From JohnB: The Sinews of War Continues! 3No. 1/72 scale CMP trucks (45points)

I have been busy painting during this challenge and while not making models, my weekly offering has been sidetracked because I chose to do this years THREE BONUS THEMES. I have now completed the three bonus themes and posted them. First - Empire - Hungarians 1848 1/72 Hat figures.

Second - Toy Story - Duke of Berwicks Irish Regiment (wild geese) from the back cover of "Charge or how to play wargames" These were Strelets 1/72 Austrians (from War of the Spanish Succession) figures

Third - Rebels - Tumbling Dice 1/72 ECW Scots Covenanters - Colonel de Bois Regiment of Foot

I had not realised that they get corralled away from the weekly posting. Anyway here is my next offering to the Tuesday Terrors which just happens to be more Sinews of War in the shape of another 3 trucks. Somewhere in deepest Fauxterre.......

This time they are 1/72 plastics from the Plastic Soldier Company. The CMP truck was according to the box blurb a chevrolet manufactured mostly in Canada for British Empire forces.

Now which way do we go??

The canvas covers, drivers and wooden bodywork got a sepia wash finish but otherwise the paints were used straight out the pot. Yet on this occasion instead of using my usual Vallejo paint selection out of the blue I dug out some of my old citadel paints - still going strong (these are pre 2012 era). And I do think the Knarloc Green is very suitable for these trucks.

Points wise I think I get 3 vehicles at 15 points each = 45 points in total and like all my submissions so far I think I can claim some squirrels as the earlier trucks were corgi toys models at 1/60 scale?

Well thats it for now - not sure what might appear next!

Sorry about the confusion on the Theme Rounds John, but yes they have their set days, own tab and are officiated by the Snow Lord.  I've left your photos for the next two rounds as teasers, and you are appealing to my old school heart on both counts.

I always like to see transport on table, and that's a great looking trio of soft targets that should be very useful.  I confirm the 45 points, but you'll have to taker the squirrel count up with the Squirrels Finder General.  I've tagged the post so that he can find it more easily.

 

From MikeF - 20x Tyrant’s Legion Armsmen - 20x 28mm - 100 points

 My first post was for the Empire theme and was the command squad for my Tyrant's Legion army. My next entry are 2 squads of Armsmen. Armsmen are basically equivalent to Imperial Guard and are armed in a similar manner. For the armsmen I used the excellent Raumjager infantry from Wargames Atlantic. To give them a little 40k treatment, I replaced the heads with some Rogue Trader inspired heads from Mad Robot Miniatures. Wargames Atlantic is definitely the most cost effective way to add lots of infantry. For $55 CAN, You get 24 models in a box which was enough for the command squad and 2 squads. 

Squad with flamer and missile launcher. The Sgt has a shotgun and knife from the genestealers cultist kit.

Squad with heavy stubber and missile launcher. The Sgt is pointing and holding a lasgun.

20 x 28mm miniatures for 100 points.

Thanks for visiting!

Fine looking squads here Mike, even if I am totally out to sea as what these are!  (I am basically hard of 40K-ing, although I own a few Space Orcs so that I can wreak havoc on our group's rare games).  I appreciate the kit bashing that you've done and there's some nice subtle shading in the drab uniforms and webbing.  I also love the missiles lying around on the ground, and the grim basing ground work style that you've come with.

Tuesday Night Open Mike

 

We've got an interesting assortment of offerings from the Tuesday Terrors for tonight's open Mike.

• MikeF starts us off with some industrial rock
• JohnB brings us some old fashioned trucker music
• Sylvain leads a renaissance/jazz fusion ensemble
• HarryV offers us some tunes from North Africa
• AndrewG will wake us up with a bang.
• MartinC will regale us with tales from the mead hall
• KenR has some old French favourites.
• As always there's always room for more acts.

And as always, you have to put up with my weekly choice of kinda live music choices that fit my eclectic old man tastes.  I'll try to get something from this century for next week, but for now we've got an up and coming indie band from 1983...told you I was old.  Anyway this is apparently REM's first appearance on National TV, and boy did they look awkward and dorky!  I also love that while Michael Stipe is better known for being as bald as a billiard ball, he started out with an impressive mop of curly hair.

Back in the day if it had a driving beat, jangly guitars and mumbled lyrics I was all over it.  There's a lot of good stuff in the REM back catalogue from the days before they were Grammy winning superstars.  And many of them are fun to play on guitar even if I can't get the tone of that Rickenbacker12 string.