Today, the 12th November 2024 it is 80 years since RAF bombers gave the german battleship Tirpitz her final blow where she was laying for repairs by Haakøya outside Tromsø. 29 bombers flew out from Scotland under the name Operation Catechism. During the eight minutes it took the planes to deliver their bombs, Tirpitz were struck by two Tallboy bombs, and capsized a few minutes later. Nearly 1000 Kriegsmarine sailors were killed, while the British had no losses.

 The local museum had made a small exhibition marking the day, so of course me and the GirlfriendWife had to go. There we found several very nice miniature models of the Tirpitz, her sister ships and some of the RAF planes. There were interesting photos and info and a few items from the ship. The conservator of the museum is an avid miniature modeller, ww2 enthusiast and also a biologist, just like the GirlfriendWife, so we had some interesting chats, and an idea about making an exhibition with some of my stuff were planted as well :D

I just finished painting up this SS soldier. The figure is in scale 1/16, and is manufactured by Jeff Shiu. It is depicting an SS gebirgsjäger somewhere in Finland in 1944. As a  base I used a Finnish compass I found in a gebirgsjäger camp.

Recently I completed painting this gem of a figure. It is 120mm and from the portugese manufacturer RPModels. I believe it was all made by using computers and 3D printers, so no sculpting or casting involved. The level of detail is insane. Almost so that you half expect to see the viking warriors fingerprints.
 It was a joy to paint, which I did using Vallejo Model color, a little oil paint and some Mig and Ammo washes.
Now on to the next project, a Tiger 1 scale 1/35 :) 

"Voina".
I had this battle damaged piece of a Soviet PPSh-41 submachinegun that was dug out in the Kurland Kessel laying around, and I wanted to make a piece of art with it. I hope you like it :)

A while ago I was browsing the web for some miniature stuff I needed and came across these very tiny models of tanks and buildings, scale 1/350. Naturally I began imagining dioramas and scenes and ended up ordering a bunch of different military vehicles. A week later they arrived in the mail and I went to work on a pair of small but very detailed rocket launchers. I ended up with a scene where the TOS launchers had positioned themselves between ruined buildings somewhere in a wintery Ukraine. On the roadside behind them stands a burnt out T-90.
It was interesting to try this for me new scale, and I am brewing on ideas for some other scenes :)