tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70637669315839608172024-03-14T05:39:11.677+01:00MiniStorieshistorical miniatures wargaming and painting
MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-72532022750923585932015-07-27T22:16:00.000+02:002022-01-23T18:43:19.232+01:0020mm WW2 - US M3A1 halftracks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Well, these took me a while to finish. They were 90% done in Januari and I've been staring at them on my workbench since. Until last month... I finally had the courage to paint the stowage and do some final weathering so I could clear them from my desk. </div>
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These will be useful as support options for CoC but I particularly look forward using them in a Bartlegroup Overlord game. We use this rules for our platoon+ multi-player games and we have been struggling with the infantry to keep up with the armour. Probably our mistake as we are learning the game but at least I now have more options deploying the infantry.</div>
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Just a few more US vehicles to post, in the meantime I just started work on the Germans...Cammo :)</div>
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1/72 Halftracks are from The Plastic Soldier Company. Extra stowage from Black Dog and the figures are AB. </div>
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com63tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-3564530204670343142015-06-09T23:14:00.000+02:002015-06-09T23:14:49.409+02:0020mm WW2 - M20, M10 and M8There we go again. I had a long break from painting but a trip to Salute and a vist to Normandy in May did the trick this time. I've sort of finished the Americans (well, when do you stop) for now and<br />
will get the halftracks and other stuff up here as well together with some reports of games we played recently. Next Saturday I look forward to het the Naps out again...<br />
These are all MMS models and the building are from bbwargames. Ah that should be another post, I've built and bought lots of buildings and other scenery from bbwargames, najewitz and others that deserve to be shared.<br />
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-56691406031731632342015-02-24T18:49:00.001+01:002015-02-24T18:53:03.278+01:0020mm WW2 - Shermans from PSC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Continuing with some more 20mm models to reinforce the new infantry platoon. For the first game we played in December we cheated and ordered some pre-painted tanks from Grubby. But hey, nothing beats playing with your own painted minis so let's see if I can get a decent amount of armour done. These are the first with many more to come over the next few weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">I''ve always admired the work of people who know how to use an airbrush and regularly I'm staring at beautifully pieces thinking one day I need to give it a try. But I don't even own an airbrush and I lack the skills and time to master it. So I ordered some enamel washes and pigments, grabbed a few brushes to see if I could get a decent enough result. It was great fun trying out all sorts of different techniques.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Results are good enough for me, think I wait with the airbrush learning curve for when I decide to do some German cammo schemes...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Models are 1/72 from Plastic Soldier Company with the tank commander from Sgt Mess I think.</span></div>
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-58518516631522910862015-02-18T22:21:00.000+01:002015-02-18T22:21:18.914+01:0020mm WW2 US Infantry platoon<br />
You might have seen those in The <a href="http://thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.nl/" target="_blank">Analogue Hobbies painting challenge</a> a few weeks back but I'm currently working on a US WW2 force in 20mm scale. First up most of the infantry soon to be followed by support, halftracks, armour and some terrain and other bits and pieces.<br />
While I've done WW2 armies in 15 en 28mm scale this 20mm scale got me excited again to do some WW2 stuff. It seems to have the best of both worlds. They have great detail and paint up nicely, don't take ages and there is a lot available in this scale in terms of figures, vehicles and terrain. They also look perfect to me on the size of boards we are gaming.<br />
Except for some of the command figures, flamethrower, medic and one mortar team these are all AB figures.<br />
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-80843978336641820732015-02-06T00:33:00.001+01:002015-02-06T00:33:45.245+01:00Catching up with pictures of WW2 games..In three scales?<br />
Five months? Ouch, I didn't realise it was that long since I posted anything here.<br />
Well, apart from the first year this blog has never been been updated very regularly and I decided to just continue and to resurrect it once in a while . So I will just continue to throw something up the blog whenever I feel like it :)<br />
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First for the Dutch readers a quick word on Poldercon next Sunday in Utrecht. I'm sure you are all aware of this new event but in case you somehow managed to miss all the announcements here is the info from www.poldercon.nl. Not sure if it's sold out or not by now. I will be attending so might see you there.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 29.3333339691162px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">PolderCon is the newest wargaming event in the Netherlands, that does everything a bit differently from the rest. At PolderCon, you can play in participation games, make new friends, meet up with old ones, learn to play new games, get better at playing games you already know, participate in workshops, game, shoot the breeze over your hobby, game... and had we already mentioned chatting with your friends? And yes, gaming of course.</span></span></blockquote>
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So today a couple of pictures of games from the past months. We had quite a few games but taking pictures is another thing. I often forgot to bring the camera or the lighting was that poor you could not shoot proper pictures.<br />
