AndrewB- A week missed, some fun projects! (264 points)

Hello everybody!   Sorry for missing last week, real life caught up, and I had to roll what little I got done in with this week’s entry!   

Without further ado, we’ve got the Maritime Room!    I’m sure at least a few of you remember the late great PBeccas, a truly phenomenal Australian. He served in his youth in the Australian Navy, and I printed a fleet of 1/2400 RAN vessels from early WWII shortly before he passed.  They’ve sat unpainted for too long, and I grabbed them to get rolling in his memory. 

First, the cruisers!   Historically, two County class Heavy Cruisers, Australia and Canberra, accompanied by three of the modified Leander class Light Cruisers, Hobart, Perth, and Sydney!  These were fun to paint up, and represent the force’s heavy units.  

The RAN historically had four V class destroyers, and the destroyer leader Stuart.  These little guys were a nice break from trying to paint 1/6000 destroyers, so I had that going for me!  

Here are four ‘Grimsby’ class sloops (had to improvise, couldn’t find .stls for them)

The fleet assembled!   I may have goobered up the scaling on the sloops a bit, but they have the right number of guns and stacks, so hopefully nobody makes too much of an issue. 

Next some nice little houses I printed for my ongoing Battle of St Louis project set in the All Quiet on the Martian Front universe!   I printed these from free files on thingiverse, and I’m pretty happy with how the prints(some of my first FDM) came out, and how they painted up.  They’re also some of the first models I’ve ever used an airbrush on, which you can sort of see on the tan walls.  More work on that in the future. Here’s the first 8!  

 

These poor houses have sustained some damage from both traditional weapons and Martian heat rays!  I intentionally left them more clean than I wanted, but that lets them be used fairly well for FoW or alongside the battlefield in a box buildings that you see pretty commonly.  There will certainly be lots more to come, but for challenge purposes, I need to stick to 28s for the points.  These each take up about a quarter of a terrain box, so I wound up making them the same points.  Still, a good start on the city!

Moving along with that project, bases finally arrived!  There’s also some quite fun characters to go along with the mass of infantry!  Here’s the infantry, which made an odd 14 stands worth, which combines with the previous three for a frustrating difficult to split seventeen, but that’s alright!  

 

Like the previous models you’ve seen, these are from Old Glory, and came together quite well!   They’re ready to keep the goober Martians out!  Still quite happy with how this Geek Gaming Forest Ground Cover is shaping up to look like shattered lumber with the smaller scale figures, so that helps!  I also did two command bases with these figures, and boy howdy are they gonna hit a couple rooms!  

 

These two additional command stands have a couple notable locals, who would certainly be able to call upon men and resources in this time of need!  First with his assistant, on the right command stand is the legendary August Anheuser Busch, who brought the brewery founded by his father and grandfather to the fore in the early 1900s.  We’ve all had it, the world made Budweiser the King of Beers, and this guy is largely responsible for that rise!   We’ve got his trademark suit, hat, and belly, so here he is, a truly Famous Person!  

To the left, we have another figure who wielded large amounts of influence in St Louis at about the same time, Thomas Egan.  Before we get to his room though, the two lovely ladies on these bases will take us on Lady Sarah’s Book Cart, Coming to rest in the True Crime room.  Egan wasn’t a very nice fellow, and began running liquor and bringing large-scale organized crime to St Louis well before prohibition even began.  His grip on the city held from before the turn of the century to his death in 1919.  He’d absolutely bring his men to the streets, as the Martians surely support the Volstead act.  

Group photo!

That’s a long post, thanks for sticking with it!  

As for points, there are 60 15mm minis at 2pts apiece for 120, two 6x6 boxes of houses for 40pts, and twelve 1/2400 ships for 2pts apiece(if I recall previous scoring properly) for 24pts  with Maritime, Famous Person, and True Crime rooms, alone with Lady Sarah’s Book Cart, we have 80pts to add, for a total of 264pts.  I’ll try not to let the weeks stack up again, I appreciate everything our great Wednesday Minion does!  

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Welcome back Andrew - no shame missing a week here or there, life often gets in the way of hobby work after all. Besides, you put your time to good use, uncorking another little points bomb here for all of us to enjoy. 

This whole St. Louis-Getting-Zapped-By-Martians thing is certainly entertaining, and I like your use of some famous local characters to add colour to the setting. I congratulate you also on cracking the "airbrush barrier" - certainly remains an issue for me, but I salute others who power through it. 

Thanks very much - we look forward to your next submissions, whenever they might arrive!

GregB