Just to confirm: there will be NO chairs in this project. None whatsoever.
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Not even sitting on the fence 
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Remember this chap? Beginning to get there a bit after a painting session today; I’ve been a bit heavy-handed on the black so may have to touch up as I go:
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Nicely done matey 
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Thanks John - takes me back a fair bit looking at him though(!)
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Really nicely done Brian. That camo uniform doesn’t look black heavy at all. I think it’s excellently balanced. The helmet scrim really sets the figure off and he’s certainly carrying a full load of kit.
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Some of the impedimenta found outside the HQ complex:
Fuel jerricans – with NATO standard labels depicting petrol (CIVGAS in NATO fuel-speak) in a reddish orangey/brown. The other one contains kerosene (KERO) and is light grey - which doesn’t show well in the pic. I do hope my peer group don’t mix the two up when it comes to filling the heaters at night.
Water jerricans as well, and some staff branch’s Battle Box as they were called. Not yet taken into the fold for some reason.
A hanging jacket courtesy of Red Zebra being modified into a combat smock, a map, and my personal weapon from the 70s - the SMG - being modified with a sling from lead foil
The white rectangles represent the shallow boxes that contain Gestetner stencils or “skins” as we called them; the letters on the boxes are “SO” with a crown integrated (the black dot), which stands for the fuller title of “Her Majesty’s Stationery Office” (HMSO) provider of all stationery back then to government and military departments.
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So, work on the base progresses:
Ready to install the sentry figure who is now just about complete, painted and matted down:
Just about worth all that sanding, converting and so on!
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He’s come up a treat!
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Thanks Sam; yeah, a lot of work though and that’s just the one figure, but if one is a Cold War modeller, there’s precious little option.
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Looking good mate, one thing though, and I know its early on and you probably will be doing it anyway … the barbed wire rolls … are you giving them a dirty track wash or similar ? Even when new when we used them, they were always pre coated and dirty .
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Probably not John; I’m not too happy with what I ended up having to use. I had metres of etched standing by but couldn’t get it to coil properly even when I attempted to anneal. Besides on occasion, the Chunkies did end up with gleaming new rolls of Dannert - tactically not always a good look. As you see, in the end I went with a proprietary wargames effort and still had the Devil’s job getting it in position. Still, lesson learnt - I’d probably sequence it differently time!
It gets an effect; I might give it a wash - but am aware that the overscale thickness might then be accentuated. I’ll experiment. Thanks though for the nudge.
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