New Arrivals

Plenty to keep me occupied this winter :)

Strelets just keep getting better and better.

Something in 1/35

A gift from my friend

I may even expand it to include a diorama and add some figures. Never made anything this scale before.

More figures

All intended for future projects. 

Arrived

Merry Christmas to me, Merry Christmas to me.....

Nice figures from both companies :)

A visit to Dave's

A weekend of modeling, gaming and hanging out at Dave's was the best time in ages. Here are a few pictures from the occasion...

Presents from Dave

I immediately started this resin beauty

A few shots of the map we put together for a small game set in late 1944

We didn't finish the game in one session but have plans to do so next week.

Surprise Mail

This was a gift from an old friend, who heard I was back home

I have about half a dozen of these now, and this bonus addition is well received :)

Return

Back from the Outback, and what a step back in time it was...

Anyway, picked these up the other day, x2 $50

Heading back to NZ in a couple of weeks. More regular posting should resume then

Lately arrived goodies

Nice little extras from my daughter Ashley

A couple of bags of very smart trees, a bag of jungle plants and trees, and some very good quality paint brushes. Bonus!

New arrivals

A couple of this year's presents...

Nice little additions to my small Cold War collection

And this little number will give me a full company of these. Who says it is better to give than receive? :) :)

Hope you all had a good one

Al

Home

We just completed over 3000km on our road trip. One small town had a toy shop - all half price :) The Tomica stuff is for road bridge I have in mind.

The girls were no drama and spent most of the trip with their head's out of the windows of the Land Rover, leaving lots of drool to add to the dirt :)

:)

From Girls

Our visiting daughter sprung these on me for Father's Day, joy!

Then, Tracy added two, joy!

Never had the Afrika Korp set before, so bonus. The South Africans I'm thinking to mix with the HaT Tropical set http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=2103 we'll see? And the Kiwi's, well, more is better :)

New figures + progress

Never thought I would ever see New Zealand soldiers made in plastic

Strelets is certainly delivering consistently in unusual subjects, and their products (especially sculpting) are getting better all the time

couple of poses here of the Kiwis in their famous 'Lemon Squeezer' head dress; including a minor alteration I'm looking to make on these

This is my early war Aifix German para project at about the halfway stage

Last couple represent a platoon of the RAF Regiment that I need for my next map scenario.

Just arrived

Long overdue in plastic (the venerable Airfix set excempted) these figures by HaT are very good. Although in the mini-set format you still get most of what you need

I think the figures in tropical kit will be good for a multitude of possibilities 1900-1950s

First group immediately added to the production queue. 

New Additions

The postman comes through as always...

My late war collection is quite small, but now improved slightly with these Tigers

Strangely, the normal plastic set I ordered and received http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=1807 came in this box, which is for the multi-part figures

Progress on my early war German para continue, and these two sets will form a late war regiment, covering 1942-45. This will finish the division, except for the ancillary units 

Lastly, these came from my friend Col http://scratchbuiltarmour.blogspot.com.au/

We occasionally play D & D on a cardboard dungeon floor plan, using counters to represent the characters. Since these figures arrived plans are afoot to paint them up, and use them instead. Thank you Col.

The joy of receiving

A present from Paul http://plasticwarriors.blogspot.com.au/?view=classic

First up, a Nitto 88mm, excellent, and a Hasegawa Kubelwagen and bike combo for my (now) planned motorcycle infantry battalion 

Joy! Boneyard tanks. The S35 is the excellent Heller kit, the M24 is for my Korean War collection, the Sherman is a bonus as I'm trying to eventually build a battalion of these

Couldn't have come at a better time for my stalled Japanese division project, these will help provide command and weapon stands, amongst other things

These are 28mm New Zealanders and will probably be used with our zombie board game as the government forces counter, though we're still using the basic rules for this game

A couple of T34s from the talents of Gerard Davey. I am chuffed to get these because I only have a few of these models, they'll get a repaint to fit with my others

Another of Gerard's work and the only one in my collection, the mighty SU152.

I got a couple of other nice things too but I'll show you those later.

Cheers Paul.

Late New Arrivals

Had to show you these...

Additions to my Pacific collection

I've bought a few Strelets figure sets, and in my opinion these are some of the best sculpts they have yet produced

We love you Santa!

Recent Arrivals

First up, Romey, Great Dane puppy, we've had her a few weeks; three dogs are better than two :)

Cool eh? Surgery has already begun on this

Wooden houses claim to be 1/87, we'll see...

Got these from Ash, the bag contained one hundred Caesar figures from about eight different sets, including WW2 and modern 

Trees and grass

Paint brushes, excellent! 

Can't wait to test this out, wanted one for ages. The girls came through for me as always :) :)

Just One Box

Turns out the town near (sort of) us has a toy shop. Upon this discovery I purchased their entire stock of Airfix products

Never seen them in this dark green before.