It all started with a coffee.

The coffee that started it all.

Its Wednesday, Its 10 am, and I just made myself a coffee. Its a day off and have the need for hobby! First on the hobby table is Ghazkul. But that's not all, since I had a delivery of Flames of War miniatures arrive, I decided to work on them too.

Two boxes of mobile light AA.

Besides them, there's also the Bretonnian knights that were still incomplete. So todays task was to continue with painting Ghazkul and finish him, progress further with the knights and put together the two boxes of German Light AA.

Bretonnian Knights.

So I started with Ghazkul, simply starting with the Vallejo Model Natural Steel to clean any of the mistakes covering the steel section on him, and then weathering the armour plates that were coloured in black and red. His tabard was to be blue and I would clean his pants since I had gotten some silver on them.

A bit of weathering on his plates.

 Before I would continue with the Orky paint job, I decided to continue using the silver on the knights, since the horses needed their armour plates painted. Once I was done with that, I applied Vallejo Model Beige Brown that I had used on Ghazkuls pants on some of the straps and saddles and even one horses coat.

Work progressing on the warhorses.

But before I had completed this, I began working on putting together the Quad 2cm mobile trucks. That's when things took a sharp turn in my enthusiasm. The dreaded Battlefront resin and metal models took a lot out of me, and found myself easily distracted with anything other than working with this terrible kit.

The resin and metal kit.

The kit is unnecessarily complex and surprised me in how many pieces each model came in. Some pieces had terrible flashing to boot, and the fit on the front wheels was terrible. The back bed of the truck even has latched walls that are metal and separate from the bed itself. Too much patience was required for something that should of been simple and easy if only it was a plastic kit.

The front wheels aren't even touching the ground.

The guns themselves were also bent and required quite a bit of coaxing just to straighten them out, with it being difficult as the two barrels were so close to one another, and getting in the way of each other. Each gun is secured to the bed of the truck with superglue, so they don't turn and are fixed in one position.

Bent guns with lots of flashing.

Here they are complete, with the stat card that comes in the box. Richard loves shooting his 17 pdrs at them, and I can't help but giggle when they save against them more reliably than my Panzer 4s.

Richards bane on the battlefield.

Once I had finished them, I contemplated leaving the second box alone and continue working on painting the other models, but decided to at least open up the box and look inside, since I had noticed on the back that you can build it as either mobile light AA or fixed light AA.

Back of the box.

When I had bought the box, I didn't know this box was capable of building both units. I had wondered if it was possible to get the fixed variety from anywhere other than direct from Battlefront themselves, and I really didn't want to order anything through them since the shipping can be hit or miss from them.

Whats inside the box.

The kit comes with quite a lot, and I'm already weighing up buying a second kit. It has the whole gamut of Battlefronts miniature material technology. Resin, metal, soft plastic and hard plastic are all in one box, and there's an over abundance of minis in here to build everything on the back of the box up to four models completely. This is where I believe they should of included more gun sprues so you could build both units in their entirety, since by the end, there are a lot of miniatures that will go unused.

Completed 2cm AA truck.

Thankfully this kit is much easier to put together and fit more nicely than the previous kit. The wheels and track are metal and they fit well, with the front wheels actually being flush to the ground as well. The gun isn't immediately obvious on how it goes together, but it goes together well once I sussed it out. Even the gunner fits nicely for a metal model.

Those gunners look too relaxed.

The truck is more mostly resin, including the walls of the bed, and even the driver himself, other than the head which is metal. Somewhat weird to have the head separate but I guess it gives me a chance to have some look in a different direction.

Some of the left overs.

By this point I had enough of putting together resin and metal models, and it had drained any enthusiasm for painting any more today, so I called it quits on the endeavour and wrapped it up. A fair bit of progress, and now I have a good excuse to paint up some more Flames of War in the future.

Both boxes completed.

I didn't finish painting Ghazkul, but I did at least make more progress on him, and that's the important thing about this hobby; even a little progress is better than none. Next time I can work on more milestones on painting him, or the knights, or even begin working on more Germans for Flames of War.

Progress, even if only a little!

Until next time!