But finally some painting...

... of the guns.

The battery fresh out of the mould.

With a lick of paint.

And based.

With crew.

And that size comparison again.

Not much painting lately...

...and this might be why.

No. 2 Siege Carriage. Mold Master.

 I am in an ACW campaign and I have at least 3 Heavy Rifled Artillery batteries in my Field Armies. Yes this was done and yes they were the guns that I am basing the model on, the 4.5" Siege Rifle.

Master for the wheels.

First casting of Carriage and Gun.

Completed model.

With 28mm Perry PLastic ACW artillery crew to give you an idea of size.

With Perry 28mm plastic 3" Ordinance rifle for comparison.

I am relatively happy with the results though the wheels aren't turning out as well as I hoped and I may have to make s new mold for these.

U.S. Coloured troops.

More Civil War troops for my Union army. They are just meant to be a generic unit of Coloured troops.

Rebel Yell!

Some Perry Plastics for a mate.

The Hard Edge...

...to WW2 camo.

1/72 Revell Spitfire, RAAF 54 Sqn, and my first Spit in 40 years of model building.

Again a pilot by PJ Productions.

OT-130, one of a number of flame thrower versions of the T-26, by Mirage

T-26 M39 again by Mirage. Painted in Finnish hard edge camo.

There is a lot of debate out there about the actual colours the Finns used but I reckon that this is pretty close.

Rolling along.

Lots of stuff completed.

HobbyBoss Soviet WW2 Pe-2 bomber.

Only space for one crewman.

Pilot by PJ Productions.

PSC 25pdrs with CMP tractors. There are 3 tows as I got in on the Kickstarter for these.

You get the option of 3 different 25pdr guns or the 17pdr.

The camo patterns are based on an Australian ones that seems to have only been used in home territory.

I chose to leave out the crew.

CMP trucks again by Plastic Soldier Company.

PSC German trucks.

Mercedes type.

Crew. You can't teel but they are painted in Finnish grey uniforms.

Opel Blitz Mualtier.

This is the optional build.

Very old Matchbox Panzer III with long 50mm gun.

 

Now all PSC kits come with a range of optional builds. The German trucks came with two cabs and two trays. I thought "waste not, want not". The trays needed a bottom.

The cabs needed a back and a chassis.

Some modifications to the grille.

Raid the spare wheel pile and viola.

Panthers hunting in Mud.

Jagdpanthers actually and only one of them is in mud.

Italeri

Commander by Plastic Soldier Company.

Australian pattern radio truck on CMP chassis by IBG.

A gift from a mate. 35+ year old Humber AC from Matchbox.

The original kit was for a Mk II but I converted the turret to a Mk IV.

Twin turret Polish 7TP by Mirage.

Vickers E type with single turret, Polish by Mirage.

Another old Matchbox kit gifted to me. Repairs to it needed some covering up so we went with leaves and mud.

Mud, mud, glorious mud, nothing quite like it for cooling the blood,....