But anyway, we tried the campaign system from TFL and did a series of 28mm Desert games. Huge succes, while we only used the simple ladder system to start with it certainly added something to the games. You have to think just a bit harder on your tactics as this will have an impact on the next game and you calculate your risk in a broader perspective. No more 'all in' charges because we are running out of time but quick withdraws losing ground to save men. Simple example maybe but it played different, more realistic if you will. Another nice side effect was people start to think different on their support options and after each game I noticed them ordering and painting new stuff hoping that would save their next day...Not a chance BTW, British had four or five straight wins in a row.<br />
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Next up a game of Battlegroup Overlord. In our search for a company level ruleset (15mm and 20mm) for multiple players to use we have tried two games of BGO now. For us the most important feature this game needs is that it has to be relatively simple and fast playing. With six easily distracted gamers chatting over the next painting project we don't want to overcomplicate things. So far, BGO seems to meet our requirement while still offering good variety and concepts for a WW2 game.</div>
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Finally a 20mm game set in Normandy as well. We recently rediscovered the 20mm scale for WW2 after we started and never finished it fifteen years ago. So what do you do? You just go for it and realise you are painting the same period in yet another scale.</div>
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As an addition to our 28mm games we have been thinking lately to scale down to 15mm and or 20mm for our platoon and larger games.<br />
There are many reasons like time to paint, storage, availability of miniatures or cost but my main reason is it just seem to look right for the size of games we play. Or is it just that we are the average wargamer with a constant need to change and add things... So 20m or 15mm was the big question we needed to address . I will spare you details on how our group came to a verdict but in the end I'm staring at my desk stacked with 15mm as well as 20mm miniatures. How convenient.<br />
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Well, I decided to start with a platoon 15's so I could mark those off and be ready to game Chain of Command and, together with Cromwells of the 7th armoured division I painted long ago, we can try the Battlegroup Normandy system for larger games. One of the obvious advantages of going smaller is the reduced amount of time and this time I was once more surprised that I could finish those in under 2 weeks spending just six evenings or so. Probably four times quicker than 28's.<br />
Next up will be some 20mm AB's, Normandy as well. We just could not resist the stunning AB models and the availability of so many models to spice up the table. So while we mostly reuse 15mm, the 20's provides a great opportunity to paint up some great models. Oh, and some terrain of course...<br />
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These miniatures are from the <a href="http://theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_37_39_54&products_id=625" target="_blank">Plastic soldier company</a> with the exception of three or four figs from Forged in Battle I put in just because I had them and wanted to feel the difference between the plastics and metal. Just as in my previous post I liked painting the plastics better. Much, much easier and due to their chunkiness they made me think of them as small versions of Artizan miniatures. So that's the second plastic box I like, one day I might become a fan...<br />
The box itself is quite good. Enough variation in poses and with some head and arm swaps you could even get more. The weakest poses IMO are for the sten armed officers unfortunately. With just two different models I changed some arms to make them look a bit different. Also, the uniforms on some of the figures do not seem 100% correct. I do not claim to be an expert but the equipment seem to be on the wrong side at most of the figures.<br />
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Unfortunately I did not have many games over the last few months but I managed to get a platoon and some buildings done for our 28mm Chain of Command desert WWII games.<br />
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These are from the <a href="https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=23_74_75&products_id=2848&osCsid=rth5eq1njbb4bbh1srl5u65cf0" target="_blank">Perry plastic boxed set </a>with some metals thrown in for a bit of variety. Now I've never been a fan of plastics but I must say these are the first I actually like (and I tried many:). Easy to assemble, good variety and proportions and a joy to paint. This can't be said of the metals though, I really struggled with those. Yes, great poses but the quality is just poor IMO. It takes longer to clean the figure than to build a plastic and you get lesser quality which was a pain to paint. The<a href="https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=23_74_75&products_id=3009&osCsid=rth5eq1njbb4bbh1srl5u65cf0" target="_blank"> 2 pdr model</a> was good though and my favourite of the range.<br />
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For terrain I ordered some buildings from <a href="http://colonialsteamboat.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Colonial Steamboat company</a>. Great models and they come with a decent basic paintjob so you can use them straight away. I actually painted the bases to match the desert mat and put a few lighter colours on them. After this I went on to experiment with the <a href="http://www.modelmates.co.uk/" target="_blank">modelmates</a> products for weathering. I was so impressed with the effects you can achieve with these liquids that I went a bit overboard with the weathering. But no problem here, I have't sealed the effect yet so with some water I can still remove it.</div>
