German LMG's

Long overdue, I finally got these at York this year. So three LMG teams for my CoC forces to allow me to field them with the two LMG's per squad.

Fairly quick and easy to paint they are form the Berlin or Bust range.

Russians

So finished off the main part of my Russian Army for BKC, I've been alternating between Russian and Finnish forces on the painting table and these were the first to be finished. Still need to get some support options, Armour, antitank, etc. But this is well more than enough to get started with as I'm planning to try them with Chain of Command at some point, see how we get on pretending that they're 15mm with some winter war action against the Finns.

Once the Finnish are done I'll flock the bases in one big batch to ensure that it's uniform across the forces.

Germans for CoC

In the grand tidy up and catch up I finally got round to flocking the bases of my last squad of Germans, leaders and support options. So here are the obligatory washed out pictures. New phone does not mean better pictures, lets call it user error.

 The big picture, 3 squads of 10 men, including a Junior leader and an LMG team.

Senior Leader options

2 man sniper team

Werfer of flamen, panzershreck and panzerfaust.

I'm not sure I need much more for these, tentatively of the Luftwaffe, with a squad of Fallschirmjager (sp?) and the rest standard troops, I could perhaps do with getting another 3 LMG's and an MMG, so as able to field different periods but probably not necessary yet.

Next I'm sorting through my dark ages stuff, to see what else I need to make up units/groups for Dux Brit and Saga Forces as I'm sure I was a group/part of a group short for 2 Dux forces.

Quarterly Update!

I like the idea of doing the blog to keep track of what I've been painting, but it just doesn't happen that I remember to take pictures as and when I complete stuff, so over the last few months I've been working on the following.

So first up we have the 10mm Finnish I got from Pendraken at the Leeds show. Based specifically so we can try them with Chain of Command to see if it will work in the smaller scale, these ones are finished, the rest have been based up and will be used with these ones for BKC.  Russians will be bought at Carronade and the same will be done with them.

Next up, there was a small resurrection of DBA at the club, and seeing as RiC and myself have been talking about it for a while, I finally got round to finishing off my 15mm Hordes of Things armies, I have Arabs and Undead, most of whom were already painted but needed tidying up and rebasing onto proper bases, all new MDF bases with magnetic strips on the bottom so they'll stick to a biscuit tin. I have a bunch of Dwarves, Medieval Humans, and Celts that need worked on and I have some Romans already.

This next set are the 28mm WW2 Germans, I got one squad for christmas, the rest I picked up second hand from ebay, 2 squads finished, 1 more to go and then buy some support options for playing Chain of Command.

Lastly for this update my Skaven warband for the next Mordheim campaign at the club, painted up differently to Fi's Skavan so I can claim these ones.

More to come at some point, I bought Blood Eagle when it came out and I'll no doubt get a few more Vikings for it, as well as playing with some of the more mythical warbands from it will likely see some of my Elves getting a tidy up as Sidhe and some dwarves as well.

Likewise on the new rules front Sharp Practice 2 is finally on the horizon and preordered so that means a concerted push to get my forces painted up for it. I keep hoping that I'll be able to pick up some prepainted Napoleonics at the Carronade flea market really cheaply, but I doubt that's going to happen as I really hate painting formal uniforms.

British Para's

As promised some time ago, here are some bad pics of my British Para's for Chain of Command. It's missing the support options, they are mostly painted and ready but need based as I discovered the bases they came with are entirely useless and don't fit. Especially the 6pdr, the base is far too small.

 The main platoon

 The man in charge, undisturbed with his mug of tea in hand.

 Squad 1

 squad 2

And finally a little bit of something to cheer the troops up. Jodie from Colonel Bills.