Busy-Busy-Busy!

I've been rather busy lately painting up a storm. Nothing to show here because... well... I haven't been painting miniatures... I've been painting... well... Other Stuff.

I'm rather excited about painting pictures at the moment and I'm going to ride that wave for a bit. Totally giving up on painting more than I purchased this year... but I'll get caught up next year! There's really very little I actually CAN purchase for some time, so...

I did get in a game of Contemptible Little Armies last week and when I have a moment I'm going to get a game report up here. I'll likely have another game this Thursday...

Should also be finished up my next painting in the next day or two - which some of you may get a kick out of, so I'll post it here as well!

Starting to think about another game weekend in the new year - could be a HOTT campaign... could be a Savage Worlds WW2 mini skirmish campaign... it would likely be around the weekend of February 25-26-27 (my annual Wargaming Birthday Bash),

The Last of Johnny Canuck

This is it; the last of the WW2 Canadian infantry I have to paint. I've finished over 100 in total, plus the Firefly and the Humber. I still have a six pounder AT gun (though the crew is finished), three Shermans, and a Universal Carrier to finish up. When those are complete I’ll get a big pic of the whole bunch of them…. For now, however…

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As with the other Canadians, this is a mix of Artizan Designs, Crusader Miniatures, West Wind Productions, and First Corps.


Here's the lot of them in their storage drawer. I'm six riflemen, a sergeant, and a subaltern shy of two full-strength platoons. There are also supporting elements from the battalions AT, Mortar, and Pioneer Platoons, as well as the Battalion Chaplain, teams from the divisional MG battalion and a number of casualty figures...

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I’ll be finishing up the Shermans and others right away. Then...? Germans or Russians...? Being so close to finishing these I'm getting excited about running a Normandy/Northwest Europe campaign... Hopefully finishing up some Russians will get me focused on the East Front Campaign again...

More Turks and Canucks

The last of the toy orders arrived Friday. That purchase number over on the left won’t change for the rest of the year – I swear!! Those that arrived included 30 Turkish Riflemen, four officers, and two machinegun teams, five T-34/76, some Soviet mortars and casualties, some German tank crew and casualties, more Battle Honors Japanese (including some mortars), and a few moderns (mostly British)

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These fellows are from Copplestone Castings. They are not the ones that recently arrived. I picked these up earlier in the summer. I now have another four making their way in the painting queue. What on earth am I going to do with all those officers!? Oh, I know! Make more units of Turks!!


Another lot of Canadians. Once again this lot is a mix of Artizan Designs, Crusader Miniatures, West Wind Productions, and, I think, First Corps...? (including an AT gun crew… that doesn’t yet have a gun!!?)

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One more lot of Canadians and all the foot are done (for now). Then I just have to finish the three Shermans and a Universal Carrier. After that…? I’ll probably launch into the T-34s and Soviet mortars and casualties as they will actually be useful in the very near future as well as they have upset the “all finished” status of my 28mm WW2 Soviets.

And after that…? Probably like predicting the weather more than a week away… I’d like to think I’m going to get on with some Germans or plough through the last of the British/Canadian Paras and Commandos. But then, knowing myself I’ll probably do something like start painting the Italians or something…

There’s also the dozen of so modern British that are now upsetting the “all finished” status of my 28mm Modern Military types….

An Ottoman Officer and a Chinese Bandit Walk Into a Bar…

The Chinese Bandit puts his revolver on the bar. The Bartender says; “I guess you won’t be needing a drink?” The Ottoman officer says

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These two chaps are both from Copplestone Castings.

I’m not quite sure what came over me. The Chinese bandit has been skulking on the edge of the painting table and in “on deck” boxes for months… but never seemed to insinuate himself into and active painting lot… the Turkish officer…? Picked that pack up earlier this year… Maybe I just got a little excited about the immanent arrival of more Coppelstone Turks (including another pack of officers!?)

I did also get started on the next lot of Canadians. Hopefully get most of those done this evening.

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Canadians! (or more Turks…?)

Still More Canadians

Another batch rolling off the painting desk… Would have been done a day earlier but I had to host another board meeting – curse my volunteerism and community mindedness!

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This lot is a mix of Artizan Designs, Bolt Action Miniatures, Crusader Miniatures, and West Wind Productions.

Two more lots to go and I’m done all the Canadian Infantry. Then I’ll have the three Shermans and a Universal Carrier and the Canadians are complete – or as complete as they’re going to be for some time.

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More Canadians. Not sure what I’ll do after that… Commandos or Paras or back to Germans of one variety or another. Maybe I should finish up some more of the Germans in Greatcoats – since our East Front campaign is rapidly drawing nearer to the first snowfall of 1941 (7 October 1941).

Of course that last order to West Wind Productions before the moratorium should be arriving shortly with five T-34s and some Russian mortars… maybe I’ll be working on that after the Canadians…

Or maybe I’ll get distracted by that first order placed AFTER the moratorium (it was an isolated event and a sweet deal I couldn’t pass up… I wasn’t looking on ebay or anything - a friend contacted me about having a bit of an online “Wargamer’s Garage Sale”… um…. yeah….).

Canadian Engineers, etc

I’ve divided the remaining Candian infantry into four batches of about ten or so figures. I finished up the first of such batches last night.

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These Engineers are from Bolt Action Miniatures. I’m not entirely sure which of the four engineer types would be appropriate for a battalion’s pioneer platoon, or which would be divisional RCE field squadron elements. The fellow with the bolt cutters would be fine for the pioneer platoon. I have a feeling the minesweeper and chap with the demolition detonator thingie would be fine as well. But how about the Flamethrower? I think it’s the only item in my book on the Canadian Army in Northwest Europe that doesn’t list what type of unit it was issued to. I have a feeling it wasn’t an infantry battalion piece of kit…

Conveniently the unit flash of the Royal Canadian Engineers is also red (like the Regina Rifles – the unit that I’m painting the infantry as), it’s just a slightly different shape. So hapofully no on w will complain too much…


The rest of these are a mix of Bolt Action Miniatures, Artizan Designs, and others.

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Something Canadian… Infantry… Shermans… I was briefly tempted to set the Canadians aside and work on Germans – which would be a bit more useful at the moment… but the feeling has passed and I’m pretty much committed to finishing off these Canucks before I move on to the next lot.

Last of the Gebirgsjäger

I finished up the last of the Gebirgsjäger that last night…

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These fellows are from Brigade Games “Ends of the Earth” line.

Here’s the lot of them:


Ready to do battle from the highest peaks to the frozen wasteland of the Antarctic! MWA-HA-HA-Ha-Ha-ha-ha-ha…

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

The Shermans … WW2 Canadian infantry… More Germans… ECW Scotts!? Epic Scale Eldar!? I don’t know…