From DaveD - Panthers .15mm . 165 points

For my 1944 project it’s time for the classic German armour to make an appearance. So it’s big cats time . A mix of Battlefront and Plastic Soldier 15mm. 11 of them altogether.

I did enjoy getting the airbrush out for these

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. 

From DrQ: Zombies!

This week I kept plugging away on the Stilt Town Warband of Super Dungeon Explore by Soda Pop Minis.

These six guys are the basic swamp zombies—simplest paint job on them consisting of lots of washes and some OSL on the eyes.

The two on the left here are the prowler zombies—more speedy but less damage. On the right is the mini-boss Gruesome George. I've tried to tie all these together with similar skin tones and glowing eyes.

Finally, I managed to paint up the hero of the box, Survivor Marie-Claude. I really like how she came out. The miniature is inspired by a cosplayer from Canada who has worked with Soda Pop quite a bit. I enjoy the improvised weapons and think she'll fit in well as a tavern keep NPC in my next campaign—whenever that happens!

One last shot of Marie-Claude brandishing her rolling pin and skillet. 

With a little luck I'll finish off the last of the zombies next week and get on to some other projects.

Stay safe everyone!

KenR : Life on Mars

Having finished my uniformed officers for my 7tv game it was time to add some proper "Hard Bastards" or the cast of Life on Mars.

The real cast and a familiar car.

For those who didn't see it Life on Mars was a TV Series from 2006 where a modern day officer Sam Tyler got seemingly transported back in time to the 1970s and a very different era of British Policing.

I've used the picture of the cast as my guide for painting these, above are Gene Hunt and on the right Sam.

Ray on the left with Chris on the right.

WPC Cartwright on the right and the character Alex Drake (or Bolly knickers !) from the spin off Ashes to Ashes set in the 1980s.

The car in the first series was an early Ford Cortina Mk III but sadly I haven't been able to find one at a sensible price, so I have added 7 (there's a dog in the photo below) is another 35 points taking me up to 804 points.

So just to finish here's a picture of my completed Police Cast, I plan to add a couple of cars and vans but that's it for figures. I'm onto some more Kingdom of Jerusalem stuff, this time Foot Knights before I return to do some baddies to go up against this lot.

From PeterD SYW Auvergne Regiment in 28mm

Bad photo but i shows the full regiment ready for battle.

It's been a while since I've posted.  I've been very busy with the  end of semester for the last few weeks and I was sick as a dog all last weekend.  Today is the first Saturday in May and the wonderful day when I wake up and check what course prep I have for the week to come and then realize that there isn't any as I have no classes until after Labour Day!

I did use a couple of evenings each week to get some rehab painting in and finished up the 24 man French Auvergne Regiment from my Seven Years War  project.  As noted in prior posts I tend to do my foot regiments in units of 24, finished in three batches of eight.  Often I have two or three batches underway at once at different stages of progress.  This year I've been saving up my work until I have the full unit.  I then base them at the same time and post the full unit.

I only took pictures from the front but the white on the back of the bases are unit tables including the name a a jpg of the Ordonnance colour to help keep organization straight.  Crusader NCO is second from the right.

Figures are mostly Crusader with Front Rank figures being used for the officer and standard bearers.  I find the the Crusader packs have enough subtle variation in marching pose to give cohesion without being monopose.  I included 4 grenadiers and a few with coats without turn backs to add variety.  Of course the grenadiers are over represented, bu the caps look nice.  I like the Crusader drummers and the sergeant with partizan (long pokey stick) but I'm not a huge fan of the Crusader officers so sub in the Front Rank figures.  There is a size difference between ranges but it seems to work.

I normally manage to get better variety on the my bases but these guys all seem distracted by something off screen on our right.  I really like the grenadier drummer casting.

When you do a "French" Infantry regiment for King Louis' army, you're got a limited choice of facing colours mostly blue, red or none on grey uniforms to choose from (foreign regiments let you add blue or red coats).  At least it's not the snooze fest of Napoleonic French or Russian where every damn unit wears the same damn facings.  So the chance to do a regiment with Violet facings makes for more variety on table.  Plus Auvergne had some chops to stand on, notably a piquet company saved the day at Clostercamp by alerting the army to the Erbprinz' dawn attack.

The two middle figures are Front Rank and they fit in with the rankers just fine.  The chap on the right has left his coat unbuttoned.  The Ordonnance is black and violet quarters but they look alike in the lighting.

The flags were "borrowed" from the wonderful work of David over at Not By Appointment.  A quick download, resizing and real life cut and paste was all that was required