Highland Command.

Claymore Castings Highland command pack as the Red Harlaw edges a wee bit closer.

28mm. Lovely character sculpts and the faces on these CC figures are getting better and better.

A serious basing session is going to be needed soon.

As ever all comments gratefully received.

Cheers.

David.

More Mediaevals

This week I are been mostly adding to my Harlaw collection.

28mm Claymore Castings figures. Really nice sculpts and some of the best faces I have had the pleasure to work on for a long time.

Cheers.

David.

Flags of War Freebies.

A recent fortunate turn of events (thanks to Ian Beal of EK Warlords) meant that I acquired a set of flags free from Flags of War.

I requested a selection from their superlative Harlaw range.

Below is the first of the resulting figure groups, which will certainly find their way onto the tabletop sometime soon, due to Iain's purchase of a set of Lion Rampant rules.

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar and Lord of Garioch, sometime North Sea pirate, noted horse breeder, famed jouster, commander in the 100 Years War and hero of the Red Harlaw......and his colour party.

28mm. Figures by Claymore Castings from their OT1 command pack. Flag from Flags of War.

As ever, all comments and criticisms welcome and appreciated.

Cheers,

David.

1970s Winter USAEUR- Sitrep

Unfortunately my headlong charge towards completing some vehicles for the 70’s US force hit a snag round about Christmas and has since ground to a halt….

Everything was going quite well initially, I fired through one of the super S-Models M551 Sheridans in jig time; it’s a lovely little model, although comments re: thin gun barrels and fiddly PE parts from the BRDM still apply.

I replaced the plastic .50 cal with a metal Elhiem one, which should be slightly sturdier, and finished the beast off with some stowage…

Then it was onto the painting of winter MERDC, the bit I’d been looking forward to. And damn did it look good

However, following this, the next stage was the application of gloss varnish ahead of the oil wash. And that’s when the wheels came off. Due to the cold temperatures, I’d decided to set up a spray booth in the loft, because I was too impatient to wait until the warmer weather to spray up the vehicles (after all the whole idea was to do this through the winter and keep up the inspiration for the theme. Seems to have been justified since I’m still waiting for warmer weather…!), and up until now it seemed to have worked. But this time, having allowed the varnish to dry, I found that the cold temperature had caused it to wrinkle and bubble the paint beneath it

The pictures don’t really show the full extent of how bad this looks. This left me with a coupe of options; 1) leave it as is and cover up the imperfections with weathering/stowage/ foliage/ cam net or 2) strip it all back and start again. I decided against the former, however I’d got so pissed off with what had happened that I couldn’t bring myself to start stripping it all back, so the tank has just sat on my work bench, silently judging me ever since. Looking at it now, I reckon I can probably try a local fix by just scraping/stripping the affected areas and just doing a touch up job, but that may well be very much trial and error…

In better news though, I did obtain a couple of Elhiem’s new dismounted US Cold War Tank crew. Although designed with the late 80s in mind, with a bit of judicious hacking and filing, they should suit my purpose admirably, and at least let me continue with this project until I pluck up the courage to restart that Sheridan!

Cheers

Iain

Final Czechs.

I can proudly say that for the first time in a long time I have actually finished a project!

The Ambush Alley Czechoslovakian force is as follows.

All figures by Elhiem, vehicles from kits, 20mm.

Callsign 211 and six man dismount.

Czech made variants of AK-74, RPK-74 and RPG-7

Callsign 233 and six man dismount.

AK-74 and RPG-7.

Callsign 352 and Platoon HQ.

AK-74 with grenade launcher, Dragunov rifles, RPK-74, Officer and Radio Op.

Support weapons.

RPG-75, SAM-18, SPG-9, PKM.

Now.......where did I put those Mediaevals?.......and the FaIW figures.......?

As ever all comments pro and con gratefully received.

Cheers.

David.

In Other News...

I've been mega busy of late at work, so have been struggling to get anything done worth updating the blog with. Boo!

However...

The Roaring Northerners are now on Facebook. Yay!

Y'all should go here for Bookfacery....

My intention is to use the Facebook page for banter, unboxings, links, etc, and keep this blog for finished pieces or WIP, battle or show reports, book reviews (get us), or even (should we get really keen) history/ background articles...

Hopefully should be back on form with some new shiney stuff to show off soon...

Cheers
Iain

T72-M1

Ok, guys, it's taken a while, but I finally finished the latest addition to the Cold War Czechoslovakian Force.

At 1/72nd scale or near as dammit 20mm The T72 is a Revell kit and built straight out of the box.

I nice little build that I hope will give the Czechs a bit of punch on the table top.

One more six man dismount to finish with some support weapons and these boys should be good to go.

Would be great to actually finish a project for once!

As ever any and all comments, pro and con, welcomed.

Cheers all.

David.