From DaveD: Bazooka Joe and his mates (16 points)

You didn’t think I was finished with winter stuff did you ? With all the Zulus running rampage over my paint desk it’s just a small top up this week . I have a game booked in for the Sunday after the challenge and with more German armour having been added I think my Yanks need some more mobile Anti tank support . 

So 4 Bazooka teams added to sneak around the flanks of the advancing Germans , 

Battlefront Winter Bazooka teams on scenic bases by Baueda 

Points :-

8 x 15mm foot - 16 points 

Still enough time to get sone more winter stuff in under the wire next week I think . 

And well done to the Thursday crew for knocking it out of the park each week with productivity and quality . Top job on minioning the crew Teemu - you can do it again !

TeemuL: First we had pair of posts in 10mm, now we have a nice pair of winter posts. Let's see how long I can manage this today. :) Yes, Dave is back with more winter world war and promises to paint something more before the end of the Challenge. Your German colomn was quite impressive, these guys will be busy blowing them up. Good job, Dave, you and the Thursday crew in general have been wonderful group to minion. I guess I'll volunteer for the next year, too. :)

From DaveD: The Chapel of St Martin and the Blessed Sisters of Mercy - plus tanks! (47 points)

A little more winter work this week . I picked up a 3d printed Chapel building so that has been completed this week - complete with some stained glass painting . It will do for a nice little roadside one I think -,with a secret stash of  Tripel beers . I also have a stand of Nuns .. ok yes it’s bonkers but I think a little random event of the Blessed Sisters of Mercy crossing the battlefield could add a little something. Though I am pretty sure they may have been out hunting Werewolves or Dracula … hmm now there is another option .

The figures are from a Blue moon set . 

Next up some extra German Armour . Time for a Tiger , PzIV and 3 Stugs . These have lain in the stash for a while with a base coat on - the upside of the winterising means they don’t need to much overall attention , just a basic paint job and away they go .  So this gives my German forces some extra punch now .  I need to top up the US infantry available next . I have a club game booked with it all just after the challenge ends .

The Stug contingent 

The Pz IV

Points 

15mm foot delivering a message from God x 3 = 6 , plus 1 tank crew =7

15mm tanks x 5 = 40 

TeemuL: Great to see some snow again, southern Finland has been lacking it, but thankfully you and Ray keep the snowratio at bearable level. It would be nice to give some points for the chapel, but we do know the rules. I believe the chapel and nuns give nice flavour to many scenarios - abandoned (assumed) chapel would be a nice strongpoint for a HQ or some guns, but close contact reveals there are some devoted nuns still there and all the plans go with the wind. Great especially for games with umpire, I'd say.

What you say about winterizing is quite true, but of course the base paint needs to be solid or the whole effect will look very cheap. Yours are great and hope the club game will be great!

From DaveD - It’s a bitsa week - (67 points)

Bit off an odd weeks production with bitsa this and bitsa that . 

One of the guys at my local group was off loading a few unpainted Sherman’s and an M26 Pershing at our last meet up so I nabbed them to do for the winter collection .A rattle can of Tamiya TS28 olive drab ( rattle  can of choice for my US armies)  , some track colour, oil wash and decals and they were ready for “winterising”

First up 4 heavily winterised M4s , for hunting/hiding from that King Tiger I showed earlier .

Some of these models are Battlefront and some I think are old Skytrex as they are hefty chunks of lead .

Unfortunately one of the tanks turns out to be a British Sherman version , however I am not that much of a rivet counter . If looks like a Sherman, quacks like Sherman, has stats like a Sherman, (burns like a Sherman - ed) it's  a US Sherman in my army .

The “whitewash” on the tanks was done with an old tin of enamel white just thick and dry enough to drag across with a large brush.

feeling chilly yet?

 

In addition I have completed the Pershing , though left it with a more frosty ground tuft basing as they didn’t get to front line units until Feb 45.

 

The Snow and Mud effect on the M4s is the acrylic snow effect from AK and the muddy ground one too . For a first stab I am pleased . 

So 5 x 15mm tanks = 40 pts 

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And now for something different . I have picked up some “pup” tents (from Pendraken) to make some camp areas for the ACW stuff , for no real practical reason other than they will  add some nice set dressing. I have completed the first one for my Reb cavalry 

Points = 8 horses , 3 foot , = 22 , tents I would suggest 1pt a piece =5.  Total 27 

I have another 3 of these large bases to do with some infantry , wagons etc to complete in due course.

This keeps the scoreboard moving this week and every week of the challenge . Huzzah.

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We are always pleased to see another submission from you DaveD, however "bitsa" it might be. The tanks look fabulous, and the whitewashed ones emit a suitable sense of bone-shattering winter chill, familiar to anyone who grew up in or lives near the Canadian prairies. Sadly the government always prevented me from mounting 75mm guns on our trucks - because of "the law" or whatever - but seeing those snow clad tanks immediately takes me to January in Winnipeg.

As for keeping track of which sort of Sherman is which...whatever...I don't actually believe anyone can, regardless. They all seem the same to me...

So, the impressive armour, along with the random little 10mm camp piece (very nice) nets out to 67 points. Lovely stuff.

GregB