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Smallscale 20mm (1/72 / 1/76 scale) scale modelling, miniature wargaming and figure collecting.
02 April 2021
Helmet Scrim for Smallscale Figures
20 March 2021
German and American "volunteers" in British colonial service
Feeling nostalgic and working on some British colonial era troops I was inspired by an article by "C. Jones" on modeling the Zulu War with 20mm Airfix figures that I found in an old July 1967 edition of the Airfix magazine.
As per the magazine article I used Airfix WW1 Germans.

I added heads with the pith hemets from the Esci/Italeri British colonial sets, and also used some more recent figures that weren't available when the author wrote his article, a couple of Imex ACW figures and a Revell WW1 German


19 March 2021
Jungle Incursion Game
09 March 2021
Roco Minitanks 1/87 scale Dodge Command Car and Memories of Charles Grant's "Battle"
Possibly Brits, Aussies or Kiwis of a certain age might recognise the setup, it might also ring a bell with miniature gamers from other countries who had access to English publications many many moons ago
The Iron cross looks a bit out of place on the RED battalion commander, and I didn't expect it to show up so much but the final wash brought out a lot of the figure's fine detail.
The figures and vehicles are the same as the ones in the original book, German WW1 officer figure with an Airfix Russian head, accompanying Russian officer and the battalion command car is an old Roco Minitanks Dodge.