Iron Within - Predator

Hi folks,

January was an awful month for me for various reasons, and my painting mojo was totally gone - I only got one thing painted, and nothing at all assembled since I went back to work in 2013.

Here is my one item, and it's looking a touch green due to the light I used to take the photos:

Pack Howitzer

I've had lots of modelling time this week so here's something I've been working on, some pack howitzers to be used instead of mortar weapon teams. These are based on Old Guard's ones over on the AmmoBunker - he even posted up a tutorial there if anyone else wants to copy them.

Merry Christmas!

Wishing everyone a merry festive season!

If you don't have one, this Ork will pay you a visit!

Italeri Scenic Items Review #3

Last one, promise and then back to 40k goodness next week. I should have more time to get things photographed next week as I'm only working part time. I'm doing a handover as I've been made redundant - yeah just before Christmas, which is nice, so I have time at home when the sun is up! Should have my Blood Pact's Psyker Battle Squad and some Ogryn WIPs.

So the last review is for the Brick wall sections, and these are my favourite. They are cast in a red brick colour, so with a bit of ink/dullcote and a scrubbing with brick dust weathering powder you'd be away. There are some mould lines to removes, but nothing terrible and much better than the sand bags in my opinion. Obviously these can be assembled into bigger wall structures, or just used one or two at a time to add to heavy weapon team bases or similar, which is how I intend to use them. The single bricks are a nice touch for a few scattered ones that have been blown clear of their originating wall.

So here are the pics:

Italeri Scenic Items Review #2

It's Sand Bags this time. These are slightly smaller than the Tamiya ones, which is good as those are a bit big for many 40k applications. Not too much to say about them - they do look sand baggy, and the only downside is that they do have a heavy mould line around them though.

Italeri Scenic Items Review #1

I don't think I've really done a proper review with photos for a while now so here we are with the first of three of  Italeri's  scenery kits.

The Church Window Set 1/35

This looked very impressive on the box, and I had high hopes for it. On one hand, my hopes were justified as this is a nice sized piece of terrain, and very suitable for a piece of wrecked building, with a good level of detailing ideal for drybrushing. On the flip side (literally) there is a big problem - the building is only designed to be viewed from the front, the back is just the hollow space where the front has been extruded. I am attempting to fill mine with some carved up foam from a piece of foam core board so I may be able to salvage this. With that in mind I can only recommend this are part of a bigger building, something for a diorama or something you have to use your modelling licence to complete.

Count-as a Trojan

Been working on this for a few days and it's almost done now, a halftrack version of the FW Trojan for my Pact to move their howitzer.

Still needs a bit of greenstuff work on the rolled tarps and around the flamer as well as one more roof hatch then it can go to the paint booth (or rather the packing box as I'm not buying anymore red paint until I know if I'm moving or not).