Flames of War
Following a game of Flames of War against James, which had given
me the momentum for finishing a number of my German models, my painting of the
Wehrmacht slowed to a halt in November.
Before that I managed to finish off several models which I had started
years previously. The oldest were the 2
PaK43/41’s, which had been a free gift for buying a year’s subscription to
Wargames Illustrated in 2009. They
rarely have an outing, and the lack of paint didn’t encourage this but they do
look very cool and I wanted a break from vehicles and didn’t feel like doing
infantry. They offered the variety of
things to paint with the gun and the crew, and because there were only two of
them I was able to feel I was getting somewhere quickly with them.
I followed this up with two PaK38’s, which I had bought
several years ago as an anti tank answer to the massed light tanks and recon
vehicles I was encountering in mid war games.
I had managed to paint the base and dry brush the crew and gun and now I
finished them off with a proper paint job.
At the same time I did the two plastic PaK40’s from the Open Fire boxed
set to take my available PaK40 models up to 4, and give me a bit more
flexibility in my support options.
Finally I painted the 3 plastic StuG G’s from the Open Fire boxed set,
and refreshed my two Tiger tanks – their decals had especially annoyed me and I
redid them at the same time.
Wars of the Roses
Having played a FOW game, and losing my wave of enthusiasm
for modelling all things 15mm I turned to 28mm and chose my Wars of the Roses
Yorkists. Ben (the bio-titan) is quite
keen on the period and I’ve had a couple of boxes of bits waiting to be made in
the garage for over a year (a series of Triples 2013 purchases) which I decided
to put together. Being all Perry
Miniatures models; they consist of a box of heavily armoured plastic mounted
men-at-arms (12 in total), a box of 40 infantry and a light artillery
piece. The horse I organised into two 6
model units, based either two to a base or individually, while the foot I used
to make a unit of 12 billmen and two units of 12 bowmen (all mounted 4 to a 4cm
square base). The artillery I decided on
this occasion to mount separately to the crew.
Once all were made I gave their bases a layer of sand and then a brown
spray paint. Added to my already painted
collection this gives me 4 units of bowmen, 2 of billmen, 2 of horse, 1
artillery piece and a commander.
I also spent a bit of cash this month on firstly some WOTR
decals and flags for my infantry from CitadelSix, and secondly on a small brass
Archimedes drill. The drill was
initially for drilling the banner hands of the infantry because I wanted to use
metal banner poles, having found the plastic poles they are supplied with to be
very easily broken. Aidan has had no
such trouble so I suspect I am just clumsy.
Regardless my early efforts with the drill were successful so I’ll
probably do both infantry and both horse banner holders like this.
The decals on the other hand were a great disappointment
when I tried them. The maker has
surrounded them with a white backing rather than a clear one so I had to cut as
close to the edges of the decal as possible to avoid this appearing. This resulted in several being damaged
(disintegrating as the knife went past them) before I could get a decent one
off. Then the one I did try to stick on
was as ridged as a board and didn’t bend to the gentle curve of the chaps
chest. I abandoned the effort and was
most frustrated to discover the flags I had bought are also decals rather than
paper so I haven’t had the enthusiasm to try that yet.
Gaming:
I missed a Thursday this month due to a combination of
illness and work (5am start on the Friday), but made up for that by joining in
an excellent Sundays gaming in Frodsham; English Civil War mayhem organised by
Aidan! I also suffered a disappointing
ECW game when I allied with Paul (a new player) against Aidan and Ian
Hedley. Honours were even in Dreadball
against Paddy as we racked up a win apiece, and I defeated James’ American
heavy tank list using my newly painted Germans in FOW.
Painted Vs. Purchased
The painted total comes after I finished off the 6 FOW gun
teams (2 PaK43’s, 2 PaK40’s and 2 PaK38’s), and added the 3 StuG’s to it. I also refreshed the 2 Tigers 1 E’s.
Purchased: 0
Refreshed: 9
Painted: 21
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