Workbench Wednesday

Planning to make Wednesday, workbench day. Kind of speaks for it's self in the post title. Figured it will be a good way for me to keep an eye on just how things are progressing. So had a bit of a clear of the paint table.

20mm Moderns will be my main staple for a while. Cleaned up and based the last USMC squad in MOPP lvl1. Once completed this will give me a platoon. Also decided to move up my Cold War 6mm moderns. Not lost interest in this project but it just got pushed back down the queue. Time to show some love to the little fellas!

That's it for now more to follow...

Tanks & Trifles

No its not the title of one of those dreadful but strangely compelling movies you can get on the Sci-fi channel. But some work I did earlier, and have managed to combine two hobbies together...well sort of!

Ta-dah ....The mother of all trifles......

I'm not really what you would call a dessert man. But one dessert I have always enjoyed is the humble trifle, but have never made it. So today I popped my trifle cherry....oh err! This monstrosity was scratch built with sponge, swiss roll, jelly, custard, cream and strawberries. The pink sprinkles were my youngest daughters idea...honest. Okay it may look like its jumped straight out of some 1970's recipe book, but I can tell you it tastes good. Yum, yum.

(The 1/72 tanks are just for scale purposes and not to be eaten)

Meanwhile on my other workbench...

Progress is well under way on a third dwelling for my OIF project.

Thats it for now. More to follow....    

On the Workbench

Another quick update. This is what has kept me occupied for the last couple of days.

Auxiliary cavalry for the 1879 Zulu War. Cleaned up and based fourteen mounted figures and fourteen dismounted figures over the weekend, and then gave then a coat of Chaos Black spray. In this little lot are;  Natal Mounted Police x4, Natal Carbineers x4, Buffalo Border Guard x2, Newcastle Mounted Rifles x2, Auxiliary Officer x1 and LtCol Durnford x1.  These are once again empressminiatures figures. The oval bases which the cavalry are mounted on are from warbases. Picked them up at the Reading show last year.

I suspect the next couple of months are going to be busy so I'm not sure how much painting I'm going to have time to do. But with these based and primed, at least I get on paint them when I do find the time.

A belated Happy New Year to you all. I'm not one for making New Year Resolutions. When I have done so previously I tend to either forget them or never full fill them as the year goes by. At the moment though if I had to make one resolution, okay maybe two...DO MORE PAINTING and STOP BUYING MORE FIGURES. Lets see what happens as the year goes by. 

On the Workbench

Currently working on a 'ruck' of Zulu's and some more Apache. The Zulu's are from Empress, and nice they are too. These are the Married warriors packs. In each pack you get, four figures, a choice of shields generally one large and three small and a weapons sprue, with spears and clubs. I've decided to use wire spears for the assegai, but since some of the models with rifles have a cast open left hand, used the cast weapons to give the appearance that these warriors are carrying a secondary weapon. I would assume thats what the sculptor had in mind?