Kriegslock Bolt Action Terrain 28

Like Keith I was looking for something vaguely 28mm compatible to be a locomotive for bolt action, either a German Kreigslocomotive or something Soviet,  I  was looking at toy trains I could add to my existing HO/OO track and found this in the Works Cardiff in the summer last year.

Obviously I bought three, it would seem silly not to?

The last two images are German Kreigslocomotives which were a simplified wartime economy steam train, funnily enough there's still a couple working at a Bosnian coal mine, still going after 80 years! The first image is an earlier German train and I think  resembles our Hogswarts express a bit more? So this is the first of three, with our friend the commisar for company. 

I think it's not bad for scale? They're big lumps of resin that needed a fair amount of cleaning up. Sprayed with Halfords black primer and with some wind defenders added to make them look more like the reference drawings , then some raw umber wash, to make it less pristine    ( but not as dirty as the Bosnian ones!), bit of steel colour where the wheels meet the rails. I don't think it's too bad and arrayed in front of my damaged factory I think it'll work well enough, for German or Soviet trains, I just have to build some tenders and carriages and paint the other two, no red flags as that would be too specific, so just dirty black!

All the best 

 Iain 

French supply wagon Napoleonic 78

 Here is a 3d printed Napoleonic French supply wagon from TayloredFiguresGB on etsy,  from the same supplier I got the limbers and horse teams from, although it was actually last Christmas's secret santa present , so a rapid turnaround in my book ! Nice model, not too much clean up, sprayed in Army painter goblin green, black ink on horses and driver, agrax earthshade wash over all the green, bit of metal,horse colours and driver colours,  the tilt was primed in Halfords matt khaki spray. 

Another wagon done, more in the queue, together with Napoleonic infantry, cavalry terrain and some more Romano British. 

All the best 

Iain 

Lasalle's Aide de Camp Napoleonic 77

 I've already painted Lasalle some time ago but the aim was always to add another figure to his command base, well make the base bigger and add a figure. I've finally got around to doing that. The Aide was one of the big batch of second hand Perry chasseurs a cheval of the Imperial Guard, so like another one of his surplus comrades he has found a different role as an Aide de camp with the addition of a plastic hussar dolman,a plastic handle for his sheathed sword and a replacement hand as I removed the sword hand. Not exactly accurate but close enough for jazz, he's a nice figure, who's been haunting my painting table for some time so nice to push him through and it means I'm up to 377 painted Napoleonic figures, one more unit and I'm scott free! Well, hit my Napoleonic target anyway and I've got three Austrian cavalry units in varying stages of completeness so should get there!

More Napoleonics. More terrain, Napoleonic terrain? Dark age figures, Dark age terrain? It's all fun and games!

All the best 

Iain 

French support wagons Napoleonic 76

 Here's a couple of  mdf wagons from warbase, inexpensive, really well designed, they go together very nicely.  I've based them so that I can use the spare draft teams to pull them or leave them as objectives in a camp for instance. 

Sprayed green ,wash of agrax earthshade, black here and there, bit of metal and basing, job done.

In amongst all those holiday snaps on your blogs, here's Toby on a recent local walk , it's down by the New River,  which is only relatively new as I think it was excavated in 1605 to provide water to London,  ends up at Islington green, there's a statue to the chap who instigated it there. Anyway , a nice walk at my end!

More wagons, terrain and  Napoleonic troops waiting for an outing after this!

All the best 

Iain 

Austrian hussar regiment Hessen Homberg Napoleonic 75

•  Perry plastic Austrian hussars, lovely figures and of course it's mandatory to do the Hessen Homberg regiment for your first unit! I know boring, but what can you do? This will be my only proper Austrian hussars, the other three units are two units of  left over early British light dragoons press ganged into the Austrian army, (their horses going to the Austrian dragoons, their later comrades becoming Austrian Uhlans)and one made up of a couple of spare Austrians, some French hussars and some more of the lost early British light dragoons all mixed together on either Prince August home cast horses with Perry plastic heads, (the frankenstein hussars, ) or Warlord ECW plastic horses. But that's in the future, here's the real deal, well as real as I  get! I found some geriatric GW elemental green that still seemed to work, contributing to a lovely light operatic costume , sorry  uniform. 

 

 They're a bit messy, but I think they'll do!

The future holds more Austrian cavalry     (as I  might have just suggested!) fighting it out with terrain it seems at the moment  , I've worked out I've still got a years worth of Austrians to paint at my current level plus a years worth of Spanish, another one of Prussian and one more of Bavarian /Polish plus six months of French , solid painting without doing anything else ( all Napoleonic) ,so add another year for Early Imperial Romans  and Celts and say one each for remaining Great Italian Wars and one for Hundred years war, even without dark ages and terrain or bolt action it would mean I'd have to live four years longer than either of my brothers , morbid miniatures, memento mori or just being realistic? Better get my finger out ! Anyway more varied Austrians and terrain coming up at some point, oh and current Napoleonic figures total for the year is 385, one more unit and an individual should get me over the line, I'll see what I can do!

All the best

 Iain 

Ruined buildings batch 2 Terrain 27

 Here's the other six buildings,  foamboard, brick plastic sheet , coffee stirrers, filler, cardboard,matchsticks and a bit of balsa. Painted in household emulsion on top of various black car sprays.

I've still got to update Des's original  four mdf buildings and of course there's Stews prototype for a step by step and ideally an art deco cinema/ theatre plus some trains , a crashed plane and maybe Pavlovs house in 28mmish, the man's mad! 

In the meantime here's some pictures of these buildings with the two larger ones I did previously,  with our obligatory friend the commisar.

Apart from these buildings,  I'm working on some more bridges, some Dark age terrain,  some Napoleonic terrain plus some carts and wagons which are all covered by Dave Stones Summer of scenery which these are part of. I'm also grappling with some barricades,plus there are always Napoleonics lurking nearby!

All the best 

Iain