THE PAINTING TABLE

The Mantic gun emplacements shown yesterday.

KNIL WW2 AA Platoon with command and three guns.

Gun and crew (2)

Gun and crew (3)

4 spare figures to make each of my units 12 strong to use as Colonials for “Men Who Would Be Kings”, and another command team.

A third squad of KNIL infantry with lewis machine gun. I hope to finish all of these over the next week.

BOOK REVIEWS

There are five more books read, but waiting upon a review

SOME WRITTEN WORK AWAITING COMPLETION

The second book in this series is almost complete – just awaiting final editing.

The story of the sisters Chan and Mook, who saved Thalang (Phuket) from the Burmese invasion of 1785. This one has been a challenge with most of the source material written in Thai. A lot more checking, editing and illustrative work required to finish.

This one is a revision of an old document which needed significantly updating with the proliferation of AI use in writing these days. I am a few weeks off getting this one out.

Those in the pipeline are “Operation Hackney“ about the Australian WW2 invasion to retake Goodenough Island, “Between Empire and Survival” about the WW2 Thai/Vichy French War, and further down the track “The Aceh War 1873 – 1913”, for which I have only drafted the outline. All have only working titles at the moment.

WHO SAID RETIREMENT WAS BORING!

Thanks to “Chattie” for helping me with the “self portrait”!