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MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-33832757028055678302014-05-26T21:49:00.000+02:002014-05-26T22:54:38.470+02:00Gaming with Curt...a Chain of Command AARTwo weeks ago we had the pleasure of having globetrotter Curt, world famous for his <a href="http://analogue-hobbies.blogspot.nl/" target="_blank">annual painting challenge</a>, and his lovely wife Sarah come visit us for an evening out and of course a good day of gaming. Curt himself did a writeup of his time in Holland <a href="http://analogue-hobbies.blogspot.nl/2014/05/on-vacation-incursion-into-holland.html" target="_blank">here</a> so I'll try to add some more pictures and details of the game. Browsing through the pictures though I realize we did not take phase by phase shots so let's see if I can make something out of it.<br />
In preparation for the game we asked Curt which period he would like to play on the day and it became clear a game of Chain of Command was one of his preferences. Maybe this has something to do with his visit to Sidney and Lard HQ a week earlier? Anyway we were thrilled as CoC has rapidly has become one of our favourite rulesets.<br />
We quickly created a scenario Attaque sur le pont des Pêcheurs which involved 2 German platoons needing to recapture a vital bridge to secure the advance for an armoured division nearby. So all was cool until I laid out terrain the night before and found out the river was too wide and would take too much space to accommodate a game for four platoons. Fortunately CoC has six ready to go scenarios in the book so we decided to pick scenario 6, attack on an objective, and have the Germans attack from two sides effectively creating two separate games. Easy. In a combined effort the Germans had to capture the centre of the village and hold it until the American Paratroopers had to withdraw from the table.<br />
As we had four platoons we used the 'Bigging it up' rules from the book and it worked perfectly fine. I see a lot of discussion and suggestions at the Lardie forums these days but I personally don't see a need to change anything. Might there be an issue, which we did not experience, we just use some common sense (or a dice roll if things start to heat up) as in any other odd situation with whatever rules. <br />
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The game itself was divided in 2 sections with Curt playing the Fallschirmjager against Jacco's Paratroopers on the left and Rob playing a regular late war German platoon against my Paratroopers on the right side of the table. And two different games it turned out to be! While Curt cautiously advanced his FJ, set up a base of fire in a barn and slowly moved his observer in a good position Rob on the other end saw an opportunity from the first minute and immediately moved his first German section in the open in an attempt to outflank the Paratroopers. It was a misjudgment with huge consequences. The section was caught in the open by a quick deploying Paratrooper squad and from that point the German Heer platoon had to go all in in order to save the poor men and put pressure on other areas forcing the outnumbered Paratroopers to make choices.<br />
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While this may be Rob's specialty it did not work out this time. He was ambushed by deploying Paratroopers once more and when he went in for his final blow he was completely surprised to see another Paratrooper squad deploy shooting up another of his sections. Apparently the platoon was reinforced and more men emerged in the village than expected. Force rating was dropping quickly now (once this starts it tends to go fast) and Rob tried a last assault using the Stormtrooper trait but failed miserably losing another squad and more force morale which was close to zero now. His final attempt was to bring in the big guns when he drove a Panzer IV towards the outskirts of the village. It was too late though, when it arrived on the scene the only thing the crew saw were fleeing Germans. Time for the commander to throw his Panzer into reverse and save what can be saved.<br />
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I have to say Rob did some very bad dice rolling but with this game a minor mistake can have big consequences and Rob was forced into an attack he was not prepared for. Maybe he should have gotten his scary Panzer to the village sooner. Lucky me.<br />
Meanwhile on the other side of the village the fighting was very close with Curt's FJ making slow progress into the village taking the first two houses while most of the Paratroopers lay down pinned due to a clever mortar barrage. I'm not sure what else exactly happened as I was having fun shooting up Rob's Germans but I remember well Jacco telling me Curt being a very smart player making good use of terrain and available options. Just when the FJ were about to take the second house on the left side of the village the regular Germans broke and all that was left of the Platoon fled off the board to safety<br />
Now one platoon from the victorious Paratroopers secured the area while two almost full squads turned to the FJ to help out their friends. That would would be too much for the remaining FJ so we called it a game and opened another bottle or two to celebrate the day.<br />
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-90676723210276148572014-04-30T18:31:00.000+02:002014-04-30T18:31:02.755+02:00New Warmats from Barrage MiniaturesIn an ongoing quest to enhance my terrain I'm always on the lookout to see how others do their terrain and I get lots of inspiration from the blogosphere for this. For a while I've been impressed by the look of those teddy bear fur mats but I could not find a good source to get them. Making such a mat myself is not for me, I just lack the skills to do it so I had almost given up until the blogosphere came to the rescue.<br />
