Well, it is only a week late, but here is what I managed to finish last month:
Bolt Action US Paras
I have had these guys painted for a while now (like... 4 months maybe?) but I hadn't based them up. So in January I based them all and painted up the 57mm AT gun and the M5A1 Stuart/M8 Scott to complete the army.
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| Close up on the Lieutenant |
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| Rubicon M8 Scott |
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| And the same tank, just with the Stuart turret- excellent work by Rubicon! |
Team Yankee 6mm US
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| The whole force |
My 6mm was previously painted in an all over desert scheme for Desert Storm era gaming, so to fit in better with Team Yankee, I decided to repaint it all into NATO 3 tone camo. Now, this isn't anywhere close to all of the 6mm I own, but rather this is just everything which I can use from the Team Yankee book, once Bradley's etc are made available in the rules, I will give them a repaint too!
My US is made up of three companies, two tank companies in M1A1 Abrams, and a Mechanised company in M113 APCs. Supporting them is M109 artillery, ITOW vehicles, mortar carriers and Vulcan AA guns. As well as the air support of 2 A10, 2 FA-18 (subbing in as A-10s), 2 AH-64 (subbing in as Cobras) and 2 AH-1 Cobras.
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| Close up on the first of the Tank Companies |
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| Objective #1 |
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| Close up on the infantry |
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| Objective #2 |
In Her Majesty's Name
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| The whole warband |
Well, I said that I was a magpie, and this warband is definitely proof of that! When IHMN came out, I bought this set and promptly played one game, and have never touched them since. So, as part of my "finish stuff this year you lazy git", I decided to actually finish them!
In the interm, I think they will make a good frostgrave band actually (Necromancer? Either the Mummy is a zombie, or a construct I think).
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| You know if you are in matching red robes, you are definitely the good guys. |
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| The big bad guy himself |
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| Close up on the big bad's tattooed skull. I used a fine pen to draw on the tattoos. |
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| Mummy! |
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| What a dramatic pose. And a scary looking assassin.... |
From the cupboard....
Right, lastly we have the completed models from the cupboard. This time it is two Wiesel light tanks in 1/56 scale, produced by Company B. These are pre-production versions, and are actually 3d printed. My only tip with the material is to clean it before you paint it. Twice! I had some issues where I hadn't cleaned the mould release well enough, and it did funny things to the paint. Anyway, two 1/56 scale armoured weapons carriers (they really aren't tanks)- with a 28mm soldier for scale. Can you believe they fitted two (on the 20mm) or three (on the TOW) crew into these?
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| Without a scale reference, these could look very imposing! |
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| With a scale reference, you realize how you can fit two into the back of a CH-53.... |
Not a bad spot of painting for a month! I can promise you that there won't be this much everytime, as I will only be showing off things that I have finished. Just in case you were getting your hopes up...
Oh, the other thing I painted
was a boat! Right, back to the painting table. February's painting involves so much red.....
Pooch
