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@@DieSuper-Influencer thanks :) these videos are a mixed bag. Sometimes you can see 40 YO models mixed with some made last week. I'll try to point out the older ones in the future.

@@DieSuper-Influencer thanks. Probably maybe some 30 years intermingled with many other armies and projects.

@@joaopeixoto5249 wow impressive

@@DieSuper-Influencer thanks. The rarer the unit is the more can converted stuff look better as there is little comparison.

sure. give me a few days.

@@joaopeixoto5249 Thanks man! I really love watching your videos, they are both relaxing and surprisingly informative! I would really be interested in some after action battle reports! Keep up the great work and inspiration!

@@worldwarmini3919 My main source is Alain Verwicht Panzer Voran Hors de Série No1 on the 21st Panzer in Normandy. This is a hard to get thing from the 90s but I think you can get it from here : www.sre-editions.fr/e-boutique/panzer-voran/ Other numbers from Panzer Voran came again to 21PD. Another book is Heimdal Caen 1944 with plenty of reports from 21PD in Normandy. There are others and of course you should also use the Web.

@@MichaelA-ru4gc plastic champagne flutes bought in Supermarkets.

@@joaopeixoto5249 interesting, i've never seen that before. How do you attach the planes to them?

@@MichaelA-ru4gc you simply turn the flutes upside down, glue them to a base and the model aircraft will sit on it. As the base of the flute is hollow ( now the base is the base for the model) all raised details like bombs and such will fit on the hollow part.

Thanks mate. Our originals - like this train and your boats - are a big source of pleasure in this hobby.

Thanks Phil. The armored train and the small tractor are my favorites. Far from perfect but at least original.

Thanks Ayebee. I think I spoke Portoamerican this time :)

C´mon you should have discovered this blog long ago! You´ve been loosing time 😄

Thanks. Im trying to keep most of my armies 20 mil. Sometimes it goes other scales but 20s is my scale of choice.

Thanks.There were around 20 British and Canadian used by the 21PD in the normandy Campaign. Heimdal books shows a few of them.

Give me time, man, give time :)

AWI is great fun whatever the scale. All the best for your collection were you can place scars on the figure´s faces :)

@@joaopeixoto5249 Ha! Alright thank you very much.

Thanks. I buy Desperta Ferro magazine and they show always mixed uniforms in all their very well researched articles and paintings.

@@joaopeixoto5249 - Ahh, I have four or five Spanish Civil War issues of Desperta Ferro. Will have to give them a closer look!

Thanks. Irregular is highly underrated as they have some very nice ranges in many scales. Their problem is having some of the main ranges made many years/decades ago and that shows against some competition.

Are you sure? I believe he’s meant to be a Gastador, that is a combat pioneer. His bushy beard goes back to Napoleonic fashions adopted by pioneers. Certainly an NCO but not sure of his rank, corporal, sergeant, RSM? The pouches at his waist are for Lafitte grenades.

@@sirrathersplendid4825 I`m not 100% sure I have one painted up as a standard bearer, the other as a Brigada within my Bandera he does look the part.

@@richarddababer8493 - I have the BUM Legion box too. It contains three such figures. Was thinking one as the Legion standard bearer, one as the platoon NCO, and the third, slightly converted, as the backbone of a Dinamiteros Team in a Republican Militia force. Am using the Chain of Command España supplement as my rule system.

@@sirrathersplendid4825 I think my third guy ended up with a head-swoped fez and became Captian of the Pasha of Tangiers bodyguard - I have no shame 😁

@@richarddababer8493 - 👌 perfect! My Moroccans are still a pipe-dream. Have only a recon team of six converted from Strelets Arabs as support for my Legion. Which rules are you using?

Thanks. My painting is pretty old style ( like me, in fact :), black prime; main color; 50%main color +50%white aprox. So no wash and all that modern stuff 😀

Thanks Robert. Frankly I only did 28s because they became cheaper with hard plastic showing up. And yes, my favourite size is 20mm.

