On the workbench - May 2025

Well, April has been a mixed month. When planning I had forgotten to take into account the duties of a son on his mothers 99th birthday!! and then my car was involved in a collision with an opening van door as I was parking!*? So progress has been very slow.

So I'm still working on:-

• Almoravid heavy cavalry (basic colours all done)
• Four units of SYW British infantry (All primed, half with their facings blocked in))
• Paint the Vietnamese buildings (Primed and first coat now painted (cheap rattle can matt sand from ebay))
• WSS Franconian grenadier battalion (Primed)
• 3 units of WSS French cavalry (Assembled and washed ready for priming)
• A Prussian artillery commander base (Primed)
• Bavarian Frei Kompanie Prielmayer (Primed) (I found this from the stash after finding an image of the unit)

Wild West scenery

It's been a while , these scenic items were almost finished before I went away and finished shortly after I returned, but "real life" intervened. They were all printed on my FDM 3D printer and then assembled onto bases. In future I'll assemble them onto bases digitally before printing.

Crates

Fence post cactus

"Poka-dot" cactus, I plan to print more small versions for mediterranean prickly pears.

classic "tree" cactus

My mine railway and wagons, the tracks were based before printing. I still need to build a mine entrance and workings.