Started painting my mounted Turcopoles for #AssassinsandTemplars Highlights, detailing and tack to do. I guess I might do a fancy blanket or 2 as well.

Great game of #HerestheRuckus with Lewis and Mike Peters at B.I.G this evening

That’s my Templar foot painted for #AssassinsandTemplars, now to finish the mounted Turcopoles.

More moderns primed & ready for painting later this week: front row, half a dozen GRU, rear row, 6 x PMC security detail #BoltActionModern #28mm #7DTTRR

The next bunch of (mainly) Spectre Miniatures 28mm insurgents are ready for the painting table. This group (and the second of a similar size) will bring the painted MENA force up to 70 miniatures…..that’s probably enough for now ;-) #BoltActionModern #MENA #7DTTRR

That’s them finished…..so what’s next? Maybe a few more insurgents #BoltActionModern #MotherRussia #7DTTRR

Pant job is done on these Rosgvardia, basing to be completed tomorrow #28mm #MotherRussia #BootActionModern #7DTTRR

Got the camo palette sorted, tomorrow I’ll get the first infantry squad, the SPG 9 anti tank team, and the AGS 17 and crew finished up #28mm #BoltActionModern #7DTTRR

Working on trying to get a close approximation to the Rosgvardia Ataka Moss palette (their copy of ATACS FG) using just 3 colour steps. Nearly there.

2nd insurgent kill team based and ready for the table. A short break until the end of the week (son’s graduation) and then I’ll tackle a few “regular” troops.

Time to get this second insurgent kill team finished. Mainly webbing, weapons and flesh left to do. The urban camo is a Vallejo dark grey, pale blue, medium sea grey & cold white affair.

Insurgent Killteam 1: just need to drop some basing on these guys and they’re finished.

Dammed you @lordraglan.bsky.social it’s all your fault! I’ve been lead / resin pile diving and found another technical (now with mounted .50 cal and gunner) and a panel van (transport) for the insurgent forces.

Today’s little job: Finish up my insurgent kill team. Just webbing, boots, gas masks & weapons to do

Making a start on my insurgent kill team. They’re the first 28mm moderns I’ve painted in about 5 years! Going to keep it simple to start with, Berezka suits, Russian green helmets, dark grey gas masks etc. Base colours applied to camo suits

Found an unloved 28mm resin petrol station in my scenery box too. It will be getting a kiosk and Arabic signage sometime in the next couple of weeks

This is on you @lordraglan.bsky.social : I’ve raided my bits boxes & dug out 14 MENA insurgents infantry, ZPU-1 AA gunner, mortar team, and a 5 man specialist kill team (conversions with GS gas masks). …all now based & primed.Got a second insurgent mortar team & wheeled DShK to build this evening!

For Sale: 8 x 28mm Spectre Miniatures African Militia from the original 2016 Spectre Kickstarter. OOP and Rare! Some of the most iconic modern miniatures. £48 plus postage at cost. Here’s the EBay listing but please PM if you want them, but be quick 🙂 ebay.us/m/ZWKOtH

28mm test palette: Visor, boots and weapons to finish, but I’ve pretty much settled on my near future colony troops colour scheme. Urban camo with a dirty bone coloured armour over the top #5Parsecs #FiveParsecs #5PFH

Anyone recognise this manufacturer please? I had a much needed tidy up of my painting room and found a few long lost bits, so I’m farting around with 28mm near future/sci-fi stuff again :-) #FPFH #5Parsecs

Test palette for the US Marines of my new #BoxerRebellion project. Miniature: Redoubt 28mm. Paints: Vallejo #SP2

I’m back home after 7 weeks away from the painting desk…..and I’ve just done a quick test of colours for my French Colonial Marines for my new #28mm #BoxerRebellion project. Also underway is quick test of colours for the US Marines for the same project (pics later today).

I ordered with Redoubt for my planned #BoxerRebellion project on May 4th, but other than an email order acknowledgment have heard nothing. I return to the UK next week, and have mailed Andy twice asking for an update with no reply. Should I be concerned? Any idea on typical order turnaround times?

And so it starts…..a couple of units of 28mm French Marines purchased from Redoubt for my #SP2 #BoxerRebellion project that I’ll be working on over the Summer.