I have a roman republican army taylored for Cannae and another one for "classic" empire (with lorica segmentata). Unfortunately no byzantines even if I have family in Istambul and i am a regular visit to the place.

Agree. Also the quality of nowadays Perrys and others help to overcome that drabness :)

@@joaopeixoto5249 - Sadly my preferred scale is 1/72, so no Perrys for me :(

@@sirrathersplendid4825in fact perrys are the culprits of a large stash of mine of Waterloo 20mm figures. Fortunately many ended up at the Alamo or converted into other Napoleonic periods.

Thanks. They must be around some 700 figures total. If you want go to my blog jpwargaming.blogspot and enter the folder Alamo 1836 and you can see pictures of all units individually.

That is terrible. What consequences?

I´m not a believer :) but yes I have some patience.

Apparently there was boggy terrain/small curses of water on both sides of the saxon shield wall which forced the Norman heavy infantry and cavalry to attack head on.

@@joaopeixoto5249 - There’s nothing (as far as I know) about boggy land or water in the written accounts of the battle. Also the geography of the “accepted” battlesite has no such terrain. Either the shieldwall was deployed in a horse-shoe shape or the battle took place at a different site where there was indeed boggy land on either flank.

@@sirrathersplendid4825 From the History press: "Battle Hill is no mountain, but it is an imposing position and one well suited to an infantry defence of the shield wall. At its top is a fairly flat plateau, some 800 metres long and about 150 metres deep. It is protected on its flanks and rear by a number of streams and areas of marshy ground that fall away, sometimes pretty steeply, giving an attacker little choice but to go for a frontal assault up the slope that stretches away below the ridgeline for 400-500 metres. This is no easy option, with more streams and boggy ground to negotiate at the base of that same slope, before an army then has to struggle up the incline to the summit itself." This kind of statement is found in several publications. If they are true or not can´t say for sure as there is a dispute over the exact place of the battle (Senlac Hill, Caldec Hill, etc) but its normal for ancient and medieval armies, when on the defensive, to look for an area with covered flanks.

@@joaopeixoto5249 - That’s interesting. I’ve not been to the battlefield myself (really should go some time!). But from topographical works based largely on modern Ordnance Survey maps, my impression was that there are no streams or boggy areas to the flanks of the accepted battlesite. There’s a very good episode of the archaeology TV programme Time Team, which suggests a more convincing site for the battle - on a spur of land astride the main road from the coast. Worth watching here on yt.

Thanks Robert. Hat made several 28mm boxes of Bavarians, French light infantry and British cavalry but nowadays I havent been able to catch them. Calpe are the super stars of 28mm as they have loads of French and specially Prussians whose artillery is unmatched by any other brand.

Thanks Jack. I even place Hat minis within a mostly Perry or Victrix unit, only changing the head and to a good effect.

Thanks Phil. The quality of the castings help a lot.

They are some 20 years old. Frankly I don't remember from where they came but if you ask in a wargames forum of FB Page someone will know for sure.

Thanks, that is great news. I remember placing that question is a Napoleonic forum and receiving a big NO from most of the people. But, c´mon if many of the French were issue with a coat only why not distributing old uniforms if there were stocks of them?

Thanks. Yes they do and I changed dozens of them. My rule though is to use the bodies of Hat, Esci, Revell or Italeri with the larger heads of Airfix and not the other way as they look just silly, specially Hat tiny heads on big Airfix bodies.

Thanks. True.

Thanks. Already learned something.

Thanks mate. Glad to hear that.

@@joaopeixoto5249 I love your site. Check it every day! What do you use to varnish/seal your figures?

@@joaopeixoto5249 I check your page daily - what do you use to varnish/seal your figures?

@@ianterencecorrigan8054 it depends. For tanks and aircraft, generally nothing. For figures I like Inart, a portuguese sealer applied with brush that can be used both as glue and varnish.