Had a good push today on painting and finishing the detailing on the Gunther.

I have painted about 80% of the base coat (hopefully it's the right colour!) and done all the basic painting on the diorama base. My only worry is that there isn't enough time before the South Cheshire Militaire to get it finished to the competition level that I originally wanted.


So, it may just be a display on the SFM:uk table - it might even be in progress during the event! We'll just have to wait and see ...

Some sideways progress indeed. Chopped up the Flakpanzer and just tacked it onto the dinosaur just to see what I need to do to make it look a bit more realistic(!). Some sort of padding and strapping is in order methinks.

You'll notice a different diorama base, a better one from Miniart. Think I need to get hold of a square wooden base to put it on or something.

Just kicked off the second of this year's Group Builds over at SFM:uk, called "Dinomania".

Essentially several of us are taking a 1/35 Tamiya Triceratops (or two) and doing anything we like with it. Currently there are four participants, but there may be some more in the future.

My plan is to somehow turn mine into an alternate universe Dino Flakpanzer (anyone with a better name, let me know). I have some spare 1/35 WWII figures and accessories in the bits box, so will try and do something with them.

It's a pick-up build, so quite a long deadline (near the end of the year) so don't expect too many updates, it's something that will be worked on in parallel with the other planned builds this year.

Just for interest (and so you can see how I'm doing), here is my self-imposed build list for 2008:

• MaK Fireball SG and AFSSA E3C/E3CM Meteor asteroid diorama
• MaK Forum Group Build: Feuerspritze
  
• SFM:uk 2008 Competition Build (secret!)
• MaK Krote diorama
• SFM:uk Dinomania Group Build
• Anything else that tickles my fancy!

Let's see how I get on with that lot!