Revell Fokker Dr 1 (Nr 2)

It´s been a while since I got stuck into one of these but another pause from bod painting was called for.
This one is Revell´s 1984 tooling  of the little Fokker which I´ve built OOB...well I would have, but it came in a plastic tagbag..so it´s OOPTB

The colours I made up from a couple of designs I Found on the web, one of the best recources is Will´s Blog WWI Aviation Illustration

Being a kit from 1984 the transfers have yellowed with age!!!

The differences between this kit and the new tooling ? The wingskids are molded onto the wings, the engine couling has virtually no detail, the  step into the cockpit is missing as is the cockpit control panel. The main difference is the wingstrutts. On the new tooling they are in one piece..you shove the a bar through the middle wing and then add the top and bottom wings. With the 1984 tooling  they are in 4 pieces..which makes putting the wings on a bit like balancing jelly on a greased football.

During the "letting glue dry" breaks a bit more progress was made to the Pirate Cutter. 

Great stuff breakfast cereal cardboard :-D

Cap´n Jack Sparrow?

No, no Cap´n Jack Sparrow but The second band of scurvy dogs and also available from Germania Figuren. 

Young Bobbins.(he´s not very good at swimming).....and Cap´n Jock Raven

Billy and Ben, The barrel boys.

"Over tharrrr" Lt Lacy ..."Over wharrrrrrr? " Sharp eyed Pete.

As every crew needs a boat...the begginings of a pirate cutter.

 To get everyone in the mood, From the makers of Chickenrun and Wallace and gromit!!!!

Pirate Gun Team 1/72nd

"YO HO HO! and a barrel of Rum !! "
Pirates are great!!!!   I really like the irregular look of them and the "we do what we want"  attitude and when this lot landed in my grasp I shoved a couple of other projects one step back and got stuck in....

Pirates of the caribean set 02 from Germania.Figuren. There´s loads more sets of Scurvy Dogs up and coming  from Germania and it´s well worth a look at them

Arrrthur the gun master, Arrnold the loader and Arrrnie the gunner

The 12pdr. The carriage is made of resin but the Barrel is from brass, giving the gun a nice weight.

Medieval Market Stalls

You can´t have a town without businessmen and you can´t have businessmen without a Market and you can´t have a market without market stalls (or is it stands? )
So far I´ve built 3 of the many different designs which seem (after a web search) the most common.

No wonder the woman is angrily waving her fist...there´s no goods to sell or buy!!!!

The three types, made from coffee stirring sticks. The coverings are printed. The market wares are still to come, boxes of fruit etc.

They can also find a use in the Khandibar scenario As my medieval civvies now number more than 100 and there´s many more to come, I´ll need some more stalls and a couple of big tents for a special set of bods that will occupy one of them :-D

Waterloo 1815 Dervish Infantry

Some new recruits to the Khandibarian army, Waterloo 1815´s dervish infantry. This lot I got as part of a swop scheme with my mate Peter from Peter´s cave blog. We buy sets and swop one of the sprues with each other. This saves buying the set and ending up with loads of spare repeat bods you can´t use.

The whole sprue and a copuple of HaT bods to make up the numbers

The waterloo Dervishes really give the impression of a rampaging charge.

A new Khandibarian sharpshooter.

Rollo the brave mule and his rider Whyne Ghum

Hello to Dan...your google connect isn´t on!!!
Hello to Itchy from A Blog amomg Blogs....great WWII flames of war stuff.

Medieval Businessmen

The set is actually called Medieval Citizens and is created by Erik Trauner of Nikolai. There´s loads of his work to be seen at his Site Diorama Dreamland  and I recommend a visit!
The sculpts are very natural looking, proportional, a good test of this is their balance ..if they are in standing poses, then they should then blance on thier own two feet, and this lot do just that. The sculpting is very delcate/filigrann, (which put my painting skills to the test.:-D) and not suprisingly got top marks at PSR
This set is available from Germania Figuren

Hello to Jonathan from My Tiny Things Blog. Load´s of mini´s goodness, his Middle eastern Buildings are very inspirational!!! 

Medieval Children (at Play)

Possibly my Favourite set in 1/72nd...Alex has really brought the expression of happiness and joy of children at play!!!!



The one picking his nose....a medieval Peter pan? and I love the idea of giving the boy a cooking pot for a helmet!

Father and son.

The pair playing leapfrog come as seperate pieces....and it took a bit of "supporting scaffolding" around the jumping  one while he was glueing

Why is it that I find Alex´s sets so good? THE FACES!!!! :-D

Medieval Litter (Sedan-chair)

A one seater, two horse power, top of the range method of getting around in the middle ages....fluffy dice optional. The second half of the medieval tax collectors set from Valdemar and available  as VA139 treasurer and his personal escort .

A couple of "pre-fit" pics.

Waiting for his lift, Bishop of Bodley, Antonius Bonnifatass

I forgot to take a pic of the inside so the crossbow (there´s one next to him beside the seat) is now not visible.

The only small problem with the set, putting the whole thing together. The horses are seperate and have a small ladder like piece as a connector. No matter how I tried or which glue I used...I failed to join them up. Eventually I came up with a solution. I removed the harnesses  from the horses and replaced them with thin strips of medical sticking plaster.(this stuff) Using the little ladder connector as a template I constructed a new carrying bar out of  cut and sanded down lollypop sicks. The new harnesses I  left long enough so that when the carrying bar was added, they could be bent up and rolled into place.

The historical bit. Entree l´empereur Charles IV a Daint-Denis 1378

Medieval Bathtime

What could be more relaxing (and fun) after a days bullying the peasants and killing dragons than to relax in front of a log fire in a nice warm bath tub?

A bit of historical background. I´m not too sure about the guy with the dagger!!!!!! 

The two "Fish out of  water" doing thier Yoga excercises :-D

Hello to Pyrrus from King of Epirus Blog. He´s only just started blogging and only just started painting 1/72nd bods....but he´s done a grand start on them

French Knights with assault ladders (Miniart)

All in all, not a bad set..it has it´s faults and they can be read about at PSR
I haven´t painted all the bods in the set, only the brave (or slightly insane) ones climbing the ladder.

A quick test run in ladder usage, here they are trying to climb up to the kingdom of heaven. If you attach the ladder to the base provided,  then using a heated screwdriver, weld the pegs from underneath, then base the whole thing again on a new base it remains freestanding.

Attacking Hugh Jarses´s castle.................or...............................

....................have they just forgotten the Keys???

I tried to attach them after cutting the pegs off the bottom of thier boots...but they just don´t stay put. I used glue but it failed. Who knows, maybe high heeled assault boots were all the rage...