From DaveD: Ardennes project [Limbo] (76 points)

Cough, splutter, wheeze, rasp - that damn Lurgy has me by the throat at the moment. My first post of the New Year sees a revisit to the 15mm Ardennes 44 project. I have been acquiring things for a few years to create a winter themed table. While of course it hadn’t snowed at the start of Battle of the Bulge it wasn’t long in coming. So what the hell, let’s jump right in creating a whole load of new terrain and figures - storage wars can be dealt with later - I hope.

What better to start the Germans figures off for this than Skorzeny’s Kommandos kitted out in captured American kit and sowing confusion and panic on the roads, or maybe sneaking off to kidnap Ike .

2 sets of Jeep /crew stands with signposts and a separate foot figure stand - which way to Bastogne?

Next up a wrecked up Sherman 

While rooting around in the stash for these I also found Oddball from Kelly’s Heroes - issued as Eightball by Battlefront as a limited edition tournament marker. Well he might just be in search of a bank over winter so that’s along too .

A longer gun, large speaker and a mad Canadian going Woof - what’s not to like. 

So here they all are :-

In addition I have something for the Limbo bonus round. Pre Covid I had sourced a second hand Faller church that I wanted to use for this project. It’s been picked up and put down many times over the years as it needed repairs and more of a paint job than I cared to do. That  has now been done while doing the rest of the buildings for this table over the last few days along with the winterising of it . 

I raised the height a little with 3mm base and 4mm foam board to make it look better optically.

Stained glass painted - daft but fun.

Lighting added too . Yes bonkers 

The 8x4 table is progressing nicely now. With the 9 buildings all being completed this week and winterised (I am sticking to my original winter paint/terrain plan regardless of points awarded), the roads and trees were done pre Xmas. I still have fences, hedges and a stream to complete and of course some troops. I will be looking  to repurpose some of the summer project excess in due course.

I did mention storage wars, and I have been working on that too. I had an empty 48L Really Useful Box that was pretty deep (around 300mm ) so I had the good guys at Pendraken make me up some stackable box inserts which the majority of my trees and small terrain will go under and stack and fill the box. I should get pretty much everything terrain wise in the one box I hope.

Pleased to have got the scoreboard moving as I have had the dread lurgy for nearly 3 weeks and it’s been a proper nasty bout which isn’t easing much - so I haven’t commented on posts much but I will try and catch up. Now to decide what’s next .

Scoring :-

4 x 15mm Vehicles = 32

6 x 15mm for figures = 12 

8 passengers - 8 

Bonus round Limbo  = 20 

Huzzah! Cough, splutter!

TeemuL: Winter forces seem to be a theme this year, which is very fitting for a winter challenge. Unfortunately lurgies and coughs seem to fit the winter, too. It seems to affect your math skills, too, but I'll correct it for you. :) And then give you couple of bonus points for stained glass and overall effect.

Nice powder snow on your Ardennes project and I envy your winter table and storage war solution. Especially the church look very frozen, a great effect.