Francois Hardy... with a bit of colour added

I initially won her album "Message Personnel" in about 1973-74 from 2ZB and had lost it over time. A few years ago I found it on Ebay and duly purchased and listened to what, to me, was a nice album. I found another album of hers FH2 in a charity shop and that's quite good too... Of course I thought that I would "like" her page on Facebook and a few weeks ago a black and white image was posted on her profile and I couldn't resist the temptation to add a dash of colour... not too much... so here it is. My faffing about with photos continues!

The West of Scotland Artillery (Militia) arriving at Weymouth 1902

My sister posted a pic on Facebook and had tweaked the levels to get a reasonable image. I then asked if it would be ok to tidy it up a bit and would she send a scan of her original pic. It duly arrived and I guess I spent about 18 hours fiddling and farting about. Below is the original and edited image.

Jagdpanzer IV/70(A)

This is my first attempt at airbrushing and weathering and actually finishing a plastic scale model. This is a cyber-hobby.com Jagdpanzer IV/70(A) tank. 

Paints used were Tamiya Acrylics for spraying and Humbrol Gloss and Matt Aerosol varnish which I was a tad unhappy with. The Matt tended to frost quite badly, but it does give an added weathering effect.

Overall I'm quite happy with my efforts even though it has taken nearly 5 months to get it to this stage. I'm sure that this will be the final product. I do have an amazing amount of parts left over though and think that it could be cyber-hobby.com being a tad lazy.

I did add this fellow from another Tamiya set, Military Miniatures - German Machine Gun Troops... and might even get around to doing a diorama of sorts. But until I have a bit more experience, I might leave that for a while.

My foray into the world of blog!

Well, today I bit the bullet and got this organised. I'm not that sure what to do with it yet except maybe show the world what I'm up to. My interests are many and varied and change depending on my mood. So, I hope that in time it will become  an interesting record of stuff I've done or yet to do. We shall see!