From AndrewB - War of the Worlds St Louisans! Lady Sarah, Local History - 96pts

This week, we’re persisting with the 15mm Blitz, in a rather more self- defeating fashion.  I spent the week painting up the better part of 100 15mm early 1900s civilians, as well as some guns, only to find when I took them off the sticks, I only had three bases left to put infantry on!   I got the guns(and what an assortment), a couple command stands, and a group of three infantry stands based up, so we’ll just have to hold onto the rest while we await a package from eBay!  

If any of you are familiar with the All Quiet on the Martian Front franchise, it has been rekindled by new ownership, and recently completed a Kickstarter relaunch!   In the previous edition, when the IP was owned by the fine folks at Miniature Market based here in sunny St Louis, MO, the Battle of St Louis was an important turning point in stemming the tide of the Martian invasion in the US, and remained a place of conflict.  Naturally, I’ve been 3D printing 15mm ruined houses and such like gangbusters, and have been working on local militia units to fight the martian menace.  First, let’s dig into our HMG teams and a couple larger guns for dropping tripods!  

This motley assortment of militia and privately sourced machine guns include a Nordenfeldt, a Colt 1895 ‘Potatodigger’, and a Maxim on a cavalry mount.  Additionally, these teams have lady loafers bringing ammunition in their purses, which they’re removing!

These two guns are a dismounted light naval gun(quite heavy when land-based), and a large brass heavy gun from the civil war era, certainly liberated from the grounds of the old arsenal, and chained to a beam!  The improvised guns are being entrenched, and some poor soul is having to examine projectiles to see what will fit the comparatively ancient cannon!  These machine gun ladies will flag down Lady Sarah’s cart and hitch us a ride to the Local , where all these fit quite nicely, even if the setting is slightly off-kilter from history!

Next up, we have some of St Louis’s Finest, a detachment of the metropolitan police!

These fine chaps are leading the way through ruined streets to take the fight to the big eyed Martian menace   Lay into them, Lads!  

Lastly, we have two command stands of local heroes to lead the forces mustering!

On one base, we have a fairly standard base of respectable looking gentlemen, while the other has a gentleman fully decked out for the era, in all white, ready to impress the gravity of the situation on anyone he encounters!

Look for the rest of these to be uploaded sometime in the next couple of weeks, as more bases come in!  Sorry I wasn’t able to put them up, but you’ll certainly be seeing more of this project!  

As for points, there are 28 15mm minis for 56pts, as well as Lady Sarah’s 20, which advanced me to the Local History room, for an additional 20, bringing me to 96 this week! A pretty paltry showing next to last week’s entry, but I’ll have an added boost in the future!  Happy painting!

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Thanks for this submission Andrew, and for the update regarding this game system. I recall seeing some of the Martian Pods in an earlier edition of the Painting Challenge some years ago, and so it is interesting to learn not only that it had gone under, but is now back under new ownership! And so nice to see that pouring machinegun fire into Martian invaders can be a community building endeavour...looking forward to seeing much more when your shipment of bases arrives. 

Greg