Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Hiding in the woods. . .

Good day everyone!

Yesterday evening I had finished painting Italeri's Zis 3 AT Gun with crew . This kit consists 2 guns (Zis 3) and 12 figures.
In this post I am showing you only one gun with its crew.
The level of sculpting is on Italeri's standards, which is one of the best in the market. A great product, in an appealing price (8 euro)!

Zis 3 was a Soviet 76.2 divisional field gun used during WW II.

I hope you like it!!

T.












Tuesday, 21 September 2010

WIP HO Faller Church

Good day everyone!

After struggling to build this magnificent kit (HO #130490) from Faller (many pieces I must admit), I am uploading today a photo of what I have done so far!

I also bought some stone walls from Busch Models (HO #6014)that are appropriate for enclosing the church in a right manner.

Now I have to but some gravestones (Hornby may be the case) to put them (I can become very morbid if I want to sometimes) in the backyard of the church.

The photo may be a little blur (taken from my mobile phone), so please stick to the essence of the church and not in the pixels showing it! :-)

Hope you like it!

T.

Friday, 17 September 2010

Faller Church

Good day to everyone!

Before continuing on my post, I would like to apologize for the current status of my blog. It seems that I have exceeded my Bandwidth margin, but it will be ''relieved'' again on the 18th of September.
So please stay calm and carry on!! :-)

I am writing today, in order to tell you that I received yesterday the Faller church I was mentioning in an earlier post. Hooray!!!
However, I have stuck in what colours I should use in order to make it realistic as possible, and blend it successfully with my other terrain pieces for my Normandy Project.

I have decided to paint the slates of the roof in Grey, with successive highlights of the same colour, but I don't know what colours to use for the building. I don't want to use grey in this part of the building too!

Could you please help me out???

Thank you all!

T.

Sunday, 12 September 2010

Vierville Battery

Hello everyone!

Today I decided to show something bigger I made a while ago, but up until yesterday it was half-done!
As you would probably have understand by the post's title, I have made a ''Made in Thanos'' version of Vierville Battery (Artillery position) in Normandy.
It is not precise to the point of historical accuracy, but I think it was worth the effort I put on that.
I hope you like it!

p.s: I may have made the terrain piece, but I lack basic elements of a proper artillery battery components. The good thing is, I now don't have any excuses to use in order to complete one!

T.















Thursday, 9 September 2010

A nice blog. . .

Good day everyone!

Today I thought I'd share a piece of one of my inspiration sources.

A fellow (Al) from NZ has created a blog, 20th Century Wargames which deals, almost every day with aspects of our hobby.
It has many many photos in each post, and it can be considered as a supplement to the legendary Plastic Soldier Review (which I think you all already know), because every time Al reviews a kit, he makes a comparison with other kits components to show you how they fit altogether.

Show us the light to the truth Al! :-)

A must-add on ''My favourite blog list''

T.

Monday, 6 September 2010

Zimbo's buildings revisited!

Good day and good week everyone!

Here is my latest work, an acquisition I made from Marc (Zimbo) from Germany!

Hope you like it!

T.








Thursday, 2 September 2010

Pegasus BT-7

Good day everyone!

While making my head decide, what I should do with the Faller church yesterday, I painted two Pegasus' BT-7, light tanks!

They are very easy to build, let aside the great work and details that come along!

Anyone interested in the 'Ostfront', should buy them!

Hope you like them!

T.