Cthulhu bust

After 39.M Csaba was done the plan was to work on some more hungarian armor. But since these models are pretty cute I wanted to make them even cooler - by adding the crew. Lucky for me Warlord released hungarian tank crew set which can be used on vehicles remaining in the pile of shame and to replace original german officer running the Hetzer.

Since I was waiting to get the crew anyway, decision was made to splash some paint on other piece of resin chunk waiting on the very bottom of Ye Bucket. It's old Cthulhu bust. The idea to get it done was spawned, because recently I started reading some Call of Cthulhu RPG materials and having good time reading those spooky stories and scenarios. The model cannot help with potencial gaming (both RPG and miniatures) but it might be nice background for taking photos of adventurers or cursed Dagon cultists. It also can be used as office decoration or as melee weapon (that wooden base should easily crush any skull).

As for painting - I wouldn't even think about it without having an airbrush ready for action. Sadly lots of parts are really hard to get (not only for painting but also for cleaning mould lines) so I had to hide these flaws in deeper shadows, properly taken pictures and hobby cheats like that. Original base was resin cast of wooden block, but IMO it wasn't big enough for such a model so I got something bit larger (proper wood this time). 

Any conclusion?
It was huge pain in the ass to paint but I'm glad having one more piece painted. It's always nice feeling having another model saved from the jar of shame (one of few jars actually). This one was eating lots of precious storage space. Hope you like it anyway 🦑

Already in the office - temporarly. Will be guarding the papers until I find better place for the piece:

39.M Csaba (Hungarian army)

Bolt Action is on a roll at the beginning of 2026!

After dealing with two entries for painting contest (infantry squad and vehicle) I decided paint one more toy for VERY slowly growing Hungarian army. 

At first it even wasn't second army project - I simply liked camouflage pattern (nice change after painting US stuff olive, olive and olive) and some weirdo Hungarian vehicles. But during the painting contest on Strategie.net.pl I spotted some printed entries - which were remarkably cool! 

So I got 3 models, which means this with 38.M Toldi and Hetzer makes the armored platoon full... 

In new edition of Bolt Action we can field more vehicles then in the previous one. Hungarians have many rather cheap models available (absolutely most expensive is Hetzer from Axis support: barely over 200 points) so I plan to field full armored platoon: 5 vehicles. Battle experience clearly shows cheap, mostly anti-infantry vehicles are much better investment then expensive, fat über-tank.

For this one I tried another version of ambush camouflage. It's much more "vivid" compared to previous models, because during painting I ran out of olive green and the only color available was light green from Vallejo line. I didn't want to wait for delivery so it was mixed with bronze and violet to make useful base color and all in all final result is acceptable. Maybe not enough dirt for my taste, yet still cool. The turret got magnet to secure it from falling off (this resin or whatever it really is) is quite fragile and I do not want to risk breaking the barrel.

Apparently I f#cked magnet inserting, becuase the gap between turret bottom and hull seems to be just too large. Might put it on hobby station to fix it.
And add more dirt... 😁

And below - new Hungarian ride together with it's tracked cousin 38.M Toldi and Hetzer from German support. Warlord Games sells Hungarian tank crew to I hope to get this set and replace officer in Hetzer: