The last couple of years…

Every once in a while I make an update like this telling about why I have not been writing about wargaming for ages. The reason have been the same every time: I have moved to a new place and because of that used all my time to get the new place in shape. The same this time. Almost two years ago we bought a little house that we, since then, have been renovating. As a part of this it has (only) been possible for me to get a mini-room (2,1 x 2,1 metres) where I can set up a desk and fit in some drawers to all my hobby stuff. To be honest I don’t need more space, the bigger room I have the more mess I have to clean up.

The good news is that this should hopefully be the end station, or at least the place where we settle down for many years. So very soon I hopefully will have much more time painting, building and be gaming.

It has been really hard not to be able to build and collect for so long time. I am very fond of making small lists for everything, how many figures do I need to be able to play this or that mission, how many trucks do I need to buy before my army is complete and so on. Because of these lists it is also quite easy for me to quickly get back on track ad carry on where I left, even when I have been away for two years.

So what will happen when I am back? I will continue building houses for my La Fière Bridge project.

I have been thinking of building a typical french manor for some time now, as there are quite a lot of missions having one, and have decided to build something similar to the Brecourt Manor, which is the big house closest to the german gun trenches that Easy company took out on D-day. I have been collecting pictures of the manor and will just have to find out how close to the original I want to be.

One thing that have come up while I have been away is that AB Figures are making russians now. They are not out yet, but it can’t be many weeks before they can be ordered. I have always said that I will not touch the Eastern front, because in my mind there is no good russian figures… well that ain’t the case anymore. There is nothing to do about it, I will have to collect an Russian Battlegroup. I just have to make up my mind about doing these before painting my British Battlegroup.

Here are some WIP’s of my little work room:

This is not a prison.

Walls are coming up.

Everything still needs to be done: get new floor, new ceiling, walls, electricity…

New floor, new radiator, walls and ceiling fixed. The frosted windows will be changed at some point.

Cabinets for all my unbuilt models.

“Wooden” tiles that is easy to clean after I have been using the airbrush for hours.

Quick Update…

I have been working on 6 StuG’s and one StuH 42 for quite a while. I had a down period where I couldn’t get my self to paint the tracks, but there have been bigger stuff happening in my life which have taken focus away from my hobby – we have sold our apartment in the middle of Copenhagen and will soon be moving out of the city. This has been a hard pill for me to swallow, I love this apartment and living far from the center of the city scares me a bit. I will not have a dedicated “man-cave-hobby-room” anymore and will use almost 1 hours of transportation (on my bicycle) to get to work instead of the 15 minutes of walking that I have today.

The positive things will be that I can get free bike training everyday (riding bikes is my other big passion beside wargaming), I will be living 5 minutes from my favourite mountainbike track, my girlfriend and our daughter will have a little garden, and maybe the most important thing: our economic situation will be much MUCH better.

Well that’s the reason why I havent been very active lately, but I am very close to have finished all the StuG’s now. I will be on a business trip to New York the next five days, but hopefully very soon after I am back, I will be able to upload pictures of the little devils.

Let’s celebrate view no. 30.000 with a little poll

Sometime this week this blog reached 30.000 views. Probably what Mig Jimenez get every day, but a mediocre wannabe like me is proud.

Give me some input and if possible I will try to make it all better.

Our new apartment…

Sorry that I haven’t been posting for a while. Me and my girlfriend has moved to a new apartment and have been busy making some improvements to it. I hope I will have time to my hobby again in some weeks!

Best Regards
Thomas : )

EDIT: What’s really cool about the new apartment is that it lies very close to a park that still shows remnants from Copenhagens old defences, built around 1657, when defending the city from the Swedes.

Hello wargamers!

This is my first post. I will use the next couple of days to inform you on projects that I have started up. I will also show some pictures of stuff that I have been doing lately. In the start pictures will mainly be some already shown on forums where I am a member. Later on I will try to keep track on what I am doing, hoping that this will work as inspiration for others that share my hobby. I guess that there also will be some talk about producers of plastic models, figures, paint and tools that I have experiences with. I can not guarantee that I will not be talking about other stuff, if that happens then just ignore those posts ;)