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Sunday, 8 January 2023
From StuartL - If I Could Turn Back Time - 1980's - 55 Points
From: SebastianR Captured Armour (44pts) World Cinema
My initial project is taking a while. Like a snake digesting a meal larger than it's head, I fear that it may take a while to be done, perhaps longer than I have in order to meet the deadline.
In order to stake my claim and make said deadline, I present this stopgap, itself made out of stopgaps; three T-34's captured, and pressed into Finnish service.
A friend of mine picked these up at a trade show as T-34's pressed into German service, which I repainted with a mucky, whitewashed, winter scheme. I've decided to follow the Finnish three part camo for armour they acquired through the normal route - from allied, axis or neutral partners, and whitewash over soviet green for captured vehicles. Ironically the technique calls for a green wash over white. I like it, it's simple and effective and makes them look very used.
The figures are a weird bunch; the turrets have been attached in unique ways and one of the hulls is clearly from a different manufacturer. I'd like to think that their previous owner was experimenting with this ersatz unit too.
I've thrown them into the World Cinema category as they do meet the written definition, of being from somewhere I'm not, but I did have a quick look into the Finnish WW2 film industry. The list available on wikipedia seems quite slim; perhaps this is simply one of the many less trafficked areas of wikipedia or perhaps the Finnish film industry hasn't produced quite as much about the Winter and Continuation Wars as one might expect.
World Cinema is, as I understand it, a Hollywood euphemism for films that non-Americans make, but to me it always feels like world cinema means films that eschew the conventions of western film making as a whole. It feels weird to me to put say, the Harry Potter series or Pans Labyrinth in the World Cinema pigeon hole. All this is to say I am curious about the Finns own approach to capturing WW2 on film. Are they loud and nationalistic like many of the old Allies films, particularly the Russian ones? Are they gloomy and introspective like Fury or Dunkirk? If you've got any good recommendations please drop them in the comments.
By my reckoning that should be 44pts. 20 for the challenge and 3x 15mm vehicles.
You may notice some pixilation on the turrets. This is due to the application of the Finnish Hooked Cross, a swastika in Finnish service that predates the rise of the Nazi party and that has nothing to do with the Nazis. Nevertheless, I have no interest in getting into discussion around the politics of displaying swastikas that are not Nazi swastikas. With apologies to our Finnish runners and readers. Thank you for your understanding.From PaulO'G: Necromunda Tower (40 points)
I'm working on a few different projects but to be honest not many of them are progressing as envisioned, and thus aren't ready as planned. But this is the chillaxed Sunday crew and we don't groove things like deadlines or stress in our hobby. Anyway, I did get this small entry completed, a tower for our Necromunda table.
This tower (from a Mantic Games set) has been kicking around our hobby room unpainted for 4 or 5 years. So there we were playing a Christmas game when I finally said 'sod it, pass it over and I'll just get it done'. And here it is; not super exciting but it was fun to experiment with chipping medium and oil washes to give it a worn and dingy look while not making it grey!
Overall its about the volume of a 6inch cube for 20 points, and given its long term hiatus as a not quite started project I would like to also claim the "Under Construction" Bonus for a total of 40 points please.
Thanks and enjoy your Sunday!
Lovely tower, very reminiscent of Troika pottery (look it up you philistines). Necromunda is becoming cool again here in UK
DennisC 28mm Early Imperial Romans for Hail Caesar 110points
Switched gears, finished off a few Velites and Balearic Slingers to round out for Hail Caesar plus 4 more Light Cavalry, which by my reckoning is 14 infantry and 4 cavalry figures for 110 points
Nice work from the ever verbose Dennis
From StuartL - Turning Up With Turnips - Lady Sarah's Limousine - 98 Points
From StuartL - Screaming Into The Void - Sci-Fi - 120 Points
Many years ago, a friend of mine owned a comic/hobby store. He was a really friendly guy, interested in all kinds of hobby things and really, I mean REALLY, bad at running a shop. His attention wandered if he was left alone for more than a minute and he was always taking on other part time work and projects, seemingly at random. I would turn up at his hobby shop after working all day only to be asked to look after the place while he took off to go and fix up an old car or to do a DJing gig at a local club. In my friend's store there were loads of comics to read and a fair selection of D&D products to look over, but there was also a stand containing blister packs of a cool looking SF game, VOID! Wait, whaddaya mean you've never heard of it? Void is essentially a table-top wargame in the style of Warhammer 40K. Aside from only having a handful of factions and none of the brand name recognition, the biggest difference between the two systems was that Void used d10s. Fast forward a few months and my friend's shop was closing down. He wasn't selling anything and had to get a job elsewhere. As he had his closing down sale, I bought a bunch of the Void minis.
So, for my score, this entry is fairly simple.