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. 

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	Dulce et Decorum Est
2	AlanD	Dux Homunculorum
3	AndrewS	Loki’s Great Hall
4	AndyM	Another Slight Diversion
5	AnneO’L	O’Leary Miniatures
6	BenD	Breakthrough Assault
7	BenG	Monsieur Rosbif & Johnny Frog
8	BrendonW	The Gamer’s Table
9	BurkhardS	dhcwargamesblog
10	ByronM	-
11	ChrisP	The Wars of Pooch
12	ChristopherS	Bunker Hill
13	ClintB	Anything But a One
14	DallasE	Fawcett Ave. Conscripts
15	DaveD	One Man and His Brushes
16	DaveR	-
17	EdwinK	Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist
18	FranL	The Angry Lurker
19	GillesW	Wilderness of Mirrors
20	GregB	Fawcett Ave Conscripts
21	IanW	The Blog with No Name
22	IannickM	Par la bouche de mes canons
23	JaccoK	-
24	JamesB	Exiles Wargames Painter
25	JamesL	The Man Cave
26	JeremyM	-
27	JohnM	Wargaming in 28mm and Sometimes Smaller
28	JuanM	Jugando con Munequitos
29	Kawe	Grossbeeren 1813
30	KentG	15mm Paint Shack
31	KevH	Kev’s Wargame’s Cabin
32	KevinH	Fawcett Ave. Conscripts
33	KevinS	Diggers Home
34	LeeH	Big Lee’s Miniature Adventures
35	LordH	The British Army at Waterloo
36	MarkG	The Wilde Goose
37	MartinN	Moiterei’s bunte Welt
38	MichaelA	28mm Victorian Warfare
39	MichaelF	MiniStories
40	MilesR	Lair of the Uber Geek
41	Millsy	Canister and Grape
42	PaulJ	The Man Cave
43	PaulS	EndTransmission’s gaming stuff
44	PeterD	The Single Handed Admiral
45	PhilH	Diary of a Gaming Magpie
46	RayR	Don’t Throw a 1
47	ReneV	Painting Armies in Tin
48	RobH	With General Custer Down in Mexico
49	RobP	-
50	RossM	Brushes and Bases
51	SamuliS	Engineered Gaming
52	SeanS	Sean’s Wargaming Corner
53	ScottB	Scott’s Wargaming
54	ScottS	Too Much Free Time
55	SebG	Back to the Minis
56	SidneyR	Roundwood’s World
57	StefanK	Monty’s Caravan
58	SteveM	-
59	TamsinP	Wargaming Girl
60	TimB	Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog
61	Curt	Analouge Hobbies

And just for the hell of it

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