This time next week these troops will need to be "on the table", but they were delayed when I unexpectedly ran out of Dullcote. Happily Antenociti came up with the goods, very quickly indeed; they provide a great service. I plan to have them all on their bases with the grout in place by the end of today.
Saturday, 13 November 2010
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Varnishing Miniatures at Night in Winter
This is not exactly varnishing "Best Practice", but when I have a tight deadline to meet I find I can usually get away with gloss varnishing even at night. NEVER try this with a matt varnish!
They are the last 32 minis for my recruit legion, fresh from the brush of Nick Speller, and I need them finished and based by the 20th for a game...
Monday, 8 November 2010
First Viet Minh
These (clickable) minis are the first pic of the old 20mm Platoon 20 Viet Minh figures from a previous post that I've been reconditioning. See if you can spot some of the ones that broke off at the ankles. They represent, roughly, a company of Viet Minh regulars at roughly1:4 scale. I will need at least a couple more companies, and hopefully, eventually, a second battalion. Hell, probably a whole regiment. ;-)
Above is a closeup of a couple of very heavy machine guns, DSHKs I believe, and a 60mm mortar.
Above, Comrade Battalion Commander. A crude but serviceable paint job. I can't decide whether to give each company a red flag of its own, or not; I shall probably err on the side of generosity.
French Indo China War Storage
This is the storage system I've designed for my planned Indo China war infantry. They are mounted, in 2's and 3's on 1.5mm thick 40mm diameter plywood disks, with magnetic sheet added. In the Really Useful Box I've put a double-decker layer of 99p metal baking trays (separated by wooden spacers). These should take up to 240 figures, with pace for dice or vehicles in the plastic drawers.
So far I've only finished one company of Viet Minh, but I should be able to base up a company or two of French, soon (figures mustering in the foreground).
Sunday, 7 November 2010
'Arfur Legion III
Here's the (slowish) progress on my second legion; 5 cohorts fully based, 2.5 partially based and the remaining minis awaiting reinforcements from Nick. I'm planning to use them all in a game in less than 2 weeks, so I shall need to get my skates on! When all 10 cohorts are finished I shall take a proper pic.
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Missed the bus
I missed this from yesterday's post; in days of yore I painted this bus up as an informal troop-transport. It may see duty evacuating planters and French-sympathisers from under the nose of the advancing Viet Minh menace.
And below, the destination!
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Looks like we got us a convoy...
I've excavated my 1980's collection of French Indochina stuff, and here are around half of the vehicles, displayed as a supply convoy. They aren't too bad... not brilliant, like Troop of Shrew's, but playable until I get better stuff.
Above, an M8 armoured car patrols cautiously ahead of the convoy. It is in the wrong shade of green (not olive drab), but with broadly correct markings.
Above is the front section of the convoy. The tanks are a slightly unfortunate hybrid of M3 and M5 (I converted from the former to the latter; perhaps it was hard to find M5's in the '80s). But they are nicely weathered, and the Airfix M3 half track has the correct tent-like canopy.
Above is the body of the convoy; a US tanker and GMC trucks, and a rather lost-looking Matador that I bought around 1975, presumablly left behind by the Brits in WW2. A third "M5" is in overwatch.
And to conclude (above) a closeup of one of the M5s.
I have around another half-a-dozen vehicles that need painting. My plan is to supplement these with some of the new 1/72 Italeri and Pegasus fast-assembly kits, especially their GMC trucks, M3 half tracks and jeeps, and make up a GM100-like mobile column.
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