1/48th vehicle Assets

Just a few snaps of some of the stuff floating around  my desk at the moment.  The models are (in no particular order) a RAFM USX drone, a kitech T72,  a pair of slightly converted kitech btrs (one with a SA-9 SAM turret inspired by a BTR60 somewhere in the real world. The SAM turret comes with the kit, and is designed to fit behind the machine gun turret in a slot which I have filled in), a Corgi (?) Land rover and a Burgaro jeep. The 28mm figure is a Brittania Malayan emergency CT, who is about the same size as a Foundry figure. 

HLBS and The Warstore 1/48th compatibility

I have been looking for potential sources of additional figures to bolster my forces, such as the Dust figures or the Graven Images range.  There is a company (I believe the War Store) which has recently been advertising 1/48th civilians on eBay,  some of which looked like they would have potential as milita or armed civilians.  The test figure I ordered is shown in the centre of the picture.  It came with a slotta base which I removed and replaced with a Rendera plastic base. The casting and sculpting are both good, and from my perspective they fit well with the HLBS stuff.  I added a weapon from TAG, which fits fairly well with the HLBS weapons as I showed the other year.  Overall, very pleased and will probably pick up some more at some stage :-)

Recent 40mm acquisitions

Just thought I'd pop up some pictures of my more recent 40mm acquisitions - some were duplicates (the 90s GIs and most of the Russians) but hopefully I can do some conversions to get them to fit in :-)

Updates

Well, that last post seemed to have worked (atleast well enough for Danny to have commented - thanks mate!), and attaching photos from my phone is far less laborious than the usual rigmarole with photo bucket, although there does appear to be a limit regarding the flexibility of the system to let me post captions and the like, in addition to any limitations from my phone camera.

So, what have I been up to in the last gods know how long - quite a bit.  In my usual inestimable way, I have drifted between projects, but atleast I have been productive with it - I may get around to taking lots of photos of what I have done,  but for now saying that there has been a lot of 20mm cold war stuff, more  28mm Malayan Emergency stuff (hence the bungalow in my last post...), quite a bit of 28mm martial arts stuff for A Fistful of Kung Fu and most recently I have started back on the 40mm moderns (ironically I started it before things started kicking off in the Ukraine,  although as happened with Georgia in 2008 the real world seems to cast uninvited unpleasant parallels with a project I have just started! ).

The 40mm HLBS stuff has been the main inspiration for getting the blog back up and running - there are so few resources and pictures of the range left online that I thought I'd share my experiences and collection in case anyone else is/will be/has been tracking stuff down.

Back to the Blog

This is just a test post to see how easy or otherwise it might be to Blog from my mobile... The attached picture has some of the 40mm moderns I am planning to base tonight, along with the Brittania Malayan emergency bungalow...

And another 'catching up' update....

I remembered that in the last post I had forgotten about more 20mm's: 2 squads worth of Soviet Motor rifles in the classic brown uniforms, and another 2 squads in NBC gear, and 5 downed US aircrew....So yes, I've been a bit busy/productive during my absence. I also found a few pictures from back in the summer that shows some of my completed/WiP work :)

Assorted WinterApoc conversions

Saga stuff! we, actually, not for Saga.... but it's a good saying none the less! Mainly rebases, although all the ghostly celts and tree spirits where new paint jobs

Assorted 20mm Cold War bits and some newly painted 'Arthurians'

Slightly blurry Athrurians and some rivers which I had forgotten about doing...!

Most of the dark ages types are still pretty much like this, but the 20mm's in the back ground have all been done...

A long time...

I was slightly amazed to see my last post was in February... I knew it had been a while, but I didn't realise it had been that long. As you have probably guessed, life and a slight frustration with blogging have kept me away. at one point I wasn't getting much hobby time, so what there was ended up being focused on actually painting figures as opposed to talking about painting figures... so to speak.

 What have I done since February - um... its hard to think actually. There would have been more Scavenge Skirmish Survive/WinterApoc figures, the momentum for which lasted until May or so*; after that I touched up my Arthurians (although I keep calling them Arthurians, I actually have very few Romano-British, instead all the focus tends to be on Migration era Germanics...) and rebased all the HoTT multibases individually before it drifted nito a slightly fantasised 'Sword and sorcery' type setting and then back to history. The net result is a shelf full of preped and/or converted Britons, Germans & Picts waiting forlornly for paint, as well as a few more bits in the display case. The new Gripping Beast plastic dark age warriors are great, and it's possible to tailor them for use in allsorts of armies by using the separate Westwind heads and a few new shields - the bulk of my box have become Romano-British Soldiers and levy. Since about August, I've moved back to 20mm moderns and finished off all the Infantry for my 2nd platoon of Soviet motor rifles, 3 BMPs, 1 BRDM, a couple of bits of scenery, a squad of DDR 'Fighting group of the Working class' militia, the rest of the platoon of British Paras, assembled a fair few plastic kits (mainly British) and started picking up bits so that I can go 'Twilight 2000' with most of the stuff. I should be picking up a pile of bits to round off most of the 'FOF:CWGH' scenarios at Warfare....

On the painting bench at the moment are (alas, no pictures as I didn't think about doing this until just now): 5 almost finished WinterApoc survivors, a handful of 1/2 done Romano-Britisth soldiers (as in Semi-uniform types), about the same number of generic dark age civilians and British Levy, a Platoon + support assets of 20mm East German NVA (which are getting most of the love and only need boots wepaons and skin finishing), 10x T-72's awaiting their tracks, DShK machine guns and logs painted, a T-62 in a similar state to the T-72's, and a handful of 20mm militia/partisans which just need the wood on their rifles and the final skin highlight before basing.

I've spent a bit of time looking longingly at my 40mm figures, but I'm not sure I have the time/energy combination at the moment to do them the justice they deserve. I am tempted to do Chernarus in 20mm at some point, as I'll already have a shed load of militia types ready to go....    My interest was sparked by Colonel Bills having some 40mm moderns in stock, but as they are asking ~£10 for 4 figures, I'm passing for now (that can get me 16 20mm figures!). Next on the painting list should be a platoon of 20mm DRA, which are already base coated and should allow me to take my Soviets to Afghanistan to do battle with Johns Mujahadeen.

*at which point the weather was heating up and I lost my vision of a bleak desolated cold wasteland