Major Ballsup's Hobby Shed

My retail therapy is continuing.  The first delivery this week was One Faith, One Law, One King - French Armies of the Wars of Religion 1562-1598 from Helion.   I'd expressed my interest with Helion in the title prior to publication and was very pleased when I received an email announcing it was now available and offering a £5 discount.  My order was placed straightaway on Friday and the book arrived Tuesday post free.  I'm happy with that.  I've had a glance through and this sort of information is gold dust in the English language.  The colour plates aren't great but the rest of the book is.   On the same day my order of 3x1mm neodymium magnets arrived.  I've been looking at how to base all my single SHQ WW2 20mm figures so that they're easier to use when gaming and wanted to try out something using magnets.  I won't say anymore as I'll be doing a separate post on that soon. On Wednesday my order from Butler's Printed Models came....

As a change from working on wargames bits I've spent time over the last month building the Airfix 1/72nd Boulton Paul Defiant kit. This is the third Airfix aircraft I've built since the end of 2019. I started with the Hurricane , straightaway moved onto the Spitfire and then after a year's gap did the Defiant. Each kit was easier and more enjoyable to make, due to my skills and experience improving with each build but also each one was actually a better kit. The Hurricane needed quite a bit of filling and fiddling about during assembly, whereas the Spitfire and the Defiant especially were a joy to make.