It's been a few days, hasn't it? Unfortunately, updating the blog has been hindered by a very busy couple of weeks (preaching appointments and examinations), so any hobby progress has been left undocumented until now. However, now I am on holiday (with Mrs The Cornish Crusade and The Tiny Crusader) at an undisclosed location for the following week, so I thought I'd best put the metaphorical pen to the metaphorical paper and let you all know how things are going. First things first, the Calebernian and Abnegard air forces have each been supplemented by a pair of piston aircraft, both Mustangs of a kind. Abnegard (in dark blue and red) have received a pair of P51 Mustangs, whereas the Calebernians (in green and yellow) have received two Cavalier Mustang II's with wingtip fuel tanks. Both of these are from Tumbling Dice, and are again at 1/600 scale. I imagine that the Calebernians, having to operate from a greater strategic distance from the Isles of Smoke th...
Greetings, and welcome to Crusading Alone! This a blog that exists for my encouragement and your enjoyment, as a spur to get me painting miniatures and wargaming with them! As an inaugural post, I thought I'd share some models that I painted up recently, as my first ever foray into air wargaming - a pair of F86 Sabres and a pair of MiG-15's, ready to do battle in the contested skies! These are 1/600 aircraft miniatures by Tumbling Dice. The MiG-15's (left) were a doddle to paint; after using The Army Painter's brush-on grey primer, I painted the whole model with Citadel Leadbelcher, picking out the red areas with Citadel Wild Rider Red. Then the whole model was washed with a thin coating of "Marine Wash" (a humdrum of nearly-empty brown & sepia washes that I mixed together), before highlighting the edges of the metalwork & red in their respective colours. The cockpit was painted initially with Citadel Calgar Blue, then with a 1:1 Calgar Blu...