Communication Hub finished !

Some shots of the Hub. Dougie

 A shot of some of the bits before they were added.

Communication Hub part 2

Streaking Grime and rust streaks as well as a pin wash added to the container. I now mainly use the great range from AK Interactive
http://www.ak-interactive.com/inicio/?acc=home&idc=1

Below are a couple of shots of aerials/antenna for the hub, the top one is scratched from stretched sprue and plasticard, a bit fiddly to do just be patient! The standard rod aerial has been knocked up with micro brass tubing and plasticard.

I've also had a few enquiries about the tecniques I use, you basically can't go wrong with either of the volumes by Mig Jimenez, FAQ and FAQ2

Now these books are quite expensive, worth it but expensive, however Mig wrote a cracking article in Issue 59 of "AFV Modeller" in which he uses and describes the majority of tecniques on a 1/35th Panther II. A link to the AFV Modeller site is below. Dougie
http://www.afvmodeller.com/

Communication Hub

A communication build over on the Guild gave me a bit of an excuse to return to Helmand, anyone gaming Afghanistan should try and get a copy of "Sketches from Afghganistan" by Matthew Cook the very talented war artist. There's a plate in the book of a shipping container being used as a communication point and this is what I'm wanting to model. The following link shows the image on Matthews site
http://www.matthewcookillustrator.co.uk/content/matthewcookwarartist/a104.htm
I got a signed copy of his book for £10 at the National Army Museum and its a must buy !

For the shipping container I'm using one of the Bachmann model railway ones. These are prepainted containers and very well done. The only problem is they look brand spanking new and not like they're sitting in a patrol base in Helmand so they'll need a little distressing and weathering. I'm planning to site the container on a base with the doors open with the communication stuff on view.
This is the container as it comes, nice detail and well decorated.

 First off is to remove the doors, now the containers come in packs of 2, I'll need both as the parts will be damaged when they're removed.

The inside of the container isn't bad but the inside of the doors need some ribbing added with plastruct.

The doors added and the container tidied up.

The unpainted parts were then touched up and then onto the first stage of weathering, getting some chips on using the very popular VMC 822 SS Cam Blk Brown!

Thats where we are at the moment, further updates very soon! Dougie

6mm T34s for Hungary

First unit of T34s for Hungary, GHQ 1/285th of course! Dougie

A close up

Happy Days !

Liebster Award

James from rabbits in my basement, has put Dougie's Wargaming Blog up for a highly coveted "Liebster Award".

Here are the Liebster rules as I got them from Rabbits in my basement ;

Copy and paste the award on your blog linking it to the blogger who has given it to you.

Pass the award to your top 5 favourite blogs with less than 200 followers by leaving a comment on one of their posts to notify them that they have won the award and listing them on your own blog.

Sit back and bask in that warm fuzzy feeling that comes with knowing that you have just made someone's day!

First up I have to nominate Hurry up and Wait!. Rusty has produced a cracking Falklands blog, always loads of updates, brilliant ideas and lots of eye candy. I regularly visit this blog to get enthused!

The Winter of '79 is an alternate Britain, law and order broken down and seperatist movements, regulkar posts by Mark and lots of excellent stuff.

Modern Warfare:Wargaming the 21st Century is Tacobat's blog with some lovely painting including his vehicles with his signature vision blocks!

Sapper Joe's Wargaming and Toys features the Falklands and other 80ish content, lots and lots of good stuff to check out!

And finally Cold War Gamer a site run by Andy, his passion for the period shines!

To close thanks to James for the award and glad folks are enjoying my stuff!

South Armagh Scenery 1

Had to do these signposts, very simple, find the image on google, print it off on paper at a suitable size, trial and error, bang it on some plasticard and you're done. Dougie
The signposts

The rear's done as well!

A figure for size