<a href="http://mylardiesgames.blogspot.nl/" target="_blank">Gaming with TooFatlardies</a>, an excellent blog from Benito in Spain which I follow for some years now attended me to a Spanish company called <a href="http://www.barrageminiatures.com/" target="_blank">Barrage Miniatures</a>. They make stunning grassy and desert warmats if you ask me so I sent them an email to see what they could make for me.<br />
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What happened next is something I don't experience each day. The Barrage team was not only friendly and responsive, they offered to collaborate on the design of the mat so I would get the exact mat I wanted. So we decided on the size, hight of the grass (to be used for different scales) and colours while Alf and Clara from Barrage where sending me almost daily emails with progress. They had checked my blog and even sent me pictures of my minis on the mat using photo editing software. One thing I added during the process was to cut the mat in irregular shapes at one short end and make it a bit longer. That way it could be used to represent the border of a beach for example using the desert mat underneath the fur one.<br />
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Initially I decided to go for the fur mat only because their desert mat could only be folded in one direction. When I mentioned this limitation to Alf he promptly redesigned the mat using different materials. When he showed the redesign a week later and explained what he did to tackle this I was sold on the desert mat as well.<br />
The whole process and interaction with Barrage was lots of fun as you can imagine. In just a couple of weeks the mats were made and with every update I received I got more excited. We have now used the fur mat twice and the desert mat will have it's first outing soon. The guys from our gaming group here love the mats as well and the first one already ordered an even larger mat for when we use our largest setup.<br />
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The third battalion for my Napoleonic Early French project done. This time it's a 24 man battalion plus command instead of the 36 man sized units I painted before. Our group here decided to reduce the standard battalion size a bit in the hope we can get them on the table a bit sooner. While 36 looks better I think 24 still looks OK but for painting it makes a huge difference. Well to me anyway, it's something psychological with those 36 sized units. When you start it it feels like a major project that will take ages to finish while a 24 sized unit feels just as another thing on the painting desk.<br />
I will rearrange the other battalions so they gan go both ways but now I only need to paint 48 more to have six of them finished :-)<br />
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This was my final submission for the annual Painting challenge @Analogue Hobbies. It's in the <a href="http://analogue-hobbies-theme-rounds.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">fortnight theme bonus round</a> which I recommend you to check if you did not already as there are some insane good entries over there. This is what I posted:<br />
For the last stands in this years challenge I finally managed to get a decent sized unit done. I love firing lines in an army. They are not the most practical for gaming but any of my armies needs at least one.<br />
These excellent Eureka miniatures are initially painted for the Wars of the Third Coalition but I will allow them to be fielded up to 1807 and use them with a simple flag swap for the Revolutionary wars in Europe and even Egypt. So these battalions will give me a great base to expand on and paint up theatre specific units for the various armies in the future.<br />
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-83611453693491952332014-02-13T00:15:00.002+01:002014-02-13T00:15:48.610+01:00Winter War FinnishThose of you who follow the challenge @<a href="http://analogue-hobbies.blogspot.nl/" target="_blank">Analogue Hobbies</a> might have seen these riflemen before...<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oFqeQMYQEH8/UvvpHyfC6lI/AAAAAAAAC04/5siWlMLEc5g/s1600/P1060267.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oFqeQMYQEH8/UvvpHyfC6lI/AAAAAAAAC04/5siWlMLEc5g/s1600/P1060267.JPG" height="320" width="289" /></a>Inspired by the fun we have playing Chain of Command I started with these Finnish rifleman from the Baker Company kickstarter.<br />
I did about <a href="http://minimike-ministories.blogspot.nl/2011/02/snow-basing-tutorial-and-winter-war.html" target="_blank">half a platoon</a>
a few years back using Brigade games and Battle Honors figures so I
was overly excited when this Baker kickstarter arrived on the scene.
Eager to get my platoon to strength I backed for a finnish platoon deal
and hoped for the best. Especially when Baker company announced it would
catch up to modern standards since their current range was outdated and
not compatible to the current standard of miniatures. Unfortunately it
didn't turn out exactly how I wished for.<br />
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IMHO Baker
has been a victim of it's own success and he started sculpting,
producing and shipping thousands and thousands of figures like a madman.
And yes, I do appreciate the energy and enthusiasm he puts into it but I
feel he just forgot his first goal as I understood it: Get Baker
Company on the map again with fine quality modern figures.<br />
So it
became a rush job and you notice it. Flash everywhere, some weird faces
and a couple of odd figures. A detailed inspection does not make you
that much happier. <br />
But…<br />
I decided to paint up a few and see
how they turned out. I took them to my friends here for a final test
(they are waiting for their Russians now) if I would continue with them.
Well, obviously we found them good enough to give them a paint and have
a few games. I was lucky I painted the other half of the platoon in a
heavy mud look so I could throw all sorts of brown on those as well
which helps camouflaging things.<br />
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In the end I'm happy
how they turned out and I look forward receiving the extras for this
kickstarter because for 60£ you get a lot, and I mean a lot, of extras.
