Plaaastic? Moi? Surely not?

This post may come as a bit of a surprise to some...

In the days before we knew of the novel coronavirus from China Matt challenged me to choose a new project outside my comfort zone! I think most readers will recall that I chose to venture into the, thankfully imaginary, Cold War Gone Hot in 15mm. I acquired a starting force of Battlefront's Team Yankee vehicles and figures and promptly got cold feet for the Cold War! I even tried unsuccessfully to sell them on via Jon's good efforts! So, having completed two 28mm projects in the 20 months or so since, I've finally bitten the bullet and assembled the vehicles for my B.A.O.R., and here  are the first I did resting on a 100x50x3mm base from Warbases ~

It will, I'm confident, amuse those gifted modellers amongst you to know that these quite basic kits are at the extreme limit of my limited modelling skills, but as an exercise in seeing if I could manage it has proved useful in that they appear to look as they should from the box art work!  (As an aside, my brother in law Vic served with R.E.M.E. and was based at Celle for several years. When we visited them on one occasion I was briefly detained at the base's checkpoint as some local was taking pot shots at it from the woods!) Back on track, I'm in negotiations with Phil to have the basic colours airbrushed on to the vehicles for me, as his WWII vehicles done that way are inspirational in my view. I can then do any necessary finishing for myself.

As to games, well, they are a good way off obviously so I've not settled on things like basing yet though I have bought Great Escape Games' Seven Days to the Rhine and downloaded the RF expansion Able Archer to give me something to think on. More on this and other related areas as and when as they say...