I am still thinking a lot about my future wargaming ... and I have been keeping myself busy whilst I do so

Last month, I mentioned that I had been doing a lot of thinking about my future wargaming and that I had been considering several ideas and possible strategies. That process is still ongoing, although my ideas are beginning to crystallize.

In the meantime, I have been trying to use my time constructively. Rather than paint figures, and spurred on by the success of my repaint of the resin model of Tallinn's famous Viru Gate, I decided to paint some model buildings that I constructed whilst I was bedridden last year.

I used the same basic technique (and colours) that I used on the model of the Viru Gate. In other words, all the models were given a dark grey undercoat (Humbrol No.67) and the majority were then dry brushed with beige (Revell No.314). The roof tiles were repainted using carmine red (Revell No.36) and dry brushed with a 3:1 mixture of carmine red and beige. The details were then picked out in a number of other colours. Once they were finished, each building was mounted on a 3mm-thick MDF base that was flocked with fine cork granules.

The resulting buildings looked like this:

I was so impressed by the end results that I have actually bought another example of Faller's 1965-vintage 'Old town block' model (Code number B-924) to build and paint.