My miniatures seem to be always half done, i.e. primed or with a base coat, but no camoflage or detailing. Unfortunately, my recent activities haven't been helping with that issue.  I recently primed/sprayed a base coat on the following miniatures:

2 F-104 Starfighters (Viking Forge, I think)
2 A-7 Crusader IIs (Viking Forge)
2 F-4 Phantoms (Collectair)
2 Mig-29 Fulcrums (Luftwaffe)
2 Lynx helicopters (GHQ)
1 A-10 Thunderbolt II (C-in-C rebuild, amazing what crazy glue and spray paint will do)
6 Soviet 160mm mortars (Viking Forge)
5 TPZ Fuchs (C-in-C)
5 M105 Deuce Bulldozers (GHQ)

On the plus side, I was able to build two very cool paper buildings.  More on those and other buildings I am working on later.

I finally got around to spray priming/basecoating a bunch of my 1/285th scale Cold War-era miniatures including:

15 Dutch YPR-765 (GHQ)
5 Dutch YPR-765 TOW (GHQ)
6 NATO M106 SP mortars (GHQ)
2 Soviet 2S6 AA (PFC C-in-C)
18 AMX-30 (PFC C-in-C)
11 Chieftains (GHQ)
10 Warrior IFVs (GHQ)
3 Central European apartment buildings (? resin manufacturer)

The British vehicles had already been painted various non-standard paint schemes, so I simply sprayed them with Tamiya Olive Drab 2. The Chieftains and half the Warriors haven't been touched in about 26 years.

The other NATO vehicles were primed in a light gray, then sprayed with Tamiya NATO Green. The 2S6s were primed as the NATO vehicles, then sprayed with Tamiya Olive Drab 2.

The buildings were simply sprayed black. I am getting tired of monopoly houses as my principal residential structures, so I may concentrate on my backlog of buildings before everything else.

Removed the flashing from a bunch of cold war 1/285th miniatures and glued them:

15 Dutch YPR-765 (GHQ)
5 Dutch YPR-765 TOW (GHQ)
6 NATO M106 SP mortars (GHQ)
2 Soviet 2S6 AA (PFC C-in-C)
18 AMX-30 (PFC C-in-C)

I finally finished the Deisho fleet I have been working on for a while.  I created a slide show.  The fleet consists of:

• 3 Do"Ming"Tao Class Frigates
• 3 Yen'Ming'Tao Class Frigates
• 2 Shi'Dong'Tao Class Destroyers
• 2 Jin'Dong'Tao Class Destroyers
• 2 Ro'Dong'Tao Class Destroyers
• 1 Jimg'Gung'Tao class Heavy Cruiser
• 1 Bao'Gung'Tao Class Heavy Cruiser
• 1 Yao'Jing'Tao Class Strike Carrier

Unfortunately, the mount hole of one of the destroyers proved to be too small, so I will need to redrill that one. 

Here are the painting notes:

1. after building them, I spray primed them with a gray primer;
2. applied a darker gray to them.  See this note;
3. applied a red mixture to different parts of the ship;
4. applied my standard Floquil silver wash to the red parts to give them a different look;
5. painted the gun barrels, missile launchers and hanger with Model Master Gun Metal;
6. finally painted the inside of the engines in Floquil USSR Underside Blue.

Pictures were taken with the macro feature in direct sunlight, though the picture of the entire fleet might have had the flash on unfortunately.

I have a bunch of other Deisho ships, but those will have to wait their turn in the queue.