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Showing posts with label Corona Virus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corona Virus. Show all posts
Sunday, 3 May 2020

Corona Virus Project 3: The Knowles Collection of 28mm is started

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Inspired by the milk bottle tops as 28mm figure holders I super-glued some of the Eric Knowles 28mm Malburian collection I picked up. These ...
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Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Corona Virus Project 2d Completed: The Missing USN Midway Cruisers (CA, LC, LC-AA)

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Ahead of the planned painting order the CA, CL and CL-AAs of the USN were dispatched across the painting tray. A whim of the painter, no mor...
Saturday, 25 April 2020

Corona Virus: Things you find in the back of cupboards - Long lost chess pieces

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It is amazing what turns up when you have time on your hands to go rooting through the back of cupboards (Corona Virus post again). I am con...
Friday, 24 April 2020

Corona Virus - Loose yourself in some books

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There are always "books" ... In the professional wargame category I have plenty of books to skim, read and re-read (see below, ...
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Thursday, 23 April 2020

Games to play with the family and friends .. Codenames

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A simple grid of words (see below, some you must get your partner [not necessarily in th ebiblical sense] to guess - others that must be avo...
Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Corona Virus Project 2c and 2d (WIP): USN Destroyers and Midway Cruisers

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Project 2c: Thirty "early war" US Destroyers (see below, I could not match "named destroyers" in teh battle [yet - that...
Friday, 17 April 2020

Corona Virus Project #2: Battle Sisters - USS Yorktown [CV5], USS Enterprise [CV6] and USS Hornet [CV8]

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Next comes the Midway carriers, that magic combination of capabilities that made them the perfect modern carriers for the USN to fight the P...
Thursday, 16 April 2020

Pendrakon Miniatures and Warbases - Corona Virus response starting to make PPE for Care Homes, GPs Surgeries and Hospices

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Utterly Brilliant and Beautiful:  You have my Respect and Admiration: And awe at what can be don e:  https://www.gofundme....
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Monday, 13 April 2020

Corona Virus Project #2: USS Ranger and USS Langley (CV4 and CV1)

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USS Ranger was the first "designed" as an aircraft carrier ship for the USN - still experiment in many concepts - the funnel arran...
Sunday, 12 April 2020

Corona Virus Project #2: Lex's Sister "Saratoga" - CV3

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Following on from "Lady Lex", her sister "Saratoga" CV3, another 1922 converted battle-cruiser design (see below, my ha...
Saturday, 11 April 2020

Corona Virus Project #2: Making out with "Lady Lex" - CV2

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Mea culpa, after reading through the links from a previous post I found out that my hunch (of brown flight decks) was completely wrong (may...
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Wednesday, 8 April 2020

Corona Virus Project #2: US WWII Pearl Harbour CVs - Base Coat

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Base Layer Painting: Despite having researched the pants off WW2 USN Pacific Ships I decided to go with what looks good IMHO (see below, hu...
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Sunday, 5 April 2020

What I am reading just now ... naturally a wargame book

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I know that in this time of world crisis, a place of unreal social distancing, people contact is good via Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype or Ch...
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Wednesday, 1 April 2020

Tomb Banshee - Impulse Buy

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Passing through Tesco last week I noticed an Age of Sigmar magazine, kind of overpriced at (£8) but in these times of "closed shops...
Friday, 27 March 2020

The First Corona Project Completed: An Italian Western Desert Task Force

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Next comes the armour (see below, there may be fifty shades of grey but I am using three grades of sand on top of one layer of primer that g...
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