In this episode of Paint & Scale I talk with Neil Wooding of Red Flare Models about the process behind 3D printing and the differences that exists as well as the complexities behind the process. Honourable mentions to Star wars, Bandai, Steam Punk and Green Stuff.

Neil Wooding Scale Modelling Now: https://www.scalemodellingnow.com/category/neil-wooding

Neil Wooding Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redflaremodels/?hl=en-gb

Red Flare Models: https://redflare.tech/?fbclid=IwAR0BL76wayaksT6MNRHhyl2xooPgvZ2s3thf7FqicTujq9Y6fGEVQcy2FEI

Bandai: https://www.bandai.com/

In this Paint & Scale Gary (OC French Det), Phil (OC Wargaming) and I go a little off-piste and end up discussing Museum Dioramas, Peter Cushing, comparing approaches to museums, flat figures, El Alcazar and the German approach to battle reports. Oh and TEWtS or Practical Exercise Not Involving Soldiers. Special mention to Soviet Partisans and the Omaha Beach Museum.

Links of interest

Battle of Jutland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland

Peter Cushing Wargaming: https://dangerousminds.net/comments/all_the_kings_men_peter_cushings_impressive_5000_piece_collection_of_model_

Flat Figures: https://www.intflatfigures.org/

Middlesex Regt: https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/middlesex-regiment-duke-cambridges-own

El Alcazar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc%C3%A1zar_of_Seville

King of the Battelfield: https://lacewarsintin.blogspot.com/2016/01/battle-of-kolin.html

Soviet Partisans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_partisans

Omaha Beach Museum: http://www.musee-memorial-omaha.com/en/

In this episode of Paint & Scale, we discuss current builds including Red Arrow WHIFs, and Special Hobby Whirlwinds, future builds including Tamiya's Ford GPA, Airfix M18 as well as Pen & Sword books, UK Phantoms, and large boats. Honourable mentions to smuggling kits, HK Models, Ultimate Apex airbrushes and the sad demise of Kittyhawk/Panda models.

Links

Scale Modelling Now: https://www.scalemodellingnow.com/

Pen & Sword Books: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/

Revell Hawk T2: https://www.revell.de/en/produkte/modellbau/flugzeuge/militaer-modern-revell/bae-hawk-t2.html

Special Hobby Whirlwinds: https://bit.ly/3xgkvwD

Tamiya Ford GPA: https://www.tamiya.com/english/products/35336/index.htm

Airfix M18: https://uk.airfix.com/products/m-18-hellcat-a1371

Italeri MTB: https://www.italeri.com/en/product/2879

HK Models: https://www.hk-models.com/hkm/

Ultimate Apex airbrushes: https://www.umpretail.com/products/ultimate-apex-airbrush

OC Census Mark Jones returns to the Adjutants Lounge to discuss map-reading, Cannock Chase's military past, more census analysis, the Cavalry and modern pack animals. With honourable mentions to Taff Gillingham, what might have been for family members and jodhpurs.

Episode Illustration from Charley's War illustrated by Joe Colquhoun 

Links & Books of interest

Mark Jones Twitter: @MoseleyMAJ

Taff Gillingham Twitter: @Taff_Gillingham

Cannock Chase Museum: http://www.inspiringhealthylifestyles.org/cannock/museum/

DATR: https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/corps-regiments-and-units/army-medical-services/royal-army-veterinary-corps/defence-animal-training-regiment/

Horsemen in No Man's Land: British Cavalry and Trench Warfare 1914-1918 by David Kenyon

Household Cavalry Museum: http://www.householdcavalrymuseum.co.uk/

In this, the final part of the Opel Coast tour, Gary heads back to Dunkerque calling in on a few old friend along the way. Honourable mentions to a gamble that failed, Norman Wisdom and Kenneth Branagh 

List of People and places mentioned in the Podcast.

