Rubbish...utter rubbish!

Hoi,

Today I'll be putting up a few pictures of some of my modern scatter terrain. Most pieces are from the TTCombat resin scenery line. These are little gems even if they do suffer from some flash. The flames in the oil drum are rubbish, I know, but well I have to get me a decent tutorial on doing those than I guess.

This model was a toy-car my eldest son got but which broke down the second day he was playing with it. I painted it using the excellent tutorial done by Gunbird at his blog. Now I know there's quite a lot wrong with this one such as the lay-out of the debris and the area's of rust pattern I applied, but it is my first attempt at anything like this and I like it!

Cheers Sander

A Handsome Cab

Hoi,

After the latest posts you might be excused for thinking I have sadly forsaken my Victorian project, but that's not entirely true. I finally managed to finish my last vehicle for this era, the West Wind Hansom Cab. A nice little model with some great detail. Ideally there should be reins from the horse to the driver's hands but I decided that was too fiddly for me and also a risk on the gaming table.

It was enormous fun to paint, even if it did take me a while to come up with a paint scheme I liked. More Victorians will follow inevitably when time and mojo permit.

Cheers Sander

Next stop King's Cross!

Hoi,

In our continuing series on Victorian Vehicles we bring you, dear ladies and gents, a blue bus. This is yet another of the excellent West Wind Productions vehicles for the Victorian era.

I decided to leave part of the advertisement signs blank, in order to put in adds that can correspond with the scenery I am getting together. I do wish West Wind would have added some passengers or offer the service of buying separate passengers/ driver figures on their site.

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Cheers Sander

Transport for the posh...

Hoi,

In today's episode of Victorian Vehicles we present you with transportation for the well-to-do amongst us. This very nice West Wind Coach comes complete with groom and two horsepower motivation.

Again I will let the pictures do the talking since there's not much to say about this model, apart from the fact that I still have one West Wind vehicle in the works which is their hansom cab and I can't decide on the colourscheme.

Cheers Sander

Vehicle showcase: 7YW Austrian Caisson

Hoi,

While trying to complete my Seven Years War Austrian army I came upon the need for ammunition caissons. No plastic soldier producer makes specific 7YW caissons that I know of and therefore I had to figure something out (pun intended).

HäT do a Napoleonic Austrian caisson and while I guess these were not really used back in the &YW, and thus an anachronism, I don't collect Napoleonic Austrians and had a go at them.

The riders, there's just one in place the other one still needs painting, are of course from the Revell 7YW artillery set.  

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Thickfreakness" by The Black Keys

Vehicle Showcase: Austin Armoured Car Beute version

Hoi,

The Great War is still very much one of the periods I like the best to recreate in miniature. Part of this is the exotic use of all kinds of vehicles. The Austin Armoured car shown below is one of those. Primarily obtained to be used as a British armoured car, I now used it to fill the gap in my German car park. So the story behind this, which I use to excuse it's transformation in a German camo scheme is that it's was captured early on by the Germans and re-painted for their own purposes.
The model is a resin kit from a Dutch producer, since I lost the box it came in, I also forgot the brand-name.
The machine guns are Revell's German HMG's from the WW1 infantry set of which I had tons left over, the backpacks added were Resin WW2 stowage items from an unknown brand as well.

So there we have it: another addition to the 100th Year Memorial series!

Cheers Sander,

Listening to: "Issues" by Korn

Vehicle Showcase: Fokker Eindecker

Hoi,

Today we take to the air in our regular series of Vehicle Showcases. My German Jasta's are equipped with two Fokker monoplanes, one of which I finished and is shown below. The inspiration for the colour-scheme came from the brilliant WW1 Aviation Illustrations page, and I think it worked out fine.

The ones of you who are still well sighted will see that none of my WW1 fighter planes have added wires: that's too fiddly for my big fingers but also doesn't stand up to the rigours of wargaming, so I omitted them.

Hope you like the photo's.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Ghostboy" by Gabriel Rios

Vehicle Showcase: Torpedo German Staff Car

Hoi,

Roaring onto the tabletop today is this spiffing Torpedo Staff Car as used by German and Turkish forces in the Great War. The model is made by Reviresco Miniatures and is a total beaut to construct. The colour scheme proved hard to choose, I have read somewhere that the Great War German army did not paint their vehicles in standard Panzer grey at first. I also know that a lot of officers procured their own cars. So I felt sure this splashing blue/black scheme would do. The figures are Emhar officers and are in the process of noting their findings while on their duty.

The pictures are a bit over exposed, for which I apologise, but I hope you get the yeast from them anyway ;-)

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Ocean-born" by Nightwish

AC-29 Jeffery Nash Quad Truck

Hoi,

In our ongoing Great War vehicle showcase I present the first of a series of miniature vehicles I obtained from Reviresco miniatures. It's an Allied transport truck, which I prepared to have several types of load in it's cargo hold. The model is all white metal and can be put together pretty easily but still I made a big mistake: there was a ready-made hole in the floorboards of the cab, I put the steering wheel in there, should have read the instructions better.
The other mistake I made, and only became aware of upon seeing the photo's is the fact I forgot to paint the driver's gas-mask bag.

The figures added are all HäT figures

And now with the different loads. First up are resin cans and barrels.

With some personnel:

And the final picture shows all the components put together

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Dookie" by Green Day

Vehicle showcase: Rolls Royce Armoured cars

Hoi,

Yet another instalment in the vehicle showcase series brings you my resin Rolls Royce armoured cars. These are about my favourites. I have bought two at the Crisis in Antwerp two years ago and they painted up a treat. I painted one to resemble an European theatre car and the other in suitable colours for Africa or the Middle East.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Fireball" by Deep Purple