Hiding!! A little story!

After I painted those Panzergrenadiers I had to do something with them. So I thought why not making a little vignette with them. So I did, and took it with me to the meeting at FIGZ. When I was there I decided to put it in competition and see what happened:

I won the second prize in the Multiple Figures competition, only beaten by my good friend Paul from Paul's Bods. This was his contribution. Congrats with the win Paul!

But what was my contribution? I let you see in a little story. Here it goes.

On a sunny day in the year 1944 two German Panzer grenadiers are walking on the street somewhere in Normandy and then all of sudden they meet a nun. She looks very nervous. They decide to talk with her.

Good morning. Is everything allright? You look nervous.

Good morning. Yes everything is allright, but it's a bit hot
and there's no water in the fountain to refresh myself.

Oh! If that's what let you shake all the way, we let you go
your way, so you can find some water to refresh.

And the Germans went on. But what was the real reason she act that way. You can find the answer in the next pictures:

Two men of the resistance and an English commando
are HIDING behind the fountain!

Three brave men on a mission to make D-Day a success.

Jaques is keeping his machinegun ready to attack the Germans if they want to
harm the nun, while Tommy, the commando, is ready to support him when needed

Their friend, Jean-Louis, is in for a more drastic solution
with his handgrenate!

As allready told everything went right as the Germans gone away, and the brave nun and the three men could succeed in their mission to clear the pad for a succesfull invasion.

THE END

Here are a few more pictures of the vignette. The fountain is from my good friend João from GEM. He has many other nice things in his webshop. Figures are from Caesar, the German Panzergrenadiers (set1), the Partisans in Europe and the WWII British Commandos.

Hope you liked it ;-)

And welcome to Captain Richard from Captain Richard's miniature Civil War.

Welcome to my blog!!!!!

Another..........Panzergrenadier?????

Painting this figure started all with a question on the Bennos Figures Forum from my good friend Maurice from MINI FIGS. The question was if we weren't posting to much Napoleonic figures on the forum. I know he loves more the WWII and Modern period to paint figures from.

So I thought it would be fun to paint a Napoleonic figure in a WWII Camo pattern, and as I was painting WWII German Panzergrenadiers, I took a figure from the Revell Napoleonic Prussian Infantry.

And here you can see the result:

I showed the figure to Maurice last saterday on FIGZ and he liked it! It was a fun day by the way. Pictures on the event can be seen here. More about that meeting later on this week ;-)

And a warm welcome to the new followers of my blog:

Steve from Little Legions, Olly Vessel from Ollyvessel and Mojo (sorry mate couldn't find your blog. If you have one, place a link in the comment)

Welcome to my blog!!!!!

German Panzergrenadier 2

I'm in a rush to get some figures ready, so this is the first time I do two post in two days. More information about the figure and how I painted him you can find in my previous post.

I hope you like this one also.

And don't forget saterday it's FIGZ day!!!!!

German Panzergrenadier 1

I'm working on some German Panzergrenadiers and I would like to have your opinion on this figure. I've painted him in an Oakleaf Camo. He's from the Caesar German Panzergrenadiers set nr II.

Painted with Revell and Games Workshop acrylics.

Hope you like it!

Any comment is good, if it's a help on this figure.

And welcome to the following friends:

Willie Anderson from The Anderson Collection, Monty from Monty's War Gaming and anubis-88 from Anubis Miniatures (he's new in town ;-))

Welcome to my blog!!!!!

And don't forget: saterday it's FIGZ day!!!!!

The Three Tenors

It's been a while I posted something here, but I've been busy to create some things for the upcoming event on the 4th of june, at Goor in the Netherlands, called FIGZ.

The Three Tenors is made for a duel I had with my good friend Rich from West Models and Figures. I was up against his Hold your nerve!. And he has beaten me well!

The figures are from this set a little bit converted.

Enjoy the pictures!

Can you here them sing!

No, he's not boxing!

Hope you like them.

And welcome to the following friends:

La Long Carabine from One 72nd Fantasy Figures and Ton 0685 from Parade Ground.

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Zvezda Siege Tower

This is a part of a duel I had with Paul from Paul's Bods on Benno's Figures Forum (organizer of the FIGZ meeting).

It was fun building and painting this kit.

Here is how I painted it:

The wood: GW Bestial brown + 2 x Devlan mud + 1 x Dabab Black wash
The cow skins: GW Vermin brown + 2 x Devlan Mud wash
Metal parts: GW Boltgun metal + 1 x Dabab Black wash

Here are the pictures of the Siege Tower

And it really works, it goes up and down!

Hope you like them!

And I say welcome to the followers:

Dr Willett's Workshop, W40k Tenerife and Colonel Shofer from Colonel Shofer's Mild OCD Model blog.

Welcome to my blog!!!!!

Stylish blogger Award

When I saw the nomination in my previous post “Hold the line”, I thought to myself: “Wow, I’ve got a nomination”. But then the second came in and the third one followed. I was al little surprised about it and I went looking at the other blogs. Then I saw that almost every blog I follow had one. And after reading this post at Paul’s blog (Paul's Bods)  

I knew it for sure, that I will not nominate another blog.

Let me tell it in another way, every blog that’s in my list, I follow, so they are all nominated for the award. They all disserve one because I like them all.

But these are the rules of this award:

• Thank and link back to the person giving you the award  

• Share seven things about yourself. 

• Select 10-15 blogs who you think deserve this award.

• Contact these bloggers and let them know about the award 

Okay I will not spoil the fun and will do rule one and two. Three and four I will not (see above). And a thanks is on his place to the persons who has nominated me!

Rule 1

1. Thank you CarloAntonio from Military Miniatures. A very nice blog with a lot of painted 1/72 Napoleonic figures.

2. Thank you mekelnborg from Tabakskollegium-Mekelnborg. He plays the noble art of war: “chess”!

3. Thank you João from G.E.M.. A fine blog when you’re looking for some scenery, but also with nice diorama’s

Rule 2

1. I’m happily married for 24 years this month
2. I have two sons, 20 and 22 years old
3. I have a female cat that calls Mira and she has the skin of a cow, white with black dots
4. I’m in the Belgian Army, working as some kind of chief engineer, with the rank of Adjudant.
5. Books! That’s another hobby of me. Mostly historical, but also other kind of books. Currently I’m reading the books of Stan Nicholls: “Orcs”. I can recommend them to all who love fantasy stories!
6. Movies! I like most of all movies with a historical background. The last one I saw on DVD was “The heroes of Telemark” with Kirk Douglas.
7. I love to look at sport, and most of all at cycling.

This was it for now. I will save the welcome for the new followers for my next normal post.

Greetings to you all,

Peter