And in the sixth week....

of quarantine....

more odds and sods.

 Syrianf infantry in 6mm, the new H&R infantry castings, from their Soviet Range.

 Old H&R BMP-1 repainted and rebased. The camo scheme has been observed in Georgia in 2008.

Super close up.

Something new, the first bits of my new PLA force in 6mm. Type 99 tanks from H&R.

Still odds and sods... I am pushing forward with the Warlord box of Japanese Infantry and also retouching my older TAG Japanese.  18 Warlord guys are done, 12 to go.

Empress desert Italians with the sun hat. Keith gave me a pack of LMG gunners eons ago, time to get them painted and done. Two painted, two to go.

And another week has ended. Life continues...

And in the fifth week...

belated and delayed post... I am collapsing!  Thanks god Easter weekend allowed some rest...

anyway that is what I did last week... a bit of odds and sods...

Finished the Foundry blister of unarmored phalangites, one more Warlord Japanese, some more 6mm Syrians, two ancient ships, more mules/donkeys, a troop of 15mm Crusaders.

And in the fourth week of quarantine...

I am starting to feel the side effects of the situation... pressure, uncertain, and the like... also mail is getting slower, still waiting for my Vae Victis...  but I am still painting if not to avoid going crazy.

So, in the fourth week of quarantine I painted...

Ships, ships, ships.... I am done with the the IJN battleships box from Fujimi. All 12 beasts are painted. It was a pleasure! 

 Yamato, Musashi, Nagato and Mutsu.

The four Kongou class, WW1 battlecruisers upgraded to fast battleships. 

A final group shot!

Last week I hinted about some Sassanian infantry... here they are, 12 in total, from Aventine. I washed each sculpt to avoid the annoying primer flaking, and generally it worked. Funnily enough it was only an issue with the Aventine castings... mysteries... 

Last week I mumbled about lack of oval bases for cavalry, but also that they arrived... (with plenty of other MDF bases from warbases...) so Hetairoi number 3 from victrix, 6 unarmored Pezetairoi from Foundry (okay one of them was a test paint dome some weeks ago...)  and a Peltast I found lying with the Pezetairoi... still from Foundry. Like the Foundry Macedonian sculpted by Steve Saleh quite a lot.

Oh... change of period. Three plastic Japanese infantrymen from Warlord.

Finally some 1/300 HR syrians. Bmp-1 first.

 More BMP-1s and T-55 AMV. The T-55 AMVs are cracking sculpts. But I have to say that even the old BMP-1, repainted to be honest, are well cast and very nice.

And in the third week of quarantine....

I painted...

Two plastic 28mm Macedonian companions from Victrix. Should have been 3, but I was out of oval bases... resupply came today.

  Some Aventine  Sassanians for a friend... they were quite a nightmare especially because the black primer flkaed on horsemen and shields...

More Japanese 1/3000. Kaga, Hiryu, and four Shiratsuyu destroyers. All Navwar, carrier decks by flight deck decals.

 Two 15mm Crusader MK2 CS. Battlefront plastics.

Less than usual (some odds and sodds too, and the Sassanian infantry command for my levies... but because the unit will be done in a couple of days... next Quarantine post!) but the mounted were time consuming, especially the Persians.

Still alive, in what appears to be a ghost town if not for the postman and delivery services. What it is scary is the eerie silence, you rarely hear cars or van anymore, no motorbike... no even the idiot who run full speed over the railway crossing with the associated thomp-thomp... but hopefully it is working.

Thanks god mail still works so miniatures can be painted and books can be read, even if I am disappointed by the Book Depository... they claim our border are closed and cannot ship here... it is not true, even the Royal Mail simply says there will be delays due to few flights coming. But book depository simply spread fake news. They are behaving like terror groups...

And in the second week of quarantine....

I painted....

 Alexander III Megas, and two of his companions, 28mm Foundry.

 Some 15mm Warring States infantry, from Museum Miniatures.

 A couple of weeks ago I had painted two bases of infantry in armor. Group picture here!

 A logistic train! Ancient style, 15mm. Mules are from Museum the New Z sculpts, people from Essex.

 The Mules had been painted before the quarantine, and three also based. But the last one needed some two legged friends.

 1/300 Russian T-80U from H&R. Repaints of old stuff.

 USS Lexington and USS Ranger, and 4 Fubuki class destroyers. All 1/3000 from Navwar. Now the US Fleet pack is done, the IJN pack almost. Carrier decks are from Flight Deck Decals, and they crossed the Atlantic through the whole quarantine. 

 And the second USMC Squad. 28mm Warlord plastic. This ends the whole box!

Another week has passed, and I am still alive and kicking.

And in the first week of quarantine...

And in the first week of quarantine I painted...

A 28mm USMC squad, from Warlord Games. They are their plastic marines and they are very good, I liked building and painting them.

 Still from warlord...

 I finished their SPQR/Rome character box. Titus Pullo, Lucius Vorenus, Caesear, Gneus Pompeius Magnus, Marcus Antonius, et Lucius Licinius Crassus. Actually only Caesar and Anthony have been done in the week... but group pictures turned up nice!

 Still in Rome...

 Agema miniatures republican Romans. One sprue, thus two hastati, two principes, one Triarius. Shield transfers from Battle Flag, not as good as LBMS...

And now let's change scale...

6mm Cold War, a soviet naval infantry tank battalion for FFT/MSH with an attached rifle company.  All from Heroic and Ros. The BTR-70 are traditional sculpts, bought before the change in management, and I have to say that even older sculpts now look crisper.  They were leftover I had and received a repaint to put them in line with my current productions. The T-55AM2 are quite recent and accordingly impressive.

And then some ships... 1/3000 Navwar (except the Kaga, Skytrex). They are for a friend, but I cannot mail anything until the end of the quarantine.

I also did some other odds and sods, but for the first week of Quarantine in pictures... it is enough! (at the start of the week, before the announcement of the restrictive measures I finished that little group of Phalangites too!) 

See you again soon, and next Monday another update!