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Been looking at the boxes in the spare room racking up. Started to look at my vehicle collection and the What A Tanker let’s plays. I feel that’s a game I could get playing easily and give some of my tanks and other AFV’s a chance to be built painted and played with.
Have some time to paint all of a sudden and got this done to kick into doing that thing.
Line: Reaper Bones
Figure: Darkrasp, Evil Priest (77151)
The Bolt Action pile of potential continues to get worked on. Panzer III Auf L this time. This is the plastic kit from Warlord Games. The transfers sheet doesn’t really support this vehicle well. There aren’t any Balkenkreuzs small enough to fit on the side and rear, even though these are shown on the box art. I might revisit and improve my freehand efforts. The box art shows DAK and Eastern Front paint jobs, but not anything for the Western Front. The transfers regiment markings and numbers also only seemed to support the box art. I know the Panzer III was being phased out and the chassis used for the Stug III instead, but I wanted this model to be used in my Market Garden plans and my Post D-Day stuff as a hanger-on from the refits etc. I chose to use the same red and white style numbers as my Puma as I know that the Puma was meant to be a 1944 example from that kit’s box art.
I had some duplicate CCC miniatures for MERCS and decided to paint the Yellow Jackets in an alternate paint scheme. So I present to you the Pink Jackets! Be bold! Be pink!
Stug III got broken when a box was dropped. Track back on, camo pattern and a mini added and it’s ready for action. I think the main reason for the break was because of the bad call I made in the assembly of it. I was younger, didn’t know any better and… Primed it on the sprue. Having to cut away paint and then add glue to put it back together highlighted the error. Made me cringe at how daft I was to think that gluing painted edges to painted surfaces was going to do the job.
Selling this one. The first Bolt Action tank kit I built and painted. Learnt a few lessons since then. Trying to paint camo with washes has probably been the main sin on this one. I have a new Panzer IV kit and want to get that built and painted instead. Probably won’t ever need or want more than one in my collection. Seller douglashooker1644-uk on ebay. Maybe you can find it a new home or polish it up and enter it as your next Spring Clean Challenge and shame my efforts (joking).
More MERCS. This time ISS. I’ve now painted all 12 Megacons.
I don’t remember exactly when I started collecting miniatures for MERCS but it’s around seven or eight years when the game was initially released by Megacon Games. With the re-launch of version 2.5 by Fifth Angel Studios, I finally finished painting all the factions. So, here’s all 12.
US M18 Hellcat.
Painted this years ago, forgot what it was called it was so long (mistaken for a wolverine by me) but I didn’t have a photo booth back then and wanted to sprouse it up. It sadly fell foul of the same fateful drop of the box that my Stug III suffered. The metal barrel snapped off this resin Warlord Games tank. Being resin I was lucky, as the damage could have been far worse. I tarted it up a bit, touched up some areas I had missed and added a bit of weathering.
Oh tis the season to actually be finishing things!!
Finished off another of the grogeous Moonstone minis today – The last word in groin tickling – The Vicious Midget!
More photos of him and the others in the plog here
And recently and finally finsiehd up a diorama piece that i started in May 2020!!!! Hamelin the Bard of Twilight! It was a long road with this one but so so worth and a project that I learned so very much from
There are more shots adn some explanations about the project adn the build here
The first Sherman I built several years ago. I spent an hour or so today giving it a brush up and weathering. I lost the hull machine gun piece and improvised with a gob of green stuff and a piece of gun barrel. (German I think). The casual knife stuck down as stowage, the bad hull machine gun replacement and other aspects make this painful to share, but this is how we learn. ??
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