From PeterD Gliding to Gluttony (30 points)

Once again photos show my painting flaws and need for touch ups.

Exiting Treachery, I am using this Bad Squiddo Krystyna Skarbek figure  to take me back out to Gluttony.  Skarbek was a Polish SOE operative who at one point kidnapped a Gestapo Chief.  Again read her bio.  She skied in and out of occupied Poland several times and that's how she's been sculpted.  The Bad Squiddo site has her in a very nice nordic sweater with I couldn't possibly match, but I added a yoke and trim to get some of the effect.  She's stylishly attired for Telemarking at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, interrupted by some serious espionage.

Last fall my wife asked if I'd be interested in seeing a touring musical about Women in WW2 that was playing live at Darke Hall, a local theatre.  I said sure and it turned out to be based on the lives of the female SOE operatives in the Bad Squiddo range.  It's called the Invisibles, Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare and is worth seeing if it comes to your town.  it was quite funny watching the play and going, wait a second I've painted her!  

This may be a reach, but I am going to try claiming a Spanish American War collier for my Gluttony post.  I am hoping that have a Minion who is a ranking Flag Officer will help my case, as I'm sure he'll understand the logistics involved.  (Laying it own a bit thick?) 

These are two 1/2400 scale ships from Tumbling Dice from their Age of Battleships range.  There is the collier USS Nanshan, still in merchant livery and the cruiser USS Newark in peacetime white and buff (so much nicer than wartime grey).   My pitch here is that late Victorian era warships had a tremendous appetite for coal, particularly if their machinery was in poor nick.  

The Spanish Armada had a bad time getting coal for its far off squadrons.  Cervera's squadron arrived in the Caribbean in desperate need after a Trans-Atlantic voyage.  They were refused coaling rights in Martinique and had to go to Curacao to top up.   Later at the Battle of Santiago, the Cristobal Colon would have gotten away if she hadn't run out of good coal and had to resort to inferior stuff.  Camara's squadron was sent east to recapture Manilla but had similar troubles getting coal in Egypt.

On the US side, coal logistics took careful management.  Dewey's squadron had the Nanshan attached to prevent such troubles and he needed to dispatch a gunboat to escort her before attacking at Cavite.  For the Cuban blockade, they set a temporary coaling port when captured Guantanmo and used a whole fleet of hired colliers to keep the fleet on station.

Points wise I am hoping for

• 5 pints for Krystyna
• 4 points for the two 1/2400 ships
• 20 points for Gluttony

For a total of 29 points.

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Well a Spanish Collier was certainly a treasure worth a fat prize money haul (an eighth of which was payable to the Admiral I will remind you, no matter how far away he was!). Thanks for that, I'll bump this up to 30 points so you can pay the man his dues!

And I agree: NEWARK looks lovely in White and Buff - suits her lovely lines and far more reminiscent of the times!

- Paul