Adventures on the Wargames Table

Another quick post. Good chum Colin gifted these lovely resin pieces to me (thanks mate!). These were beautifully cast and very straightforward to paint using a range of Americana browns. I haven’t based them as I want to be able to use them in a variety of scenic settings. They’re from Paul’s Modelling Workshop and definitely recommended. Thanks for looking!

Quick post! A large, ongoing scenery project requires an extra couple of pantile gates, by Charlie Foxtrot Models , so here they are. Made a nice change from all the recent sci-fi stuff. Painted as per all my other Mediterranean scenery. The gates are primed in black and painted using a range of Americana paints: Bittersweet Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate, Honey Brown and Bleached Sand. Thanks for looking.

Most of my sci-fi terrain is sand themed so I decided to do something a bit different, hence the urban / concrete theme of these pieces. The building is from Blotz (highly recommended!), from their Middle Eastern range, with one of their space doors. The dish laser is from GF9. The crates etc are a mix of Legion Priority Supplies and TTcombat resin. The building was given a rough coat of masonry paint before painting. Recipe is Dark Grey (B&Q Lousville emulsion, similar to VMC German Grey), then successively lighter highlights of VMC Neutral Grey, Foundry Slate light, Foundry Austrian White light and pure white. NB: for figure bases, the recipe will be VMC Grey Green, Neutral Grey, White Grey. Here's a couple more Blotz buildings I have on the go. To add interest I've used some of the more interesting shapes left over from the MDF "sprue".

With plenty of Galactic Empire completed it was time to turn my attention to the Rebels. Here are my test models. As with most new collections of troops, I tend to start by painting only a few so as to quickly get a handle on what paints, techniques, etc to use. Recipe is: Grey primer Skin - Foundry Flesh mid (or Foundry Night Sky mid for the Duros) Helmet - VMC Stone Grey Jacket & Gaiters - VMC Russian Green Shirt - Foundry Buff Leather mid Trousers - Foundry Rawhide mid Backpack - either VMC Stone Grey or Foundry Spearshaft shade Boots & straps etc - either Black or Foundry Bay Brown shade Helmet ‘band’ - Foundry Conker Brown shade Weapons - black Wash with thinned GW Agrax then highlights of base colour followed by lighter Foundry triad shade(s) or simply the base mixed with a little Foundry Boneyard light. The red band on the helmet is the unit identifier, so for other units I’ll use dark green or blue, etc. May the force be with you!

Another Sunday night at the club and this time Dave and his Shadow Collective, led by the fearsome Darth Maul, take on my Empire, led by the implacable General Veers. An 800 point game, the mission was to capture and hold the objective markers scattered across the middle of the table. Here's the table just after we'd started. I had a very vague plan to spend a couple of turns shooting before making a dash. With this mind I made the best use of Veers' ability to buff the shooting of nearby units and pounded away at the enemy line. I have to be fair here and say that the troops had clearly been practicing on the range, plus Dave's armour save rolls were not kind to him at all. However, I managed to repeat the little blunder of leaving Veers slightly exposed when he used his Maximum Firepower command card. The Pyke disruptor rifle wounded the General who had to scramble for cover. On my left flank it was going very well indeed and the first two turns saw many Black Sun, Py...

Good chum Colin very kindly gifted me a prototype kit of one of his more recent pantile releases. Being a prototype there was no resin roof section so I made a simple extra storey from foam core and Wills pantile plasticard for the roof.  The door to the balcony is just balsa scribed with a pen to give a wooden planking effect. Some closed shutters give the impression of windows without the faff of cutting holes and fitting window frames, etc. Buildings like this add some extra height to the battlefield and provide ideal look out points. Thanks mate 🙂

With the attacks going in on the Olive Oil factory it was important to try to keep Jerry off balance. The Australians of 2/1 Battalion must not let the enemy consolidate the their positions. So, orders came through for the reinforced 3rd platoon to begin the attack. I had hoped to paste Jerry with some naval gun support but the meagre points available for this scenario meant that the matelots would be pointing their guns elsewhere. More on “support” later. Here’s the table. The brave Australians would be attacking along the road from the left in the second picture. The patrol phase went rather well and I was able to get a couple of JOPs in the gardens around the house with the lavender. The other being next to the little culvert. Dave had his in the vines and amongst the buildings which certainly suited him. First in the field was a section whose aim was to defend the right flank and/or harass FJs in the buildings with covering fire whilst the real attack went in on the left, where the...