Blogging is not painting

Ooops, nearly two weeks without an update. Well I've been busy, painting and visiting Stockholm for a work course, among other things.

The great Henry Hyde has some tips about blogging in his Battlegames magazine, which says you should update often and be brief. Well I'm just the opposite, I don't update if I don't feel I have something to say or show. And when I do, I can't keep it short. Anyway, lots of WIP stuff, but nothing finished, or rather, I have no photos of finished stuff, because that involves me getting the camera out, setting up the light booth, etc.

But I have a couple of things to show you. First work is progressing on the kubelwagen and captured carrier I wrote about earlier. They are about 90% done including crew, just small niggling stuff like details, some stowage and weather. No pictures though, except for this one.

Perry 28mm kübelwagen with Tamiya 1/48 scale jerry can.

You see, I decided I needed some extra stowage on my vehicles, and perhaps a couple of fuel drums and what not to make some Jump Off points with. (Jump Off points are sort of deployment markers for Chain of Command, marking points on the board where you can deploy your troops.) So I picked up a Tamiya Jerry Can Set in 1/48 from my local friendly hobby shop.

I went in to buy a Jerry Can set, nothing more. And look what followed me home.

I also, somehow, managed to pick up an armoured car, oh dear. I have no idea how that happened. It seems that the British forces will have a numerical superiority at the convention though, so the armoured car will come in handy.

German items on the left sprue, US items on the right sprue. The set contains TWO of each sprue.

Getting back to the Jerry Can set (trying to forget the armoured car) I wanted to confirm a suspicion I have had for a while so I assembled a couple of cans and barrels and did a comparison with the Perry kübelwagen (see first photo). And yep, the jerry can the Perry's have included are indeed 1/48 scale. I can't prove it, but it looks like they simply molded a Tamiya Jerry Can. Regarding the Tamiya set it includes two copies of two different sprues, each sprue holding either German or US equipment. It might not be a big difference, but the US Jerry cans have "US Army" stamped on them, and the backpacks and sacks are all different. So if you are picky use the correct sprue, if you are not then just mix and match and hope nobody pulls out a magnifying glass.

The Tamiya SdKfz 232 with some Perry DAK. Yeah, it does look big, but bigger is better, right?

So, I have earlier said I didn't want to use 1/48 scale vehicles with 28mm figures because I thought the size difference would be noticable. Weell... I might have changed my mind a bit. You see, I like building model kits. And I don't particularly like the quality of the Warlord resin stuff. And it was actually cheaper to buy at my local hobby shop (which I want to support because it's nice to have a local hobby shop at all!) than to order a Warlord model directly from them. Ok, it looks a bit on the larger side, but not too large like the SdKfz 222 I tried previously.

Wargames Foundry Raw Linen shade vs Games Workshop Nurgling Green

Lastly I have a tip; some people have asked me what green I use for my DAK; I just picked a green I happened to have and that I liked by chance. It turned out to be the base shade for one of the Wargames Foundry's paint triads; Raw Linen. I realise it can be a bit hard to get hold of, I think the only way is to order it directly from Wargames Foundry, so I have been looking for a suitable replacement which I found in Games Workshop's Nurgling Green. Nurgling Green is a tiny, tiny smittens lighter but it's the same "hue" or whatever the technical term is. After washing or drybrushing I'm sure it will look the same. (Hey, and you can use it to paint your Nurglings too!)

See, I can keep it short, can't I?