That, all the hardware you will get, and the fact these are Winter War
makes the kickstarted worthwhile to me. I just hope Baker learned from
this journey and sorts thing out when he starts his next kickstarter. We
know he can sculpt well because there are good quality figures with
these as well.<br />
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And the machine gun from Brigade games from the first half of the platoon I did previously. Just because I like this piece...<br />
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Complete platoon can be found <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/111281005317120143718/albums/5704992920107779057" target="_blank">here</a>MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-4501980935294560972014-01-22T21:46:00.000+01:002014-01-22T22:52:48.761+01:00AWI AAR, the promotion of Loudmouth Bill<br />
We started our 2014 gaming year very well with an AWI skirmish battle hosted by RobP. Now let's follow the new year's and try to get some sort of AAR on the blog. We used Musket & Tomahawks for the game, which is fast becoming one of our favorite rulesets. Fast, simple, fun. And don't ask me why but we never have any discussion on the rules whatsoever.<br />
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Anyway, the day before the game we all received an email with some background of the battle, troop details, commander and objectives. All presented in a nice storyline.<br />
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I got to play a local commander named Bill. He was <span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Een indrukwekkend uitziend stel mannen met grote musketten en nog grotere praatjes.">leading an impressive looking set of men with big muskets and apparently even bigger talk</span></span>. <span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Ze zijn ondanks hun vele tekortkomingen
">Despite their many shortcomings they were</span><span title="bereid te strijden voor de vrijheid van hun land en tegen het juk van de koning.."> willing to fight for the freedom of their country. As their homes were very dear to them their objective was to defend all the houses in area. That big mouth local commander Bill had his own agenda though. Yes, he wanted to save the village, but this could also be his opportunity to gain fame and glory. No this must be his moment of glory, Bill decided. If he could show the Army commander his bravery and skills he might be in for a promotion! So he was not planning for any defensive moves. No, he planned for an attack in the open for everyone to see. That should get the proper attention and win the promotion for him.</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="bereid te strijden voor de vrijheid van hun land en tegen het juk van de koning..">Also, a few days earlier some professional riflemen had arrived in the small village. They had been ordered to cut off the supplies to the British Ford and to clear the area from Redcoats. </span></span><br />
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The four other players received their orders as well with the Indians to take the Fort. Since you never know what their next move is I placed a unit of Riflemen behind a wall just outside the village n. With their rifles they covered a large portion of the area. The Continental Regular army had their eye on the Fort as well but as soon as they noticed the Redcoats entering the area they went straight on in to the nearest enemy. The British had to hold the Fort and bring home the supply wagon while securing the area from any danger.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Supply wagon starts to move towards the Fort with the Lights clearing the area</td></tr>
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With the British Lights taking position at the fence and in clear view from the overall Commander at the end of the road, Bill decided this had to be his moment. He would be the hero of the day and get his promotion. He ordered his remaining troops to move in the open to prepare for a frontal assault on the surprised British Lights. It was all or nothing. And while the other commanders later stated it looked like a suicide assault Bill knew better than that. If he could hold the initiative and inflict some casualties to the Lights from shooting with the units on the left and near the house he would have a good chance for a successful assault.<br />
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And so it happened (count your cards guys:). Initiative remained with the local defenders and they immediately opened fire from the left killing a few Redcoats. This was the sign for the charge and five brave men and a brave woman launched forward.<br />
The Lights, still confused by this sudden attack, tried to hold their line at the fence but it was too much for them. They tried to fight back but they panicked and tried to get away. In the end, not a singe men of the Light survived. Even the three fleeing on the picture lost their lives a minute after the picture was taken. The locals lost one men and the only woman in the charge. <br />
On top of all this they are now in a great position to take on the next group of intruders.<br />
Now that should settle Bill's promotion I would think.<br />
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After a few hours it was time to head off to the restaurant but not before the final conclusion. Rob decided it was a draw based on victory points for the houses, Fort and a couple of other things. Draw or not, it felt like a major victory to Bill and both Bill and I had a great day.<br />
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I've uploaded all pictures of the day <a href="http://s1089.photobucket.com/user/Koopclub/library/AWI%20jan%202014?sort=2&page=1" target="_blank">here</a><br />
<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-68613697419013198192014-01-16T00:23:00.000+01:002014-01-16T00:23:31.360+01:00Repainting Early War Germans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NkXJ2KBzUYc/UtcOAm6S7WI/AAAAAAAACw4/MizP-SposvM/s1600/P1060195.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NkXJ2KBzUYc/UtcOAm6S7WI/AAAAAAAACw4/MizP-SposvM/s1600/P1060195.JPG" height="320" width="261" /></a> It must have
been over 10 years ago that the usual suspects of this group decided to
start WWII gaming. As at time it took ages to get something done we
decided to take a shortcut and use a painting service so we could start
gaming quickly. The plan was simple, we buy our stuff at Salute and hand
it over to Sanath of Fernando Enterprises. I'm not aware of their
quality today but at that time they had some very talented painters who
did the most gorgeous ancient and Roman armies for us. I will take some pictures soon to show you these as well. I remember meeting with Sanath the day after Salute at a Hotel in
the area and he welcomed us with a whole entourage of people who
accompanied him. At the time Crusader sold unit boxes with a nice
picture on it so we handed over the Germans, Brits and French platoons and
pointed to the boxes; Please paint it like that and all is fine.</div>
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weeks later we received the figures and they were nicely painted.
