British Shermans - North Africa

Received these a few days ago. Couldn't resist them when i saw them on ebay and at £25 for 5 already painted (very well IMO) it was a bargain. Looked on the Flames of War website and they are £35 new unpainted ??

I hope I can eventually match the painting on these, ordering three Crusaders II to go with them and the matching paint sets.

Have a look at them - 

Just need to base them and add magnets which i am trying to do with all figures / vehicles if possible.

Zombie Times - Halloween 2010

New issue of Terror Times is available to download now from Terror 4 Fun well worth a read and in particular it focuses on the UK Zombie Festival 2010 on November 13th in Leicester. It is the fourth year of the event and promises to be bigger than ever with Zombie make up, games, film premieres etc.

The Fort by Bernard Cornwell

Finally finished reading this today, which is the reason for my lack of posts, so here are my thoughts on it.

This is Bernard Cornwell's latest novel which is set in a brand new period of history for him, I am slightly biased as I really enjoy most of his books so was anticipating this for some time.

Based around the American War of Independence and specifically the Penobscot Expedition. Not one of my favourite parts of history (especially as we - the Brits - lost !! ) I hadn't heard of this, although reading about the events after the book, there is quite a history to it.

Not spoiling it, the book is all about the Americans attempting to take a fort that the British are building at Majabigwaduce (still not 100% sure how to say that.) Like most of his books it is very well researched and the characters (nearly all real people who were actually in the conflict) are excellently portrayed on both sides of the conflict.

It has opened my eyes to this period of history and I may well read some more about it.

My favourite book from him since the Grail Quest Trilogy, I do hope he returns to some of the characters at a later date. I definitely recommend it.

Inflatable Russian Tanks plus

Haha this is great, Russia to save money are creating blow up tanks, planes and even Radar Stations. They reckon they are made with a special material to deceive radar but i have seen more realistic miniatures than these !!

Who are they aiming to fool by releasing it as NEWS and showing the World ??

Check out BBC for the full info with a video and pictures.

Undercoated at Last !

The weather wasn't too bad this morning so after preparing the Talibans / Afghans last night, which involved using the strange green stuff for the first time. Used for too much !! Lesson learnt there, only mix a bit at a time. Filled in the slotta bases and PVA'd a sand / cat lit mix I had made up.

Changed my mind at the last minute and undercoated in white instead of the Vallejo black i was going to use, probably thinking white is easier to cover. Trial and error at this stage of the game.

Cut some card and used blue tack to put 5 men on each for ease of transporting around and moving to cover both sides. Used an old paper ream box from work for my paint shield and it worked fine, not too much paint in the garden !

Here are the results -

To say I am amazed is an understatement, the detail that is now apparent on the figures really blows me away. I am so pleased with them at this stage, I hope my basic paint job does them justice.

I have noticed a few flash lines that I've missed so I may trim them off and touch up, note for next time don't watch TV whilst trimming !

Got a few jobs around the house to do today and tomorrow but I hope to get a bit of paint on these over the weekend.

Received a lot of buildings / terrain off of PMC_Games on eBay so i may get a suitable setting up with them too.

Horrorclix Zombies plus

Received these today from a couple of dealers in the USA off of ebay -

I spent a bit of time going through the various Heroclix / Horrorclix websites to find which of them i may be able to use in my Modern Zombie setting. I am going  to have to do some serious work rebasing and repainting them but it worked out a cheap deal to get them on the table quickly.

Included in these were a great batch of Zombie Cops and Troopers -

And a personal fave, the zombie reindeer -

Mantic Undead Zombies

Received these Mantic Undead Zombies yesterday -

I chose the Zombie Horde and received 60 of the blighters, they look fine to me but they are the first plastic models I have ever purchased so nothing to really compare against. I am hoping to utilise some in my modern day setting.

The one small gripe I have is that there are 20 sprue's but all exactly the same, is this normal as I wasn't expecting this amount of duplication ?


Here's a closer look at the sprue -

And the other way round -

Hopefully this will give a feel of what you get and I do know they are on ebay at the minute for about £16 (post Free) for 60 ( I paid £23 from Wayland Games).