From MartinC: It's Alive (502pts)

 

Think I've survived covid, although it was rough and I still feel crap. I've done a little painting and model building, but mainly I've been to sleep. Most of today's post was for last week. I'm still working out my camera so the pictures are rubbish. For those of you that are used to my posts, this will come as no shock. If I wanted to be good at photography, I would do that as a hobby - bet it's cheaper, easier to give as gifts and takes up less space in my house.

I've been building up my Back of Beyond collection, it offers so many gaming options. I noticed that my Brits are all in shorts and shirt sleeve order. They look great but most of my Russians are in overcoats and fur hats. Therefore I needed some Brits for colder climes.

I picked these up 2nd hand from a mate. They painted up quite nicely

Overall there are 3 sections

plus 3 spares, inc 2 highlanders with Lewis guns

They came with 2 vickers MMGs and I had a sniper in the to do box

All forces need command and control. These guys came with 4 sets. 2 semaphore teams and 2 carrier pigeon teams. i think I have too many pigeons and enough flags for bunting.

Next up an Empress Model T Ford for Dunsterforce. They famously went to war in 600 Model T Fords and this stripped down one has 2 Lewis guns.

Next up a troop of Chinese infantry, told you everyone had fur hats. These are from Copplestone and lovely.

And then I started to potter around this week. 5 mob types, again Copplestone

12 Arab archers, 2nd hand purchase, think they are Gripping beast

A 40mm warrior chap, nice fig from a Games of Thrones set.

Next up I made a couple of tank models I'd been given. This Sherman M4A1 is by Rubicon and a pressie from sick note Dave. Nice kit to built.

Finally a 1:35 Churchill Mk VII by Tamiya. This was a birthday present from a friend and a nice kit to build.

It is bleeding massive compared to the 28mm Sherman. can't believe i only get 25 points for it, it's at least twice the size of the Sherman. Maybe i should put it in as a terrain piece.

Scores on the doors

81 x 28mm infantry and crew = 405

2 x crew served weapons = 20

2 x 28mm vehicles = 40

1 x 40mm infantry = 7

1 x massive tank = 25pts (REALLY!!!)

total = 497pts

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Kaboom! Another points-bomb from Martin, despite being sick with Covid. That's a great set of figures and vehicles. The 1/35 scale tank is "54mm" so that's 30 points rather than 25, but still doesn't seem much for such a big piece of kit.

Tamsin