"Behold Jerusalem!" - Knight of the First Crusade (1099) in 54mm

This is one of my first ever attempts at acrylics on a larger scale model - prior to that it had been mostly enamels and oils.  I had been inactive for a long number of years and by the time I returned to the hobby acrylics were all the rage.  It was all very well to use that medium on 6mm figures, but the larger scale models require blending - or layering as it is called when using acrylics. My inexperience at that time in this area is quite plain to see in certain parts of the model (not that I've improved much!) but overall I was satisfied with the end result.

The model is a 54mm resin figure from M Model of Poland.  Not a perfect sculpture but it turned out to be decent enough in the end. Project was completed in 2015.

First post

This is my first ever foray in the blogosphere so I’m very much afraid you will come across the occasional blooper, for which I apologise in advance. Having well exceeded my half century doesn’t help either -  my articulation with tech gadgets is by far inferior to that with paintbrushes.

I have been wargaming since my early teens, way back in the seventies. Back then you could only get Airfix 20mm plastic figures and Airfix Magazine Guides wargame rules. Reference material? Rarer and more precious than a Penny Black! And living on a miniscule Mediterranean island didn’t help much either in the age when snail mail ruled supreme. Nowadays gamers are pampered and spoilt for choice as far as manufacturers, rules, figure scales, terrain, accessories, dice, paints, and what-have-you. Better today certainly then, but the most important thing is that the wargaming spirit lives on and on through the years. Through this blog I will attempt to impart a fraction of that spirit to anyone audacious and patient enough to read and follow this blog.

Let us hope it will be a long and fruitful journey............