{"id":10560,"date":"2025-08-13T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=10560"},"modified":"2025-08-13T08:35:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:35:01","slug":"work-in-progress-wednesday-206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/work-in-progress-wednesday-206\/","title":{"rendered":"Work in Progress Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/work-in-progress-wednesday-206\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p><em>Jeremey is on holiday this week, so he&#8217;s left Tony the keys to the WIP Wednesday post&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll start off with Chairman Mark&#8217;s fine collection of 28mm Shermans that he&#8217;s been working on for a while, building up towards a big Nijmegen game later this year. There&#8217;s been a bit of rivalry at the club over who has the biggest Sherman collection &#8211; we suspect Phil is still ahead, with Dave also a strong contender, but Mark&#8217;s catching up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also added a British half-track (likely an M5) and Daimler armoured car, a German bunker and some anti-tank guns (type unspecified, but some internet research points at them being 50mm Pak 38s).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Halftrack.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10567\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/work-in-progress-wednesday-206\/halftrack\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Halftrack.jpeg?fit=1024%2C702&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,702\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Halftrack\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Halftrack.jpeg?fit=840%2C554&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Halftrack.jpeg?resize=840%2C472&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Halftrack.jpeg?resize=850%2C478&amp;ssl=1 850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Halftrack.jpeg?resize=250%2C141&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Bunker.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10564\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/work-in-progress-wednesday-206\/bunker-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Bunker.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1008&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1008\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bunker\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Bunker.jpeg?fit=840%2C554&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Bunker.jpeg?resize=840%2C472&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Bunker.jpeg?resize=850%2C478&amp;ssl=1 850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Bunker.jpeg?resize=250%2C141&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AT-Gunss.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10566\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/work-in-progress-wednesday-206\/at-gunss\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AT-Gunss.jpeg?fit=1024%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AT Gunss\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AT-Gunss.jpeg?fit=840%2C547&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AT-Gunss.jpeg?resize=840%2C472&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AT-Gunss.jpeg?resize=850%2C478&amp;ssl=1 850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AT-Gunss.jpeg?resize=250%2C141&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eric has been turning yet more Matchbox cars into wasteland warriors for a Gaslands game with all manner of add-ons and accessories. The one on the right with exposed wheels looks especially cool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Gaslands-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10565\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/work-in-progress-wednesday-206\/gaslands-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Gaslands-2.jpg?fit=1024%2C550&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,550\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Gaslands (2)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Gaslands-2.jpg?fit=840%2C451&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Gaslands-2.jpg?resize=840%2C472&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Gaslands-2.jpg?resize=850%2C478&amp;ssl=1 850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Gaslands-2.jpg?resize=250%2C141&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stephen has made some 15mm objective markers for Vietnam games, which should also serve for WW2. I suspect a few of us will be hunting for those in an upcoming game of Charlie Don&#8217;t Surf.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Markers.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10562\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/work-in-progress-wednesday-206\/markers\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Markers.jpg?fit=1024%2C796&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,796\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Markers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Markers.jpg?fit=840%2C554&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Markers.jpg?resize=840%2C472&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Markers.jpg?resize=850%2C478&amp;ssl=1 850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Markers.jpg?resize=250%2C141&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, I quickly turned out some individually based figures to act as Big Men (NCOs and officers) for a game of TFL&#8217;s <em>Quadrant 13<\/em>. They&#8217;re only 6mm, so really they should be Little Men. Or Little Big Men ?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BigMen.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10572\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/work-in-progress-wednesday-206\/bigmen\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BigMen.jpg?fit=1024%2C573&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,573\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BigMen\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BigMen.jpg?fit=840%2C470&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BigMen.jpg?resize=840%2C472&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BigMen.jpg?resize=850%2C478&amp;ssl=1 850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BigMen.jpg?resize=250%2C141&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeremey will be back next week, you&#8217;ll doubtless be pleased to hear !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremey is on holiday this week, so he&#8217;s left Tony the keys to the WIP Wednesday post&#8230; We&#8217;ll start off with Chairman Mark&#8217;s fine collection of 28mm Shermans that he&#8217;s been working on for a while, building up towards a big Nijmegen game later this year. There&#8217;s been a bit of rivalry at the club &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/work-in-progress-wednesday-206\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Work in Progress Wednesday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"It's Wednesday again - Jeremey is off, so he's left the WIP Wednesday post in Tony's hands. Shermans, Shermans, Shermans...","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,129,18,16,50,157,7,46,66,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chain-of-command","category-charlie-dont-surf","category-gaslands","category-modelling-and-painting-articles","category-post-apocalyptic","category-quadrant-13","category-science-fiction","category-vietnam","category-wip-wednesday","category-ww2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Shermans.jpeg?fit=1024%2C471&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A5LG-2Kk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10560"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10573,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560\/revisions\/10573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}