It’s been a while since I put down words and worked on my hobbies. Life will often get in the way of things you’d rather be doing. Take for example the drywall screws I discovered that the previous owners (or builder of this home I live in) drove into the ABS waste pipe in the wall of my hobby space/office. I discovered this while trying to hang shelving to display my minis and other trinkets. After cutting out the drywall, removing the screws (most of which were rusted and broke off embedded in the pipe), patching the holes with ABS cement, patching the missing drywall, the wall now sits waiting for paint.

Apparently I have to move everything out of the way if I don’t want paint splatter on them. Then came the school activities with my offspring and well…the wall is still in need of paint. Not to mention, I need to get back to my hobby project with the Paras. The troops have been sitting on my work table waiting patiently for support to arrive. Soon Commander, soon.

I have had this obsession to acquire and paint up a set of Airfix WW2 1/32 scale figures since seeing a painted set on the interwebs years ago.

This began a multi-year challenge as I soon realized that these were out of print figures. I searched many websites and Amazon to see if I could buy a set or two. I even reached out to the manufacturer, Airfix – thru its US counterpart Horby Hobbies. No luck…until…

Around late 2021, I discovered that these 1/32 figure sets were on “Pre-order” on the Airfix website. I guess there was enough interest to fire up the old molds and print out some re-issue “original, not some foreign made knock-off” of these figures.

I soon got myself on the website’s notification list and waited. And waited. And waited some more, until around early 2022 when behold I received an email stating these were now in stock in the US, ready for shipping. I bit the bullet and purchased a set of each of the ones they had available – 5 different sets in all. Each retailing for $15.99. Pricey for little “army men” that I was used to paying $0.01 each growing up. I had to have the originals.

After they arrived on my doorstep, I opened the box and straight to my pile of shame they’ve sat until October of 2022. I got off my butt and plan to paint and based each of the sets. I will be showcasing them here as well as on my other socials (IG and YouTube) – I haven’t posted a YT video in so long on my other channel. See the PROJECTS page for more details.