ByronM - 28mm Modern Operatives (20 points)

Today I have a few posts going up as I have been working on several different things over the last week and a bit, since I had some time off from work that I had to use before the end of March (end of fiscal year).

First up is a small unit of modern 28mm Operators.  These are from Spectre Miniatures and are part of the Kickstarter I back a year or so ago.

 As commented on before, the Spectre Miniatures are really good with excellent detail.  The only issue with them is the true scale of their weapons, which while correct makes them a little flimsy and appearing too small even though they are correct. 

These Operators were painted up in a very generic colour scheme so that they can be used for almost any nations forces.  They could also be used as deniable operatives or private military contractors (mercenaries). 

This small unit of 4 guys should give me 20 points to my total and to the modern challenge.

Also completed this week was a trip to Ikea to finally (after 5 years of debating over what to do for display in my painting room) put in some cabinets for display of painted figures and storage or terrain.


Here is what I came up with, half display and half storage.  Cabinets were easy to build (10 minutes each) but the lighting was the complicated part.  While simple in theory (drill hole and wire) doing it in a clean organized way took a while, probably an hour per cabinet, meaning 6x longer than building the actual cabinet itself.  Then a few minutes to put the doors on.

I am still in process of filling the cabinets, and will already be out of room, as I have way too many armies in storage to actually put them all out, but wanted to put a picture up to show what I have been up to.

I posted pictures last year of my work space, but while working on the new cabinets, I decided to change it up again.  I got a bigger counter top for my work area, split up my home made storage drawer system and moved the paints between them.  Sorry, its messy as this was taken as a last minute thing while taking pictures of everything else this week, but it shows the space pretty well.  The table is 5' wide and 2' deep giving me lots of space to work.

I really must check out the Spectre minatures, you have tempted me with these cracking chaps. Your cabinet area looks ace - all painters desks should be messy - its compulsory...