Stormy Quadruplets

While we await the completion of the 1/72 Typhoon, here are more stand-ins.  I have already calculated that 2x1/144 kits = 1x1/72 model.  Using that same ‘logic’, when the scale is 1/300, clearly four models are required!

My original Typhoons – Heroics & Ros metal models from the mid-1980s. 

These were originally painted by my old friend Scott Proctor and were

acquired by me an a typically convoluted deal in 1989.

 More H&R Tiffies.  These were bought at a show in the early

1990s and finished off (including a black wash) by me.

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’……

Just a reminder that Wargame Developments will be attending the Sheffield Triples show this coming weekend with my Rollbahn Ost participation game.  In this game, three players each lead an army group into Russia in 1941.
So that’s six months of the war in the east.  In 20 minutes.  There are Iron Crosses to be won….
If you’re at Triples, come and say hello – and give the game a try.  Did I mention the toy tanks?

Triples website:  http://www.sheffieldwargamessociety.co.uk/#/sheffield-triples/4554357668

Shameless publicity:  http://www.sheffieldwargamessociety.co.uk/#/displays-at-triples/4554922724

With a tow, row, row, row, row, row, for the British er, Engineers

My cunning(?) plan to expand my Funny Little Wars Naval Brigade to a full-size ‘army’ will require an additional infantry battalion, a cavalry regiment, more guns and various other add-ons.  Not least of these is this Royal Engineer detachment. 

The helmeted chaps are all Armies in Plastic gunners, while the lantern wielder is from

 a CTS ‘trappers and miners’ set.  The ‘fifth man’ came from a farm animal set.

 

The painting process was shared with an AIP Gatling crew – more on them coming soon.

Baffled by the title?  Have a listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrxHO-B2TY

Typhoon Twins

While progress continues (slowly…) with the Airfix Typhoon, here are some of it’s smaller chums.  Luckily there are two of them – on the grounds that two 1/144 scale models equals one 1/72 model!

These are old Revell plastic kits which were built in great haste for a game a few years ago.  Actually the standard of finish is quite embarrassingly poor.  In my defence I will say that they were built and painted as part of a batch of a dozen or so aircraft – mostly Spitfires and Tempests – which were needed for a Megablitz game based on Operation Market Garden.  All of it.