La Société Protectrice des Animaux (SPA): https://www.la-spa.fr/

The Douglas Bader Walk: https://thegoodlifefrance.com/the-douglas-bader-trail-saint-omer-hauts-de-france/

Cassel Nord: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassel,_Nord

The Battle of Cassel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cassel_(1677)

Ferdinand Foch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Foch

Cassel Tourism Guide: https://www.france-voyage.com/tourism/cassel-1151.htm

Wormhoudt massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhoudt_massacre

Mick Mannock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mannock

Dunkerque: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk

Jean Bart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bart

Dunkirk War Museum: https://www.dunkirk-tourism.com/things-to-do/dunkirk-1940-operation-dynamo/dunkirk-war-museum/

Jean-Paul Belmondo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Belmondo

Musee Sandelin: https://www.musees-saint-omer.fr/

The first part in a new series of Paint & Scale Podcasts featuring Dr. Philip Blood and Gary from Calais discussing their love of Wargamming, the characters, and where it led them. With honourable mentions Beatties of London, over zealous shop keepers, Francois ver Linden and Roy Dilley.

Gary returns with more revelations from the Opel Coast and the Seven Valley. This episode is awash with historical details and characters, explanations on why War Graves are laid out the way they are and features the birthplace of the RAF too. Honourable mentions to nurses, CWGC, Tom Jones, PG Wodehouse, Bessie Coleman and Field Marshal Frederick Roberts.

Links to pages of interest:

Publishers/book series of interest:

After the Battle series: https://www.afterthebattle.com/

Pen & Sword Battleground series: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Battleground-Books-WWII/s/27

*not a real Regiment.

In this feature length episode of the Adjutants Lounge we're joined by Neil Poynter whose career in the Royal Engineers covered a step-change in NATO attitudes to the Warsaw Pact threat in Central Europe and its subsequent collapse as well as stints as a Troop Commander, Adjutant and trying to desperately hide from Wolfgang

Embedded with the Cavalry in West Germany, Neil shares his experience of working with some of the most prolific military leaders of the time including Generals. Rupert Smith and Roddy Cody Simpson as well as an interesting meeting with Dennis Thatcher.

Honourable mentions to US Nuclear Security, BRIXMIS, Measel Shafts and Russian Artillery.

Gary from Calais continues his journey along the Opel Coast, looking at its ties to the Tudors, Privateers, Victor Hugo and roundabouts. Honourable mentions to French film, Railway Guns, military geology and the Monocled Mutineer.

Links that may be of interest:

Welcome to the Sticks (Comedy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Sticks

French Revolutionary Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars

Railway guns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_gun

The Atlantic Wall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wall

Saint-Omer and the British Army, 1914-1918: https://cutt.ly/4bKE4Xi

Grand Quartier Général (1914–1919): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Quartier_G%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral_(1914%E2%80%931919)

The Hush WAACs - The secret ladies of St Omer: https://www.gchq.gov.uk/information/hush-waacs

Les Miserables at Montruil: http://www.lesmiserables-montreuil.com/

In this episode of Paint & Scale I talk with Dilip Sarkar MBE about his latest book ''Sailor' Malan - Freedom Fighter', commemorating the unknown fallen and model making. Honourable mentions to Pen & Sword, the Spitfire and photo etch. 

Sailor Malan Resources:

''Sailor' Malan - Freedom Fighter': https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sailor-Malan-Freedom-Fighter-Hardback/p/18990

A wonderful selection of Malan Videos can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sailor+malan+interview

Torch Commando's Videos- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW8gNsq5_n8

War Dead Recovery Organisations & articles:

UK - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/mod-war-detectives-the-joint-casualty-and-compassionate-centre-commemorations-team-what-we-do

CWWG - https://www.cwgc.org/

French - http://www.greatwar.co.uk/organizations/ministere-des-pensions.htm

USA - https://www.dpaa.mil/

Russia - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25589709

Germany - https://www.volksbund.de/

Dutch - https://www.missingsoldiersinthenetherlands40-45.com/recovery-of-bodies-after-the-war-battle-of-arnhem-newspaper-clippings-netherlands/

Japanese - https://thediplomat.com/2020/08/75-years-later-1-million-japanese-war-dead-still-missing/