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I am defenseless in the face of the R2 unit. So good!

"Sand People pose single file to hide their numbers..."

@Gitsplitta: Yeah, it's a cute one. Very nice model too.

@SlaveToDorkness: Indeed.


More WIPs!



Two rebel characters, (more or less finished), C3PO (fnished), two WIP heavy stormtroopers.

Nice group you've got there, Sigur - how're you finding the detail on the Imperial Assault figures?

The detail is perfectly fine. Especially the rebel characters a very, very detailled. of course the details aren't quite as sharp as you'd find them on wargaming figures or proper scale models, but it's very solid quality. The less nice things about these minis mostly are the massive mold lines and the material in general. These are boardgame figures made of very soft, bendy plastic (kinda like the old Revell/Airfix 1/72nd infantry figures). You cant file or scrape the mold lines properly, so you have to cut. Due to how soft the material is this can go wrong very easily. The surfaces are also a bit bumpy where they shouldn't be and the details, as mentioned above, aren't too sharp sometimes. Still, fine minis even though they're a bit harder to work with.


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So here's what's done so far (sans sand people):



The red-ringed Stormtrooper I just got back again from the customer so the new ones would fit with the old one and in case I'd forgotten what white and black look like. Here we see a classic Star Wars scene of people firing laser guns at each other. Within seconds the Stormtroopers will be mown down without having caused any damage. :p

I've been following the annual MST3k Turkey Day Marathon for almost 7 hours now. Still going strong.

Rebel Saboteurs:






Here's what's on the plate next - rebel troopers!




Hope you like them!


I also made an advent wreath this weekend, played poker with friends (very good evening, surprisingly high taxi bill in the end), prepared three more miniatures reviews and built 10 German WW2 tanks AND started building not only jump-off points for my 15mm Brits for Chain of Command, but also two artillery positions for 25pdr guns. One abandoned, one still at large.



Of course artillery such as this has no place on a gaming table usually, because it makes no sense. However, I had the models and sometimes artillery positions get attacked or the enemy gets close and they still have to fire or use the guns for some desperate close-quarters tank defense (those situations are mentioned several times for the war in the desert in 1941).

The Jump-off points are a destroyed Crusader 2 tank with a scouting dude using it as cover, a little scene in which a local camel driver is interrogated for info on German movement while some British soldiers rest and marvel at the camels (I'll add another one sitting on that box there). The third jump off point will be some truck with this spare artillery limber.

Great looking as usual! I like how the rebel girl on the left thought to bring a pint to the fight.

 Sigur wrote:
I also made an advent wreath this weekend, played poker with friends (very good evening, surprisingly high taxi bill in the end), prepared three more miniatures reviews and built 10 German WW2 tanks AND started building not only jump-off points for my 15mm Brits for Chain of Command, but also two artillery positions for 25pdr guns. One abandoned, one still at large.

OK, now I feel lazy.

Will some of the saboteurs and troopers be getting the red base of elite status at some point, Sigur, or is that just for the Evil Empire?

And for once, I don't mean GW...

Is that camel carrying part of a jeep on it's back?! Marvel indeed!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Is that camel carrying part of a jeep on it's back?! Marvel indeed!

I think that's the battery for the abandoned gun emplacement in the background.

Rebel Saboteurs.. hummm.. Note to Empire" look for the Blue guys! Great job on C3PO!!

Camels.. How often in life does one get to paint Camels! Not something you see on Dakka a lot theses days!

@Wehrkind: She's got an engineer's degree and yet you reduce her to the drink she holds in her hand.

@Dysartes: That's a very kind thing to say, but I'm afraid I lazier than anybody else. :/ Yeah, I'll add the red base bits in the end on the rebels as well as on the empire troops.

@Gitsplitta: I'm afraid SlaveToDorkness is right.

@SlaveToDorkness: Exactly.

@Solar_lion: Yeah, they're master of deception, but their bulbous blue heads always give them away. It indeed has been a while since I painted camels.I painted a bunch of 10mm camels for an Araby Warmaster army about 7 years ago. Since then... hmm... I think I haven't painted a single camel since then really. Camels are cool stuff to paint, but elephants and chariots - that's where it's at. Especially Scythed chariots. I recently listenened to a very good podcast (it's the Ancient Warfare Podcast to accompany the Ancient Warfare Magazine. Highly recommended. Very well informed and educated people talking about interesting stuff in a relaxed and easy to follow manner. Especially the bits on battlefield communications, life in camp and how winners and losers of ancient battles were determined are highly recommended and pretty well applicable to fantasy warfare. And it will help understand that friction and command&control just are necessary to meaningfully depict any battle) and the topic of scythed chariots came up. I think the general consensus was that the whole concept throughout history was a series of weird fads, overblown stories and just an idea that never really worked. Still won't stop me from launching my Persian scythed chariot into lines of Greek Hoplites (and just shatter on impact in 80% of all cases ). Anyway, yeah. Camels. Bought these earlier this year, thinking I'd use them for my Persians' camp. But of course they're really handy for these desert brits here as well.


