There is always a bit of an uplift with regards to inspiration post a wargames show, and the recent visit to Partizan was no exception. A flurry of activity resulted, but was brought to a shuddering halt by the record breaking heatwave of the last week or so. With the weather having broken and some very welcome rain (not often you want to say that!), I thought I'd do a bit of catch up on what's been going on the gaming front.
Commission Figurines
After the last Honours of War game a month or so ago, I realised I really needed to push on and finish off some units to more or less complete my core Red and Blue forces. At the same time so long overdue units were added to the 'to-do' pile, which can be seen below.
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| Guard-cum-Grenadier units in greatcoats, to make them stand out from the rank-and-file ones once on the table. In the background is a unit of the latter to help balance out the Blue force. |
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| My very basic toy soldier style painting with gloss lacquer which just works well once on the table top. |
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| Some in progress units in the form of 4 units of heavy artillery, 2 units of howitzers and 6 units of engineers. With these I should have everything I need for most games and scenarios. |
Vulture Squadron
The superb game put on by The League of Extraordinary Kriegspielers at Partizan got my creative juices flowing to the point of wanting to add to the aircraft I already have for my AVBCW games. First off a new purchase and then some long overdue toys moved up the painting queue.
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| A lovely Tiger Moth diecast plane at about 1:87 scale. |
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| I'm not sure which side, if any, it will fight for yet. |
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| Awaiting their turn to be painted, which hopefully will start this week not it's cooled down. All but one are Zvezda kits. The metal one (top left) will form the basis for a future ABVCW campaign. |
Operation Sealion
I bought this book to add to my knowledge of what might have happened had the Germans actually been able to mount some form of invasion in the Summer of 1940. Some really interesting information so far that I wasn't aware of, which will be useful for when I undoubtedly run another campaign for this perennial 'what if?' that has always held a fascination for many a wargamer I'm sure.
Nuns On The Run
With regards to the above book, I treated myself to some monks and nuns for some 5th Column-cum-Fallschirmjager shenanigans during Operation Sealion. Of course they can also be used for general Dark Ages and Middle Ages games. Alongside these I also ordered a small Cossack force for use with my 19thC ImagiNations games, either in Europe of for another theatre of operations that I've had my eye on for some time. More on this in due course, but don't hold your breath;)!
Industrial Buildings
I had wanted to order some of these some time ago, but the Leven Miniatures went out of production, so that plan was shelved. Recently Battlescale bought the moulds and have slowly been adding the old items to their online store. So I need to make a list of what I want that will suit planned games of BKCII, whether for the AVBCW or right through to Berlin 1945 and beyond. Frankly far too much temptation but as we all know, very hard to resist!
What Next?
Ideally I'd like to get those Commission Figurines painted so that I can park this for the meantime and come back to it as and when the mood takes me, as I'd like to add some more limbers and scratch build some carts too. Then of course painting some aeroplanes would be nice, but often the hardest thing is deciding upon which camouflage scheme to go with. First World problems and all that!
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TTFN.