For anyone wondering 1:1 terrain building is not as much fun as 1:56 or 1:100

Boys & girls I’m off for 8 weeks 1:1 terrain building in France. Not dead, not injured, not lost, just away from the painting desk :-) Catch up with you all in June xx

Finished the Soviet infantry for my #ColdWarGoneHot project. All miniatures are #15mm Battleftont but will be used for #NORTHAG #7DttRR and #CWC2 rather than #TeamYankee

Apologies for the stinking cold: here’s an update on painting my #15mm #ColdWarGoneHot Soviet Motor Rifles for #NORTHAG #7DttRR #CWC2

Test base of my “quick paint” #15mm #Soviets complete and colour palette finalised. Paint reference sheet incoming! On with the next 9 bases :-) #ColdWarGoneHot #NORTHAG #7DttRR #CWC2 #TeamYankee

Primed and ready: I’ve still got a few days spare before I head for the hills so thought I’d make a start on my #15mm Soviet Motor Rifles for my #ColdWarGoneHot project #7DttRR #NORTHAG #CWC2 Figures are Battlefront plastics from their Soviet Starter set (great value)

#15mm Soviet BM-27 rockets built & basic colours applied. Windows, wheels & detailing tomorrow. Will be used as objectives in my #ColdWarGoneHot #NORTHAG #7DttRR #CWC2 games.

As I’m off on my travels again next week (until late May) I wanted a little project towards my #ColdWarGoneHot games that would just take me a couple of days: so today I’m building, and starting to paint, 3 x 15mm Soviet BM-27, which will be used as objectives in my #7DttRR #NORTHAG #CWC2 games.

Ordered a couple of little additions to add to the very excellent Soviet Starter Force that makes the core of my #15mm Soviet force #ColdWarGoneHot #7DttRR #CWC2

For my records #15mm #ColdWarGoneHot Soviet AFV paint job 1: Ammo Military Green Matt Primer (all) 2: Ammo Dark Brown Acrylic Wash (all) 3: Val. Green Grey drybrush (all) 4: Val. Middlestone drybrush (all) #7DttRR #NORTHAG #CWC2 #TeamYankee

Transformation of a couple of cheap & poorly painted #15mm 88’s from eBay, painted and based to match my Normandy set up #BKC #IABSM #FOW

Paint job finished on the 2x #15mm Lynx for my #ColdWarGoneHot project. Next up are another 5 Warriors for the Brits, but I fear the lurgy has got me and I may be out of commission for the rest of the week as I feel like I’m swallowing razor blades & have stinging eyes :-( #NORTHAG #7DttRR #CWC2

Tomorrow: Just windows left to do on the two #15mm Lynx for the Brits #ColdWarGoneHot #NORTHAG #7DttRR #CWC2

Sunday’s progress on the #15mm Lynx AT support for the British of my #ColdWarGoneHot project #NORTHAG #7DttRR #CWC2

Re-painted Tonka cockpit #15mm #NORTHAG #CWC2 #7DttRR #ColdWarGoneHot

#15mm British Lynx TOW underway for #NORTHAG #7DttRR #CWC2 #ColdWarGoneHot

Part 1……BMP 2 #15mm #Soviet #NORTHAG #7DttRR #CWC2 #ColdWarGoneHot

#15mm Tonka: Canopy and camo applied, now onto detailing & weathering #NORTHAG #CWC2 #7DttRR #ColdWarGoneHot

British Air Assets: One Tonka built, one more to make :-) Painting this afternoon #15mm #NORTHAG #7DttRR #CWC2 #ColdWarGoneHot

Back after 5 weeks away, and thought I’d finish off my Spartan Blowpipe teams and my FAC in his Spartan. Just decals and some mud & dust to add, then on to the British air support in the form of Lynx & Tornadoes #15mm #7DTTRR #Northag #CWC2

Looking for recommendations for a decent looking Soviet Cold War era Green base colour / coloured primer (for #15mm vehicles) that’s in a rattle can please (I don’t do airbrushes) #ColdWarGoneHot #NORTHAG #7DttRR #CWC2 #TeamYankee

I won’t use them for in game units (as they would be sat way back from the frontline fighting), but this box will of Soviet Rocket Launchers came up on EBay for half the retail price so I grabbed them. They’ll make nice objectives for my #ColdWarGoneHot games #NORTHAG #7DttRR #CWC2

I may be away from my painting desk, but it hasn’t stopped me picking up the core of my Soviet force for my #15mm #ColdWarGoneHot project #NORTHAG #7DttRR #CWC2 Good price from Zatu again www.board-game.co.uk/product/sovi...

These 3 will have to wait for a few weeks to get finished as I’m off to the land of Nouvion and Mme. Edith for some 1:1 scale painting. Don’t think I have died or anything, just absent for about 5 weeks #Adieu

Battlefront Spartans for my #15mm #ColdWarGoneHot project. Very versatile and detailed little kits, here being built as transports for Blowpipe teams and an OP for my off table mortars. Box also has options to make Strikers and Milan carrying variants. #NORTHAG #7DttRR #CWC2

This week’s painting update on the #15mm BAOR for my #ColdWarGoneHot project: I should have mentioned in addition to the armour, this week I’ve also painted & based a company of British infantry, 4 Milan Teams, 3 command stands, 2 SF GPMG, and a couple of mortars! #NORTHAG #7DttRR ##CWC2