Painting update

Day 6 of isolation

Here are a few snippets of the armour that I'm painting as
well as some other activities usually reserved for rainy days!

These are the lost three Italian M13/40's that I had forgotten Dave had given me to paint.

They make up the seven resin tanks that I'd started painting .

A base coat of black over painted by desert yellow

Meanwhile all tanks need some decals and ID markings don't they?

Italians had a great and simple way to ID their armour

Each colour was the company, Red=1st Blue=2nd etc.

Line bars for the platoon so one bar =1st platoon, two bars =2nd platoon

I've yet to paint the tank numbers under the colour block..

And why not just buy the decals?
Well they're in West Herrington and I'm not ha ha.

Here are my carrier section getting near completion complete with baggage and weapons

  
and crew of course

One of the consequences of isolation is that you notice things
that were't so obvious under "normal conditions" 

So I decided to arrange the books back into their

correct order, period and campaigns... yes sad!

OCD satiated and even a visit by the 

dust fairy who magically cleaned the shelves and revealed tops..

Finally I've long been wanting to have my late 

Uncle Matthew's medals on display.

Matthew Mason 

Pioneer Corps

Like many of our relatives he saw no personal merit in these 

and in fact never opened the box they were delivered in.

His post war years weren't very good for him and I'm certain 

he's be classed as a PTSD victim today

Very proud of this man who has my son named after him. 

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North Africa Star, The Italy Star and France and Germany Star

as well as the 1939-1945 Star and War Medal 1939-1945

Thank you for the kind inquiries about Janet, who has recovered 

from feeling unwell and can even smell things again!

Take care everyone and catch up soon