobby news, work continues on the Panzer IV. One track left to paint, then we can add decals and weathering… I tried an experiment with Contrast paints for the metal and it worked out quite well…though the Black Templar does overpower the metal a little too much, I find. Long story short, I went with a basecoat of Leadbelcher on the machine guns and tracks, then contrasted with black over the guns and Wyldwood over the tracks to give them that brown look they have. I might need to ad a touch of Leadbelcher over the top of the tracks, but I like the overall look.