Terrain Tuesday - Statue, Wayside Cross and Hay Bales

 Another week of bits completed, first up a statue of the Madonna and child  I picked up at a brocante for a village centre piece, a simple paint job and based, then a roadside cross and finally some hay stacks 

Cheers

Matt

Wehrmacht Motor Pool

 Wehrmacht Trucks

A few pieces completed this week as additional  transport for my 708th Infantry Division. 

Two resin and one plastic, I have another resin and plastic still on the workbench. I plan to add removable passengers also. 

Terrain Tuesday - Hot food van

 Hot Food Van

A Citroen  Hot Wheels car was picked up a few weeks ago whilst shopping, I opted to paint it in split colours. I do intend adding a table and garbage bin on the grassed area as soon as I find them in my model railway bits box, it will join my Cold War collection. Now I need a name for it! My wife suggested to call it Matts chew and spew….. as she detests take away….

Happy with the results 

Cheers

Matt

Isreali Dassault Super Mystère

Israeli Dassault Super Mystère

A very old Airfix Dassault Super Mystere B2 kit, a very clean build but the decals were not in great shape so aftermarket were added. It will serve in my Arab Isreali games nicely. Really happy with this one as part of my May Day aircraft builds. 

Cheers

Matt

 A-10 Thunderbolt Hog 

An Academy A-10 Thunderbolt kit I have had laying around for more than ten years built but not painted pile of shame. This month I have been airbrushing madly to complete a lot of built kits, this chap made it to the front of the line last week. 

Reasonably happy with the results, marked up for Europe. I have another kit unbuilt, I will build that for Iraq in the future. 

Cheers

Matt

Omaha Beach Tour

 This years Omaha Beach Tour and Wargame 

Three nights accomodation, one full 10 hour  day fully guided, a private tour for one to four guests 10 klms of touring, beach, gun emplacements, one museum and the cemetery. 

One day Wargame, we Wargame a section of Omaha beach and inland using 20mm miniatures on specifically built terrain and landing craft. 

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Mayenne, France 

Bloch 152 l’Armee de l’Air de Vichy “Potent Pedro”

 Vichy Bloch 152

As a palette cleanser this week I completed a Bloch 152 for the Vichy airforce, I already have two Bloch 152 in the collection so I thought I needed to do something different, and here it is. 

Cheers

Matt

Luftwaffe F4 phantom

 Luftwaffe F 4 phantom 

This aircraft has been almost complete pile for 10 years at least, the interior and base coat was painted, but no detailing done, panel lines, weathering  decals or pilot.

 Last month I unpacked boxes of kits from storage to complete some for the 30 day kit build. In these boxes were a number of aircraft in various stages of completion, mostly built but no paint, or pilots. So my goal this month is to finish off as many as I can before moving onto armour! 

Now I also have 3d files for pilots, so I have started printing loads of ww2, helicopter and jet pilots and looking for or purchasing decals to complete a number of builds that had stalled along with matching canopies (which is ok for some but difficult for others….). So expect a lot of aircraft over the coming month as I paint pilots, airbrush built kits and add decals. 

Really happy with my results although I think I would like to build it again and be more careful within my fit and finish. Overall really good to have it completed. 

Cheers

Matt

KBG border Patrol

 In between completing some decals on aircraft this week I completed some Esci warpac figures. I intend using them as KGB border police I think as they do look different in the Parker style uniform to my other Warpac figures. 

Cheers

Matt

Soviet tank crew

 A few pieces from Mars plastic figures, escaping tank crew. Simple blue overalls and black tanker caps 

Cheers

Matt 

Warpac NBC checkpoint

  A bit slow this week, after a month of assembly of plastic kits. This weekend I pulled out some Soviet NBC chaps from the moderns project draw.  The figure with rifles are from a old Esci box of Warsaw pact figures, the figure with the note board is from Airfix I think 

Cheers

Matt

 

 Falaise Pocket Tour 2025

A full guided 10 hour day, We follow the route of the US 1st infantry, 90th Infantry,  2e division Blindée  to the positions on the south side of the pocket driving north to Argentan Normandy from Mayenne, Pays de Loire. We then switch over to follow the Canadians and Polish routes to close the pocket. We complete the day with a 3 course dinner in the spa town of Bagnolles de l’Orne, before retiring to the chateau in Mayenne. 

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