Nicely painted but not completely historically correct. The German
uniform was too blue to my taste and the equipment was simply wrong.
Well, not their fault, I should have been more explicit with my
instructions so I decided not to bother and simply get them on the table
for some good games using the Iran Ivan rules.</div>
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Most of the faces, trousers, boots and rifles have survived, all other parts repainted...<br />
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German Mortar team from Warlord. Recently painted to complement the platoon<br />
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-55937084700065093562014-01-04T16:20:00.000+01:002014-01-04T16:20:34.518+01:00New year, new resolutionsSo time to resurrect the blog and re-join the fun @the blogosphere.<br />
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I noticed it has been eight months since I last posted and checked the blog so I needed to decide to either give it up or give it another fresh attempt in 2014. Last May I switched jobs and put all my energy in making this a success. While doing this all wargaming related activities became a rarity. I barely painted, stopped checking blogs and only played a few games. <br />
Now things have settled I've started to paint again and actually had a few games last Month. Inspiration has returned like never before so the painting desk has way too many different periods patiently waiting for their turn once more. Back to normal so to say.<br />
I will continue posting battle report, painting results and what more irregularly as before with lots of WWII stuff in the near future. After a few games of Chain of Command I'm so impressed with the game I started painting platoons in three different scales. I know, insane, but I just had to join all the different projects in our group.<br />
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This is how I remember BigLee, dissapointed by another bad dice roll. Really, I'm a bad roller and I have a friend Marc who is a bad dice roller but BigLee tops us all. May the dice be with you this year!</div>
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<span id="goog_1501437033"></span><span id="goog_1501437034"></span><br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-67386096357950576262013-05-21T21:25:00.000+02:002013-05-21T21:33:42.987+02:00ACW game picsLast week we played an ACW game using Guns of Gettysburg. Unfortunately my hobby time is very limited these days (I haven't touched a brush since Salute) so I just post the pictures of the game this time to keep the blog more or less alive. One of our conclusions was we need a far bigger table though as not even half of our painted units made it to the table..<br />
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-80438199527882239062013-04-24T10:43:00.000+02:002013-04-24T10:43:30.175+02:00Salute 2013Just one (used without permission from a forum) picture of the show as others already posted hundreds of quality pictures. <br />
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As I'm staring in disbelief at last Saturday's purchases I'm trying to decide what to unpack first and worse, what to start painting next.<br />
We (Rob, Jacco and me) had a great weekend again. A fine show and far busier than other years. Demo games were good overall with some fantastic displays but also a few tables rather poor in quality and presentation. My feeling is though (can't prove it with stats or anything) that fantasy is taking over very slowly. Each year fantasy traders and games seem to occupy a bit more floor space. Now I can live with a bit of steampunk or an ocassional sci-fi game but all this, warmachine, warhammer, warmahordes, warwhatever is not the thing I'm travelling to London for. Hope I'ts just me or I was walking circles at the wrong area of the venue.<br />
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Traders were off course well represented and it was nice speaking to them and seeing some of their miniatures in the flesh. One of the downsides of the internet really is that there are no surprises anymore at a wargame show. We can now follow the complete miniature birth from sketch to metal, examine 3-ups or bid on one of the 100's of kickstarters and what not. Can be fun at home but it takes away a part of the excitement of visiting the traders.<br />
But that brings me to my first buy of the day. A not yet released (will be very soon) unit of French Dragoons by Offensive Minatures, lovely minis and a great addition to my French collection.<br />
While at the Offensive booth I was so pleased with this surprise that I also bought their US Airborne figures. Not that I already painted a platoon years ago, but they looked awesome and I wanted to be over-prepared for the release of Chain of Command this summer.<br />
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Other cool purchases included the Dead Man's Hand old west rules with their miniatures. The old west is one of my top favorite periods and I've been collecting and painting this for years. I've bought one of the pre-painted old west buildings as well to see if it would fit my collection that's a mix of my own painted buildings and Paul Darnell's work. Judge for yourself.<br />
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I must say I like the DMH building and if you would use only their buildings they should be very effective in their own style. Think I need to repaint some of it to blend them into my town. Boardwalks are very nicely done and the picture doesn't do them justice really. They are not that far off my own boardwalks in terms of colour. I've assembled the building in about two hours and I was delighted that all parts just fitted 100%. Never did a laser cut building before but it was easy. Great Escape Games have big plans for this range with 24 buildings, interiors and even wallpapers if you really want to go nuts on these.<br />
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Staying in the Old West theme I also bought the train from Redoubt. As I wanted the train to actually get paint on it I've asked Ray and Postie from <a href="http://battleaxeps.blogspot.nl/" target="_blank">Battleaxe Painting Service</a> to paint it for me. So you can expect some pictures from the train in the future at Ray's place.<br />
