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A new post is up at the Vacination Challenge and you can check it out here:
Cheers Sander
Showing posts with label WW2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WW2. Show all posts
Monday, 19 April 2021
Monday, 17 August 2020
Operation Barbarossa
Hoi,
As I have mentioned a few times before, I have been beavering away at two big commissions for the FLGS. One's almost finished and concerns the figures from the La Haye Sainte boxedset from Warlord Games. The other is the Stalingrad Collectors edition boxed set from the same company. Today's postshows you some of the test figures I have done for the latter project.
These figures of course represent some of the dour defenders of Stalingrad and I must say I like the options this plastic set gives you a lot.
I hope this suffices as a teaser, since a lot of figures are still in the works
Cheers Sander
Saturday, 15 April 2017
Some Dutchies and a prize...
Hoi,
Even though I have been marking tests for the past 1,5 week I managed to paint up most of the remaining WW2 Dutch troops I have bought a while ago from May40 miniatures. Still in the pile are 3 blisters with a HMG, stretcher bearers and officers. Anyway here they are together with the real time Dutch period helmet. I bought it right in the village where I live from a local collector and it seems to be a 1940 version (last batch made before the German invasion) and from the colour inside it was initially made for the KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indian Army) but re-painted and issued to the draftees of 1940.
Last week the Challenge awards were announced and much to my surprise I won the 1500points threshold, which is a Warbases coupon for 20 pounds.Since I have acces to the laser-cutter at work, I pretty much can get what I need custome-made, that said I had my eyes on a brushrack for some time. Now I have also long been looking at their brilliant animal range and decided to get a badger, foxes and some wolves (Snake-eyes needs a Timber after all) and the Omnibus passengers set. I also got some two-coloured tufts and a brush rack.
They turned up here with amazing speed: so thanks heaps Warbases for your excellent service, communication and products! I put up a banner to them somewhere here on the page.
Well that's it for now cheers.
Even though I have been marking tests for the past 1,5 week I managed to paint up most of the remaining WW2 Dutch troops I have bought a while ago from May40 miniatures. Still in the pile are 3 blisters with a HMG, stretcher bearers and officers. Anyway here they are together with the real time Dutch period helmet. I bought it right in the village where I live from a local collector and it seems to be a 1940 version (last batch made before the German invasion) and from the colour inside it was initially made for the KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indian Army) but re-painted and issued to the draftees of 1940.
Last week the Challenge awards were announced and much to my surprise I won the 1500points threshold, which is a Warbases coupon for 20 pounds.Since I have acces to the laser-cutter at work, I pretty much can get what I need custome-made, that said I had my eyes on a brushrack for some time. Now I have also long been looking at their brilliant animal range and decided to get a badger, foxes and some wolves (Snake-eyes needs a Timber after all) and the Omnibus passengers set. I also got some two-coloured tufts and a brush rack.
They turned up here with amazing speed: so thanks heaps Warbases for your excellent service, communication and products! I put up a banner to them somewhere here on the page.
Well that's it for now cheers.
Saturday, 23 January 2016
Matchbox WW2 Germans
Hoi,
Alright here's another Challenge update. I finally managed to paint up what's left of my childhood Matchbox Germans, the link to the full post is HERE.
I still have some ANZACS and Commando's lying around, perhaps in some time I will paint them up as well.
Something else all together is that I got some money for my birthday which I spend on some Dark Age terrain from timeline miniatures. They produce really well priced terrain and so I have now embarked on a dead-teddybear-fur adventure of a Greathall, Church and some dwellings to get done...
When I get some finished I will take pictures of course.
Cheers Sander
Alright here's another Challenge update. I finally managed to paint up what's left of my childhood Matchbox Germans, the link to the full post is HERE.
I still have some ANZACS and Commando's lying around, perhaps in some time I will paint them up as well.
Something else all together is that I got some money for my birthday which I spend on some Dark Age terrain from timeline miniatures. They produce really well priced terrain and so I have now embarked on a dead-teddybear-fur adventure of a Greathall, Church and some dwellings to get done...
When I get some finished I will take pictures of course.
Cheers Sander
Monday, 4 May 2015
May the Forth
Hoi,
It's the 4th of May again and just like each year this presents me with a bit of a problem: it's International Star Wars Day; but here in the Netherlands it's also our National Memorial Day... Personally I think both are worthy of attention, be it the latter one a bit more than the former.
So here are some pictures I took when driving through the Limburgian countryside last Friday with a dear friend who has actually restored a War time Willy's Jeep. First we visited the Eyewitness Museum in Beek. This is a small private museum which has a very nice collection all put up in several diorama's using very lifelike dolls.
After that we drove up to the American Military Cemetery at Margraten. At the Cemetery, volunteers were actually busy placing pictures of the Fallen alongside their memorials. Literally putting a face to the suffering. As I find it rather respect-less to behave like a tourist and shoot thousands of pictures I only took 3 and here they are.
The picture above shows the Jeep. It really is a very great experience to be driving a vehicle 70 years old and still purring like a kitten. It is a bit chilly though...
And since we cannot forego the Star Wars obsession I suffer from here's a few pictures of a game I played last week with Mark. We had written our own version of the Kessel Run. 4 Smugglers (Firespray, YT1300, YT2400 and Hawk) had to cross a meteor field, than escape a field of Black-hole flares and finally evade the Empire and leave of the opposing table edge. Mark's Firespray won, but only just.
Cheers Sander
It's the 4th of May again and just like each year this presents me with a bit of a problem: it's International Star Wars Day; but here in the Netherlands it's also our National Memorial Day... Personally I think both are worthy of attention, be it the latter one a bit more than the former.
So here are some pictures I took when driving through the Limburgian countryside last Friday with a dear friend who has actually restored a War time Willy's Jeep. First we visited the Eyewitness Museum in Beek. This is a small private museum which has a very nice collection all put up in several diorama's using very lifelike dolls.
After that we drove up to the American Military Cemetery at Margraten. At the Cemetery, volunteers were actually busy placing pictures of the Fallen alongside their memorials. Literally putting a face to the suffering. As I find it rather respect-less to behave like a tourist and shoot thousands of pictures I only took 3 and here they are.
And since we cannot forego the Star Wars obsession I suffer from here's a few pictures of a game I played last week with Mark. We had written our own version of the Kessel Run. 4 Smugglers (Firespray, YT1300, YT2400 and Hawk) had to cross a meteor field, than escape a field of Black-hole flares and finally evade the Empire and leave of the opposing table edge. Mark's Firespray won, but only just.
Cheers Sander
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