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Battlefield Accessories' BA16 Ruined Building: Spare Wall Pack

Eastern Funker wrote 1 week ago: Battlefield Accessories is a local wargames terrain/wargames scenery manufacturer producing mostly f … more →

Tags: 1/72, 176, Hobby techniques, Kitbashing / improvising, Making wargaming terrain, painting miniatures, Wargaming, Battlefield Accessories, Citadel paints

MAC Distribution Horch 108 (Kfz. 70) - thoughts after assembling two of them...

Eastern Funker wrote 1 week ago: In an earlier post about this kit, I discussed good and points about this kit after having weashed a … more →

Tags: 1/72, Kitbashing / improvising, Miniatures, Horch 108 / Kfz 70 & 20mm Flak 30, MAC Distribution model kits

Sd. Kfz. 251/9 'Stummel' - Panzergrenadier heavy weapons support

Eastern Funker wrote 2 weeks ago: I commenced work on those Revell Panthers a couple of weekends back because I’d finished those … more →

Tags: 1/72, Miniature wargaming, Miniatures, painting miniatures, Panzerfaust: Armoured Fist, photos, Rules and rule sets, Sources of Information, WW2

Wespe SPG with a coat of Winter whitewash2 comments

Eastern Funker wrote 4 weeks ago: ESCI’s 1/72 Wespe kit. An original, not the recent Italeri re-release. Purchased at a Swap … more →

Tags: 1/72, Miniatures, painting miniatures, photos, Sources of Information, WW2, Bundesarchiv, ESCI, German 105mm SPG 'Wespe'

Hasegawa's Kettenkrad in 1/722 comments

Eastern Funker wrote 1 month ago: The Hasegawa Kettenkrad included in the “Schwimmwagen + Kettenkrad” 1/72 scale Minibox k … more →

Tags: 1/72, Kitbashing / improvising, Miniatures, Sources of Information, WW2, Academy plastic model co., ESCI, Fujimi, Hasegawa

I fell for Faller because I didn't look where I was going...

Eastern Funker wrote 1 month ago: I decided to check how many bases I could fit inside that Faller house this morning – I was co … more →

Tags: Miniatures, Sources of Information, 1/72, 176, Hasegawa, Sd. Kfz. 2 Kettenkraftrad 'Kettenkrad', Gebr. FALLER, The Miniatures Page, "All about scales"

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, Hobby techniques, Making wargaming terrain, Miniatures, 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, Hobby techniques, 1/72, ESCI, Italeri, Hasegawa, operation barbarossa, PzA II 'Wespe'

Motorbikes and Caeser's WWII German Paratroopers (Fallschirmjäger)5 comments

Eastern Funker wrote 2 months ago: I’ve finished my 40mm x 40mm base of motorcycles, which are part of my recon force’s HQ. … more →

Tags: WW2, painting miniatures, photos, 1/72, Italeri, Caesar Miniatures, fallschirmjäger, HBT (herringbone twill), Bunkermeister's Bunker Talk blog

A Kubelwagen, a 251/22, a 263 and a 234/3 walk into a bar...3 comments

Eastern Funker wrote 2 months ago: Tankograd had four more come off the production line. Here they are: From left to right: a Hasegawa … more →

Tags: Miniatures, WW2, painting miniatures, photos, 1/72, Italeri, roden, AT gun, Woodland Scenics

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, Hobby techniques, 1/72, Kitbashing / improvising, Italeri, ICM Holding - plastic model kits, Krupp L2H143 Kfz 70

Kubelwagen type 82 - how to paint?

Eastern Funker wrote 2 months ago: Working on the Hasegawa Kubelwagen required some research that went beyond my own personal library. … more →

Tags: Miniatures, WW2, painting miniatures, Sources of Information, flickr, 1/72, Kitbashing / improvising, Schwimmwagen, Hasegawa

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, Hobby techniques, 1/72, Kitbashing / improvising, Italeri, Plastic Soldier Review, BMW R.75

Hasegawa Pumas ready for recon4 comments

Eastern Funker wrote 2 months ago: The first two of what will end up being a platoon of six Pumas are done. I even numbered them … more →

Tags: 1/72, 176, boardgamegeek, painting miniatures, Panzerfaust: Armoured Fist, photos, Rules and rule sets, Sources of Information, Wargaming

First ICM Sd.Kfz. 222 Leichter Panzerspähwagen (kit #72411) rolls off Tankoberg assembly lines

Eastern Funker wrote 3 months ago: It’s done! My first Sd. Kfz. 222! Painted in standard (homemade) Dark Grey, with white Balkank … more →

Tags: Miniatures, painting miniatures, 1/72, Kitbashing / improvising, Balkenkreusz, ICM Holding - plastic model kits, operation barbarossa, SdKfz 222 Leichter Panzerspähwagen

I bought them - very nice they are, too!

Eastern Funker wrote 3 months ago: March 18 2009 – I commented on Italeri releasing some WWII German motorcycles & motorcycli … more →

Tags: Panzerfaust: Armoured Fist, WW2, Sources of Information, Rules and rule sets, 1/72, Italeri, HAT Armourfast, Plastic Soldier Review, DAK (Deutsches Afrikakorps)

Löwe on the streets

Eastern Funker wrote 4 months ago: The Sd. Kfz 250/3 (an ESCI kit re-released by Italeri) that I’d been working on is finished, a … more →

Tags: Miniatures, WW2, painting miniatures, Making wargaming terrain, 1/72, Kitbashing / improvising, ESCI, Italeri, Citadel paints

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, Hobby techniques, Kitbashing / improvising, Miniatures, photos, Sources of Information, BMW R.75, Bundesarchiv, Flash Cyanoacrylate

Something old, something new?

Eastern Funker wrote 4 months ago: NEWSFLASH! Italeri are re-releasing the old ESCI Pz.Kpfw II F & Wespe kits!  I’d been slow … more →

Tags: 1/72, Miniature wargaming, Miniatures, painting miniatures, Panzerfaust: Armoured Fist, Wargaming, WW2, ACE Models, ESCI


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