Friday, May 28, 2021

BEF - Work in progress

So I spent the better part of my Sunday paint session rearranging the paint table, trying to clean up a bunch of paint bottles & to take stock in what I actually have. OK lots of paints from several lines. And quite a few paint brushes for when the current ones have faltered in their fine painting usefullness & are relegated to dry brushing. 

However I did pull out several more vehicles to support the force I am building & am cleaning them up & prepping them for priming.

I have 5 Vickers MkVI B's/C's from 2 different manufacturers. The one of the left in the image is from Army Group North Miniatures & is pretty much a complete vehicle sans a couple small metal bits to be added. The one on the right is from the 3 I bought quite a few years ago from Ian Crouch.

 


There is quite a bit more work on those ones as I need to glue the spring suspension onto the wheels....ugh! I also discovered that Ian's didn't come with the longer gun, so I am using the 2 from the AGNM ones & will make the last from a paperclip.

I also have 4 of the earlier Mark 1 Universal Carriers, 2 each of 2 variants. These will be great for use in the Calvary units & I can use the finalized standard version for the Infantry (thus allowing for their use in later periods as well.) These are all from Army Group North Miniatures. Each comes with 3 crew with the gas mask bag on their chest.

 


Otherwise the third squad is still on the paint table & I have also been busy with my resin printer (having placed a space heater nearby) to begin printing a bunch of figures from Bob Naismith for use in Stargrave. 

6 comments:

  1. Resin models have come a long way from the very brittle tank I bought may years ago that shattered into a hundred pieces when dropped !
    These look excellent models and their bases will assist in making based figures look a bit more in scale.

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    1. Thanks Joe, your right, resin has come a long way. The AGNM miniatues all come with a base. The ones bought at a previous time are not. I am sort of on the fence with the bases on vehicles. One thing I've learned & you can see it here, is that if you plan on deploying a troop of vehicles, its always best to source that vehicle from 1 manufacturer to prevent varied sizes of what is supposed to be the same scale. All these lessons learned as we develop our craft.

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  2. Much more a fan of resin over plastic for vehicles as there tends to be more nifty details sculpted on.
    These will be great additions to your collection

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    1. Thanks Dai, they've since been primed. Should start seeing some paint soon, though I want to get my 3rd squad painted up so I can begin working on the support lists

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  3. Great stuff Terry! Looking forward to seeing them painted up and next to all your figures 😀

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