Saturday 26 January 2019

Painting progress

Real life continues to throw up some uncertainty although we now have a date for my wife’s operation in early February. I can find sanctuary in this wonderful hobby of ours and have been cracking on with some painting and have a couple of small games to post up as well.

Catching up first with completed painting.........
Expanding my Cold War Soviets some BTR 80’s troop carriers, for some reason I thought these came without guns but hey ho, very simple Cold War green with some numbers to add detail
A small squad of T72’s to boost the 62’s I already have I am also working on a couple of Helicopters for fun
One of my Christmas presents were a set of 10 mm buildings here is the first comlpeted the rest aren’t far behind
28 mm Norman’s these guys were picked up very cheap and make a nice unit
I had some more Norman infantry which needed finishing off, and rather than waste them I used some spare shield transfers I had, bit more colourful than I might like but .......this was the last of the plastic Norman’s I had, they are ok but I prefer the metal Gripping Beast or Crusader figures so any new infantry units will be them.
Finally this guy had been sat half finished for ages so I sorted his shield out, he promptly died in his first battle ๐Ÿ˜€

I will hopefully blog a battle soon, thanks for your patience ๐Ÿ™‚

17 comments:

  1. Excellent progress on the painting front! There can be great solace in painting.
    Best wishes on your wife's upcoming surgery.

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    1. Thanks Jonathan, I certainly find Painting relaxing ๐Ÿ™‚

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  2. Love the building, say hi for me

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  3. Nice tanks Matt, best wishes to Mrs C

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    1. Thanks Dave, can’t quite keep up with the scale of your 6 mm force ๐Ÿ˜€

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  4. Very productive Matt. Best wishes to your wife.

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    1. Thanks Phil.....just doing a little and often ๐Ÿ™‚

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  5. Nice work! Best wishes to your wife.

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  6. Nice looking Soviet armour and I like the mini building! All the Normans look pretty good to me! Best wishes for the upcoming operation.
    Best Iain

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  7. Excellent progress there. Very best wishes for your wife's operation and subsequent recovery .

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  8. Are those the plastic Conquest Normans? They are a just a little bit off. ๐Ÿ˜€ They usually look alright painted up.
    Surgery is always scary.
    Thoughts and prayers for you and your wife.

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    1. Thanks Stew yes Conquest Norman’s, they look fine mixed into larger units, but I do prefer their metal cousins๐Ÿ™‚

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  9. Wonderful minis and vehicles...and best wishes for your wife Matt...

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