Tuesday 26 November 2013

FIW 4Ground 15mm Blockhouse



I bought this and another 4Ground building set at SELWG a few months ago, and I've got to say I'm mighty impressed. The building as with all 4Ground products comes in flat pack format  and was quite easy to clip and glue together. I'm not that happy with how the roof looks at the 4 joins, but I'm sure I can fix it somehow. I don't think the roof can be made in any other way, its just me being a bit fussy??
My only other quibble is, I wish it could be a little bigger......but then don't we all??



I may base the Blockhouse up, I think it'll make it a little more sturdy, but then It'd be nice
 to have some kind of earthworks around it as well??? Oh what to do????
But for £11 you just can't go wrong!





Two Essex minis for size comparison. 


Monday 25 November 2013

The Wild Bunch - Curt's 4th Annual Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge




Its nearly that time of year again, our Canadian friend Curt is going to try and surpass the last 3 challenges by having a mental 60 painters a painting! Last year he had a mere 47 challengers and got through a ton of Paracetamol and two keyboards, so it'll be lot together with 60 of us painting away!
Personally the last two Challenges were very successful, finishing 1st and 4th, but I'm afraid I'll definitely be finishing in the lower reaches this time around.
As some of you well know my and Fran's painting time has been dramatically slashed. I worked it out roughly, last year I was painting on average 48 hours per week, now with my new job its down to around 12 hours. So it'll be no top 10 for me, I think it'll be more like my number in the challenge....46! I did initially workout I'd get aroun 300 points done, but as a challenge I've doubled it to 600.....you never know and there certainly won't be any sandbagging either!!!!
I've been busy cleaning glueing and today will be the undercoating of quite a bit of my French NYW army.That'll be the start of my figures for the challenge, I've also got some 25mm figures still left over from the last challenge that didn't get started, so I'l l try and fit them in as well and my 12 French FIW figures for the Bloggers for Charity game.

Hhhhmmmmm?




Here's a list of all this years challengers and their blogsites


1
AaronH
2
AlanD
3
AndrewS
4
AndyM
5
AnneO’L
6
BenD
7
BenG
8
BrendonW
9
BurkhardS
10
ByronM
-
11
ChrisP
12
ChristopherS
13
ClintB
14
DallasE
15
DaveD
16
DaveR
-
17
EdwinK
18
FranL
19
GillesW
20
GregB
21
IanW
22
IannickM
23
JaccoK
-
24
JamesB
25
JamesL
26
JeremyM
-
27
JohnM
28
JuanM
29
Kawe
30
KentG
31
KevH
32
KevinH
33
KevinS
34
LeeH
35
LordH
36
MarkG
37
MartinN
38
MichaelA
39
MichaelF
40
MilesR
41
Millsy
42
PaulJ
43
PaulS
44
PeterD
45
PhilH
46
RayR
47
ReneV
48
RobH
49
RobP
-
50
RossM
51
SamuliS
52
SeanS
53
ScottB
54
ScottS
55
SebG
56
SidneyR
57
StefanK
58
SteveM
-
59
TamsinP
60
TimB
61
Curt


And just for the hell of it



Now that's what I call a Wild Bunch!!!