Hello Challengers,
This year I did a lot of sculpting, but that stuff is already painted. So instead I will be working through the remains of a bunch of old school models I picked up from a shop moving sale.
The first submission was a project that I started a few months ago, but ended up in limbo. I acquired a platoon worth of very nice Black Tree Design US Paratroopers. Quite timely considering Chain of Command 2 is due out in April 2025.
After painting the platoon and checking the army list I realised I was short a few pieces; browning 30 cal machine gunners and the mortar crew, so I mail ordered some from Northstar. At the same time I preordered the new Silver Bayonet supplement, and therefore my order including the Paras went into limbo awaiting the supplement release date. The limbo ended, they arrived and have been painted.
The colours came up odd in photos, have tried to correct back to true colour as best I could.
Eight x 28mm miniatures = 40 points
Limbo bonus = 20 points
Total = 60 55 points.
This is also the first squirrel, for WW2 US Paras.
Kind Regards
Geoff.
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First, welcome back to the Challenge Geoffrey! A great set of American paratroopers, and with them languishing on your desk these past few months are a perfect Limbo entry. It's great to have the option of both moving or deployed support weapon teams, especially for CoC in which displaying these details are important. Well done!
Prone troops are scored as half points so I'd adjusted your total accordingly.
- Curt
PS: Also, as a reminder, please remember to place in your metadata labels as it assists for searching.
Very nice entry! And at this time we remember these brave men from the "Battle of the bulge" at Bastogne. That battle was 80 years ago!
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Peter
Nice work Geoff
ReplyDeleteGreat looking figures Geoff.
ReplyDeleteVery nice looking Artizan Paras.
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Yes, I forgot to add, these ones are made by Artizan, they go quite nicely with the Black Tree ones. I didn’t buy more black tree ones as the supplier is reputedly unreliable unfortunately. The black tree ones I got were from a bargain bin at brick and mortar store.
DeleteGreat to have you back, Geoffrey! Very nice minis.
ReplyDeleteThank you Teemu
DeleteFigures look great awesome start to the challenge
ReplyDeleteWonderful figures. Artizan are great bulky figures for playing and painting. Well done
ReplyDeleteVery nice. I completely understand paratroopers being in limbo; I have a bunch of Warlord ones stuck there myself.
ReplyDeleteGreat figures and worthy of saving from Limbo. Well done 👍
ReplyDeleteLovely looking paras!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Great figures and it must feel great to get them out of the queue. Don’t forget the online form to record your squirrel 🐿️ point.
ReplyDeleteOk, done. Somehow had missed the info on how it worked. But sorted out now.
DeleteNice brush job!
ReplyDeleteNice work on the Paras Geoff, have a bunch of them to do
ReplyDeleteMyself.
Cheers
MattW
Looking great!
ReplyDeleteNice work on these. Painted quite a few of the Artizan figures for friend a few years ago; very nice figures.
ReplyDeleteNice work! I do like the MG team.
ReplyDeleteVery good! Artizan are a joy to paint
ReplyDeleteArtizan are awesome minis and you've done them proud!
ReplyDeleteNice looking unit Geoff
ReplyDeleteGrand looking paratroopers, Geoff! I quite like the muted olive drab you did very subtle highlights really makes their weapons pop!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Colours not quite true. But what I did was Russian green base, with olive drab over top heavily, then a very light top coat with a light olive to bring the edges up different from the bulk. Has worked out good. For the us regulars I did a stack of muted and faded colours to represent the worn out uniforms, but didn’t think was so suitable for paras, where I did more uniform colours for the uniforms.
DeleteGreat work. It's hard to make ww2 models look interesting sometimes. These look great
ReplyDeleteNice Paratroopers Geoff!
ReplyDeleteNice work, Geoff!
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