From SamuliS: Panzerhaubitze rolling into Vogsphere (44 points)

Back to a scale that I've probably submitted more minis in than in any other, though this time with a new era for me in the challenge. I've played Flames of War for quite a while now and it's probably been my most played single game for the last 10 years or so. So naturally when Team Yankee originally came out I was intrigued, but sort of figured that while the setting interested me the ground scale maybe looked a bit odd and I was more interested in larger scale battles of battalion sized forces or larger due to that being closer to what I've dealt with as a reservist in the last years. But last autumn a Team Yankee bug really bit our club and with most of my gaming friends picking up armies I succumbed as well. I was on the fence between picking up a French wheeled recon force or starting a West German armored unit, but looking at store availabilities I finally ended up with the Germans. I have most of the base units already done and I'm now starting to round out the different support options to add some variety.

Having lived in Germany and done quite a lot of business with Germans I can vouch for the cliches about their bureaucracy levels being true. I think I'm probably still marked as a resident in Aachen as you had to report moving out at the city hall and they only allowed you to do it a few days before your departure. When I tried to do it about a week in advance the lady complained that I should come back later which I declined to do so I'm pretty sure I'm somehow still marked as living there. Now another area which is well known for bureaucracy is the military and this applies to any sort of company manufacturing military materials. I'd imagine the discussions related to Germans buying American military gear during the Cold War and not too long after the end of WW2 would have been quite a bureaucratic nightmare for the ordinary person so with that slightly long winded explanation I'd think these are a suitable example for my next planet on the Quadrant map with a landing on Vogsphere ;)

 

Three 15mm vehicles and the next landing point come to around 44 points if my count is correct!

That's a cheeky explantion for Vogsphere, but I'll allow it as you're still a resident of Aachen. I really feel these should be off-board, but they look great.

Barks

ChristopherS : Fallschirmjäger Tank Hunters (35pts.)

I decided to add some more support options to my force with some important anti- tank options in the form of a couple deadly panzerschreks and some nasty panzerfausts plus a  Panzerbüchuse 38 Anti-tank rifle followed up by 5cm mortar team to keep the enemies heads down.

I had two of same models for the panzerfausts but by changing up their uniform I think that really helps for them not to look like repeats.

You may have noticed that all the Crusader miniatures are sculpted in the early war uniforms and I kept them that way without any late war camo. I did this for two reasons one being that troops wearing early uniforms works fine in the late war and second at some point I also want to build an early war Fallschirmjäger force and the Crusader figures will help towards that goal.

I hope this overhead shot works as I wanted to better show what the base and the prone figures look like that is a bit harder to see when looking head on.

As usual for my 20th century figures and beyond  I used mostly Vallejo paints and MIG  pigments for the dusting to get the colors I want.

Some people speculate what theater I designed these for and mostly it was for Normandy with some Italian veterans and of course Italy itself.

I still have some more fallschirmjäger on the way, but starting to see a small crack of light at the end of the tunnel, however still some ways to go yet before the job is done.
So that's 4 prone and 4 standing 28mm figures which I believe comes to 30pts.

Thanks for viewing!
Miniature Company-Artizan, Crusader

Nice work on these Fallschirmjagers Christopher.  I'm not enough of a rivet head to tell the difference between early and late war uniforms, so I'll let others begin the Y-webbing critiques.  They look great to me and I especially like the overhead shots of the weapons teams  which are very nicely based.  I have Crusader figures for SYW and El Cid and ave to say I like their sculpts, very clean cast with subtle variations.    FYI which figures are Crusader and which are Artizan?

I'll bump your score up to 35 for those nice bases.
PeterD

From ChristopherS: More Fallschirmjäger (50pts.)

Now adding another squad to my Fallschirmjäger project which is coming along nicely. It is of course taking longer to paint these guys with their assortment of different equipment and complex camo, but is nonetheless fun and rewarding. This will be my third entry into the painting challenge so making progress.

 The figures are from Crusader and Artizan and as usual very fun to paint. The paints I used were mostly Vallego and MIG pigments using an AP method followed by highlights.

Another interesting thing is basing size for skirmish gaming in that I've tried both 20mm washers and 25mm washers and found I generally prefer 20mm washers as it's easier to fit the figures in tighter spaces or rank up. My WWII and French and Indian War are on 20mm washers and my SCW and Germanics are on 25mm washers which if I could do over I would put them all on 20mm washers do to the flexibility I find it offers.

I will continue painting more Fallschirmjäger as I hope to have a complete force for CoC. I actually didn't think I would be able to stay focused long enough to see this through anytime soon, but I'm feeling pretty optimistic as I haven't lost any enthusiasm and in fact I have already started on the next  FJ unit!:-)

So that's 10 x 28mm figures of which 2 are lying down thus a total of 45pts.

Thanks for viewing!
Miniature Compamy- Artizan, Crusader

From DaveD - These are rather fine I must say. i will go with 50 points for these

JamesM - LCA Passengers (part 2!) (90 points)

Hi folks,

A final push to get this lot done before the end of the challenge!

