So I was going to write up a game report from yesterday...

 ...but you'll need to wait for a report from Blogger Tank about the exciting adventures we had playing the first three scenarios of the Carpathia campaign for Silver Bayonet. I will say that Georg Bitterlich has added ghoul, cavalry and hound slayer to his record of kills, having survived the first game on one wound and dispatching two ghouls with his trusty bayonet. 

DOOOOOOOOONE!

I have finally finished the first unit of Breachers:  

 

 This doesn't feel like it should have been half the slog that it was but they're done and I rather like them. I'm not as vexed by the prospect of doing a second unit now. Then I'll actually have to get a game of 40K in with them so I can learn! Also keen to get these out for a game of Kill Team too. 

Competition Tech

 

I have also finished my three Jagdtigers in preparation for an upcoming comp. These are easily some of the dumbest things I've done but props to Battlefront for a great kit that goes together so smoothly. It might be one of the best yet. 

 

 They were a fairly simple paint job other than contending with Games Workshop's new formulation of Agrax Earthshade. Putting the whitewash on definitely helps with toning down the infernal glossy finish. I think I'll need to pick up some brush on matte varnish for some things if I'm going to keep using it. 

 

Next Time

 I'll be getting the event army ready so will dig all the stuff out and take a group photo (and thus give away all my super secret tech!) I'm also going to try out a test model for a 40K army I've been thinking about... 

A miscelleny of stuff

 So have I finished the Breachers yet? No. Have I done more? Yes!

This was a fun set to do and the axe haft being bright red is just all sorts of silly. Made me happy though. I think I've cracked the methodology for doing them now so should be able to finish the first squad and smash out the second fairly swiftly.

In a burst of productivity, I also finished the basing for my first 400 points of Wallachians:

The other half of the 8 Light Horse bases, followed by my necessary fortifications (I mean Levy):

 

and finally the Boyars and Viteji who I'm going to initially run as Medium Cavalry Impetuous Elite which I suspect will be very bad.

So that leaves me with just a couple of bases of Heavy Knight 'Crusaders' to paint which I've done the horses and metals and am just thinking about how to provide a bit of 'mercenary' to them so they're not the red / brown / black of the rest of the army. 

To finish up today's blog of peculiar things, I am planning on attending a Flames of War competition in about six weeks and have spent a whack of time lately pondering options for lists being somewhat driven by what's been on the shelf demanding attention and so, I have decided that I'm going to run these:

Yeep. Jagdtigger. So I'll be playing a Berlin German Clausewitz company with quite the collection of random stuff. I think it'll be pretty fun and has the potential to be weirdly good. It probably *won't* be but hey, it's getting me to paint my Jagdtigers! 

Next Time

We're playing a short Silver Bayonet campaign with the new Carpathia book so Colonel Jean-Hipolytte Gavreau de la Framboise will be leading his charges, including the finest German in the French Army, into battle. I'll also be aiming to finish up the other two Jagdtigers and probably keep grinding on the Breachers.

So many ways to be unproductive....

 I have achieved a bit this week but not as much as I'd like. I was supposed to prepare a report of my excellent refresh game of Silver Bayonet with Tank yesterday but I did not because we had so much fun that I forgot to take a single picture! But, you'll be pleased to know that even though this was a scratch force, the legend that is Georg Bitterlich lives on as he killed a pirate and two revenants and escaped the table with a single wound remaining! I also ran the Nighthaunts into Scotty's Lizardmen in Kings of War and oof. When I'm allowed to do what my army wants, it's backbreaking. When I'm not, those DEF 6+ Lizards are HARD to put down.

Also Blogger Pel was teaching some Star Wars Legion at the club and that reminded me I needed to finish IG88:

So he's sitting in the hot water cupboard now setting the last of the gel medium. I'm weirdly pleased given how simple it was. I've also carried on with the basing my 15mm Wallachians:

The skeleton archer in the front is a kitbash (amazingly!) made out of an infantry archer and a skeleton horse. I'd forgotten I'd made them until I broke one and had to put it back together! That finishes up the light foot archers and half the light horse.

And why only this? Well, it's Film Festival time here and that always dents my productivity. Today I saw this:

 

 instead of painting and it was great. So....

Next Time

No excuses?  

