Kira's Club Terrain - A Spring Clean Challenge

My Pledge for Week 1: Monday 25th March 2024 – Sunday 31st March 2024*

* As you may have noticed, the period for this week has already passed at the time of my writing this. Well, that is correct: but my sin was not a lack of hobby but rather on being around a personal device to write it up. Between work and being away over the Easter weekend at multiple family gatherings: I have not had a moment to sit and do this.
That being said, I did indeed make my pledge and I did work on it. So I’m going to write this one as I would have at the beginning of last week and review what actually got done in my next post. Everyone onboard? Okay, let’s go.

My first week’s pledge is to finish up the MESBG Rohirrim Battleforce I was already working on and then to move on to some of the 4Ground buildings.

Here’s a picture of where this is up to.

I’ve worked through the Warriors (bottom larger grey tray) and the Riders (top smaller grey tray) and removed their mould lines (so… so many deep mould lines on these old kits) and stuck the horses together.
The horses (the lower wooden tray) are going to need some work with the filing tools and some sprue-goo to fill out the gaps and smooth the joins over. These are no Golden Demon entries but deep lesions to the necks and butt cracks running up the saddles look a little silly even in bare plastic so these need a little work in preparation for future painting.

Next is Éomer, Marshall of the Riddermark (sprue in the top right) which contains both his Infantry and Cavalry versions to put together. There are some options to this around weapons and armour but I’ll make them as I get to building them.

With a great bulk of these kits to work through (and with some encouragement from my 6 year old “Thing 1” who is excited for some of the buildings to be used for decorating our model railway in the future) I have decided to plough straight into putting together as many of these building kits from 4 Grounds Europe at War range.

I previously organised these kits by their product codes because each code contains a set number and each set shares the same number with some modifiers so this made it easier to gather all the kits together.
Take kit 101 for example, this contains the following three variants:

• 15S-EAW-101: North Western European Stone Hotel/Apartments
• 15S-EAW-101D: North Western European Stone Hotel/Apartments (Damaged)
• 15S-EAW-101A: North Western European Stone Hotel/Apartments (Add-on)

This trend continues through the range with xxxD codes being the damaged version of the building and xxxA being add ons (an extra floor that can be slotted into another of the building to increase it’s height).

I haven’t worked on these sorts of kits in… years now? It’s been a while so I’m unsure how I’ll get on with them so I’ve pulled the first four sets to work through and see how I get on. Now, this represents the following 11 kits of various sizes and complexities: North Western European Stone Hotel/Aparements (101, 101D, 101A), North Western European Ashlar Stone Bank/Apartments (102, 102D) North Western European Terrace Houses (Type 1) (103, 103D, 103A) and North Western European Semi-Detached Houses (Type 1) (104, 104D, 104A).

That’s a lot of North Western European kits.

I’m just going to put as much time as I can into these and see what I can get through to give me a sense of what is a reasonable rate for me and my free time. Check back in the Week 1 progress report to see how I did.

Next will be the results of my first week where we see how I got on and use these results to think about what I will be doing next.