Dads Army… Flutter Flutter

Greetings…

The butterfly has decided that I should do a little painting test on one of the lovely “Women of WW2” from Bad Squiddo Games.

This is a cracking range of miniatures and fits in nicely with what I want to do with my “Dads Army” project.

I decided to paint the “Scots Officer”…

But I have painted her as an ATS officer serving with AA Command( And other RA units) and wearing a private purchase coloured field cap.

Here we go…

I am very pleased with how she has come out…

It was interesting trying out slightly different Khakis… I must have about a dozen different shades.

If you are going to paint some “Women of WW2” yourself I wholeheartedly recommend this book if you can get hold of it…

I thought that instead of doing the usual list of paints that I have used I would show a couple of shots of my project notebook…

I’ve started creating a notebook for all my projects as a way of organising/recording my purchases and painting recipes… And also any thoughts about the direction I wish to take the collection.

I don’t know how I got so organised…. It must be something to do with retirement 😁.

So back to more fluttering 🦋🦋🦋

All the best.  Aly

Some much needed basing… Dads Army.

Greetings…

There lovely chaps have been waiting to get their bases for a while…

It feels good to get them done… I quite enjoy basing so it was a nice easy but productive fix…

Dastardly German Paratroopers…

The brave Home Guard…

The (Suspicious Looking)Locals…

The figures are all from Wargames Foundry…

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/world-war-two

And they were all painted buy my very talented friend Mark Hargreaves from Over Open Sights.

http://over-open-sights.blogspot.com/Over Open Sights

Next up … A bit more Basing.

All the best.   Aly

Dads Army… New Toys…

Greetings…

Alas it is still very quiet on the painting front…

The eye is definitely getting better… And I have been sticking lots of plastic toys together…

I have even undercoated some…

I thought I would post a picture of some very patient figures that I had painted by my chum Mark Hargreaves… They are currently sitting on my desk shouting…”BASE ME”…

Mark has done a splendid job on these and I hope to add more figures to this slow burner of a project…

Eventually I would like to have a little campaign set in and around Nottingham involving places like Trent Bridge and Wollaton Hall…

So here you go…

These pictures were supplied by Mark… I will be posting more once I have them based.

We are slowly getting closer to seeing German Gliders swooping down on Wollaton Hall and Kriegsmarine assaulting the Cricket Ground.. The castle might be harder to recreate 😁

Hopefully some finished figures sooner rather than later…

All the best.  Aly

Operation Sealion… The Butter-Eagle-Fly has landed…

Greetings…

Yeah I know… I will get my coat 😂

This is the next batch of test figures for my Dad’s Army project… 

I am imagining Paratroopers landing on Wollaton Hall in Nottingham and river bound troops attacking Trent Bridge Cricket Ground…

So… here are the villains…

German Paratroopers… none of them disguised as nuns…yet.

These are of course from Wargames Foundry’s lovely WW2 range…

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/world-war-two-german

I’m certainly getting the posts in this month,I’ve got a few more flutters on the way... 

Okay when haven’t I.

And then I have got a substantial rebasing project in the works…we all know how much fun that is.

The Jumpsuits are.. Foundry… Storm Green 27B

The Trousers and Ammo Pouches are… Vallejo… Field Blue.

The Forage caps are… Foundry Storm Blue Light.

Nap sacks and knee pads are… Citadel Fenrisian Grey.

The Helmets are… Foundry… Storm Blue 39B.

The Water Bottles are… Foundry… Drab12B.

The Rifle Stocks are… Citadel… Skrag Brown.

The Leather… Citadel… Mournfang Brown.

Schmeisser Pouches are… Foundry… Drab Light 12C.

As alway everything was given a coat of Aly’s Brown Liquid and highlighted with the original colours.

The paints are Wargames Foundry,Vallejo and Citadel

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/paint

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Painting-Modelling

https://elementgames.co.uk/hobby-and-scenery/vallejo-paints

The bases are as always…

https://warbases.co.uk/

All the best.  Aly

Butterfly Moments… Operation Sealion.

Greetings…

Yup!… Operation Sealion…or as we in the U.K. often call it… Dads Army.

This is yet another of these butterfly moments that I am going to give the ‘Green light’…

I have a couple of test units painted… which were a lot of fun to do.

Again…I am not sure when or how fast this will happen… but going by the amount of lead I have it will definitely happen.

Here are some of the brave defenders of This Green and Pleasant Land…

The figures are of course Wargames Foundry…

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/world-war-two

The bases are as always…

https://warbases.co.uk/

The figures were a joy to paint…

As was the important research using well researched documentaries…

My rebasing project continues… but I think I need a break… so I will probably start posting images relatively soon…

My butterfly has been quite lively of late and I have started yet another project… more of which will be posted as it progresses…

All the best.  Flutter Flutter 🦋🦋🦋