The Model Box

Les Blue! Les Blue! Slapping on the blue overcoats or "Capote"

More work on the French Horse Grenadiers. French Foreign Legion figures are also being prepped for painting.

Here's a painting guide from the Hat Industries site: Painting guide - By Ted Schulz; All colors are Testors unless otherwise stated. BODY coat, collar -- sea blue 1172 pants -- dark earth 2054 coat front, belt, straps, gloves, cuffs – white OFFICER (epaulettes, tassle, hat top), buttons, belt buckle, strap buckle, scabbard, sword handle -- gold hat, boots, collar center, pouch -- black epaulettes & tassle -- mixed orange hair, gun -- brown ital. dark 2111 gun barrel -- gun metal 1795 face -- flesh chin strap, hat right side tassle, pouch emblem--gold plume, coat trim, hat top -- red 1150 sword – steel HORSE--black blanket & roll -- sea blue 1172 blanket & roll trim -- mixed orange roll top -- red 1150 & white saddle -- leather 1736 straps -- black bit -- steel buttons -- brass base -- green 2029 And here are some reference art work:

I've managed an hour of painting the black horses of my French Horse Grenadiers. More soon!

This December's tank hunt.

The Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) aka Churchill was a British heavy infantry tank used in the Second World War, best known for its heavy armour, large longitudinal chassis with all-around tracks with multiple bogies, and its use as the basis of many specialist vehicles. It was one of the heaviest Allied tanks of the war. The Churchill was used by British and Commonwealth forces in North Africa, Italy and North-West Europe. In addition, a few hundred were supplied to the USSR and used on the Eastern Front. There is some ambiguity regarding whom the tank is named after. It may have been named after Winston Churchill, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Minister of Defence at the time, and had been involved with the development of the tank as a weapon during the First World War. Alternatively, and fitting in with other British tank names, it may have been named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, an ancestor of Winston Churchill and the leader of th...

Breaking out the Crusaders. British crusader tanks that is. Two from Armourfast (Mk ll) and one from Hasegawa (Mk lll)

Armourfast 1:72 M4A2 Sherman quick build kit. Each box has 2 tanks and is engineered to be very fast and simple to assemble, mainly for wargamers. The third tank shown with the two M4A2s is the Matchbox 1:76 Firefly.

Ready for accessories and painting. And notice that the tracks are still missing. More on that soon.