My first completed unit in a long time

I enjoy playing wargames, I enjoy making terrain and I enjoy having nice looking painted armies. However I do not enjoy painting infantry and so usually this aspects of my gaming gets left well alone, but not this time! I decided that as I am starting an army totally from scratch for once that I would try and paint it as I go. In order to make myself also paint the accursed infantry, I made a rule – one unit of non-infantry, then one unit of infantry.

As I like them so much, my first unit just had to be my Churchills. They are not perfect, but I have been out of painting and modelling for some years so I think they are acceptable and I certainly have (re)learnt a few lessons to apply to my future painting.

Three Mk VI Churchills

Front detail

Command tank

Side detail of command tank

Rear detail of command tank

As I said, not perfect but will do as a practise run 🙂

Now onto some infantry…….ugh 😦

My gaming is….Mostly Tanks!

As many people do, I have a number of different hobbies. In the last few years I have also blogged about my various hobbies. Some blogs have lasted only a short while, but others continued (and still continue) for longer. The biggest, most popular and longest running have been my Resto druid blog (now defunct as I no longer play WoW) and my blog detailing being a Viking re-enactor.

Now it is time for me to start a new blog once more as another one of my hobbies picks up again and I have hundreds of ideas about it – wargaming.

While I have been a wargamer for many years, living in the middle of nowhere means that opponents are often hard to find and meet up with regularly, so I tend to find that it gets dropped for a while and then picked up again. Recently I have found that one of my friends plays Saga, and another expressed interest in WWII gaming. After a bit of a hunt around we decided on trying out Flames of War, but in 1:72 rather than 15mm due to an abundance of cheap models.

So with this in mind I have started assembling a variety of Late War British units with the ultimate goal of fielding armoured squadrons (both “normal” and recce). Hopefully this blog will detail my builds, thoughts, kitbashes, paintjobs and such that comes from my current wargaming.

Dave