Soviet Tank Crew

I’ve been mostly prepping and priming and rebasing and stuff this last week, but I did finish up some bailed out tank crew for the Soviets – in an effort to keep on top of the Soviets! After the first game with the tanks I realized I needed some bailed crew…

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These comrades are from Bolt Action Miniatures. If I have to bail out a KV-2 I’m kind of out of luck… but then, how often am I ever going to field the KV-2 let alone have it hit hard enough to bail the crew!?

One would think all black uniforms would be EASY. They’re not. I fretted over how to paint these guys for hours about how to give them SOME contrast?! Eventually I painted the helmets and leather jacket with Americana Charcoal Grey, the overalls I painted with a Delta Creamcoat dark grey of some sort – which may very well also have been called “charcoal” – and the boots I just left plain old black… Maybe I should have lightened up the coveralls a bit more (mixed the two “charcoals” for something in between)?

I need to makes some burning tank markers…

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Hmmmm… Hard to say… I’ve been working on some African villagers(!?) and some German sailors (from the Great War!?), but there’s also a handful of Canadians working their way on to the work bench and the ever-present, desperately-wanting-attention Elves…

More 28mm WW2 Japanese

Another lot of Japanese...

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These are from Battle Honors. I got them in trade from The Teenage Visigoth, which, curse him, got me started on this whole “WW2 in the Far East” thing… Oh sure I had and even painted up the previous bunch that I picked up off of ebay first… but I only picked them up because I had arranged the trade…




A couple of comparison pics – the chap on the left in each picture is from Battle Honors, on the right is the one from First Corps. The First Corps figures do look a little bit “better fed” than the Battle Honors fellows, but not so much to cause me distress (I’m not all that fussy!)

I had planned to do more (some standing vs. kneeling, etc) but some recent rain (a LOT of it) has products CLOUDS of mosquitos and if I'd donated any more blood taking pictures I might have needed a transfusion myself!



When you get a pile of them together on the tabletop It gets harder to sort out who is who (as long as they are all painted the same!)

This is it for the Japanese… for now… but only briefly.. because… I, um… well I just picked up another lot of First Corps Japanese off ebay last night and I’m bidding on some more from Battle Honors?! DOH!?

If I win the Battle Honors ones that will put me at platoon+ strength – probably close to two platoons or an understrength company…?! The only additional items I would need would be a few HMGs and some tanks. But that’s kind of counting chickens – maybe I should wait and see if I do get that second lot…

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Two stands worth of ECW musketeers somehow made it on to the painting desk?! (curse you neldoreth!!)

More Pulpy-Modernish-Civilian (not-so-useful) Stuff

A few more odds and sods rolling off the painting table…

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From left to right we have: a “Wild West Women” from Shadowforge Miniatures, a script girl from Pulp Figures Movie/Film Crew, and a figure that I’ve had forever and just decided to repaint (entirely) – I think I actually got her as a part of a box of Dr. Who miniatures produced by FASA…? Or Maybe GW for FASA…? I don’t know – it was 20 years ago!!


From left to right, again, we have: some weirdo I have no idea when it came from… might have been something I got in a trade from Bob or The Teenage Visigoth, or something Jolo gave me at some point… or I may very well have just bought it years ago and had it in storage… anyway, no idea of the manufacturer (though I have a funny feeling it might be Grenadier... I don't know... it sort of has that "look"), supposed to be some fantasy wizard of some sort but I thought it would work fine as a pulpy mystic/cult leader of some sort. Then we have some sort of “Scientific Mastermind” from Pulp Figures

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Japanese… really – whole squad nearly complete, probably finish them up tonight and post tomorrow. I’m a painting fool!! There's very little else ON the painting table right now. Last week I cleared it off and decided to only have one or two project batches on the table at a time - it's really helped to stay focused on one thing.

Film Crew and a French Cyclist

A couple more Pulp/WW2-ish era odds and ends…

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This film crew is from Pulp Figures. I’ve had them for a few years now, but just got around to them. Not sure why it’s taken so damn long – they were such a snap to paint up!?


This cycliste is from a new(-ish) pack of French Civilians from West Wind Productions. Honestly, this figure is the only reason I bought the pack. (Bit of a bike geek). Oh the other figures are fine and will come in handy for something or other… but I totally wouldn’t have bought them if it hadn’t been for this chap.

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Japanese. Then probably some Canadians. Elves are still lurking on the painting desk… but I seem to be successfully managing to completely ignore them.

Diggers

If you thought I was talking about grave diggers or archaeological excavators you were horribly, horribly wrong…

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These Aussies are from Battle Honors, as are the gunners below…


That’s it for diggers for a bit. Here’s the lot of them (for the moment...):


I should finish off the Japanese that I have. Then I could say I have all of the WW2 in the Far East stuff I have done… Of course that’s not all that terribly much – understrength Digger and Jap platoons, and a solitary squad of Jarheads… still, finished (for now) is still finished (for now!).

I would, at some point, like to add a third section of Diggers… maybe some mortars and Vickers MGs… If I went really crazy maybe I could pick up a Matilda tank… but that’d be a long way off! I’d pick up some more Japanese infantry before I started buying tanks for either side!

And now for something completely different…


This Nursing Sister is from Pulp Figures. I’ve had her for a couple years but just never got around to painting her…

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Hmmmmm… Elves? Giant? Should try and do some Germans, but it’ll probably be Canucks!

Bobbies

As mentioned previously, some bobbies:

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These chaps are all from Artizan Designs’ Thrilling Tales line. Ready to catch criminals (sometimes, perhaps, with the aid of a Consulting Detective from Baker Street) or put down insurrections between the wars or investigate strange occurrences of tentacles or round up fallschirmjägers dropping on London!? There’s a few more with Rifles, now, that I’d also like to pick up… sometime…

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A dozen Diggers (or so) should be finished up by tomorrow. Then I’ve got a Giant, an Elf Wizard, and a Universal Carrier on deck. After that I’m going to try and get on to some GERMANS(!)… but I’ll probably end up finishing off the platoon of Regina Rifles…

Stug III C/D

A little armoured fire support for the Heer!

I had for a moment thought I’d title this post “At Last Some Elves”… just to fake out those waiting for me to get back to HOTT. But lately I’ve been looking back through the blog to find pictures of games or minis I posted over the last couple years and it’s really darn hard to find stuff when you use misleading of vague post titles!

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This is a Stug IIIC/D fromArmy Group North Miniatures. Nice Model. My only complaint would be that it would have been nice to have a little diagram to see where all the little bits and bobs were supposed to go.

The commander is not from AGNM (at least as far as I know!). I got it in a lot of assorted drivers and commanders. He was actuall a driver of some sort wih a sterring wheel in his hands. I carved his arms off and made new ones with green stuff…


While this will be fun to bust up some Barbarossa Bunkers on the Stalin Line, I think I’d like a Stug IIIG (or two!) if I were to pick up some more. Does anyone make one…!?

I was thinking I might lull the players in my east front campaign into a false sense of security this evening by telling them they’ve finally met up with some friendly forces on the Stalin line… give them a nice hard bunker to hold… then come and blast them with the Stug – new toys must always be tried out! We shall see…

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Did I say something about Bobbies, Diggers or Elves…? Hmmmmm…. How about some more Canucks or Commandos…!?

(Stay on target… STAY ON TARGET!!)