I spent most of last week away, but made a little more progress on the current project, a bunch of 28mm Redoubt ACW infantry in shell jackets that will become the 88th New York, the second regiment in my Irish Brigade project, I’m not good at painting large batches of figures, so to take a break in between attacks of ADHD I started assembling and then painting a 28mm 4Ground WW2 sentry box to protect the lair of my Weird War baddies. I like 4Ground stuff a lot, it’s fairly was to assemble and looks good when done.
No fresh baked bread to show you but later today I’m doing a beer can chicken on the bbq with Melanzine Ripiene alla Pugliese (stuffed eggplant Puglia style, but it sounds better in Italian) so drop by if you’re hungry! Blessings to your paint brushes!
MP
Would love to try that chicken, but I'm a little far away :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how this translates into Spanish, Benito, but you can have a rain check since you can't make it today. :)
DeleteBeer Can Chicken and Melanzine Ripiene alla Pugliese? Now, those are two dishes you don't see often paired. Quite the culture contrast!
ReplyDeleteThey actually went together rather well, a marriage of old and new worlds, washed down with a nice Italian red wine.
DeleteWouldn't mind dropping in for a taste of that too!! I do like the Redoubt ACW fig's!
ReplyDeleteYou'd be welcome anytime you can make it over to Cannuckistan, Rodger. I like the Redoubt ACW figs too, they are solid like Dixon but without Dixon's weird faces.
DeleteWhat the huck is beer can chicken, Padre?
ReplyDeleteAll is revealed in the next post.
DeleteProgress is most definitely been made, but how do you get the chaps to stand aloft their poles. I've been using blu-tack but it just seem strong enough!
ReplyDeleteHi Michael:
DeleteI use a small dab of white carpenter's glue to keep them on the end of the nail. When I'm done, I place the mini sideways on a piece of foam to protect the paint, and then apply a craft knife to the gap between the bottom base of the mini and the top of the nail. Usually they just pop off. Then I run a file over the top of the nail to remove the glue residue so the next mini will set level on top of it.
Looking good. You'll need to don your princess dress this week and get them finished quicker!
ReplyDeleteHa! That made me laugh, Brummie! Nice. I'd look a proper site in a princess dress.
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