Preston-the metropolis!

Had a drive down to visit my sister in Preston-this city has an excellent hobby and model shop "Trains and Transport" so I nipped in and bought some figures for what now appears to be my summer project. Italeri Panthers and Zvezda Russian HMGs....in a good mood now so I am off to drink a few beers and dream of the miniature battles to come.

Revell figure purchase

I bought two packs of Revell figures for use in Rapid Fire wargames. The Russians are a bit limited as the chaps with skis are not really my thing, the Germans make up for this though as its almost a full battalion! £5.99 for all these figures just cannot be bettered, indeed I may buy some armour to help build my forces, I have a pic here of the troops after being washed.

Armourfast website

Thought I would plop an interesting link on here for Armourfast, maybe everyone has heard of them but here is the link http://armourfast.com/german-armour/cat_4.html the forum has potential and maybe we could convince them to make some modern 20mm stuff? Technicals spring to mind first off as I dont think there are any being produced in plastic....
I will update again in the next few days, the weather is too good to paint here in the Uk-hay we have to take advantage of sunshine when we can!

Work in progress...

Hi All,
thought I put a pic on of some very unruly chaps and an American command team and sniper section.....the grey plastic is really good to paint on but I cant remember who makes them! I will have to have a look around and find what else they produce as the quality is really good.
Next small lump of spare money is going on a Rapid Fire 20mm army, obviously some German but maybe Soviets as well.

Inspiration!

Sometimes I think we all need a WOW! moment to spur us on and this morning it was pleasure to have one of those moments. It was'nt even a porn star that gave me a jolt but this blog http://olivier-wwii-20mmfigures.blogspot.com/ A visit to this chaps site is essential viewing. Just when I could'nt be bothered to do anything (my mind still dwells a lot on the loss of my wife and son), this blog really inspired me.

I may not yet be painting WW2 but I just got a new standard to aspire to. Hope all the gamers out there get some inspiration as well!

Dusting off the paint brushes

Hi Chaps,
I have been extremely busy of late but at last some spare time approaches so I have dug out my painting equipment in readiness! Whilst cleaning out I also found a copy of Rapid Fire-not read it for years....forgot just how ground breaking all thos cool colour photos were in a ruleset! If I had a hobby shop close by I would be painting up a Soviet horde right now, oh well.
Will post some pictures of my insurgents later.