Saturday, October 19, 2019

Heroics and Eos revisited - Jackal

Heroics and Ros have been in the 6mm - 1/300 scale market for many years (I have an extensive collection from over thirty years ago). I recently bought a few new items at Colours, mainly modern British vehicles.

Here is my first painted item, A Jackal MWIK.

The Supacat Jackal was developed under an MOD Urgent Operational Requirement for a more survivable vehicle to provide reconnaissance and fire support.

Though originally deployed as part of Operation Herrick, the Jackal has been deployed with UK forces as part of the NATO defence of the Baltic states.





This vehicle is 18mm x 10mm by 8mm.

Friday, October 4, 2019

More buildings for Vietnam

At Salute I bought one of Sarissa's Colonial buildings for use for games in Vietnam. At Colours I ordered three more. One of them was another N109 Small House, another was the large three bay variant and the final one was the N110 Destroyed Small House.

The kit comes shrink wrapped and is fairly robust.
 The front sheet has the instructions on the back.
There is a sheet of greyboard with the interior wall details.
Two sheets of MDF make up the body of the building.


The kit went together without any problems. Unlike the complete building, I glued the interior sheets in place before painting. The damaged wall edges were detailed with some Milliput, and the corners smoothed off. There was some damaged render added.

The floor was filled with offcuts of MDF to make it look like a damaged building. Woodlands Scenics ballast was sprinkled between the debris.

Some additional damage was added to the walls.

The building was sprayed with Rustoleum Rust effect spray to give some texture to the walls (the first floor floorboards were masked before spraying). The building was then sprayed with Halfords White paint.
The exposed brick/stone work was painted with Vallejo Red Leather mixed with Vallejo Black Grey.

The mortar was painted with Citadel Karak Stone.
A Crokked Dice Aircon unit was pinned to the front, hanging from its wires.


View showing the interior.
Empress US Marines occupy the building.