Monthly Archives: August 2012

Aug 31 2012

Current Wippery

Some stuff on the workbench at present …….  first up is a pair of 1/48th Tamiya Stugs. OOB except for some polyfilla “concrete” add-on armour and a set of Blackdog stowage.

Next is a Dark Angles Razorback support tank from GW. I modified a few things on this. Changed the front armour and drivers visor and made the twin linked bolters look more like a modern integrated weapons mount by adding a searchlight and missile launcher.

A Deathwing Landraider from GW is next up, this will be my first landraider so here’s hoping it goes gently on me ….. It’s followed by a 5-pk of GW assault terminators and these will end up in my “For Sale” room once completed.

Ooooooo ….. 2 secret projects hiding way down here. A pair of 1/35th tank crew from Alpine who are waiting for the kits to make up into their ride to arrive in the post from Hobbyeasy. The last is even too secret to hint at. A cookie and pint of Emersons for anyone who knows what it is ……

Q

Aug 31 2012

Project ’46

I was having a bath time Epiphany (actually more like wallowing in a drunken stupor) some time back and came to the realisation that I’m much more of a modeller than a gamer. And as I paint for other people, trying to collect and game similar things just wasn’t working for me.

What to do ………..

Well the next day, and with the help of a coffee laced cup of sugar and an HP sauce and bacon sarney, project ’46 was born. I scoured my aging kit collection and cooked up a PzIVF based on an old 1:76th Fujimi IVJ. Suddenly modelling was interesting for me as I could work on something that was for me alone and no one else would have.

Since those days experimental “what-if” kits have almost become common with many manufacturers having offerings in several different scales. As 20mm is my collecting and gaming scale of choice for WW2 my Project ’46 collection now includes kits from Cromwell, Milicast and Dragon alongside my own conversions …..

Enjoy
Q

Aug 31 2012

Foundry Pavlovs

 

 

A couple views of a recently completed 32man unit of Pavlovs by Foundry. Nice figs but then I have a soft spot for Foundry and Perry figs in general. Speaking of Perry’s, I plan to pick up a couple of packs of Perry plastic Napoleonic Russian Infantry to complete and put up for sale, so it should be interesting to compare them to these for paintability and looks ….

Q

 

Aug 30 2012

Yet another blog ………

Welcome to the House-of-Queeg.  A place for my projects and ideas to live and be shared.

I’ve recently returned to the hobby again after another long break for family / health reasons. At one stage I never thought I’d enjoy modelling again, let alone posting. By restarting and reinvigorating this blog I hope to use it to help rekindle my modelling and gaming passion but this time without the mental pressures of commercial commission painting.

So what do I do? Well, a bit of everything really. Probably my strongest Interest is in the WW2 period and especially in 20mm. I also created an alternative history timeline for something I call Project’46 which is really just for an excuse to convert and scratch-build without a bunch of imposed historical restrictions. Other interests include Air-wargaming with models, Cold War – Modern and Ultra-Modern gaming and modelling and a lot of Sci-fi / Pulp.

If you’ve blundered in for the first time here or returned from a few years back I hope you find something interesting and enjoy the modelling.

Happy glueing everyone . . .
Queeg

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