Thursday, 2 January 2025

From MartinC: Happy New Year (116 points)

Hope you all had a great Christmas and new year.  I had fun. My brother in law snapped his achilles tendon playing football, he's 57 so its his own bloody fault. His so bored that he has asked me to teach him how to wargame.

I've managed to paint some more 10mm Germans for barbarossa. 

Couple of wagons for engineer battalion 

AT, mortars and MMG bases, as yet unallocated to a battalion 

Last 2 bases for last weeks battalion,  except for field gun and transport 

Completed 2nd battalion,  except for field gun and transport 

Completed 3rd battalion,  except for - you know by now

That is 119.5 points for infantry, artillery and wagons

From TeemuL: There is a silver lining in everywhere, isn't it? Accident can be a start of a new hobby. I wish your brother in law gets well, but I also hope wargaming bug will catch him before he is too well.

Your Germans look nice, clever use of coloured basing materials to identify each battalion and the overall look is very neat. I'm not saying your math is off, but trying to calculate the mini count on these photos is a bit painful and at the moment I have counted 98 infantry/horse, two guns and two wagons for 116 points. I'm happy to correct my calculations, just send me an email or comment the post to make me realize my error. :)

21 comments:

  1. Great work Martin. And you've got a new wargaming buddy, even if he can't get up to reach the middle of the table, poor sod!

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    1. Cheers, I'll have to do all the heavy lifting

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  2. Nice dinky fighters and wagons

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  3. Teemu, happy with the points. What's 3 points between friends and really can't be bothered to count them again😆

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    1. Also he has expressed an interest in Wars of the Roses, being a diehard Yorkshireman. Awful county. It is the only period I have no figures for, so challenge may turn left in a weeks time

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  4. Great tiny Germans Martin, these look really nice sculpts and excellent painting. I look forward to your Wars of The Roses as well!

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  5. The implication is that your BIL’s injury contributed to your Happy New year! Germans are great, nice to include the horse drawn transport.

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    1. Cheers, he is a man who can't sit still, so that was funny

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  6. Terrific work Martin. WotR may be a breath of fresh air for you! :)

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    1. Cheers, yes it may. Have to see if he likes it and then convince my sister to buy him some figures. That will be harder

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  7. Excellent work Martin. Hope your BIL heals quickly and does turn into an avid Wargames opponent for you. Be well Bruce.

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  8. Brilliant stuff Martin. hope your brother in law gets hooked

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  9. Nice work Martin, good job hooking the Brother in Law in.

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  10. Nice work on the wee Germans, Martin! I quite like the wagons very much and the textures you got on all the figures. Well done!

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