last post b4 xmas

no doubt this will be my last post before Xmas, with some international brigade figures finished and a republican HMG team.but on the paint table from today are 30+ milita based awaiting undercoat.

along with 9 nationalist cavalry and some artillery
no doubt my paint project for over Xmas hopefully i will get most of it done and then set up a Spanish civil war game early in the new year.

looking forward to next year Rome is going to be high on my list of projects to do as most of the figures i need are in stock already

so i hope everyone has a good Xmas and gets pleanty of lead/plastic to keep them busy in the new year.

its got to be a first

more spanish civil war has been completed, falange HQ two more nationalist HMG teams

two Republican armoured trucks with 3 more underway on the paint table as i type.

a mighty T26 tank not needed in scenario 1 but who cares i wanted one.

as for a first, today i went to our local games workshop store, and to my surprise they refused to sell me some 60mm bases as they don't carry them in stock and will only order them in for people who are registered on line and not a walk in customer?????

quite how this makes a profit i have no idea but its the first time i've been turned down by the evil empire just for wanting to buy some bases, next step make my own or eBay, being Xmas make my own is looking good,

imperial troops

well being stuck in the house due to the snow has its advantages when it comes to painting especily as nothing is ever on tv,

one 15mm Japanese platoon all figures from peter pig and im impressed how they turned out with keeping the paint style to the minimum not sure if i have enough to make another platoon or not, but at least peter pig now pack them in platoon blisters,

also finished these 2 future wars 28mm girls with guns one from the foundry street violence range and one limited ed from cobblestone casting still got a box of started future wars figures but as the postman delivered lots of scw stuff thats going to take priority for a while

post arrives

at last with the snow all over the post man arrived twice today. fetching my orders from empress miniatures along with other mail, now to continue with my scw project, despite everything being sent in bubble bags no damage was done to anything even the resin trucks, my only fault is all the figures need identifying into their relivent packs before cleaning and painting starts. how hard is it to put a pack code on a bag.

now just to wait for the force of arms order to arrive

more scw

more for my Spanish civil war project finished today, some old lledo vehicles dug out and repainted and re based on road bases total 10 trucks some with slogans for the republican side

also finished some nationalist infantry and a hmg team now i have to wait for my next order of scw stuff to arrive from empress minis or force of arms

i know some people will say sloppy jalopy in 1.48 looks better but each to their own and lledo vehicles are cheap to pick up and as in the last pic look ok to me scale wise

banzai

at long last progress has been made to my 15mm pacific forces in the way of a small amount of armour, for the USMC 3 m4 Sherman's form battlefront not much different from the eto apart from no stars and they are too small to mark as USMC.

and for the japs 3 tankettes from peter pig also finished along with painting started on a platoon of imperial jap infantry.

also on a not painting side i managed to see the new film skyline, and in the world of bad films i would put this one as the worst I've seen apart from good effects the story is stupid the ending bad and not much in the middle basically don't bother to see it even if its for free.

spanish civil war panzer 1's

another day another post, this almost made yesterday but not quite.

panzer 1 with 20mm auto cannon conversion these were made in small numbers in Spain, mine is from force of arms in resin picked up at the first partizan show this year.
the good thing about the scw is not many vehicles are needed.

as a comparison this panzer 1 is in metal from empress miniatures some scale difference in noticeable when side by side but as one is the pz1 a and one a pz1b easy to get away with.

so my powerful nationalist armoured force but in a moment of slight madness today i ordered a T-26 tank for the republic side even though i don't need one for the forces in the scenario im working on but plenty of milita are also ordered

wargames factory shock troops

more figures finished. getting to be like the days before getting ill.
more stuff is on the paint table nearing completion but very impressed with these. keeping the paint simple and close to the kill zone game i think they have much potential for sci-fi games.

overall worth getting and looking into the pound shops for cheap vehicles in the about right scale for a cheap sci-fi skirmish game

new figures finished

after a long time able to pick up a brush i finally finished some new figures, notably the warlord plastic Germans.
they go together ok but could have had the rifle ammo pouches as separate on the sprue.

my choice of painting them afrika korps or Italy use just to do them differently

also finished is this 1/48 scale me109 picked up years ago from a pound shop, the decals didn't stick so i did my best free hand just need to add some static grass at the front of the base

15mm fow dak and 8th army

a few pics from my fow desert forces taken at the gy club last monday


crusaders and vickers mk6 on the attack

25pdr battery

knocked out crusaders

hmg platoon

motor rifle platoon

afrika korps platoon

knocked out pzIII

150mm heavy artillery

tiger platoon

romel