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Loads of painting done over the Christmas holiday.
Click on the pictures to go to the gallery page for those models.
First up, a couple of Wespe self-propelled guns for my
nascent later war German force. These are Battlefront miniatures, and
painted up very nicely indeed.
With the forthcoming launch of my IABSM-based,
company-sized, sci-fi rules, I also spent a lot of time painting sci-fi
figures. The biggest holiday project was painting up the Chewks from
Khurasan: they are cracking models a bit like the Jawas from Star Wars.
One of the best things about Khurasan is that they make
an effort to produce figures that will give you more than just infantry
squads: as a rule, each of their ranges (and they have many!) have
infantry, command, support weapon and vehicle models...and lovely models
they are too. Particularly good are the Chewk drilltanks: vast tunnelling
AFVs which come with option to have a chewkannon artillery piece mounted
on a boom arm. Here they are in troop carrying mode: click to go to the
gallery to see the whole range.
Other manufacturers are also realising that they need
to produce entire ranges rather than just infantry squad models.
Highlander Studios, manufacturers of the excellent Space Bug range, have
augmented their basic offering with anti-tank, anti-aircraft and
flamethrower teams: also painted up over Xmas.
Finally we go back to Khurasan again for some APCs for
the Karkarine Landser "shark-headed" infantry from their Pelagic
Dominate range. Called, appropriately, Karkwagons, these are all plastic
kits that are really nice to paint. They seem a bit small for the size of
the Karks themselves i.e. it looks like it would be a tight fit to get a
squad of seven inside...but they will look good on the tabletop anyway!
So that was Christmas 2011: a couple of cracking games
of IABSM3 (see the AAR below) and a load of painting. About 150 foot and
nine vehicles: not Kev standards, but not bad! Roll on 2012!
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