With great trepidation. That dang saloon is back. Had to saw off loads of tabs to put it together but it will work, because the Old West was dusty and dirty. There will be LED lighting inside. On to the hotel tomorrow, wish me luck.

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3D printers for minis... if anyone knows of a specific reason why I should NOT invest (indulge) in a Bambu Labs A1 Mini please speak now or forever hold thy peace. For doing stuff like NPC civilians, greebles, scenery bits I don't want to spend ££€€$$ on.

Absolutely stunning darts

Think my pigment weathering needs more practice but I'm okay with my #festivetankchallenge Sherman for now. Strangely a Crusader seems to have been assembled this afternoon. Too cold to prime so back to the Old West tomorrow hopefully.

Hot take: Die Hard With A Vengeance is the best Die Hard film.

Merry New Year to all the modellers out there.

In the same late 90s night in Manchester I said hello at the bar to Nigel Pivaro and Terry Christian and they both said "Alright kid" back.

Highly recommend a Rubicon kit, very nice build. #festivetankchallenge work in progress

Mozart last night, Beethoven tonight, cant beat a cultural Christmas.

Primed the Sherman in Desert Yellow and will lighten up with some Light Stone concoction. So its definitely a GB North Africa tank, to support my 28 Maori. Lost the little lamp on the floor but a model's not a model without a missing piece. #festivetankchallenge

Happy Christmas from the Red Army! Uraaaaa!

Xmas begins now in a bit.

Ha ha, I had a night off the booze for dad taxi duty and was about to get started on #festivetankchallenge, however realised I have no ABS cement for this Rubicon kit. Glue due Tue. Gonna be a Kiwi Sherman for Tunisia rather than my original plan for a Soviet Emcha.

All in for the start of ##festivetankchallenge URAAAAAA, smash the fascist hordes back to Berlin. Za Narodny!!!!! Roll on 21 Dec

I thought the #festivetankchallenge was meant to *begin* on Dec21....

Anyone got pics of the Blue Moon Tombstone civilians, painted or not, sold through Old Glory? Really after a lot of nice Frontier folk, Victorian NPCs for an Old West Town..... #DeadMansHand #WhatACowboy

Anyone able to ID these 40k minis? School club doing Kill Team so I dug them out the shed from the Grey Stack of Opportunity/Shame. #40K #Killteam

As chance would have it, and before I pulled the dreaded trigger online (directly connected to the boss's phone notifications), I found these in the grey tower of shame in the shed... #Pillage #Midgard #Anotherhalfdoneproject

What's winning, is it What A Cowboy, or is it Dead Man's Hand? What A Tanker has clearly beaten Achtung Panzer!, as seen at The Other Partizan and Salute.

I'd say we're about 85% there now. Still haven't decided on a name for the gaff. Various bits to fill in and to secure the oddments, paint the railings etc etc. Needs some steps to go up to the faro room. #WhatACowboy #DeadMansHand

Because every goddam saloon needs a front and back bar. #WhatACowboy ##DeadMansHand

We're getting there, slowly. ##WhatACowboy ##DeadMansHand

Hey, so if you like my painting and perhaps would like some of it in your collection then I'm available for commission painting and have a few prepainted bits on here already (tell your Star wars friends, or friends in general actually...) I'm open to requests too. C'mon! kitbashbox.com

I don't care what you didn't have in 1860, the Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen in me says you must have skirting boards in your upstairs poker room. ##WhatACowboy #DeadMansHand

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Progress on the saloon, a couple of wall pieces are wrong but nowt a bit of wood glue won't fix. #WhatACowboy #DeadMansHand #28mm

Read through Midgard today and almost pulled the trigger on a lot of 28mm Romano-Britons but held back. Will finally start some Old West MDF buildings having reread What A Cowboy.

I had a brilliant day at Partizan today with my Caen table and What A Tanker from @toofatlardies.bsky.social Really pleased to have been awarded Best in Show as well! Massive thanks to @simontemplar99.bsky.social and @richardhutchinson.bsky.social for their amazing help all day!

Some pics from Partizan2025

As I drove out of the car park from Partizan this afternoon I saw Mel the Terrain Tutor walking to his car and I was genuinely starstruck. I didn't do an Alan Partridge and shout after him though.

Massive fair play to @joewargamer.bsky.social for his What a Tanker participation game at Partizan. A real joy to have a go on epic level terrain. My dice were just as crap as usual though. Pleasure to meet you sir.

Okay, something else fell through, so I'm going to Partizan next Sunday. Looking forward to seeing @joewargamer.bsky.social 's What a Tanker set up, and any Old West stuff or VBCW stuff. What's worth pulling up a stool for?

What is the width of a barrel on a Pak-43 8.8cm?

Chain of Command question...im thinking of putting the leaders on smaller (5p) bases, as the troops are on 1p and the weapons team on 2p. Putting an officer on a 2p will look odd. Decisions Decisions.

One trip to the bank later.... #15mm #28mm #basepeoplenottanks

Blame @hutchinlondon.bsky.social for this calumny. URAAAAAA! #15mm #chainofcommand #doltaction

15mm infantry basing: 1p or 5p coins? I'm being swayed by 5p...

Old West project to while away the autumn school holidays. Base coats on the Great Escape Gunfighters before wash and highlighting. Real love-hate relationship with painting. #WhatACowboy More dudes primed and lined up.

williehumphreys.blogspot.com/2025/07/6th-... "My man, if you must see a town, regard it also from a railway carriage window, do not bury your head in a newspaper. Bombay is like other towns, but what it has to hide is ten times worse than anywhere I ever saw in Britain."

Epic darts

1:100 stash o'tanks. Mixture of Zvezda, Battlefront, and 3D prints. @hutchinlondon.bsky.social

williehumphreys.blogspot.com/2025/07/5th-... "I pity the man who is so aloof that he cannot sometimes become a child again."

williehumphreys.blogspot.com/2025/07/4th-... Typing this up this morning, the words of an RAF reservist from Welsh Wales, in his early 20s, and a teacher. These words really touched my heart... "Wake up Britain! You cannot get everything out of India without putting something back in."

Great interview with a terrain god.