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Alas it wasn’t to be….
In a previous post I said
So I ordered and purchased a couple of Sho’T models from the Flames of War Fate of a Nation range and will paint them up as British Army Centurions for use in Team Yankee games.
They never arrived…
Alas the supplier was unable to supply the models, as Battlefront have made them a direct-only order item, so I will need to order them from there.
This is a laser cut MDF (and card) model of a Chateau from Sarissa Precision.
It is unpainted model and comes as a flat pack of MDF and card.
The chateau has steps back and front. They comprise the steps and go together quite easily.
I like the railings which work well and don’t look too bulky for this small model.
The back steps are constructed in a similar manner.
The use of card for the window frames, shutters and plinths works well.
The most challenging aspect of the model was the roof. It had multiple dormer windows as well as a flat roof with railings (or balustrades)
There were multiple components and the construction was quite challenging.
The finished models looks very effective, I do think though I do need to give it a coat of paint.
The rear view.
If I was to do this again, I think I might paint the card first, as I did with my Gaslamp buildings.
Finally finished one of my Christmas presents (from some time ago) was the 4Ground 15mm Shop 4: Corner Bakery. I already have a couple of the 4Ground 15mm buildings, a pair of semi-detached houses and one of the hotels.
The Corner Bakery is a great piece of terrain to enhance your battle board. It comes pre-painted with 4Ground Base paints with high levels of internal detail as well as shop specific signage and acetate shop windows.
Each floor is removable allowing access to each one and the different rooms usable doors. To keep the floors in place there are little locking lugs in each corner. The external walls are rendered with cracked detailing and acetate window.
The model comes as flat pieces of coloured MDF which has been laser cut. Having put most of it together, I went ahead and finished it.
There are lots of details and depth to the models. The instructions are clear and the model is easy to assemble.
The model has separate floors allowing models to be placed inside the building.
As you can see the model’s pre-coloured MDF does make these stand out and quick to put onto the table.
In the end I found the model challenging to keep together as separate floors so I removed the lugs and stuck the whole building together.
I have added glazing to the windows and used the included posters on the wall.
I quite liked how the signage which comes with the model includes English signs, Operational Sealion anyone? Or what about a 1930s VBCW scenario? Though of course the building is quite continental in appearance.
The Daimler Scout Car, known in service as the “Dingo” (after the Australian wild dog), was a British light fast 4WD reconnaissance vehicle also used in the liaison role during the Second World War. In 1938 the British War Office issued a specification for a scouting vehicle. Out of three designs submitted by Alvis, BSA and Morris, the one by BSA was selected. The actual production was passed to Daimler, which was a vehicle manufacturer in the BSA group of companies. The vehicle was officially designated Daimler Scout Car, but became widely known as Dingo, which was the name of the competing Alvis prototype.
I bought some SDD models in the 1990s.
Not sure how I will use these, potentially desert models or as wrecks.
Another option would be to use them as part of my modern English Civil War background.
This was the third Sarissa Precision Old West building I constructed, House with Stone Chimney. Like my other Sarissa Precision models, these went together really easily, and are for comparison purposes much simpler than the 4Ground models (but also as a result less detailed).
Like my other Sarissa Precision models I have now painted the roof slates.
I still need to paint the chimney.
I am contemplating if I should paint the wooden sides, doors and window frames.
This is a laser-cut mdf building from 4Ground for Great Escape Games’ Dead Man’s Hand set of rules.
Andrew Dewey and Dave Annabelle met whilst they were serving as elected members of the Territorial Legislator of Montana and both living in Helena. They both had a firm interest in travelling to the Town of Dead Man’s Hand and joining the gold rush, after buying as much equipment as they could they set out on the road.
Along the way they found out about the boom town of Bitter Creek and the gold just being picked up from the ground. So after passing through Dead Man’s Hand the partners reached Bitter Creek, they quickly realised that the gold was not just waiting to be picked off the ground as they had been told, but the constant influx of new pioneers would pay handsomely for the abundance of equipment they had brought with them. Annabelle and Dewey quickly decided the best thing to do would be to set up the first hardware store in the town, ordering in all the goods they needed they quickly started earning a fair amount.
Now the A & D Hardware Store sells mining goods, tools, provisions and clothing to prospectors and pioneers. As their shipments have increased they have noticed a rise in the town of unsavoury types said by some to be under the payroll of S. L. Wheatley in nearby Dead Man’s Hand.
Like most of the newer 4Ground models, this is a well designed kit with lots of interior detail as well as on the outside. So there are inside walls as well as exterior walls.
Inside the building is the main retail area, time to add a counter and stock, whilst there is a rear storage area at the back of the building with a rear exit for a quick getaway if required.
The model goes together really easily, but as the instruction recommend you should use clamps (or pegs) when sticking the exterior walls onto the main frame to avoid unsightly gaps and a near fit.
I think the only challenge I can see is adding glazing to the windows.
I have started working on my Warlord LVT-4 Buffalo Amtrac for Bolt Action. The LVT-4 is a 1/56th scale 28mm resin and metal kit. Having given the model a white undercoat I then gave the model a base coat of British Armour Green.
Here are some more photographs of the model.
This is a well detailed model.
Thinking I might need to get some jeeps for my commandos.
Having being half completed for a while, I took the time to finish off my The Chicago Way Shotgun House from 4Ground.
In the mid C19th on the French island territory of Haiti a narrow gable fronted worker’s dwelling had developed with external door openings in the gable ends in alignment front and rear. Internal partition walls were used to divide living space, with internal partition doors in alignment with the external doors enabling good air circulation; often built with a high roof pitch and small windows below the gable peaks which contributed to the cooling environment created by the effect of drafting air through the dwelling.
By the late C19th these dwellings had spread across much of the USA and could be commonly found from Southern Texas all the way up to Chicago – North East Illinois. Better quality examples were sometimes called ‘Shotgun Houses’ rather than ‘Shotgun Shacks’ to distinguish them from those of a poorer quality. By the early to mid C20th almost all of these houses were considered old and dilapidated and both ‘Shotgun Shack’ and ‘Shotgun house’ implied a poor quality dwelling.
I found the model went together really easily.
However I did find the doors a little difficult and I constructed them back to front, so worth watching out for that if you are building one of these houses.
As with most 4Ground models there are the burn marks from the laser cutting. I think they add a certain weathered appearance to the building.
I am now thinking about getting the other two Shotgun Houses from this range.
I have started working on my Warlord LVT-4 Buffalo Amtrac for Bolt Action. The LVT-4 is a 1/56th scale 28mm resin and metal kit.
Having cleaned the model it was a relatively simple process of putting the kit together, well apart from the issue with the rear mudguards.
Having given the model a white undercoat I then gave the model a base coat of British Armour Green.
There were lots of undercuts which meant careful spraying.
Overall I was quite pleased with the initial results, and the next stage will be adding the British markings.
For Christmas I was kindly given not only the Team Yankee Iron Maiden book I also got a box of the newly released 15mm British Scorpion or Scimitar Troop.
I have been thinking about the paint scheme for my Scorpions and Scimitars and I outlined this in a previous post.
I started them off, with a base coat of a spray of Chieftain Green paint.
Like the Scorpions, I didn’t quite get the coverage I was expecting.