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Another highlight of Salute was the blogger meetup at the Big Red Dot. Always good to see digital friends in person. I feel I could easily spend the day just chatting with all of you and order the goodies online later.<br />
We've also had a fantastic time at the pre-Salute drinks @TheFox. While last year we had the privilege to spent the evening with Curt and Dallas from Canada now we had a great time with the guys from 'Club Landwehr' from Malaga, Spain. There were quite a few of them and we certainly enjoyed the chats, laughter and beers.<br />
Carlos, Francisco: "To your painting award!" <br />
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-50499789260318401662013-04-17T18:47:00.001+02:002013-04-17T18:47:48.532+02:00Eureka Miniatures Early French Voltigeurs<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--P2Cgz5kZGM/UW5oWV0RwPI/AAAAAAAACYw/bapud2ZjEOM/s1600/P1050922.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--P2Cgz5kZGM/UW5oWV0RwPI/AAAAAAAACYw/bapud2ZjEOM/s200/P1050922.JPG" width="137" /></a><br />
OK, I'm one tiny step closer towards the goal of building that Early French army I've always wanted to have . First goal is to build an all Eureka Brigade of four battalions, an artillery battery and some skirmishers. So, I'm about halfway now. We'll see how to proceed from there but I definitely need a cavalry plan as well, and it not easy finding the right models.<br />
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Figures are Eureka's grenediers. I only had to cut off the grenades from the cartridge pouch for them to be used as Voltigeurs.<br />
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I've added them to the slowly growing <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/111281005317120143718/albums/5730911636369282273" target="_blank">French gallery</a> for those who want more pictures.<br />
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-89866457551023038992013-04-11T21:08:00.001+02:002013-04-17T14:41:23.863+02:00Eureka Miniatures Early French Battalion 2When it comes to the hobby there is not a lot that beats the excitement of finishing a 36 man Napoleonic unit. So when I finished this unit last week I just stared at them for an hour enjoying the moment. Now they have marched into a customized IKEA box waiting for battle for a long time probably.<br />
As I've said in a previous post these are part of a long term project that, with little modifications such as a flag swap, covers the 1800-1808 period. <br />
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Again, these Eureka figures are excellent and include some nice dynamic poses. The bayonets proved a challenge in basing as I wanted them to be able to represent different formations.So all bases (30x40) are marked underneath now with instructions where to put them in which formation. I've never been so organized I must admit. Flag is from <a href="http://gmbdesigns.com/" target="_blank">GMB Designs</a>.<br />
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Next week Salute! Hope to see some of you there at the Blogger meet up. Details can be found on Ray's bog <a href="http://onelover-ray.blogspot.nl/2013/04/salute-2013-rejects-are-going-are-you.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-19805677256976298472013-04-03T22:40:00.000+02:002013-04-03T22:40:08.959+02:00AWI SkirmishersOuch, It's been way too long since I've been here. I won't bore you with the reasons but I was pretty much disconnected to the blogosphere over the last weeks. Fortunately I did manage to get some painting done in my absence on the net and manage to achieve my personal points target place in <a href="http://analogue-hobbies.blogspot.nl/" target="_blank">Curt's famous painting challenge</a>.I<br />
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So over the next two weeks I will post my entries from the competition here and get some newly painted stuff uploaded as well as some game reports.<br />
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Since we have our first game of Muskets & Tomahawks tomorrow I'll start with some skirmishers I painted in the beginning of this year. Next week I will do the AAR and while I'm sure we have good fun tomorrow I hope the rules will live up to our expectations. Not that it will make a huge difference but I better go now and reread the rules<br />
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-89837627687909223312013-02-11T23:18:00.001+01:002015-05-26T14:42:30.771+02:0015mm WWII US Infantry 'The Big Red One'...part 2 and a few game picsThis week the second part of the American Infantry company and a couple of gaming pics. Finished a Mortar and HMG platoon, a sniper and bazooka team. Thought I was done for now but I realized I'm one command base short. Kind of dumb, I can't even count. So paints back on the desk and will post them in the final part together with the recon troops and the Thunderbolt. I will leave the armored stuff for the future. The others in the group have tons of it so first a couple more games and see if it sticks.<br />
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-17254442157875469452013-01-30T18:51:00.000+01:002015-05-26T14:42:30.766+02:0015mm WWII US Infantry 'The Big Red One'...part 1A couple of the guys here are heavy into 15mm WWII and they managed to get me excited to the point that I actually started painting a new company. The last few weeks I played about five games of Flames of War and while I was initially a bit sceptical I can report here that I actually liked every single game. Now of course I have good company but a long as you avoid the 'car park' scenes you sometimes see and don't get hung up over points it works fine for me.<br />
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So with my renewed interest I decided to try to paint this infantry company as quick as I could with the nice side effect it would also earn me some points in <a href="http://analogue-hobbies.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Curt's Painting Challenge,</a> While I do have two other armies from my previous wanderings in 15mm ready to game, nothing beats the excitement to start something completely new.<br />
