Don’t sit under the apple tree…

with anyone but me….

Hey… I have been a busy little bee (as Nero once said)..

I have spray painted the tigers… the king and the IE… the king was painted too wet and I will need to respray it as much or the exposed edges are still grey.

I also spray painted all the Sherman tanks… that’s 2 command tanks plus a 105mm Sherman and six 75mm Sherman’s.

And I have laid base putty on the rifle platoons that hadn’t been based… still have the Airborne troops to base tonight.

so I have some 18 bases done last night to add to about 32 odd already done.. just need to paint the bases and flock them and they will be done.

The Shermans buy the way look excellent… I think I will stick to a olive drab green finish over all… I was thinking of doing the brown colour??? but I’m not so sure.

Things learnt:
Don’t mix spackle to vigorously or it will become aerated and shrink when drying.

Liquefying medium is terrific as a way of making your paint spray paintable and go further. A very thin coverage of this stuff mixed 50/50 with paint colour over two coats is excellent.

However I always add.. paint retardant (1 drop) and alcohol 5-7 drops to the 5 fl oz cup on the badger.

Always add a little more paint to the dry wall plaster that you think you will need as it whitens down a lot after drying.

King Tiger

Getting the king tiger ready for operation Market Garden.

I have assembled the tank except the mud flaps and side skirts… because I want to be able to spray paint this monster.

Any ways.. as per usual.. some pictures.

Oh.. I had alot of trouble determining how the drivers hatch opens..

The battlefront pages didn’t have any photos of the configuration with hatches open… but I did find a good photo

hatch photo

Proposal – checking the waters

Hey guys I have been thinking about playing some modern 15mm skirmish just for the fun of it.

I have looked at some rules and ambush alley seems to be a popular set at the moment.

I was wondering if you guys could let me know what type of modern armies you like the sound of.

I am thinking of getting either Eureka minis or rebel minis. Eureka are Australian so I kinda prefer them. Also you can buy individual soldiers in 15mm with them.

I like Soviet or Serbian / kosovo and my second choice is PLA Chinese.

Eureka http://eurekamin.com.au/index.php?cPath=342_357_378 Eureka direct
http://www.eurekamin.com.au/ Eureka
Browse by: Irregular minitures (drop down)
—> “15MM” RANGE select
—> “Moderns” select
—> select your catgory USA, Soviet, 1990’s USA.

Rebel
http://www.rebelminis.com/15mm-modern-milita.html Rebel

EDIT: sorry I used the link HTML tool and .. well it didn’t work.

Ambush alley rules… hugly supported… the new FOW I think.
Ambush alley games

But any of your thoughts are good.. I like the idea I can re-use my FOW terrain.