MOAR Workbench

 Not a lot of exciting content at the moment. New painting setup also means new gaming setup and, gotta be honest, the release of Baldur's Gate III this weekend might become a problem fairly smartly. But we press on nonetheless and I have made progress on Breachers which feels like an absurdly novel experience:

Just getting a couple of the core dudes done helps solidify the choices in my head and reminded me how easy they are to paint. I was iffy about the red shotguns. I am no longer iffy about them. They're great. I've also been through and based up my first cut of a 400 point ADLG army for my 15mm Wallachians. This week's particular highlight are these amazing pavises printed by Potbelly Miniatures for me:

And while I was there, a couple of the skirmisher bases, just for grins:

I'm waiting on the last of the filler to set and busily finishing up the two bases of Heavy Knight 'Crusaders' to go in the list and then it'll be one big basing binge and it'll be done. I'm still umming and ahhing about doing the 28 bases - I'm tempted to not until I actually need them and then I won't go completely spare trying to finishing it!  

Next Time

Club day, so will be playing a game of something. No idea what at this point. In the meantime, I'm going to keep pushing on with the Breachers and finishing up the 15mm Wallachians. I've found some flags for them so will be working out how to get those into play some time in the next couple of weeks too. 

Pooch's July update

Seven months down, and the painting momentum continues as I work away at a bunch of different things for myself, as well as knocking through commissions I am painting for other people. 

Generally speaking, I am feeling pretty good that I will be able to maintain my momentum for another 5 months!

1. Paint a platoon for Flames of War

Ok, so my visions of painting more Late War US infantry ran into a snag, in that I decided to paint some Early War German tanks instead! 

I painted up two Zvezda Panzer IIs (these match the other ones for my DAK army), and a Panzer Befelswagen. Because nothing says Early War like a Panzer I with a giant aerial on top!

They are less yellow in person, DAK Tanks continue to be a paint to photograph....

And again!

I'm a little disappointed with how the top coat of tan/yellow came out, it's more yellow than the other tanks I have already completed. Not sure whether that was just "this batch" of paint, the weather, me rushing.... who knows. I'm still generally happy with them, so I'm calling them done!

2. Add something to armies I have already painted

First up in this category is something for my Star Wars Legion Seperatist Army, Asajj Ventress!

Great pose, great figure!

She is really leaning into chopping someone/some thing!

Speaking of very dynamic poses, second up is another Marvel Crisis Protocol figure, Elektra!

Why yes that whole model is only connected by her hand to a rock

Looks cool as hell too!

3. Finish up a piece of terrain

This month's terrain is this beautiful Sisters of Battle statue printed by Potbelly Miniatures. I actually ended up with two of them, as the first print failed, but that gave me a great opportunity to play a bit more with the different paints and textures. I used the Games Workshop Nilhank Oxide to provide the verdigris, which I probably went too far with on the broken statue, but got a better balance with the larger one. 

4. Play a game a month, that was different to the last month

This month I headed up for a Flames of War tournament in Palmerston North (you saw the armies from McE already).

Just the one photo of Scotty's awesome Hungarians, deployed for battle

The tournament was great fun, and hooning around with Hungarian tanks was a really enjoyable. Does it make me want a Hungarian army? Kiiiiiiiiiiiiidnof.....

I also got Ventress out for a game of Star Wars Legion, which was a blast too- reminding me that I really need to play more of that game! 

Dooku also killed that young upstart Luke Skywalker. Which was very pleasing

5. Paint a Hundred Years War French Army for ADLG

The ADLG train rolls on, with a month very similar to the previous one!

I also put all of my ADLG army onto bases, which meant that I realised I was short a couple of Peasants to fill out my four bases. So first up was a couple of new Peasant figures, or more, one Peasant, and Rudyard the Bard, one of my DnD characters!

And you thought I was done painting peasants!

Paint one Knight for ADLG

I also finished up a new Knight!

Paint one base for ADLG

But wait, there is more Crossbowmen!

Paint up an army of 15mm Celts

I not only finished up a bunch more Celts, I also glued them onto bases and based them! 

Chariots!

Boudicca!

Just the start of my horde of Medium Swordsmen!

More of the same next month, with more chariots and more infantry (I hope!)

Pooch