(Editor’s note: we continue to follow Teddy’s hobby adventures abroad.)

I am most excited to get working on the US Airborne and I was held over for a few days during in processing. Off to the PX to see what I can find for a light. At first I was thinking I might have to use a head lamp but bless AAFES for having a good selection of Ott Lights. The OttLite Task Lamp CSE13G5P has 3 light spectrums with 3 levels of brightness, a digital display with calendar, time, alarm, ambient temperature, height adjustment, and usb charging port. (That’s right I use an Oxford coma, wana fight about it?)

With my new light I set to work using a 3-drawer nightstand as my work surface. I had to flip the mattress up from my bunk so I wasn’t sitting up so high but it was still a quite uncomfortable position. I got a bit of basing done with the uniform color. I found it a little dark and may be changing it out. My recipe is heavily based on Painting Panzers 1/72 US Airborne video and it appears he is set to release a video painting the Warlord Games Dick Winters miniature. So I will have to compare the two and see which one I like before moving forward.

This hold over was fortunate as my first care package was sent without the OttLite I had set aside. The paint colors I needed but arrived after my departure from Fort Livingroom and my coffee made it in that first care package so no harm no foul.