Lest we forget

 Tidying up the garden today and came across this scene from D Day. James had been blasting his sand tray with the hose and in the setting sun, Normandy images sprang to life. Either that or images of the First World War with the half buried artillery sticking out of the water.

Home Tutoring #43 The Second World War

Tomorrow, the American civil War.

Well, after this battle my son asked if we could play war in the garden, who was I to say no. Lucky for him, his dad was born in the 70’s when playing war was not banned... let’s go.

Creating WWII bases using Milliput and toy cars

 I sent these pictures to a friend recently to help him with some basing ideas. Well, I thought as I have them on my Desk top I might as well repost them. The full story is back on this Blog around 2008 I think.

 Once painted in dark brown 'mud' colour, I gave the tracks a wash of PVA glue to give it a wet look. The glue drys with a slight shine.

Foam Boards

 

I'm having a few technical problems today with my computer so here are some pictures of some Germans to past the time.

I've just received 11 big 2ftx2ft terrain boards after reading an article in Wargames and Strategy.

I've always loved the idea of having rivers that are sunken into the actual ground rather than laying on top. However, that is defiantly a summer project so I have shelved it until things warm up outside and I can use the garden to spread things out.

I'm also having problems focusing on one era at the moment and might have to stay strong and stick to only one. Those Orcs still aren't completed yet...I think I will have to stay at them.

German Tanks

 Here are two German tanks, years ago I did a post about putting the sea moss on them, now I'm going to go one stage further and flock them too. Originally I had used mixed herbs to flock the Sea moss but I think the new green flock looks better.

 A before and after shot, showing the added flock.

painting guide for British Tommys.

The new unit takes to the open field.

The new and the old. The second figure is from Crusader and is late war. The first is another BTD figure. I experimented with his webbing colour again by trying out a Coat d'arms canvas colour.

On the double Atkins!

Captain Jeffers with the 2" mortar team close behind. They will lay down smoke grenades to cover the advance of the platoon. I love these two characters (mortar guys), partly because they are standing. most other figures I have seen from other ranges are lying prone. This may be correct for firing but doesn't look that great in an advancing unit. The same can be said for the PIAT teams. This is why I went with BTD for a lot of these figures.

Private Phillips brings up the mortar.

The webbing on these chaps is another webbing variant from the Foundry paint palette.

This chap is from my late war Platoon.