How to make a: pond

Greetings everyone,

Hope you are all well.

It's (once more) a tutorial post, this one, of how to make a pond for your wargaming tables, easily and most importantly, cheaply.

The Chinese used to say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and for this reason below you will see a photo of the draft sketch,

the materials used for the pond,

and the final result:

You can see the whole 'how-to' video below:

I hope you like it.

Have good Tuesday night everyone! :-)

T.

When SWMBO is away, this occurs.

Last week was my last holiday week (well, I'm going to get some few more days for a wedding - not mine..yet), so I had plenty of time to paint and amuse myself. SWMBO was working during this week....and the feeling was: ohhhh what a bliss!

I've painted plenty of figures as you will see below, from various historical periods - dark ages, musket era, vietnam war and modern times.

By following this pattern, I realized that my mojo did not diminish  by the end of the week, and that was because I didn't feel bored whilst painting. Using similar techniques, but, different colours and figures the difference was huge for me, and I think that I may stick to this alternative method, for what is worth. 

So....

Saxons (Emhar #7206 Saxon Warrions)

FIW French (Zvezda's GNW Swedish Infantry) - see previous work 

Kambodian Khmer Rouge soldiers (see the red scarf...) - Vietnam war (I used a set from Imex - Korean War/ # 531 Chinese's  People Liberation Army)

US Marines - Vietnam War (Italeri's #6078 - US Special Forces - Ex ESCI) - see previous work

And now for something completely different...

US Infantry - Mogadishu / Somalia (Revell #02520 US Infantry) - a new (as if, I didn't have many already).

I hope that you didn't find them too many, and that they didn't distract you from my one theme/time per post.

Hope you all have a great Monday!

T.

Italeri Set 6079 Vietnamese Army / Vietcong

Greetings to thee my fellow friends.

Quick and brief this post (as most of my posts are after all), but with enough photos for your eyes only.

Below you will see my North Vietnamese force ( Esci's ex set of figures), that will try to kick back the Yankees to their country.

I hope you like them.

Have a good Wednesday night everyone.

T.

Italeri Set 6078 American Special Forces

Dark-skinned by the sun and full of new pics in my head after my holidays, I salute thee.

I have completed some new (well they come from an old Esci Kit) figures, for my Vietnam War project.

The figures below come from Italeri's set #6078 (and old Esci set - reissued as it is the case) - the American Special Forces.

When I was a youngster I used to have one of these sets - and it was one of my favourites, but unfortunately after a few house changes through the years, I lost it somewhere in between.

Good Italeri re-issued it, and below you will see the fruits of my paintwork on these fellows. 

I hope you like them.

Have a great Monday night everyone.

T.