German 15cm Nebelwerfer

Good afternoon everyone!

Hope you are all well.

September has arrived and I am trying to get back on track, again.

I have been quite busy these past few days, and today I am going to show you my latest work.

I have recently acquired two Nebelwerfer models (metal) - you know, the moaning ‘’minnies’’,  from Britannia Miniatures, as you see in the photos below.

The models were not expensive (3 GBP/model) and they were very easy to assemble.

A sequence of photos from start to finish follows. Gluing, basing, painting and playing (in the end of this post you’ll see what I mean by ‘playing’...).

The bases were made from vinyl tiles and the rest of the stuff around the models were from Sgt’s Mess (Small boxes and German Water cans) and from SHQ (15cm Nebelwerfer rockets - VP10).

Since the Nebelwerfers come without escorts, I used some spare figures I had from PSC Late War German Infantry Heavy Weapons kit.

My name is not Thomas by the way... :-)

Last but not least, I have prepared for you a small video, showing what this little bugger did in reality.

I hope you like them!

Have a good Tuesday night everyone.

T.

The Farm - my first battle video

Greetings my friends!

Monday today, and my hands are filled with paint. As you allo know, I usually paint models but, in this case I am painting my balcony's railings.

It's what I call a nightmare. It's a different thing to paint little men and vehicles, and a totally different thing to paint details like the ones you are seeing in the photo below.

And yet, I have to give them a second hand (lots of details must be repainted).

But, complaining is just a waste of words and feelings.

I have prepared for you my first video which is about a small skirmish battle, I recreated some days ago. If you remember, in my last post I told you that I am going to have a surprise for you.

The pictures of this video have been processed through Photoshop (not the models, I only added some small effetcs and I have made the original colours a bit dull, just to give a 'warlike' feeling about it).

The story is about an attack of British forces to a Normandy farm held by the Germans. . . 

You will find some of the graphics a bit childish and...experimental, but please forgive me, since I have just started playing with programs like Photoshop and After Effects. At least it has sound effects in it! :-)

I promise that the next video will be better.

Enjoy the show boys and girls!

I hope you liked it.

Have a great Monday night everyone! 

T.

Telegraph Poles

Greetings amici miei,

Hope you are all well.

As I am waiting for my folding tables to come (and since my budget is stretched to Its outmost limit), I came up with the idea to make some Telegraph poles.

As you may already know, if you search through the web, there are plenty of options available. The most characteristic product is Dapol’s CO24 - Telegraph poles.

Even though they are a bit old in terms of manufacture date, they are considered as good models and most of all budget friendly. However, since I am a rather selfish sod, I decided to make some (well they came out 50 of them) by myself.

The materials I used were the following:

• Bamboo skewers
• 5 cent coins (2.5 euro / cost - a small expense for their stability) - used as bases
• Thin balsa strips (1mm) - two per pole
• Small cylindrical (very small actually - 4 piece/pole) piece of cotton buds holders (the little white ones you’ll see placed on top of the vertical balsa strips)
• Sand
• PVA glue
• Static grass

Below you see the fruits of my efforts. If you take out the time I spent I needed to make fifty of them (I know, I exaggerated once more), it was very easy to make them, and they should fit nicely on every WW2 tabletop.

For this reason I prepared for you a small present, a video showing them placed next to my home made Normandy houses, whilst Panzers are on the move, seeking to burn some Allies’ Shermans (I’ve been experimenting with Photoshop - stay tuned, something big will show up...)!

Vroom vroom everyone! :)

I hope you like it.

Have a great Monday night everyone!