Being "Boer"-ing

As I flit from one project to yet another, a picture of some figures I started painting last night, Stelets Boers.



They have chunky and exaggerated poses, but on the plus side every single figure has a different pose.

The picture is a little grainy as I took it with a mobile phone camera.

You can see a full review of the figures on the excellent Plastic Soldier Review website

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/review.aspx?id=951
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=957

Street Lamps / Lamp Posts from earrings

With members of the fairer sex in the house, old round/pearl type earrings that the girls no longer want are always easy to come by.

I'm not 100% sure about how these are going to turn out, but they might make fairly acceptable street lamps, at least for wargaming - what do you reckon ?

New Nappies - RobH

As a follow on to a skirmish scenario we gamed with some of our regular wargame buddies a couple of weeks ago (http://wargamestenerife.blogspot.com/2011/08/song-of-drums-and-shakos-escaramuzas.html), our mate Rob brought some very nice freshly painted 1/72 Italeri Napoleonic British he's just finished.

Italeri British 95th Regiment


Italeri British Infantry 1815

Spanish Civil War in 20mm - Dave Hall

Dave Hall from Albuquerque New Mexico sent me some nice pictures of some 20mm SCW troops and conversions which can be seen below

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I have begun working on converting my World War Two rules over to the Spanish Civil War. The following pictures are from my ‘work bench,’ really a kitchen counter. They are 1/72 scale. The figures include some metal ones from Historical Products Company, BUM, and HaT. I use HaT Austrian WW1 for Republican Spanish Infantry. I used HaT FT-17’s for early war armor, as the Spanish did have a few purchased from Poland. There are very few plastic SCW figures and much has to be retooled into the period. I have used Airfix; WW1 French, Cesar; WW2 French and Partisans and others. BUM tries to have a plastic line, but it is hard to get and not all it is that great. Having said that, there are a few treasures like the artillery and crew are one such example. (See below.) More can be seen at www.commandpostproductions.co

Dave in Albuquerque, New Mexico

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You can see more of Dave's work and his book on miniature wargaming on the following link

http://bloodandguts.authorsxpress.com/

Battle of Berlin - More Conversions

I wanted to make some simple casualty markers for the Berlin scenarios and ended up making it a whole lot more complicated than I really needed.





Anyhow, they're done now, the stretcher bearers are old Esci WW2 French in greatcoats with headswaps, the "Frau Medic" is a hard plastic lady from Dapol, the two walking guys are Airfix WW1 French, the surrendering figure is a Revell Engineer with a headswap and the old guys in caps carrying the stretcher are WW1 Airfix Germans.

Battle of Berlin - Forces of Valor Repaints

I've had these figures for some time and when we needed some fanatical "Flying Tribunals" for the latest installment of our Berlin Campaign it was the perfect opportunity to get them painted up and onto the table.



The only real conversions were to give the kneeling rifleman and the running ammo carrier an MP-40, and I gave that figure signaling with his hand an StG44





A Revell German Engineer with a head-swap also slipped in there to make up the numbers.

Battle of Berlin - Uncle Joe's Big Guns

A long long time since the last post, anyhow thought I'd show something new, just finished painting these IS2s for the next installment of our Battle of Berlin campaign.


Big mean looking monsters.

The one in the foreground is a Pegasus model - kindly donated by my good mate Carlos - and the other in the background is a Fujimi kit, visibly smaller at 1/76 scale, which was also donated and added to my unbuilt stash of kits about 3 years ago by my wargaming rival Iván and I finally found a reason to dig it out and  build and paint it.

I doubt very much that numbering is historically correct but as our club's veteran wargamer Jota generally points out whenever these kind of doubts spring up "Unless someone has photographic evidence to prove that this never existed, then it is perfectly acceptable".

Couldn't agree more.

Have more pictures of other stuff in the pipeline and will update very shortly.

John