Steel Penguins braying

[Steel Penguin]

the turret is together ( not hard) and has the base green on it, and a little gun metal.  ive been assembling / cleaning up more 28mms  so my forces of SHIVA can move forward to world domination,  hopefully ill get a bit of good weather on the weekend to undercoat them in.

[Steel Penguin]

first sets of the SHIVA stuff done,  dr Mao, and the mannequin, 2 new and 3 old daughters of SHIVA, and a Kali.  and one of the guild ball mascots the Otter.
9 more 28mm figures
53 figures  5 bits of scenery.

[Steel Penguin]

the 3 new HKKF are done with drone heads , and the turret is at the point it needs the black added to match a tank body, the back bin having had its orange "friendly " ID added, the sights having had a touch of gloss blue on them.


56 figures 5 bits of scenery

[Steel Penguin]

2 of the crooked dice " destroyer" models done,  4 armed animated statues,  nice and big, a good stone effect from a combination of inks and dry brushing.

58 figures  5 bits of scenery

[Steel Penguin]

the running gear on the challis together and painted, the body's assembled, the drivers vision blocks been blued, and the tracks are on, need to neaten up the glue marks on the glacis join then it'll be black striping time.   going well.
the Sneb pods together for the other version, itll need filling at the join, then ill need to fit / place it on the turret, where is the question?

[Steel Penguin]

GAU Challengers finished 
the next one is under assembly on the desk, and ive hit the disparity between land and air vehicles, the Sneb pod that doesn't look that big on a Harrier, is rather big on the tank turret.   itll get painted etc for the final look see but this may be one that gets done for the Cos ford show, then possibly may be " back dated" to a standard gun tank after wards..  will have to see.

still
58 figures 5 bits of scenery  1 model

[Steel Penguin]

had a busy weekend, though little modelling done.  My youngest brother was up for yesterday and today, we spent a goodly amount of time yaking, had a meal out, with Mrs P and a friend, and went to the local wargames show today, he got stuff he was after, I had one of those shows where nothing caught my eye,   but it meant I had a good walk and a catch up.

[Steel Penguin]

2 more guild ball pets, the raven and the cat, and an empire of the dead Quatermain, slow progress, but progress.  a squad of 6 GW sisters of battle, done in the same yellow and purple as my main space marine force ( JWN bate  )  nearly finished and more on the SNEB Chally.  but other things ( real world) have been drawing a lot of my attention, so my progress speed has massively reduced.

[Steel Penguin]

sisters are done now, just finished the base's
9 figures ( including just above)

67 figures   5 bits of scenery  1 model.

[Steel Penguin]

Challenger is slowly proceeding, got the black on the roadwheels, and the green on just a bought everything else.   needs the blue on the vision blocks and then the roadwheels clipping on and the body / hull assembling, and then a "camo" coat of black stripe.  this may get finished for sunday at this rate 

also need to have athink if I want anything "full price" at the show, or if im just going to mooch round looking for bargins  though I am rather running out of storage space 

a bit up stream I may have mentioned a Japanese animated series called Gate, well theve done the 2 12 part series now, some interesting parts, and held up its early promise for a goodly part, some of the modern JSDF troops verses medieval style forces was ( as expected ) brutal, and the clash of cultures interesting.  now I just need to find someone who does modern JLSDF  in 28mm for an interesting skirmish force     ( I can get cobras, tanks and stuff in 1:48) 

[Steel Penguin]

SNEB Challenger is finished, painted and done,   so ive 2 tanks for sunday      ive a 48th  Phantom to come as well,  so I just need to work out which 28mm figs im bringing 


67 figures     5 bits of scenery    2 models

[Steel Penguin]

Well last night saw the call that I know has been inevitable, but that ive dreaded receiving.
Mrs Ps mum, called to let us know that my father in law had passed away,  hed been fighting cancer for some time and had got a lot worse over the last 6 months or so, its why despite him wanting to, he was unable to come to Telford and chew the fat with us, hed made the targets hed set himself of Christmas,  and then his birthday in feb, and we all thought that he was going to make the wedding anniversary that was due Wednesday, alas he didn't.
I will be commuting down to Monmouth most likely for the rest of the week, as wile there's a spare room, my sister in law and her hubby are down from Liverpool.  ( its only around 80 miles  and 2 1/2 hours each way  on good A road and some motorway, fortunately) ,  So if im a little lacking / missing , its due to a rather important series of things to be done...

[kerick]

My sincere condolences.
Take care of your wife and family, they always come first.

[zenrat]

Condolences also from me.

[NARSES2]

Yup many condolences mate. It's never easy even when you are half expecting it

Chris