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Today I'm posting the Rifle and Weapon Platoons, support will follow soon after they appear on the Challenge pages at Anologue Hobbies. Complete gallery with many more pictures: <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/111281005317120143718/albums/5820442291506346913?authkey=CPfVjuqYr8GhuwE" target="_blank">LINK </a><br />
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-76805459449501458902013-01-11T11:01:00.000+01:002013-01-11T11:01:14.422+01:00Sudan Game<br />
I'm a bit behind on our battlereports but fortunately the guys here agreed to help me out. Each game we now have one volunteer who writes up a little story of the battle. For this game Jacco was so kind to write the report. I will take the blame for the comments with the pictures...<br />
Complete gallery of the game uploaded in<a href="http://s1089.beta.photobucket.com/user/Koopclub/library/Sudan%2014-10-2012" target="_blank"> photobucket</a> again. <br />
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Jacco: <br />
On Saturday October the 14th we played our first game using the Black<br />
Powder rules. The setting for this game was Sudan. Mike and Jacco played<br />
the Mahdi's, while Rob and Sam played the Egyptians and<br />
British. The scenario we used was made by Marc and was a simple besieged<br />
hamlet, garrisoned by poorly trained Egyptian troops led by Sam. They were<br />
short of supplies, ammunition and courage. Around them were swarms of<br />
Mahdi's followers. But at the other end of the table waited the<br />
professional trained British forces led by Rob who is always in for a<br />
charge. Their mission was to relieve the garrison with supplies, deliver<br />
fresh troops and to send the Mahdi's back to oblivion. We started a little<br />
slow because nobody actually read the rules on beforehand (déjà vu). Yeah<br />
we all like learning the rules on the run! We never actually came into a<br />
flow of turns and as the game progressed we got more and more frustrated<br />
by the rules. In the end we were not happy with how the rules played and<br />
we never had the feeling we were playing a Colonial wargame.<br />
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Maybe it was the ghost of Sudan games past that was hunting us. We all<br />
remember the epic game we played using the TFL rules and how the Mahdi¹s<br />
drove off the British and captured the fortified town in a heroic assault<br />
(thanks to the Riot in the town card) and this all in the first turn of<br />
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Sometimes you¹ve got to stick to a good thing.<br />
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MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-12096508568434622962013-01-03T21:40:00.000+01:002013-01-03T21:41:32.541+01:00Skirmish on the zócaloHappy New Year! <br />
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I'm kicking off 2013 with a report of the last game of 2012: Skirmish on the zócalo.<br />
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The scenario was made by Rob and Marc and since we had troops for the Texian war as well as the Mexican American War ten tears later the game was in a fictional setting. The Texians are attacking a fortified town and had to blow away the gate and get within townwalls before the sentries could mobilize the complete Mexican garrison.<br />
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The battle ended in a draw with the fighting still going on on the zócalo. The four commanding officers were tired of fighting and had to make their way to festive meals and drinking parties later that night.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More help on it's way to the sentries as the dismounted cavalry comes to the rescue. They did not get very far though. With rolls of 2,3 and another 2 for movement and then a couple of cards after the tiffin they did not get very involved...</td></tr>
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MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-39057251081302072432012-12-18T23:46:00.000+01:002012-12-18T23:46:39.450+01:00Mexican ArtilleryThese are the last Mexicans painted for the battle at casa Phollohombre next week. They are ready to shoot at anything that comes into range (and yes guys I will finally use my new set of dice). I look forward to the game and to see what the others of our group come up with but I will definitely post an AAR and some pictures of their troops as well.<br />
I did not want to paint a gun at this time so I just grabbed one from a Nap Bavarian army for the pictures. If all goes well we plan another game for the Mexicans next year and I'll be back painting the Cazadores and some other minis (Texians) of the excellent <a href="http://www.boothillminiatures.co.uk/" target="_blank">Boothill Miniatures</a> range.<br />
More pictures and the complete Mexican gallery over <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/111281005317120143718/albums/5732023148120812785" target="_blank">here </a><br />
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<br />MiniMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818743972462962721noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063766931583960817.post-18236965422495749782012-12-10T21:17:00.000+01:002012-12-10T22:22:12.371+01:00Mexican Dismounted CavalryBefore I start speed painting for the Annual Painting Challenge over at <a href="http://analogue-hobbies.blogspot.nl/" target="_blank">Curt's place</a> I'm finishing up some more Mexican units for our Xmas game. These guys will be defending casa Phollohombre so I won't need them mounted this time. If the game and period proves fun I'll paint the mounded figs as well. Next up some artillery to help them out.<br />
Again <a href="http://boothillminiatures.co.uk/" target="_blank">Boothill Miniatures</a>, and once more they are awesome sculpts..<br />
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