More Progress!

The lighting on the one was a bit dark but what can you do.

You should notice that I did a grey on the Famo. I did this as I haven't done any early war Germans and this was as good of an opportunity as I was going to get with everyone going gaga for late-war.

You will also notice on the edge of the photos my WIP kubels that are nearly done. Since this photo was taken I've gotten the highlights on the cars and I just need to get the passengers.

Once those are done, that will complete my original idea of getting a list together and finishing it.

Past that is a subject for another post.

Charles

The Grey Blobs (or German Infantry)

Here they are:

I think I showed these in a previous post. To me, ther is just something indistinct about them. The more I look at them, the more I think they need more highlight. I have to get my Resistant rooster platoon done as I did camo on them and I don't think they will be as 'blah'.

And, in retrospect, I need to re-think my lighting set up.

Oh, you should notice to the left a section entitled 'The Pipeline'. It will have a list of projects I have planned. I have to think of how to add pics to it???

The Pics

Regular Kfz 70 trucks.
Sd Kfz 10/5's- Spiffin' eh?

Astute readers will notice that only some of these models appeared in the previous photo. I realised I had the AA trucks partially finished so went with it. The kubels and other trucks are being slavishly worked on now, but I say any progress is still progress.

Also, I was trying to get them done for a tourney I ended up not playing in; ah well.

More as it becomes available. No, really. The Famo and Maultier only need details and the kubels are about to get a wash.

After these are done, I'll be doing a re-sort of my painting desk and only placing projects that are next in the pipeline. Of course that means I have to make the pipeline.

More on that later.

or Lack of Progress....

That's not entirely true. Pics forthcoming of some recent stuff. Though, honestly, I was hoping to get all of the stuff in the photo done within a week. It didn't happen. Real Life(TM) sometimes gets in the way. Pics this evening if I can get some shots.

Later,
The WebOgre

Progress

So. I managed to touch all the minis in the photos over the weekend. The Kfz 70's got some highlights added. The Kubels all got their basecoat. And the Maultier and Famo got their tracks and tires and tarps. I may plough through the rest of the highlights on the Kfz 70's to get them done and get pics posted with their owners in the next day or two.

Painting Progress

Above is stuff I have had on my painting table for more than a month. I am not working on anything else until they are done. Probably....

Big Game Photos From Monday

So. Here are some pics of the Big Game Set up that the guys played Monday night. I say 'the guys' as no one told me they were doing a big game or I would have been there for sure to play. I even had my new boards ready to go. Jerks.

Anyway. I stuck around for a while to take some pics and shoot the breeze with some of the guys. It was a nice big board but it got slowed up a little as the beach landing was delayed for like three turns while the airborne got their jump in. When I left was about turn 7 and the airborne boys had just taken out a tiger that had come in from reserve.

I'm looking forward to the Operation Cobra book from Battlefront so we can do a big breakout game from there. Hmmmm, 2nd Armored Division!

Time to Focus

www.mikehobbs.co.uk

The above link is to someone I may have to emulate as we seem to share the same affliction.

You see, I seem to want to do numerous things with wargames figures. No, you at the back, I mean all the different periods that I like that I would like to play games with.

Coming soon: a List of painting projects that I aim to finish in a nice orderly fashion.

Above is a decent pic of some Panzer IV's on one of my new game boards.

Here are some pics of my alsmost finished beach board.

Please remember these were taken in the dark of night in my garage.

I don't know if I am yet convinced about the white for the waves...????

My wife didn't like it. We'll see.

Bobo the WebOgre

Blogger Quirks Redux

OK. That seemed to work.

Better.

Good.

Just need to get some pics of the current stuff.

Blogger Quirks

For some reason only my first picture comes with a link to a bigger one...

Or at least it did in my last post..

Let me try another couple of pictures.

According to the preview, there is a link for both. Hhhhmmmmmm????

Try one more...

The preview works; let's try publishing.

Another Thought...

The boards you see here are going to be dual purpose. The main impetus for doing them was D-Day, Utah beach, etc. However, since some of the guys and I decided to go in with WAB Dark Ages, Crusades, etc. I can use it for Viking raids just as well.

That reminds me that I need to pick up some cork tiles and grass mat. Maybe Michaels will have the grass mat....

Busy, busy....

Just to show I'm not lazy (or a work-shy-fop, as they call it in Britain), here are some in progress pics of current projects.

It could be argued that maybe I need to focus on one thing at a time.


I was rooting around in an old trunk of gaming/terrain bits for some sand for my D-Day tables:

And I found an old mini-copy of Illuminati. I love this game. Next time Bob gets into town we'll have to give it a run through.

Back to the D-Day board; I also made some barbed wire bases and am planning on minefields and anti-tank ditches.:

There are some of the barbed wire pieces san paint.

Next up are my WAB Normans:

I'm having fun getting these painted, but I'm going to have to hold off for the rest of the month while I fininsh up the D-Day terrain.

Hopefully next time I'll have some of the terrain done.

Painting along...

Been busy painting and building terrain. No pics; maybe in a couple of days. Painting continues on GB Normans and, half-heartedly, on BF German AA half tracks. Terrain is a beach board plus an extra open board for the club campaign next month of D-Day. Also realised that I didn't have any proper fortifications for hold the line or any of the hit the beach missions. Started with barbed wire, moving on to minefields, shortly. Got to try a bunker or two, also.
I'll try to put up pics in the next couple of days.

Off we go...

OK. So I got the photo link figured (just use the html tag from Photobucket not the IMG tags like I use in the FOW forum.)


I've come up with a plan...

Always dangerous when I have a plan.
The idea is to get work done on my Mid-war Aufklar so that is finished and then take on the Forum 600-point army challenge. Though I'll be behind on that one, most likely.

Lists to follow.

Another attempt at linking to Photobucket

A Picture of my Tiger:



Let's see if it's too big.

Charles

Let's try again...

Testing for linking to photobucket.

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/bugmans6x/Germans/Aufklar2.jpg[/IMG]

Let's see...

Really, I Promise to get pics up soon

I've discovered that when you work for a very large company, nobody notices when you quit. That ought to make it easier to get out of the door on the last day.

I have digressed.

I've decided that I will track progress of my new project here.

1500 points of Aufklarungsschwadron.

First up will be the HQ and the 2nd platoon mounted on motorcycles. Pics forthcoming when I get the bikes assembled. Tomorrow. Maybe Wednesday.

WebOgre.

Well, it's only been over a friggin' year

Ok. So this didn't quite turn out like I thought.

Seems I've been busy this year.

Bought a new house. Did some renovation. Got new job, Quit that job. I'm about to take my old job back. So, a bit of a full plate.

I have been workng on models. Just haven't been taking many pictures of them. That is about to change.

It's going to change, because my brother Bob has been putting together a new game. I'll be doing some modelling for that.

More Soon.