Friday, 20 June 2025

More 28mm Soviets and Temu Terrain

I have finally finished off the second 45mm AT gun and crew



Once again, a mixture of colours were used on their uniforms 


I also realized I missed painting the gun commanders chin strap....duh!


And just to test for scale match, here are part of the female 85mm AA crew trying out the 45 for size....not sure the shell would fit!


The rest of the images are of my third Temu 3d printed ruined building


The ground floor




The top floor, which I will possibly use as a second ground floor on occasions ....




The ground and second floors combined 



Most of the "rubble " you can see is actual house bricks (ours!) ground down with a hammer until it is 10mm to 30mm scale!





Very happy with this piece again. I realise it is a bit fantasy/medieval...but I am sure there were plenty of buildings of that vintage still in use in Eastern and Central Europe in 1943 to 45, so I am happy to use them there! They may well also appear in Pulp games at some stage...

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Some Scenic Views

 No, surprisingly, not another bit of contract work for NZTB, but rather, a Peanut Butter and Jelly post featuring most of my recently acquired terrain items from Temu!


The two sizes of trees, which have been enhanced with the addition of extra flock to bulk them out



First few parts of the eleven part "ruins" set of 3d printed terrain


Another few parts ....


.... and some more. All the infantry are PSC hard plastic 28mm Russians



This is the two part Ruined Cathedral set



And with a couple of vehicles - BA10 above and IS II below


And finally, below, are four images with 20mm vehicles and figures, just for an idea of how well the pieces would work with the smaller figures.




Depending on the size of building you have in mind, you could even possibly use some of these pieces with 15mm figures ......

Thats all for tonight - but in Breaking News - I was able to log back into Blogger on my "other" gmail account (using exactly the same procedure that failed two days ago - so go figure?!), so now, I can load the images super-fast on my phone, then transfer here to do the typing part - which I find a massive irritation on my phone!

Oh, and by the way, Happy Battle of Waterloo Day!

Monday, 16 June 2025

Steve J's Parcel

So it seems that I may have to continue to write posts on my phone because the "design" and "new post" tabs are absent from the laptop version of my Blogger account.....God knows why....

So here we go  - as promised, a show and tell reveal of what fellow blogger Steve J recently sent me.

First up are some very nice, painted ultra modern skirmish figures- I think they are possibly Spectre?

Next are some 15mm Future War Sci-Fi figures, including three "Walkers"



There are also thirty to forty painted figures, these being a small example. 



This is the figure that Steve initially offered to send me, and very nice she is, too!


There are also LOTS more of the near future war figures.. but unpainted !



Five or six bags worth as per above


And finally, a few more of the Spectre figures for me to paint up. 
Quite a nice little haul, I am sure you will agree...so once again,  sincere thanks to Steve for his generosity,  not least of which was the postage charge from the UK!





Saturday, 14 June 2025

Very Brief Post

As my ancient lap top just gave up the ghost, I am giving blogging via my phone a try.  Just a very short one though,  as I find using my phone a real pain in the proverbial!


Fellow  blogger Steve J offered me a single 28mm figure via a recent comment....what actually arrived was significantly more than that, as per above.

I will post about the contents soon.

Here are some recently completed figures.


First piece of the Temu scenery



One of the 3d printed 45mm anti tank guns and crew





82mm mortar (I think)




BA 10 armoured car






50mm mortar and crew





HMG and crew





And to finish off, a couple of flame throwers.





All these figures are from the excellent 3d printed figures I purchased recently 





Seemed to work OK.....