Liquor Store - Warbases

At Salute, I planned to buy some Wild West buildings from Sarissa, but they did not have any stock. So I was looking through the Warbases models.

The first building I have started is the Liquor Store model. 

Interestingly, there is a number of circular "holes" in the sheets - the company name probably answers the question, I assume that they are bases that have been removed.

The building as supplied will sit "flat" on the surface, but I thought it would look better (and deal with irregular surfaces better) with the base raised using lengths of 4mm square section bass wood.

The outer ones are full length, the middle one is in two parts.

The roof has a noticeable groove where the two panes join, a length of 1.5mm diameter plastic rod was added to smooth that over. Three lengths of single ply tissue paper was then glued to the roof to act as tar paper.

The walls were painted with Vallejo Old Wood, the floor and frames were painted with Army painter Oak Brown.

Additional tidying up is required and it needs weathering.

The Battle of Hue 1968

 Osprey have just published The battle of Hue 1968 in their Campaign series.

This will add some more detail to the Tet Offensive book from the 'nineties.

I must list all my Vietnam source books, here is another one I picked up at SELWG.

Salute 2021 - Rubicon purchases

 There was (excepting the Semovente) a bit of a theme on my Rubicon purchases

I also bought the other Valentine kit but it was in a different bag so did not get photographed.

I did forget to buy the Sherman V, maybe at the next show.

Crooked Dice UAZ-486 - AKA The Alien Jeep.

 Crooked Dice have just released an "Alien Invader Jeep", which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Soviet UAZ-469 (though in the form of a two door variant).

Two Zone explorers check out the surroundings. Empress modern Russian and Universal Soldier.

UAZ-469 and Mighty Mite.

UAZ-469 and unfinished  M151.

HMMWV (Empress) and UAZ-469.

Tigr and UAZ-469.

Crooked Dice Land Rover and UAZ-469.

Spectre SUV and UAZ-469.

UAZ-469 and William Killian

Salute 2021

 Due to "One thing and another", South London Warlords recycled the unused bags and theme from the planned 2020 Salute. For extra recycling points, the bags were cotton.

There were full size models of a Spitfire and a hHurricane on display.

There were lots of interesting games on display, but time meant I did not get a chance to see them all. The Carnevale demo game certainly had an interesting board.

The Silver Bayonet - Napoleonic Gothic Horror War-game

 Osprey have just released the latest set of rules from Joe McCullough.

In addition to the rules, I have the first three sets of figures from North Star.

Stargrave: Quarentine 37 Zombie

 The expansion book for Stargrave: Quarantine 37 was released in September. Along with the book, there is a set of figures, including zombies.

This is the first one I have painted.

As the campaigns in Quarantine 37 take place on a research station, I used some Slater's 7mm tread plate as the surface for the base.

Comparison of a plastic Crewman with the metal zombie.