Sunday, May 3, 2020

From ClarenceH: Cameron Highlanders, 1st Platoon, Company A

I finished the first unit for my project set in the Sudan 1885. Although these are being organized for The Sword and the Flame set, they will work perfectly for Donnybrook as well!


Leader (Hero d12) Henry Hatwaver
Unit of 8 models (Regulars d8) Special Character: Sergeant Charger
Unit of 8 models (Regulars d8) Special Character: Piper McDonald

For those who don't know, the origin of Donnybrook was a one-page set I wrote for playing games with my Darkest Africa collection.


More soon.. starting on the second platoon this week!

From StuartL - A Band of Brothers

Continuing with my efforts to get some older armies painted up, and projects done, I have spent the past week working on some American Airborne for the Overlord/Normandy campaign. I bought the majority of these figures 6 or 7 years ago I think. Since that time, they have largely been left untouched and stowed away in a box. Thanks to the quarantine challenge I have managed to get the bulk of my infantry done along with a couple of support weapons.


I still have a group of command figures, mortar teams and machine gun teams to do, but they will probably turn up around the end of the challenge as most of them still need cleaning up and assembling.


These minis took quite a while to paint as they are pretty busy in terms of webbing, camo and combat gear. That said, I am really happy with how they have turned out. Of course, now I'll need some Fallschirmjäger to oppose them and then some of the US Airborne in their later uniforms for Market Garden.


So that's 35 minis and a gun to add to my tally. My math puts that at 185 points, bringing my unofficial score up to 679.5 and my side duel total up to 527.5. This also puts me over my score for painted minis (not including the location bonuses) for the winter challenge, so I am very happy with my output thus far.

From TimG - German Assault Pioneers

 More lockdown painting to report now, in the form of these WW2 Germans. These beautiful plastic  figures are by TSSD. There are some lovely poses - I especially like the guy running with the flamethrower (don’t try this at home!) whose bare left arm reveals a wristwatch! Unfortunately one of the chaps has already checked out - possibly in protest at my painting. These will go well with the TSSD infantry I finished back in February.