Progress on the Corps Armored Field Artillery Battery.

An update about the Corps Armored Field artillery Battery I am working on.
The three Priest's, the staff team and Command team are done.
As you can see at the pictures the models don't have a layer of dullcoat yet. This will be done when the rest of the models are painted. I am waiting for A M4 Sherman Observer and a Half-track that I ordered. These plus the Jeep I already have makes it complete for now. The 2nd section of Priest's will be added in the future.
Sorry for the crappy pictures.







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The last three Turning Tide army files

Well the time has finally arrived. It is done.
The last 3 army files for the Turning Tide book are uploaded and ready to be downloaded.
One for the US:
-Turning Tide - 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions Rifle Company (v1.0)
 Two for the British:
-Turning Tide - Canadian Armoured Recce Squadron (v1.0)
-Turning Tide - 7th Armoured, 4th Canadian Armoured Lorried Rifle Company (v1.0)

As usual for each file there are 3 variations: Excel 2003, Excel 2007 and OpenOffice.

With these 3 army files there is total of 21 army files to be used with the Turning Tide book.
I like to thank Les for helping me to check all 21 files on errors.

 The link to find these files.
Army Files 

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I have reached the 10.000 Visitors

It has happened. I just looked at my counter and it has hit the 10.000 Visitors.
With that I mean that my blog has been visited 10.000 times so far, and still counting, and not page views.
These 10.000 blog visiting are good for a total of  19.311 page views.
The far most visitors are from the US followed at a great distance by Great Britain and far behind that the Netherlands and Canada.
Looking at the diagram below the Returning Visits number looks low but this is because after a certain amount of  time people who come back to the blog are considered as new visitors and not returning visitors.

Summary.

Now I also like to bring something else under people's attention.
At the left side between the counter and the search my blog, you will find a new item I added sometime ago named "Follow By Email". If you fill in your email-address here then you will automatically get a mail when I have posted a new post on my blog, if I have done everything correct ;-).
 
And now up to the next 10.000.

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Latest Irregular Magazine up for download

For those people who don't know yet. The new Irregular Magazine #8 can be downloaded from their website.
It is free so don't hesitate.
The theme of this issue is Beasts.
Citation from their site

This issue our theme is Beasts.
Cover artist Brynn Metheney has created a stunning cover with a real knock out beasty.
As usual we have interviews, reviews, tutorials, articles, a short story and the results of last issues painting competition plus another episode of our comic Tuk Tuk.

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What can be found on my painting area

The next project I am painting is an Armored Artillery Battery (Priest) to use with my US Paratroopers from the Turning Tide handbook. At this moment I am working on 1 section which are 3 Priest, in the future it is planned to expand it with the 2nd section. Soon a M2 Half-track, a  jeep, command team and staff team will be added.  The Sherman OP, on the right at the picture, will be replaced by an US Sherman. It is now a left over British Sherman V. The Priest at the foreground is finished. It only needs a layer of matt varnish, but this will be done when all is ready. The 2 crew members inside the Priest are not only glued but also pinned to make sure that they are well fixed to the Priest. The only surface of the mini you have to glue them to the Priest are their feet, which is not a very big surface.



I like to welcome 3 new followers to my blog. Matt Mitchell, econtutor.tmcc and grumpus

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