Update on the rebels as well as some Koopas:

Your Star Wars minis are aboslutely beautiful. So much detail from boardgame miniatures!

@Mymearan: Thanks very much. Yeah, well, they're a little rough and such, but they aren't bad.

Here come the rebs!


Pew pew pew!


Trandoshan Hunters:


Against my expectations those Trandoshans turned out to be my favourite models out of this batch.

Hope you like them! There's still one more to come: Boba Fett.

See now you spoilt it.

2 years ago I bought a suitable scale camel to have as a silly dio with an ork painboy, now I can never do it, ta.





Oh yeah everything else looks truly amazing as usual, Starwars bits are cool.

@Camkierhi: Come on, you know the rulings when it comes to camels: After 20 months the Right of the First Camel is null and void.

Boooooooooba Fett! No other character in Fantasy films (or Sci-Fi if you will) did so little and gets so much reverence:










Hope you like them. Group pictures coming up!

How true.

Though... he WAS the genetic blueprint for every storm trooper out there. Just sayin'.

@Gitsplitta: Having a CO2 footprint is more of an achievement than having a genetic footprint. If anyone Boba Fett's mom is to be credited for that.

Well, there they are.









cheers. C&C welcome as always!

That Star Wars group shot is impressive, really nice work!!

What a fantastic group Sigur! Pat yourself on the back for that one.

The Force is strong with this one...

@RiTides: Thanks.

@Gitsplitta: Well, thank you very much, Sir!

@Dysartes: We won't get into which side exactly....


Got some painting done on them Jump-Off Points and artillery bases for Chain of Command:




'So what's wrong with that tank then? Looks fine to me.' - ha, look again!




The funniest thing happened - seems like our Chain of Command table at VIVAT got something going. Many local dudes are getting interested in the game. Very nice developments.

Alrighty, today I painted some Polish horses. Once those were done I finished my Jump-Off points for Chain of command:







Okay, technically it's just two proper Jump-Off Point bases and the third is random trucks, either with a hanger or without. But hey, in the desert it makes a whole lot of sense. The little diorama in the middle is an officer and a translator gathering info from a local camel driver while the lads have a chat with the camel. The destroyed Crusader II tank is a bit too late for what we play, but oh well. may just as well be a Crusader I with the weird MG turret removed (which happened quite often in the field, because they weren't very popular). Still, I didn't paint on the usual Caunter camo scheme, because of course it was only used until ..err... the end of 1941 if I remember correctly. Also saved me some time of course. :p I added a little scout dude to the base to depict a scout patrol.


And of course I finished the artillery bases:





Just as planned, one firing, one abandoned. I was thinking of doing a whole collapsed camo net setup fgor the abandoned one, but realized that it would make the thing hell to transport and it would probably break at some point or another, so just slapped some camo netting over one side of the gun shield and that's that.

Hope you like them.

Those look wonderful Sigur. The red lights and paint job on the truck just tickle my fancy something fierce!

@Gitsplitta: Oh, thanks. It was time to get some Jump-Off point markers I think.


Heyhey, for months I've had this guy stand on my table. It's a Persian general in chariot. In game terms he isn't that important or even required as you get the choice between him and the general with the cavalry unit, so I was under no pressure to get him painted. But still, I guess it's time to get some paint on this one:



Of course he's WIP. Hope to pull that white-purple off.

nicely done SW minis, just in time for the movie.

Love those brits ands their shorts panst uniforms. Bravo.

@Solar_lion: Cheers. I've got a ton of Star Wars stuff scheduled to be publicized over the next four weeks on the site (battlebrushstudios.com).

Now for some people with (mostly) longer trousers - Italian Bersaglieri!





As this Chain of Command project of ours is getting bigger and bigger (I'm on my second platoon now, German player is doing a British Indian platoon now and the third guy is doing French Foreign Legion), we'll cover pretty much everybody involved in our chosen setting (Early Northern Africa setting) soon.


For months I tried to get hold of the regular Italian rifle platoon by Battlefront, then for some sale at a store I caved in and just got the Bersaglieri instead. They are a sort of elite formation within the army, tracing back their miliatry lineage as crack light infantry back to the Italian unification wars. To this day the Bersaglieri units wear black cockerel feathers on their headgear; to this day.






As I found varying infos on how their platoons were organized in 1940-41, I will use the regular Italian rifle platoon organization. It's a rather interesting platoon setup (you can see that I pretty much require twice as many figures as I'm working on at the moment):



Only two big squads (as opposed to the three smaller ones which other nations use), but each one split up into a gun group or two LMG teams each (overseen by the squad commander) and a maneuver element led by a Corporal. No other organic support weapons to the platoon, no platoon sergeants, just one officer on top. It's an interesting beast indeed. Rather inflexible, but at least the manpower is there. Should be really, really interesting getting to know how these chaps play on the table.

Interesting tradition, Not sure it still works with the modern helmets but I'm guessing that's not the point.

Yeah, my sentiments exactly.

Love that "surprise" broken down tank with the tracks missing on one side . Very realistic looking paint job on it, too.