More progress on this 75mm Ripley for Models for Heroes YouTube. It was mostly about painting the jumpsuit, lighting one side and keeping the other darker . The end is getting closer.

Wow. Andy’s HHQ likes big boxes (and I cannot lie) Ok…there are two complete kits in it, and it does look very, very good. M3 Halftrack still one of my faves thanks to Tamiya and my teenage years.

Went urban sketching today with the beds urban sketchers in Ampthill. I have been lazy (actually, I’ve been doing parkrun) and haven’t been for 3 years. And the group has expanded with over 28 people coming out on a glorious Saturday morning. #art #urbansketch #pencil #pencildrawing #sketch

WIP of 75mm Ripley! Episode 7 of this Paint Along series is now up on YouTube. Here, amongst other things, I paint the number 42 onto a 1.2mm square! youtu.be/Jy6LOmSnK_I?...

Yesterday I was chatting to some friends about the forthcoming Rogue Trooper movie and this gorgeous graphic novel came up by @manmademoon.bsky.social Strange and surprised to hear Madi mentioned on @mrjamesob.bsky.social today!!! So you can all have a photo of this monster book!

An awesome set, and nice to be able to get the exclusive Vallejo paint set figure without buying more paints!!!! (Taesung made some minor changes to the head)

Cheers Greg. I can spend ages pouring over photos searching for something I can do for base work. I found a photo of 5th AD command standing on some grass where M36s had crossed. Perfect. One of the guys even resembled this figure!

Long time since I finished a 1/35 scale figure. Here is an officer from the 5th Armored Division in Germany 1945, an out of the box Tamiya US Scout figure.

When you’re having a conversation on Facebook and a true legend pops into the chat….. Verlinden inspired me as far back as 1978….

There is another Space Marine on the way….teeny tiny head! Painted over 90 minutes during a @modelsforheroes.bsky.social session last week.

Ohhh Space Wolf!! Another Warhammer Mini of the Month from 2025. Really enjoyed painting a Space Marine again, must do more!

Goremonger A Warhammer 40000 figure. This one grew on me, but with many details became quite a painting task! Really pleased with how he came out.

Details! Goremonger. A mini of the month from Warhammer. Lots of little details on this guy. Standing about 35mm tall.

1/35 British Tanker, 1944 Full sculpt, Aves Apoxie Sculpt Inspired by this photo of Trooper George Knight, Military Medal recipient, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry. He’s finished for now. Need to leave him for a bit and review in a week or so. Very chuffed with how he’s turned out.

Getting close to the end now. I repositioned the head, and added a shirt collar. Lots of details left now to do, and refining parts and sharpening folds. 1/35 sculpted from scratch.

1/35 Scratch built British tanker 1944/45 So this guy progresses nicely. Getting to the point where I need to add details, and I’ll adjust the head angle before sculpting hair and his beret. Want to refine some folds as well.

Delivery of second hand books from Oxfam. Two broad overview classic Osprey books, and an absolute classic nerd tome on British Army uniforms. The German uniform book by Brian L. Davis was the first reference book I ever bought.

6 months on and I have another update on this dude. Still early days, sculpting wise, and trying some slightly different approaches. So far, I’m liking how he’s looking.

I’m slowly working my way through the Warhammer Miniature of the Month freebies I’ve acquired. This is the Aeldari Fire Dragon. These are great for trying out colours you’d not usually use if doing historical subjects.

Thanks! I tried to keep it simple, but I always enjoy groundwork. What I was really proud of, that’s not visible in these photos, is the base itself. If stalled on the project until I found this base!

I’m back on here again, and need to post more stuff. Which is true everywhere! Little Wing, Jicarilla Apache. 1/12 scale.

Been away from BkueSky for a bit and just seen this!! Poor thing…and poor you!!! Nothing as extreme here but my Jem at 11 months broke out of the house in her first season and double fractured her leg. She’s had metal plates for 11 years now! Tough one! Hope all is going well

Sculpting again…. 1/35 Apoxie Sculpt (new to me, but the putty I have is close to 20 years old!!!)

Got myself a little turntable so made a video of a piece I painted for Models for Heroes.

Bead work on the cape. This is based on an actual museum piece. Took a while to work out how to approach it - you can see how it began on the unfinished other arm. Also tried to make a colourful reflective look in the abalone shell necklace, with pastel colours.

Further progress on my 120mm (1/16) Jicarilla Apache woman. Happy with the flesh now and added some actual eyes! Also added “interest” to the deerskin yellow cape. Enjoying this one - a challenge and a very different subject!

More working on the 120mm Jicarilla Apache Woman - Little Wing I wasn’t happy with the orangeness of the face, so added just a small amount of ScaleColor Pink Flesh SC21 to the orange brown and to my eyes, made her seem more human again. Added base colour for the beading and sketched in the belt.

120mm Jicarilla Apache 1890 This is the “sketching” phase. Broad brush strokes. No blending. Are the colours working. This is terrifying me. Big unforgiving figure, subject out of my comfort zone

And these are 45° angles compared to the previous post.

After the single “money shot”, here are more photos of my 75mm AWI Militiaman in the round. Hopefully you can see where I pushed the contrast and how the back is overall darker. Particularly proud of the powder horn. It’s often the little things….