Recent Painting (A filler post)

I need to post more frequently on this blog, but it's been a rough day already (it's only 11:00 am and already it's turned to shit), but I figured I've got a ton of pictures I haven't uploaded anywhere, I might as well do it here. So enjoy some of my work:

10mm French infantry, for the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. I haven't played it in more than a year, and like an idiot I sold all the models I already had for the game, but Bloody Big Battles is, hands down, one of my favourite wargaming rulesets, and I'm slowly re-building my collection here in the UK so that I can once again play. (Miniatures are from Pendraken)

6mm Napoleonic Bavarians (from Baccus miniatures). I've painted a few of these myself, but they aren't pictured here. I've also begun to slowly build up my collection of terrain, especially smaller scale stuff for 6mm/10mm games, and here are the beginnings of what will eventually be a mighty forest. Eventually. Amazon.co.uk has a ton of really cheap, chinese made model railroad scenery.

James' cat, River. She likes to hang out wit me while I paint, but sometimes she 

wants 100% of my attention, which isn't exactly convenient, but IS adorable.

28mm WWII Soviet Scouts, painted by commission for my friend Mark. Here we see them infiltrating a railroad station in eastern Germany, circa 1945.

And on another flank of the same battle, Soviet Assault Engineers, Also painted by me for Mark, advancing behind the cover of a T-34 (which I did not paint.) These assault engineers are some really tough soldiers, being not only veterans with access to the best weaponry in the Red Army, but wearing body armour, which in the tradition of Ned Kelly is basically just 40+ lbs of steel plate.

And the latest addition to Mark's WWII Russians, some Naval Infantry! These were a lot of fun to paint, since it was such a change from the drab khaki and green of most WWII uniforms. The Russian navy found itself bottled up in port for most of the war, and since the need for trained and disciplined troops was so great, some 400,000 Russian sailors would eventually find themselves pressed into service as infantry. The Germans, Hungarians, Finns and Romanians who fought against them soon gave them the nickname 'The Black Death'

A big, 4 player game of Firestorm Armada, my favourite spaceship-combat game.

Spearhead: Modern- West Germany, 1985, Part 3

I got back onto this blog of mine to see if I'd posted any good pictures recently, since a new coworker is interested in Wargaming, and I thought I'd link him to this to take a look. Turns out I never actually posted part 3 of our Cold-War-Gone-Hot Modern Spearhead game. It's been Quite awhile since this game happened, so the details I write below each picture might be a little bit... fuzzy compared to the previous posts, haha.

Here the... I want to say it was the Irish Guards and the 17th/21st Lancers by-passes the weakened Soviet defences of the II/290th Motor Rifles, who are still being ground down by the Highlanders.

Reinforcements at last! T-80 battle tanks arrive to aid the Soviet 

Motor Rifles battalion guarding the strategically vital airport.

More T-80 main Soviet battle tanks arrive to try to blunt the American onslaught, but

 they are sorely outmatched by M1 Abrams and their Bradley support.

A battalion of T-80s face off against the Challengers of the 17th/21st Lancers...

... and find that Soviet steel is no match for the might of the British armoured cavalry!

It didn't take long for the entire battalion to either go up in flames or run like hell.

The long line of T-80s, a full regiment of them, deploys along the ridge-line to support their beleaguered colleagues of the  I/290th, who were rapidly being overrun by the Americans.

The defending Soviets find themselves caught in a ring of steel, 

slowly but relentlessly drawing closer to the airport.

British and American mechanized infantry begin their assault on the elite soviet Paratroopers...

Who, thanks to their abysmal dice rolling, fall apart like a wet paper sack. I mean I really and truly was shocked at how quickly Soviet resistance fell apart against the NATO attack. So, the result of the battle was a resounding NATO victory. Despite a fair few casualties, their losses were almost nothing compared to those suffered by the Red Army. All in all, it was an absolutely brilliant game.

Afterwards, I took a picture of the NATO commander's battle plan, which I 

obviously was not privy to during the course of the game.