I have enjoyed playing Battlegroup so much that I have started painting up a force of German Pioneers with Stug support. I’m using the Barbarossa supplement. I had the Infantry in stock and have bought some Stugs and a Panzer IV. A mixture of Battlefront and Zvezda models. A Stuka in 144th scale works well IMHO.
Am working on some Opel Blitz trucks, 2cm AA and pak38 guns.
I have also bought quite a few Russian Infantry, tanks and supports quite cheaply secondhand.
Well I am embarrassed to say that I have completely forgotten about my Blog for the last year. I have been rather busy gaming more than usual but posting on Twitter.
DBMM has been my main interest and I had been quite successful due to beginners luck, I suspect. Sadly I have not won a game with my Ancient Brits since April as I think my opponents have worked out to how to take my mass of troops out. My usual tactic is to mass my foot troops in the centre and have Cavalry and Chariots on the wings.
I have also had a few games of Chain of Command and 0200 hours.
I will try and add more posts but the interaction here is very low compared to Twitter (I can’t call it that new name). I am seeing if it is easier to post using my phone as that’s how I now take photos.
While watching Rouge Heroes the German M48 got me thinking of the Plastic Toy M60's I have stashed away. Not having any M47's like that used in the Battle of the Bulge Movie I thought I would try and imagine if that was reshot using later model Tanks. Since I had some left over Tamiya Panzer IV parts I decided to go that route. Plastic side shield's, left over bits and correct-ish paint job and decals and I'm quite happy. Not sure if they will ever be used but they could fill an empty corner in my big train station/factory building.
I wanted to increase the size of my German Paras as I only had two squads and not really enough for a game. Reading through various rule sets there seems to be different organisations for the squads. These are Early War Germans for operation Sea Lion. So not historical. I have painted enough figures for either one or two LMG's per squad. I may repaint the extras as Tropical versions if I can confirm the correct organisation. While I was painting these extras I updated a few of the older figures to see if it was manageable to repaint them all some time later. I tried something different with these. I added some drill to the black leather to give it a worn look. I have also undercoated some Warlord Games Mid/Late War figures which have been slightly modified for Early War.
A few bases of Warlord Games Celts and Victrix Chariots.
I must confess that I am getting frustrated with this Army due to the size and complexity of the Chariots and paint jobs. I will be at about 400 points when the next batch is finished that are going through the basing process at the moment. These Warlord figures have Victrix shields and transfers.
Terraintober was being talked about on Twitter so I joined in and tried to finish another building which had been done in a rush to use it in a Demo game but was never entirely finished.
This factory/station was constructed from cork tiles and has stood the test of time quite well, I decided an update was deserved. I have not finished it yet as my other half was concerned that so many models were now in the living areas of the house, but have planned to get back to it when the Dust buildings are done.
First off I was following a discussion on Twitter about the death of Blogs and more importantly Forums. Which reminded me that I need to update this Blog. There are some things I need to remember about painting some things which are difficult to find on Twitter. Most of these new posts I'm afraid will be mainly picture dumps as I wont remember everything.
These buildings have sat in my games room gathering dust so I moved them into my lounge and spend a half hour on them after I've finished my other painting.
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