Down but not out…….

Sorry for the lack of posting recently another holiday and a further bout of illness has seen me off grid for a while. Gradually I’m getting better again and have been pottering about doing some painting.

First up some Russian figures, these were second hand 

I’ve painted them up fairly generically for my Russian Civil war collection 2 squads above

A medium machine gun

A few extra figures to make up a separate gun team

I also picked up some more winter trees at Partizan, these are generally smaller than the ones I have previously but will look good in Norway battles in the future, my task was to base them onto something a bit more solid and functional

Next up some more french artillery, these were some spare figures for which I picked up a spare gun

and some French Horse artillery, these are Foundry figures in their dress uniforms, impractical but rather splendid.

A German light mortar, thank you George for donating this 👍

Our recent family holiday was down in North Norfolk, beautiful countryside, beaches and some history as well.

Sunset on Brancaster Beach

North Norfolk also has an excellent military museum the Muckleburgh Collection, a great collection on artillery pieces

Armoured vehicles..

A good range of tanks

Including a Sherman

Outside some large artillery as well

We came across this pillbox in the middle of nowhere so I took a photo

A trip to Castle Rising a very spectacular Norman keep with substantial earthworks

It was Father’s Day when we were down in Norfolk and we took the opportunity to drive the FV432 which they have at Muckleburgh

We also visited Houghton Hall where the past Duke collected a large number of miniatures and toy soldiers, not sure if he was a wargamer but he built some spectacular dioramas which are all now on show

Many different periods on show

And of course a small version of Waterloo

So a mixed bag of stuff going on although not much gaming at the moment. Hopefully that will change soon.

Thanks a always for popping by Matt 😀