This evening we had a power cut for a good old while so it tool me a while to get motivated.

First off I started building some shipping containers. I would have had two completed. Sadly the power failure caused the second one to be unfinished. I am having to reprint the bits again.

I also had a faff about with some netting to add some camouflage to the scout sniper.

This is just wrapped around the miniature to see what I think which is why bits of the net are sitting at 90 degrees to the weapon.

I also got some rust on the vehicle… not that you can see it.

Now I am not sure if it is because the base colour is red, or if the rust effect stuff has gone a bit odd. I will try another layer tomorrow.

This evening I got the white coat brushed onto the base coated stuff from yesterday.

There is a definite change from yesterday, it is really noticeable on the red vehicle.

Tomorrow I will hopefully get some paint shoved on too.

WW Scenics had a bit of a sale on tufts, even though I have got my gear to make them I bought 400 of 10mm,  100 each of 6 and 4mm scorched grass. So this should do all of my Sci Fi stuff.

To be honest part of me fancies converting the wheeled vehicle into a fire engine for the chemical plant.

This evening I got the scouts about as far as I can be bothered to get them.

They still need their insignia doing on the paldrons and their bases covered in sand.

I was considering free handing insignias and numbers but in reality waterside transfers will work well enough. Question is do I buy ready done ones or have a bash at doing my own on waterslide transfer paper.

I also got the last of the marines built this evening…

Who knows what type of squad they are meant to be… rule of cool wins here I believe 😁.

Six of them are already sprayed black. These will follow suit tomorrow.

So I decided I would go with orange for the weapon casings. It sort of fitted with the red and yellow on the miniatures already. The brown I used for the combat knife had a bit of an orange hue to it too.

Maybe I should have gone with a different colour, but orange meant I did them tonight instead of faffing about trying to choose the ‘right’ colour.

I did most of the metalwork on them too. There is now very little white to cover.

Really just the face bits on them and dome pipes and pump action grips etc. Should hopefully have them finished tomorrow.

In different news, I managed to blag some free fake grass samples. They are round about 10 inches square. There are three different lengths so I will have a think what to do with them.

This evening I slapped more paint on the scouts as well as built the ‘Chonker’ ready for undercoating tomorrow.

Still some work to do on the scouts, the problem I am having is the choice of weapon colour. Might go for an orange to complement the red/yellow combo I have going. An easy option would be black… I might fall back to it if needs be.

Hopefully I will be as semi productive tomorrow.