Major Ballsup's Hobby Shed

I'd decided at the end of July that as soon as I'd completed those in progress, that I'd be having a break from painting figures.  I've kept to that.  I'm not a summer person and I’ve struggled for motivation this month.  It’s not helped by my hobby table being in a South facing room so my hobby time is limited to evenings, by which time my eyes are frazzled from work.  I'm hoping to get my mojo back and accomplish more next month.  However, I did update my Ovelists ( gaming and doing ) inspired by the Hobby Support Group, and that made me feel a bit better seeing the items being checked off.  Completed I've not managed to fully complete much this month.  These were almost done at the end of last month: 28mm Warlord Games WW2 Germans Grenadiers.  The main colours were done and it was a case of doing the camo on the Zeltbahns and the details.  I made one as an SS NCO using arms from the Early War Germans and a head from the DAK set.  The ...

Completing the last batch of Victrix Dark Age Archers  had given me the plastic bug, so I dug out the box of Wargames Atlantic (WA) WW2 German Sentries that I'd bought at Salute. There's thirty two men and eight dogs in the box.  I used the majority of two frames and an additional gorget from a third to make up a Feldgendarmerie section of nine men and two dogs with one figure modelled as Gestapo.  All the Feldgendarmerie wear the gorgets and have painted the correct waffenfarbre arm of service colour on their shoulder straps.  I used a head from the Resistance set for Herr Erwin Plick of the Gestapo,    This is a pretty simple set with a reasonable choice of heads and arms.  It's well worth downloading the assembly guide from the 0200 Hours section of the Grey for Now Games website .  As with all plastic sets some of the arms don't work with some of bodies, so always test before gluing.  The figures are very slight, much more so th...