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Tuesday, 12 February 2019

From MartinC - Army Finished / Army Started (190 points)

It's been an odds as sods week, mad busy at work and some random figures to paint. I really am running out of lead mountain.

48 Commando finished. These are the command units, 2" mortars, snipers, a flame thrower, Piat and a K gun section - basically, an aircraft machine gun fitted for infantry with an epic rate of fire.

Some 15mm Cretan Archers from Xyston miniatures - nice figs but a swarfy nightmare

New project time, I already have a fledgling Russian Civil War army that I have bulked out with Napoleonic Cossack lancers - they look fine. I needed more, the books of Peter Hopkirk are a cracking read and it's a fantastic period - read this months Wargames Illustrated for a flavour.

I had these 3 Nap Cossacks to paint but they had flintlock pistols so I swapped them out for revolvers (ACW revolvers to be accurate as it is what I had)

Empress has taken over the Copplestone interwar vehicles range and I bought this at the York show. It's a single turret Mgebrov WW1 AC. Only 15 of these were made and they were all the twin turret type - typical. Lovely piece though

Soviet flags are a doddle to paint

Finally some Russian Buildings from Sarrissa. These are great kits

2 village houses

Massive church. I had thought about covering over the cupola, round bit on the top, but I like it as is.

Scores on the doors

47 x 15m foot = 94

3 x 28mm cav = 30

1 x 28 vehicles = 20

3 buildings approx size of 2 6" cubes - the church is massive = 40

Total = 184pts

Another wonderful mix of scales, categories and periods. I'm impressed by your productivity!

I'm always wary of declaring an army 'finished'. There's always something that can be added, and to me it feels like tempting fate. I like your buildings and your right, that church does look better with the cupola....it'll give the troops something to aim at!

I've added points for the mortars... they may be small but they are, technically, "crew served weapons". Because they are so small I've only awarded 2 points each rather than the usual 4 for larger kit like the 3.3" Mortars you did last week. Still, it's an extra 6 points you weren't expecting bringing the total up to 190 points.

Lee