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Tim's Tanks: May 2014

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Sunday, 25 May 2014. Plastic Soldier Company 15mm Stuart Light Tank. The Hereford Model Centre has a box around the back that contains a small selection of PSC single sprue kits for £5. The choice doesn't change too often, but a few weeks ago I spotted both the Stuart and Cromwell kits, so I grabbed them quick. The Stuart sprue intrigued me as it contains no less than three different upper hulls and two sets of tracks. This got me thinking. Maybe, but I couldn't get the blooming new hull out in one piece!

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Tim's Tanks: PSC's The Great War - speed painting the figures

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Sunday, 5 July 2015. PSCs The Great War - speed painting the figures. Next step with the figures has been to block in all the main colours. Everything has been given a coat of paint except the flesh areas and the bases. To do both sprues has taken collectively about 4 hours. Now the figures will receive a coat of slightly diluted Vallejo Sepia wash. When that is dry the flesh areas will be painted and washed and the bases too. Let's hope I've got some time to spare tomorrow,. 6 July 2015 at 08:14.

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Tim's Tanks: PSC's The Great War - Painting the figures almost complete

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Saturday, 11 July 2015. PSCs The Great War - Painting the figures almost complete. I've reached the point where all the figures have been removed from the sprue, and touched up, ready for varnish spray. I managed to remove all the Brits without breaking a single bayonet. The secret is to cut this connection to the sprue FIRST. Use decent side cutters to do so and you remove the tension from the figure, so when you gut the other sprue connections the natural springiness won't break the bayonet. Border Rei...

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Tim's Tanks: PSC the Great War

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Monday, 13 July 2015. PSC the Great War. Just surfing on the interweb and came across this quote from The Great War's c reator Will Townshend, PSC Games on February 17. The metal command figures set is an exclusive reward to Kickstarter backers. It comprises 8 x 15mm/ 1 100th scale general figures beautifully sculpted by a talented sculptor I know. There will be a British/ANZAC/Commonwealth, French, German, Russian, US, Austro-Hungarian, Italian, and Turkish General in the set. They'll be quicker to depl...

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Tim's Tanks: July 2014

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Monday, 28 July 2014. I've long held a wargaming dream of re fighting the coup de main attack on Pegasus Bridge on the night before D-Day 1944. Now I'm finally close to living the dream. I've slowly but surely been beavering away on the models I require to achieve this. Nevertheless it looks the part and will make a fine objective. The control building is a little too big, but can accommodate based figures inside. Next I'm working on dug in Germans and some barbed wire entanglements. Links to this post.

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Tim's Tanks: June 2015

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Sunday, 28 June 2015. Peter Laing - 15mm Miniatures. I was looking on the Internet the other day an saw several references to the figures of Peter Laing. Many were complementary of their charm and simplicity but inevitably there were the usual comments from some TrollGamers about them being the worst figures ever. He was a dear old chap, probably in his 60's then, and took the time to show me his manufacturing process. In those early days, the likes of Milliput and Green Stuff hadn't been dreamt up yet, ...

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Tim's Tanks: PSC's The Great War - Painted Figures

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Monday, 6 July 2015. PSCs The Great War - Painted Figures. The first batch are nearly ready now. Another hour's work saw them to this point. Now the sepia wash has dried, the flesh areas were painted in and flesh washed once dry. Then the bases were painted in grass green. The Germans received a coat of sepia wash too. Perhaps not the obvious wash for field grey, but it gives them an authentic grubby look. With silver as my GW Silver paint reacts with Army Painter varnish. 4 August 2015 at 13:54. Helmet ...

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Ships for Coronel | foxbatfr

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Wargames chats and ramblings. March 2, 2014. So, I painted a few GHQ WW1 ships mainly for the battle of Coronel, which saw, in November 1914, Von Spee’s Asiatic Squadron annihilate a British squadron under Admiral Craddock. As a side note, I don’t like the thick Litko bases, but I made a mistake when ordering…. Spee’s Sflagship, Scharnhorst. And Bremen, that was not there, but GHQ makes no Königsberg class mini yet. Now, their British opponents, starting with Craddock’s flagship, Good Hope.

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Battles in the Atlantic | foxbatfr

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Wargames chats and ramblings. Battles in the Atlantic. November 5, 2013. We had a Naval Thunder game at the club this week end. Actually we had time enough to play 2 games, the Rio de la Plata affair and the battle of the Straight of Denmark. Second game was the Battle of Denmark Straight, with me taking the part of Admiral Holland and Fred that of Admiral Lütjens. This AAR will be shorter, as to my great shame, I must admit I did not bother to take a lot of pics. Battle of the Atlantic Ships.