Major Ballsup's Hobby Shed

I've been fully focused on my WW2 Italian Campaign project this week. Painting/modelling   I finished the bases makeover of the Allied part of my Italian Campaign collection which you can see here . I based my poplar trees.  These were the last trees that needed basing from the job lot I bought many years ago and based last year ( see The Great Tree Project posts ).  I used the same basic methods described in these posts, but with the colour palette I'd used for the Italian Campaign figure bases,  Algerian War figures and Mediterranean hills and scatter that I've been working on in 2022.  I've started improving my collection of 15mm Spanish buildings, which I'm using as generic Mediterranean buildings.  These are all Empires at War MDF that I built a few years ago.  Nice buildings overall, but there's always improvements you can make on MDF kits and that's what I'm going to be working on.  These will be my focus for a couple of week at least ...

With the Axis forces completed I turned my attention to the Allies.  My collection is split between those of the French Corps Expéditionnaire Français (CEF) and those representing British equipped troops that can be used as Brits, Canadians, New Zealanders, Poles or South Africans.   1 French/Moroccan Goumier company command with mortar team and 2 LMG teams 1 French/Moroccan Goumier infantry platoon 1 French/Moroccan Goumier MMG section British company command teams 2 British infantry platoons with PIAT and 2" mortar support teams 1 British 3in. mortar section 1 British MMG section I've also got a number of M4 and M5 tanks of various marks.  I'd had plenty of practice when I redid all the Axis bases so it didn't take much thought to do these!  I was very pleased when I'd finished the last of the 30 or so Brit bases.  That's another job I've been meaning to do for years ticked off the list.