Another three LCA's worth of Canadian troops, which finishes off my flotilla of landing craft. Again, these are 15mm Battlefront miniatures which came with the LCA's. I've painted them up in Canadian uniform colours (or my approximation of them), to go with my Juno beach theme.

Just to prove that I have in fact painted the whole lot (practically a company worth of infantry figures):

A total of 72 figures in this lot, at one point per figure (they are cut off at the thigh, unfortunately, low enough to capture the webbing and water bottles!).

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Oh these are wonderful. And they really do complete your LCA's from earlier in the Challenge. These will look spectacular as part of a D-Day / Juno game. 

Points wise I sort of agree with your reasoning for reducing the points, but as you said the majority of the detail is still on the figures, above the cut-off point. It's really only the lower legs and bases that are missing. Hmmm, tell you what, I'm going to treat them as whole models but take a 40% off so 72x2 equals 144 less 40% (rounded down, -57) gives you a total of 87. And then I'm going to throw in three more points because you've bothered with details that most people won't be able to see once they are in the LCA's! 90 points total sound fair to you? 

Lee

From Ben F: Вставай, страна огромная! 6mm Soviet Tank Regiment, 1984 (71 Points)

Happy New Year everyone, and I hope 2019 is a good one. For me, the 14th of January is D-Day, when my first baby will be born, so we're very much of the countdown now.

The title for this entry means 'Arise vast country,' and is the opening lines of The Sacred War, a staple of the Soviet wartime repertoire by the same composer as the Soviet national anthem. For my 6mm 1984 'Cold War Gone Hot' campaign, I needed Soviet armour and lots of it.

First off in this entry is a Soviet horde of T-64s and BMPs. The T-64s were the best-of-the-best when they were released, but tended to be plagued by technical problems due to their overly complex suspension. In 1984, the T-64A was being superseded by the T-64B (with better quality armour) and the first of the T-80s were beginning to filter down to frontline units.
As the campaign will be based around an attack by 3rd Shock Army across the North German plain, opposed by the BAOR, Belgians, Dutch, and West Germans. In 1984, all four Tank Divisions of the 3rd Shock Army appear to have fielded T-64As, with a handful of battalions beginning to field the T-64Bs - thats the way the campaign will run them anyway.

These are T-64As from CinC. They are great little models, even if the 'true-to-scale' gun barrels are very difficult to keep from bending. The UAZ-469 staff car is Heroics and Ros.
This is enough to field two tank battalions (plus a few extras) at the 1 base = 1 platoon level we play at the club. I find it challenging to make soviet armour interesting, and so for these I painted an approximation of the guards bade on their spotlight covers, as well as painting numbers on the turret side.

Next up is a Motor Rifle Battalion's BMP transport. While I have a few battalion's worth of BMP-2s painted up, the 1984 setting primarily needs BMP-1s. These are from GHQ, and are excellent little sculpts. The BMP KSh command vehicle is from Heroics and Ros. As with the T-64s, it's tricky to make these guys look interesting, so I added vehicle numbers to the turret side and the coloured markings to the 9M14 Malyutka (AT-3 Sagger) anti-tank missiles. I do need to paint up another 9 of these, so that I can field two Motor rifle battalions at once.

Next, some odds and sods. Here are two 9K31 Strela-1 self-propelled SAM vehicles, perhaps better known by their NATO designation SA-9 Gaskins. These are from Heroics and Ros.

Finally, something which is completely useless for normal tabletop battles, a 9K72 Elbrus tactical ballistic missile launcher, better known as a SS-1C SCUD. The Scud Launcher and the chemical troops are from Heroics and Ros. While it's not going to be used in most games, but might be fun for a small scale game with NATO special forces attempting to avoid security troops and destroy it.

The T-64s and BMPs have already seen action against my mate Steve's BAOR in a trial game between Christmas and New Years. As with all freshly painted troops, they took a lickin', but not before they destroyed the better part of a territorial battalion and knocked out a Chieftain platoon. Here are some pics from happier times early in the game, before a USAF airstrike arrived to ruin their lovely drive through the German countryside.

So by my accounts for this entry it should be 71 points.
70 points - 35 x 6mm Vehicle
1 point - 2 x 6mm figures
Total = 71 points

Here's a picture of the entry, though please ignore the BRDM recce vehicle, that's going to be going into my recce bonus round entry.

That's it for this entry. The next entry will be a bunch more Soviets, this time for a Naval Infantry Brigade. I'm also working on a 6mm scale autobahn and an airfield. I've been having fun trying to paint an approximation of the Soviet Naval Flag on the side of a variety of soviet vehicles. How we suffer for our hobby.

Ben, you certainly are cranking out some great microarmour before your baby arrives! I really like 1:300 as it looks 'right' on the tabletop, particularly with this amount of materiel. Although it can get hard to distinguish between tank subtypes...

The Scud is great tabledressing and I want one.

Best wishes for next week, and I shall appeal to the Snowlord for clemency if your posts are less frequent...

Barks