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Just basecoated the road sections having undercoated them earlier in the week after the acrylic paste had fully dried out.
I should get these finished tomorrow, although I also need to texture the road junctions and crossroads which I didn’t get round to last weekend.
I thought I’d have a go at making an oil well, oil pipeline and a nodding donkey or two.
Just the sort of thing the rebels would want to blow up!
There are some good images on this 1950’s film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4SHXegGgk
Anybody know if there’s anything useful in 15mm out there somewhere??
Thanks
Those look really good..but a bit out of my price league
I’ll have to try some scratch building. I have some old plastruct bits somewhere that might be useful?
Now making some wadi sections using ERM river templates, stones from the garden, little rocks, model railway ballast and cheapo superglue from a French supermarket:
A bit more added, ready to dry out and be undercoated by the end of the day, although it’s freezing in the garage and it may take a while to fully set.
Now dry brushed and washed, ready for some more drybrush highlighting and tufting (?) tomorrow.
It’s drying off overnight so I can’t do any more today.
I’ve also assembled the Supreme Littleness Design fort ruin (although this took longer than I thought due to some issues with the tower upper floor section, which needed some minor modification to work properly)
This is a 15mm version of the SLD 28mm model but it’s not yet available.
Nice model, once I actually finish it
The little bits of slate came from some decorative stones that the wife has sprinkled around her plants. It’s chalk where I am, so totally useless for terrain making!
I often pick up useful looking stones, pebbles and sand or grit when I’m on holiday in Brittany or when I go back to my dad’s place in Cornwall. You can’t beat a bit of crushed up granite for terrain texturing.
Thanks Colin
I’ve now wrapped up the wadi and the road sections, so that bit of the project is done, although I still need to make some ‘pie wedge’ bends for he wadi so that it’s not so linear and also make the road junctions, crossroads and a few small filler pieces to bridge any gaps.
This is never ending…
…I’m now off to paint some tiddly planes for a bit of light relief.
Suspiciously quiet at the border crossing today……?
Watch out for soft sand…could get bogged down here?
Looks like the rebels have mined the border track again…where are those sappers?
Thanks Colin
I’ve now wrapped up the wadi and the road sections, so that bit of the project is done, although I still need to make some ‘pie wedge’ bends for he wadi so that it’s not so linear and also make the road junctions, crossroads and a few small filler pieces to bridge any gaps. This is never ending…I’d have some sympathy if it wasn’t entirely self-inflicted! But, that said, IMO, the results are definitely worth it!
Are you making the pie wedge bends yourself from another straight? or buying them?
…I’m now off to paint some tiddly planes for a bit of light relief.
Light relief? I don’t think I want to know what you’d consider serious partying then …
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I’ve got some pie wedges from ERM but they are 2mm thick not 3mm like the river sections, so I’ll probably just cut a river section up using the pie wedges as a template. I think I’ll only need about four or five of them for a bendy wadi (you don’t type that very often
)Yes, I think it’s a lovely little model. I’ve now given it an overall undercoat in matt khaki, ready for painting up, so you can see what it looks like with all the crappy filler covered up. I really like the way the designer has thought of all the little features that make it look just like the real thing, especially the Arabian style crenellations and the inner wall gap where you add little rocks to create a tumbledown effect. Very clever bit of design!
Here’s the latest addition to the British platoon and its transport, two QRF Humber Pigs and a blown up Ferret scour car (this was originally going to the great Ferret farm in the sky, but the casting was duff at the back end so it got re-purposed into a mined vehicle as a handy scenario hook)
I have had good dealings with QRF in the past but recently, quite a few models have had casting quality issues, missing parts or the wrong parts supplied, which is a right pain in the backside.
The assembly saga is on the blog.
Started on the painting but there’s still a way to go before I’ve finished it properly:
I’ve finished the Supreme Littleness Designs ruined fort in 15mm, which Michael re-scaled and laser cut for me, based on the 28mm version.
This 18mm / 15mm version isn’t available yet and is a pre-release prototype.
I’ll do a separate review and assembly photos tomorrow, so you can see how it all fits together.
A very nice little kit indeed
I finished undercoating the vehicles yesterday in Humbrol Matt Green, so everything including the British infantry and transport, is ready for painting after the Xmas break. I chose green as I didn’t have any desert yellow spray paint and I plan to paint the desert yellow stripes and bands after doing the basecoat of faded green camouflage.
I’m taking a break from the project now, due to Xmas, but will be back in January!
I now have a ‘background’ for the rebel insurgents / freedom fighters / guerrillas, based on some background reading about Aden and Dhofar, with a few other ideas thrown in for good measure.
It’s the Jebali Popular Liberation Front (JPLF) aka the ‘Adoo’
https://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.com/2018/12/jebali-popular-liberation-front.html
I’m going to need some more hills
I’m back again with the Sandbox Skirmish 15mm post-colonial project, after a short winter interlude and a nasty case of the What a Tanker! bug. I’ve now cured myself of the tank modelling habit (I think?) so it seems like a good idea to crack on with painting the British / Royalist platoon and motor transport.
These are all basecoated and ready to go, but I’ve been thinking about adding a few more landrovers for patrols on the frontier. I have one that I’ve converted into a mine protected vehicle but I think some bog standard ones might be a good addition. I’ll use the Peter Pig models again but with added stowage, machine guns and crew.
I’ve been reading this over the last few days and its given me some more ideas for scenarios and terrain building, so expect to see some more desert features on the workbench including some acacia trees and scrub, which I can sprinkle around as cover up on the jebel.
I also need to get cracking on the insurgent forces and have a few more extras to add to them too. One thing I have been thinking about is a locally raised Frontier Force to use alongside the British platoon but equipped with ex-WW 2 kit including Brens, SMLE’s and 2” mortars etc. I thought the Peter Pig 8th army figures would be ideal, perhaps with a headswap or just using the Indian figures with turbans. Just an idea but it would be fun.
Anyway…more to follow once I’m back from my holidays.
This is the sort of thing I think I need for those long range patrols on the frontier:
That’s you know who in the middle of the photo too.
Glad to see this project getting some traction again!
or perhaps it isn’t you?
Couldn’t be, none of us were ever that young!
"I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."
Got some new paint for my British vehicles (it’s French but pretty spot on for what I’m aiming for)
The idea is to block the sand areas in white over the green basecoat, then overpaint with the sand. The green areas will just be overpainted directly. Then I’ll add highlights.
I’ll do a wash too but not sure if I should do it before or after the over painting / blocking in?
The white base coat is to make sure the sand is opaque enough but won’t need more than one coat to cover up the underlying green. It’s only going on where there’s sand on top, leaving the rest green.
I’m going for a sand and light green camo pattern, so the green will just go straight over the base coat.
Like this:
Better very late than never (?) here’s the first two British vehicles for the platoon to go off patrolling in. I’ve just been experimenting with the painting but they seem to have turned out OK so I will crack on.
There are some more photos on the blog and a run through of the paints I used.
http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.com/2019/07/sandbox-skirmish-scout-patrol-done.html
I was rummaging about today and realised its just over a year since I started the Sandbox Skirmish project. It sort of ground to a halt over the summer but I’m picking up where I left off.
I’m planning to get the British vehicles painted up over the next couple of weeks then crack on with the infantry, before turning my attention to more terrain and the rebel forces.
As always, I’ll post it all up on the blog.
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