3rd Marulan Car Boot Sale

Had a great day out in Marulan todays at the the 3rd car boot sale.  Not quite up to a Partizan that I know the UK has on today - but a definite step up on any bring and buy I have seen - people are friendly and take the time to talk to each other, joke and haggle.

Pretty good haul for me.  I picked up:

• a bunch of modern GHQ russians, french and british and terrain
• some 15mm Prussian AB Napoleonics (don't know why I did that given that I have 6mm and 28mm)
• two 1/72nd scale German bunkers from Leva
• a whole lot of Langton Rennaisance ships and rule set
• 7 Military Modelling that I did not have (@ 20c a piece)
• 4 great books (ECW and ACW)
• last but certainly not least - a Britania 20mm German armed trawler

Also managed to sell a few books and 7 plastic 1/72nd kits.

Here is a link to some photos for those interested

http://thecybercarbootsale.blogspot.com/2011/05/well-real-carboot-sale-looked-like-this.html

Russian Napoleonics finally

Finally I have managed to get some of the Russian Napoleonics finished and up.  These guys were sitting in one of the bags in the photo that started this blog.

Painting took a long elapsed time because of other distractions - but only 3-4 hours in total.  I also needed to wait until I got a shipment of bases from Litko,  Their custom sized bases are great and I will never need to mark and cut plastic card to base these guys on again.

I will get some of the French that painted years ago out for a photo soon.

Fewer Union Regiments than I intended

Here a few Union regiments just completed.  I have the troops for another 4 regiments sitting here staring at me - but no more flag bearers.  I discovered after starting painting that each regiment had 2 flags and hence I need twice the number painted.  So need to find some one to supply loose bearers that fit with Battlehonours.

That close I can see all the bits I was lazy with and didn'tr paint - or missed.  Damn.

First ECW 28mm finished

So I have finished them today - pretty happy for a first go at 28mm and also ECW. 

Although there are som many good examples of painted stuff on the various blogs it is not hard to find good looking colour schemes.

And here they are after the army painter and before any highlighting

And they will need this or they would look pretty silly on the base.

ECW temptation

I know I said that next up would be 6mm Napoleonics or ACW.  Well that's what I intended - but .....  I was tempted by these three that have been sitting undercoated looking at me for 3 months. 

They are the first ECW that I have painted - indeed the first 28mm that I have painted.  I got them out of the basement a while ago so that I could experiment.  After undercoating they sat there.

So basecoats have been blocked in and now drying and will give some of the dreaded army painter this evening.  Want to try this because while I had plans to do a three colour method - the sheer size of the project scares me - so I will do some with the army painter and I will try some in three colour and see what looks nicer against the time taken.

Basecoated Bicorne ECW

Scammells and 7.2" Howitzers

More off the table over this long weekend.  This time up it is heavy British artillery. 

The Scammells are from the Airfix Tank Transporter kit with the S&S bodies added.  Unfortunately I understand that these are no longer available - but SHQ are supposed to have just released some models of the whole thhing.  The guns are Skytrex and look OK.

Hopefully next up will be some 6mm Napoleonics or 15mm ACW.