Airborne motor pool

Finished off approx 40 jeep crew this weekend and "dusted" the remaining jeeps which allowed me to come very close to finishing off all these vehicles.  I do have a two or three more to go.  That will be all then - unless I add another Parachute Brigade to the unit which will mean more artillery and a/tank etc.

A few of these have been seen before - but most not - and never together like this.



1st Airlanding Brigade - Brigade HQ



Airlanding Battalion 6pdr guns and tows

RASC

1st Airlanding Anti-tank Battery - 6pdr troop

9th Field Coy RE

Oosterbeek's defenders

Here are a few of my British Paratroopers dug in.  I have another set the same which I have just finished painting. 

AB British Airborne dug in

Hamilcar Glider

Got home this evening and a nice big package was waiting for me from Sanger UK - a vacformed Hamilcar glider

It was nicely wrapped in quite a bit of bubblewarp and thankfully Royal Mail / Australia Post had treated it with due care.

Inside was a large vacformed sheet - must be almost 50cm wingspan.



With various metal parts - axle, wheels, tail wheel and skids.  There is also a clear plastic canopy taped under the vacform.

Some decals that look pretty good.

and an instruction sheet

Never made a vacformed kit before - so looking forward to the challenge.  Also think it will take a bit of modelling as various openings for the clear pieces need to be located and cleanly cut.

Will post photos as I build.

Beginnings of my game cave

Finally.  It was spur of the moment thing 8 years ago when we renovated the house to excavate dirt from under two of the rooms and lay a slab.  Since then, one has become a wine cellar. 

In the other I have had a desire to turn it into my own modest space to put a table and store my painted things.  However, this has stayed a storage space - partly because it has a tendency to become an indoor pool when we have heavy sustained rain (once or twice a year).

So today two builders who have been doing some other work for us put in a pit and sump pump in the hope of preventing the water getting in.  All the gurus tell us it should work - but won't know until it pours again.

Anyway, first steps - with lots of work to go.  The room is approx 12 x 12 (feet).  So I am thinking of a 8 * 5 table with a two foot folding extension on it.  Some shelves at the end between the piers to hold buildings and terrain and some shelves covering the storm water pipes to hold painted armies.  Will find some form of cheap carpet to put on the ground so that it is easier on the feet.  Will also need much better lighting.

Ideas / suggestions welcomed.

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.