From ROBERTT 15mm TANKS [40 POINTS]

Here are some tanks.  I am working on catchy or humous titles, maybe next year.  Ever since reading of the use of a Valentine Bridge Layer at Imphal in Burma I have wanted one.  Bunker Miniatures have a 3D printed version which I snapped up.  It arrived with hardly any supports or flash and was a thing of beauty, and then I froze.  It has been on my painting table for nearly half a year, looming at me and filling me with dread.  What if I got it wrong and messed up?  I don't think I have but it took this challenge to get me to lick my paint brush and get on with it.

The other 4 tanks are 1 A9 Cruiser and 3 A10s for the BEF.  I have recently started collecting a British force for 1940 in France but lacked any tanks.  I swapped these ready made but not painted from my regular gaming pal Andy.  I gave him some beautifully painted desert A10s that I had picked up with the intention of painting over them with bronze green.  He called me a heretic among other things and so we swapped.  I think they are from Plastic Soldier Company.  I know that Andy complained bitterly about the thirteen parts that required assembly for the turret alone. (I think it was thirteen, my memory is failing.  I know it was too many).  I have not painted any unit markings on these as my hand is too shaky and I wouldn't be able to see them on the table anyway.

Without further ado, lets get on with the show.

I have always based my vehicles ever since my previous tanks' barrels broke when travelling and I find them easier to pick up.  Also it means that I cannot place my armour "wheel to wheel" which is a pet peeve of mine.

I realise now that I should have given the bridgelayer its own centrefold spread, but hopefully you can spot it. 

If my maths is any good, I count 5 x 15mm tanks = 40 points.

From DaveD  . 15mm tanks right up my street indeed . Always nice to see engineering vehicles always a good scenario plot point. Or share the PSC over engineering issue - less is more - 40 it is !. 
 

From Guy B: Running out of time! [Death Star] (100 points)

Well, things haven't quite gone as planned. I have a load of BEF infantry and vehicles on the go, but life has become very busy all of a sudden! After having Covid and a very busy February, oh and finishing a magazine!

So, I'm posting what's ready to date and with luck I might get another post before the challenge ends - it probably won't be a Tuesday tho, as the last day is a Monday!

So, what we have here is a conglomeration of things. There's twelve BEF infantry and one vehicle. The BEF are painted in a mix of English Uniform (VMC and Khaki (VMC 988). I've used Yellow Green (VMC 881) for the webbing. The helmets are polished off in Citadel Militarum Green.

The Belgian T13 was a test paint of a 3D print, not great but 'good enough' for an up and coming event. I'll hope someone does a decent T13 Tank destroyer and replace it in the goodness of time.

The tank is painted a very basic khaki grey (VMC 880).

So to sum up - the T13 is definitely of questionable design and is itself a questionable print! I count twelve soldiers (60 points) and one vehicle (20 points), plus the challenge bonus (+20) making 100 points for this round.

Best get back to painting! 

Nicely done Guy! I can't comment on the questionability of the print of the T13, but its design certainly was questionable like many tanks from the 1930s.

Tamsin