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The saggy baggy Panther - a sequel to "The saggy baggy Jagdpanther"

Eastern Funker wrote 9 hours ago: I wanted to get good track sag for my 1/72 scale Panzer V Panthers (kit# 03107 by Revell), as eviden … more →

Tags: 1/72, Miniatures, Italeri, Revell GmbH. model kits, PaK 40, Panzer V Panther, MAC Distribution model kits, Horch 108 / Kfz 70 & 20mm Flak 30, Flash Cyanoacrylate

Carving out a river, on a Wednesday afternoon...

Eastern Funker wrote 3 days ago: My apologies to Eily Beadell and Nell Tollerton! I started by making a stream/small river, about 45m … more →

Tags: 1/72, 176, Making wargaming terrain, Miniature wargaming, Miniatures, Panzerfaust: Armoured Fist, Rules and rule sets, Fuller's Caulk in Colours, Olfa

Battlefield Accessories' BA16 Ruined Building: Spare Wall Pack

Eastern Funker wrote 6 days ago: Battlefield Accessories is a local wargames terrain/wargames scenery manufacturer producing mostly f … more →

Tags: Wargaming, painting miniatures, Making wargaming terrain, Miniatures / model kit review, 1/72, Kitbashing / improvising, 176, Battlefield Accessories, Citadel paints

Heat, trucks, guns and scenery

Eastern Funker wrote 1 month ago: Still 4 weeks of Spring left, but today is the second day of over 30 degrees…in fact, looking … more →

Tags: 1/72, 176, boardgamegeek, Making wargaming terrain, Miniatures, Miniatures / model kit review, painting miniatures, Panzerfaust: Armoured Fist, photos

On the assembly line at Tankoberg...

Eastern Funker wrote 1 month ago: …3 of Hasegawa’s 251/9 ‘Stummels’ and a vintage ESCI ‘Wespe’. Th … more →

Tags: Miniatures, WW2, Miniatures / model kit review, 1/72, ESCI, Italeri, Hasegawa, operation barbarossa, PzA II 'Wespe'

From love to occasional hate

Eastern Funker wrote 2 months ago: I’ve finished the assembly of ICM’s kit #72451: Krupp L2H143 Kfz.70. I’d picked it … more →

Tags: Miniatures, WW2, painting miniatures, Miniatures / model kit review, 1/72, Kitbashing / improvising, BMW R.75, ICM Holding - plastic model kits, Italeri

Steps needed for a good smoke5 comments

Eastern Funker wrote 2 months ago: Here’s how I actually made my smoke - 1 ) Gather your utensils. I used a large plastic take-aw … more →

Tags: Making wargaming terrain

"Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!" - 'Ace' Rimmer, Red Dwarf

Eastern Funker wrote 2 months ago: Since starting to play “Panzerfaust: Armoured fist” a few years back until 6 months ago, … more →

Tags: Miniature wargaming, Panzerfaust: Armoured Fist, Sources of Information, Video Footage, YouTube, "Miniature Gaming Volume I", "Rules of the Damned Human Race", Citadel paints, Gabriel Landowski

Bums on seats, or, getting the Italeri WWII German Motorcycles perfectly assembled2 comments

Eastern Funker wrote 2 months ago: While preparing the WWII German Motorcycles for assembly, it became evident that I’d struck tw … more →

Tags: Miniatures, WW2, Miniatures / model kit review, 1/72, Kitbashing / improvising, BMW R.75, Italeri, Plastic Soldier Review

Trying to make my own Citadel Black Ink

Eastern Funker wrote 3 months ago: Having found an original bottle of Citadel Black Ink at a sale, I decided that using a little of it … more →

Tags: painting miniatures, 1/72, roden, Citadel paints, Sd. Kfz. 263, Flash Cyanoacrylate

ICM's Sd.Kfz. 222, cars, bikes and aerials!

Eastern Funker wrote 4 months ago: So far, ICM 1:72 kit #72411 has been very straightforward to assemble. Part fit has been very good. … more →

Tags: 1/72, Kitbashing / improvising, Miniatures, Miniatures / model kit review, photos, Sources of Information, BMW R.75, Bundesarchiv, Flash Cyanoacrylate

One-piece vinyl tracks

Eastern Funker wrote 5 months ago: …really are a pain. Italeri’s 250/3 kit is a direct re-release of the ESCI kit – t … more →

Tags: Miniatures, Miniatures / model kit review, 1/72, Kitbashing / improvising, ESCI, Italeri, Sd. Kfz. 250/3

I love the detail, I've got to boogie...

Eastern Funker wrote 5 months ago: Painting the two BZ-35s has commenced…finally.  A front wheel fell off one just when I thought … more →

Tags: Miniatures, Wargaming, Miniature wargaming, WW2, painting miniatures, Making wargaming terrain, Miniatures / model kit review, 1/72, PST Model

Assembling the BZ-35; cut-away StuG III

Eastern Funker wrote 5 months ago: Since I built the previous PST BZ-35 two years ago, all the papers and documents I gathered about th … more →

Tags: Miniatures, WW2, painting miniatures, Miniatures / model kit review, Sources of Information, photos, 1/72, Kitbashing / improvising, PST Model

It was a big Sunday

Eastern Funker wrote 6 months ago: The brewed-up T-34/85 wreck terrain piece is done! Here’s the base that it rests on: Here … more →

Tags: Miniatures, Wargaming, Miniature wargaming, WW2, painting miniatures, Making wargaming terrain, Sources of Information, photos, Rules and rule sets

Bigger post tomorrow...for now, more colour cards and Hob-e-tac2 comments

Eastern Funker wrote 6 months ago: Having searched fairly extensively using my librarian skills to find samples of the new Citadel pre- … more →

Tags: Miniature wargaming, WW2, painting miniatures, Making wargaming terrain, Citadel paints, wargaming terrain, T-34-85, Eastern Express, Hob-e-tac

Rust; the Sturmgeschütz

Eastern Funker wrote 6 months ago: My first home-made pot of Rust colour paint is now sitting in my paintbox. It was an all-Citadel aff … more →

Tags: WW2, painting miniatures, Making wargaming terrain, Sources of Information, StuG, Citadel paints, wargaming terrain, T-34-85, Sturmgeschütze vor!

Terrain for WWII wargamers - knocked out tank; terrain for all - hills!

Eastern Funker wrote 6 months ago: I mentioned below (or click on this link if you don’t want to scroll down) that I was working … more →

Tags: Miniature wargaming, WW2, Making wargaming terrain, photos, 1/72, wargaming terrain, Olfa, T-34-85, Eastern Express

Terrain - it doesn't have to be hills, trees and rivers...1 comment

Eastern Funker wrote 6 months ago: While working on the Command Tigers and that SdKfz 7/1, I began working on some more terrain – … more →

Tags: Wargaming, Miniature wargaming, Making wargaming terrain, Miniatures / model kit review, 1/72, Kitbashing / improvising, Panzer VI Tiger, Revell GmbH. model kits, wargaming terrain


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