3d terrain

 Printed a piece of sci-fi terrain on my voxlab Aquila, 1time the lines from fdm printing actually help, painted quickly with some GW contrast paints

Dropzone commander

 Late to games as always , collected a 1750 point shaltari army over the last couple of years, just got round to paint it and might actually finish it. Anyway here's some of the progress with some samurai and firstborn infantry, painted with citadel contrast nighthaunt gloom for speed , not completely impressed with contrast paints especially on flat surfaces and it struggles to flow into small holes so had to do a wash of druchi purple over to get some better detail showing

Battletech

 Eridini light horse combined arms company

Airbrush

Managed to bend the needle in my airbrush so used the opportunity to get a new one

It's just a cheap one from ebay but it gets  the job done and I would recommend getting one of you can, I base coated 6 mechs in 20 mins testing it, really speeds the painting process up

Back in the ussr

Time for some Russians

3 t64 1 each of Scotia BPM H&R left to right

6 BMP1p with spandrel not swatter from BPM

1 BRDM2, 1 BRDM3, 1 BMP1,1 SA13, 1 SA8 all H&R except the BRDM2 from BPM

I base my russians at 6 afv to a battalion

So need another 15 t64 to finish the tank regiment, just need to decide which. BPM has better detail but no machine gun so it's a toss up between the other two I think

British 80's task force

A late 80's tank heavy task force for modern spearhead/coldwar commander
3 challenger from ghq,1 the hq from H&R the rest are butler printed models
2 scorpion (1 ghq 1bpm)
3 mcv80(2 ghq 1bpm)
1 fv438 bpm
2 spartan ghq
1 fv432 ghq
1 jaguar H&R
No inf yet cause H&R are closed and I don't like anybody else'
Also shows what happens when you can't remember if you bought summer or spring grass roll for basing

Japanese 1946

This time some Japanese '46 aircraft, a j4m senden pusher fighter and a couple of reverse engineered me262 known as ki201 karyu, the first is a raiden model the ki201s are H&R me262s

TA183 raiden minitures

More Luftwaffe '46 stuff, this time a FW ta183 jet, nice well detailed model

Space!

My new space mat printed on pvc from a hubel image by pixartprinting, cost £18

p59 airacomet 3d print

A bell p59 airacomet, I had this 3d printed at my local library,cost £2, the aircraft it's self was a mediocre jet but in Luftwaffe 46 the us field what ever they can, the model is ok on topside but rough on underside but is ok for the money and spray painted with Vallejo paints easy enough

H&R ar234

A pair of heroics ar234's ready to make a fast run on any bridge that needs bringing down,painted same way as ju287 below

H&R ju287

A pair of heroics ju287 bombers for lutwaffe 46 games, tried GW soulstone technical paint on the cockpits, certainly shinny but not right to me,rest Vallejo rlm paints

Butler's printed models

A selection of 1/300th vehicles from butler's printed models.
BMP-1p
Challenger1
T64BV

I will post pics when I've got them cleaned up

Here is a raiden tempest mkii
This will be part of the british contingent for a Luftwaffe '46 project I've got

Tempest mkV

No post for 4 years, not from lack of painting just not got round to posting, but lets see if I can get in going. First up a couple of raiden tempests

I really like the idea of star wars armada but the cost is far too much for my meager budget. Also I note that the models are not to scale, I think you can't have the epic feel of star wars when the big ships don't dwarf the smaller ones. Doing some internet snooping I found utar ships that do in scale craft but his not producing at the moment that led me to odyssey slipways  that do 1/10000 scale ships. They are only available from one shop in America not real cheap but I got some.when they came I found them too small for my taste. So I looked on shapeways for some 1/7000 scale ships but they all were in FUD and costed just as much as armarda ships. So I decided to bite the bullet and do some 3d modelling with some help from son no1 to get started I found it quite easy. So star wars ships in 1/7000 and printed in white and strong as shapways calls it meaning a rebel assault frigate costs just £8. any way heres what i got so far i'll post back when i paint some

Spray paint

Got a can of plastic soldier company's spray paint with a view to using it to mass paint my russians quickly, was a bit worried, as the paint is for use on larger scale models, and also is designed to be used as a primer and base coat all in one, that it might obliterate the detail on my 1/285th models.
So i gave it a try on a c-in-c t34 and while i was at it i had a can of battlefront's middlestone spray for german armour knocking around so gave that a go on a ghq stug as well.

  They came out pretty well. Coverage is good and i didn't lose any of the fine detail.This is going to really speed up painting large numbers of tanks. One word of caution if you try it is when you first spray don't panic as it looks like a lot of the detail is gone but as the paint dries it returns.

ISU-152

Here is a soviet heavy SU regiment equipped with isu-152's,
just right for suppressing german 88's. 

At Last!!

A post!
been a while since i last posted, things have been up and down, but everything is better with tanks so here is some pictures of what i've been upto
Got my hands on some GHQ models and i have to say they might not be cheap but you can certainly tell the difference.
befitting these quality models i tried stepping up the painting with adding in some dry brushing for a first time for me. even though i'm still getting the hang of it i am pleased with the result and i shall be using it on all my painting jobs from now on.
Still cant get my static grass to stand up well though.
Jagdpanther (yet to add unit id to base) 

Brumbar

Hetzer

 more stuff coming soon hopefully

Unit ID

In a new first i based some units with static grass. I used 1mm static grass so it didn't look to tall but I'm still working on how to get it to stand up.Also with these units i printed out some unit id's to go on the rear of the bases, since i play blitzkrieg commander or spearhead each base represents a platoon, it just kind of adds a little something to the story of the game at least that's what i think anyway.

                      Cromwell squadron

                                      close up of base

           Some Pz iv/70 of 116th panzer division