Banana Plane

Another go at the Revell Fokker E.III...this time in gaudy yellow...about as historically correct as a Machine gun at the battle of Zama but I like the look of it. (and I  finally got my entry in for " Plane month" :-D )

Airfix American War of Independence British Grenadiers

The army that appears to be suffering from backache...a lot of them have very hunched poses...maybe that´s why the drummer in this set isn´t smiling.

Airfix Washingtons Army

Not a bad little set...the 3er group is a nice touch. What the drummers got to smile about I don´t know!!

World War II Deserters

Got these through the post this morning. I ordered them from a firm on the internet.

 Imagine my suprise when I opened the box!!!
I´ve tried to contact the sellers but, like the Contents of the box, they´ve gone A.W.O.L!!

Airfix DAK grenade thrower

IMHO, The most  iconic pose from Airfix....he just looks great...wether the  Model 24 Stielhandgranate would actually go far when he released it I don´t know...not having ever thrown one :-)

Peasant Cavalry

Not well known for thier mounted element but my great unwashed have got themselves some 4 footed friends.

Firstly....The HEAVY cavalry

 

 and now for the light cavalry

 

Teutonic knight

This one was a quick conversion job...the helmet from the Italeri teutonic Knights set...the body from the Zvezda English knights of the 100 years war and the cloak...Toilet paper

 

Geoffrey the Orc

Well...what else would he be called...?  Found this poor little guy lying all alone in a pick and mix box at a model exhibition...he wailed to be taken home and looked after.

It looks like Geffers  is going to get a dent on his noggin if he insists on holding his morning star like that !!

Medieval Houses 1/72nd

This is one of a set of houses produced by Conny of  fredericus-rex.. There is a range of houses already available and many more planned. They come as a flat pack of Photoetched wood which you build and paint up yourself...real model making :-) Buildings with top floors can be seperated to allow acess to the rooms in which you can re-create medieval scenes of family life, the pub..whatever. Later, seperate doors, windows, stairs are planned.
The following house was built and painted by Conny and his wife..

The stonework!!  The woodwork!!! It´s hard to believe that these are made out of wood!!

I have seen these beauties for real and I can tell you they look EVEN better than in the pics.. An absolute must for every medieval or Fantasy fan.

Medieval Gun

The Zvezda Medieval Field Powder Artillery set is one of my favourite´s among the medieval sets. The bods can be used for a lot of different things. For instance the one loading can be given a pole arm, the one standing pointing can be cut in half and the top half made into a mounted bod. And the guns are just top class....a bit fiddly to construct but they look great and the barrels can be set to several elevations.

Airfix Indians

One more set down and only one set left in the Airfix western range...the US cavalry...eeeek! All those horses to paint!!

The mounted Bods. I went for the classic 60´s/70´s hollywood look

The Big boss and his wife with papoose on her back

Bases for Bods

When I first started back into the hobby, I was mainly concerned with painting up and basing Ancient armies...BIG ancient armies...blocks of Romans and the like. For this I used squares of wood cut out of old drawer bottoms etc..a lot of time and effort involved, measuring , sawing etc.
Recently I have become more interested in the medieval period, and although they organised themselves in large groups they were less likely to be in rank and file or so uniformed as say a Roman legion.
This meant more individual basing and after using loads of old coins or washers it was getting more and more expensive the bigger my armies got. The one day on a Flea market I came across these;

They are, I am told, Plumbers tools used for cutting washers. They come in a range of sizes, from 8 mm to 50 mm. For basing bods I use the 20mm one and for nags the 35mm one. They cut all sorts of materials, either using a twisting action to cut soft stuff like insulating foam (the light green stuff in the next pic) or cork or a hammer for harder materials like my favourite source of bases, old Ikea place mats, not shown in the next pic.  (and you don´t need an Allen key either :-) )

The Smaller "disc cutters" are also pretty usefull for quickly making a mass batch of shields from thin card or old margarine tubs.