My blog and what to do with it.

Well the title says a lot. What shall I do with my blog.
It is getting close to July now and I haven't posted one single post this year and if I look back at last year I only posted 5 posts. Can't say that is a lot. And I don't know if it will become better.

Now back to the question "what to do with my blog?"
There are a few options.
1. Keep it up and post when I want or have something to post with the risk that it won't be a lot.
2. Just tear it down and remove it from the net.
3. Do nothing and let it fade away in oblivion until everybody has forgotten about my blog.

It is a choice I'm struggling with for some time now but I still don't know what I shall do.

Choices choices....

Thanks for reading.

Late War Germans. A present.

A week ago 2 friends gave me a very belated birthday present. Al are Late War Germans models (15mm Battlefront) they no longer need.
The present contained:
-Two (panzer) Grenadier platoons with a Company HQ (plastic).
-An Opel Maultier and a Horch Kfz 15 car plus bits and pieces.
-One Pak 40 platoon (plastic).
-Four Panzer IV.
-Three Panthers.
-One Tiger. Hatches are missing but if I ask nicely they will search in their bitbox.
Some tanks miss their hull MG but these are easy to make and replace. And I have to attach the Schürzen to the Panzer IV. Which will not be an easy task.

Because the infantry platoons are based for Flames of War I want to re-base them so I can use them for Battlegroup. Just like the rest of the models. This means I start a new army; Late War Germans!

Two (panzer) Grenadier platoons with a Company HQ

Opel Maultier and Horch Kfz 15 car

Pak 40 platoon

Panzer IV

Panthers

Tiger

Thanks for reading and looking.

Panzer III part 1: The built.

This is my very first box of the Plastic Soldier Company. A box of 15mm Panzer III F,G,H which I hopefully can use with the new Battlegroup book coming next spring.
As I never bought any of the Plastic Soldier Company models before I was very curious how they look and how easy it would be to assemble them. But before I started I first had to figure out which of the Panzer III ausf I want and how many. After some-thinking I decided to built 3 Panzer III ausf. G and 2 ausf. F. I can always order a reinforcement sprue to built an extra ausf. F.
Time to open the box.

The box.

Inside there are 5 sprue’s, 1 for each Panzer, and a leaflet with instructions. I was impressed how many parts 1 sprue contains and you need to built 1 Panzer. After a count I came to a total of 20+ parts for 1 Panzer. All I could think was something like Eeeep that's a lot of parts.
Let's start building. I decided to take the time when putting all things together to make sure I didn't make any mistakes.

The contents. 5 sprue.

First the turret. This wasn't very difficult. The only parts that took a closer look how to glue them to side were the escape-hatches.
An other thing was the copula. It didn't fit in the hole of the turret. So I had to file of some of the plastic to make it fit.
A minor complaint is that in the guns for the ausf. G is a little (casting?) hole that I have to fill up.

Turrets parts.

Assembling the running gear. Following the assembling leaflet these are easy to glue together. Only problem was too figuring out how to glue on the tracks. But after the first panzer this became very clear and the following panzers gave no problem. Minor complainant is that some of the tracks, when glued on the running gear, didn't fit together nicely. Leaving a little gap between the two pieces.

Parts for the tracks.

The hull. There is not much to say about this. These were very easy to glue together. The only piece I didn't glued on at this moment was the Hull MG. More about this later.

Hull parts.

All the pieces and glue them together. First I glued the running gear to the hull, not very difficult because the running gear can only be glued on one way. So you can't do it wrong.
The Hull MG is a whole other story. This was the hardest part off the whole built. It is a very small piece and it has to be glued in a little hole in the hull. Guess what they didn't fit. They were all to big. I very very carefully had to file off a little plastic to make it fit without breaking the Hull MG.

The assembled parts.

Last are some photos of the built Panzer III. I only have to add on some extra pieces to give them all some sort off own identity.

Panzer III ausf. G

Panzer III ausf.F

Group photo.

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Battlegroup: D7 Armoured Bulldozer.

The last painted miniature for the US army to be used with the Battlegroup game for now.
I wanted to give the model a very dirty look but it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to look. Oh well next time better. ;-)

Next project is a platoon of plastic Panzer III for North Africa made by the Plastic Soldier Company. Never had models from this company so I am wondering how it will go.

Thanks for looking.

Battlegroup: M4A3 Sherman (105mm).

Next I painted the M4A3 Sherman (105mm). This tank can be used by the US army in several Battlegroup books.
I have changed my way of painting. First I wanted everything I painted to look perfect (not that it always did ;-) ), now I paint everything to look nice on the gaming table and not spend hours and hours on painting one model.

Thanks for looking.