SYW Hessian Infantry

While sorting out my British figures for the Seven Years War, I found that I still had some HaT SYW Prussian infantry figures in the stash. AS the British needed quite a bit of cleaning up they pre-empted them in the painting queue. They were painted as the Hesse-Kassel Erbprinz (yellow facings) and Ysenburg (buff) regiments.

Unfortunately the version of their flags with a white and red lion in the centre was not introduced until after the end of the SYW, so I just used the version with the Landgrave's cypher.

Henschel Hs 123 finished

The kind donation/swap from Alan Mc is now ready for action. So I now have a Henschel Hs 123 to support my WW2 German forces through Poland, France, the Balkans and even into Russia.

Unfortunately the decals for the Dewotine D520 that I was also working on disintegrated when I tried to apply them despite having had two coats of varnish applied first

FDM printer is running

At long last I am producing some 3D printed terrain from my FDM printer. it's quite slow as it is on the finest setting, but there are very little visible lines.

These are the excellent Rubican Oscar Mike buildings that are available on Thingiverse (link). There are a total of 9 different buildings. I have printed mine at 60% scaling for 20mm.

The roofs are removable and there are internal walls

I have also been printing some railway track, and wagons for my Wild West mine, along with some Cacti, all purchased last summer from MyMiniFactory (link) in last summer's sale.

M3 Stuart Honey tanks repainted

Back in the mists of time I painted three Matchbox M3A1 Stuarts for my Late WW2 British army. Since I replaced them with some more correct M3A3 these became available so I soaked them in dettol to remove the old paint and then repainted them in Cauter for the Western Desert.

WW2 German MMG teams

A small update as I complete some missing MMG teams for my early WW2 Germans, I had been using some late war version up until now. The fogures are mainly "First to Fight" with the comanders from the Airfix Pak 40 set.

El Cid era Spanish light infantry

Almost the last of the box of HaT Spanish infantry produced an archer unit and three units of skirmishers (two javelin armed and one sling)

I would have liked a unit of crossbow but you only get four in a packet of ninety six!

WIP - Henschel Hs 123 & Dewotine 520

I have completed the assembly of the two aircraft. I experienced the usual problems of fitting the struts and the upper wing on the top of a biplane.

Now onto fitting a screw underneath for the magnetic stand and then it's painting