Bombed last night...

Hoi,

You might remember me telling you a while ago I am planning to make a trench terrain board for use in the classroom. I want to make it on plywood so I can hang it from the classroom wall. To this I used plastic vac-form trench landscaping plates fit together and the seams filled up with kit. I put in some plastic rods for barbed wire stakes (but have to shorten them) and have started putting more detail to the shell-holes.

I will keep you posted on the progress! 

Cheers Sander

Listening to "UNO!" the new Green Day album

Work in Progress

Hoi,

Another update today and it brings you some random stuff I have done in the last weeks or am about to start with.

First up is an Italeri French stone house, I'm not sure whether I succeeded but I wanted to paint it to be used in the Peninsula.

Next up are some Amera Plastics Nissen Huts. I have 3 of them and am going to paint them to fit in with the Great War terrain I already have. While these huts were mainly used by the Allies during the Second World War, they were designed by a Brit in the Great War and so why wouldn't they have been used anyway?

Last but most certainly not least are some Peninsular Spanish Grenadiers and Light Infantry

Hope you like them,

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Rock in Rio" by Iron Maiden

Bring out your dead! Part II

Hoi,

More Napoleonic casualty markers to  show you. This time I bring you some Allied casualties. Two Redcoats and a double Dutch-Belgian marker.

The lot together

Highlander

Redcoat

Dutch-Belgians

Cheers Sander,

Listening to: "Dust Lane" by Yann Tiersen

New White metal 1:72 shop

Hoi Folks!

Today Uwe from History in 1/72 announced he's opening his very own web-shop. Uwe has been supporting the hobby behind the scenes for many years now both by constructing huge group diorama's in 1:72 as well as getting moulds for some of the more obscure or neglected armies in our hobby. Now he finally has a way  of sharing said figures with the public at large. I wholeheartedly recommend his products!

You can find it at: fritz figures

All the luck to you my friend,

Cheers Sander

Some advertising

Hoi,

From time to time I've been known to do some advertising for a company I like. Jason from Hinterland Miniatures has kindly put one of my pictures up in his gallery on the Hinterland site. For this he get's this week's prime time ad ;-) I also added a banner to his site on the blog's front page.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Ixnay on the Hombre" by Offspring

Bring out your dead!

Hoi,

A small update today brings you some casualty markers I put together of late. I ordered some dials from the Dialdude a long time ago. The order was promptly paid for and I waited and waited, in all I waited for about 3 months before the lot showed up. I actually had given up on the stuff since my repeated e-mails did not get any reply. So while I am glad with the result, I wil not be ordering any more...

The figures are white metals from Irregular or New Line Design given to me by a dear friend from Germany.

So here are some of the Frenchies, Allies are in the making.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Icky Thumb" by The White Stripes

More Nappies!

Hoi,

The second Nappie update is another conversion of sorts. I needed some Prussian Artillery for my late war army. Now I am usually a big HäT fan but their late war Prussian Artillery just isn't up to par with their latest output. Therefore I took some Zvezda Russian Guard Heavy Artillery gave them  heads from the HäT Prussian Infantry Action set and hey presto!

Now I know I missed some parts on the gun of one of the stands but this has been rectified as we speak but I was too lazy to take new pictures...

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Presidents of the USA" by Presidents of the USA