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@jamjarst nice results with those contrast paints.
@darkvernon wonderful job on the Judge. Straight out of the comic.
@panzerkaput you are just kicking those illustrations out. I’m just amazed.
@ced1106 what a great mimic. I bet it would stop the Grinch.
@sundancer that’s a mean looking dewback.
@piers LOVE your scifi stuff. Bit of Oldhammer, bit of Heavy Metal
@blipvertus I am really looking forward to the group shots when you finish the set.
@lawnor I don’t know, I think you pulled it off and they look in scale. Great rust.
@oriskany Thanks! What’s not to love about a hyperfit, deadly girl who wears a lot of leather? I’m right there with you and glad to see you back on the forum.
@marsniper27 interesting base texture, is it urban rubble?
I have finished the painting of my assembled MicroArts Residential building, finally. Next job is to install the clear acrylic windows. I’ve already started painting the next building on sprue and it is soooooooo much easier, so much. Hoping it all goes much quicker as I have a few more buildings on the way. And, yes, I will be adding weathering.
Day 15 of the journey into 1938 A Very British Civil War and today we look at the leaders of the Royalist, King Edward VIII. Yes this we have the root cause of the civil war here, The King and “That Woman” and the King’s refusal to do the “Right Thing” and either not marry her or abdicate. Well that refusal out things in motion that England Green and Pleasant Land would be no more and war breaks out across the Kingdom.
Day 16 of my journey into the world of 1938 A Very British Civil War and today it is the turn of the leadership of the Socialists. The Socialists and the Left Wing in general is made up of various different political groups and organisations that dont always get along and have been known to even fight against each other regardless of the opposing forces but in general they form a unified force.
These groups tend to come in three flavours, the Union base workers or labourers committees, tend to be Labour Party members but there are also groups centres around communists views and even anarchist views.
The next are based around politician organisations like the Labour party, the Independent Labour Party, the Communist Part of Great Britain and these made up the bulk of the Left Wing groups and work with the other groups to fight the Royalists and the British Union of Fascists.
The last big group and there are hundreds of smaller groups is the People’s Assault Columns. These are made up of the former members of the International Brigade who fought in the Spanish Civil War and carry there fight against Fascism here. They are the most convicted, battling for the left against any comers to bring fore a Peoples’ Republic.
This chap is PAC General Winterburn, a ex Labour Politician, who fought in the Great War and joined the ranks of the PAC to bring an end to the war and an end to the Monarchy. He leads the East Mids Peoples Assault Column and protects the East Mids Socialist League cities and industrial centres.
Thanks so much @piers for the kind words on the Gulf War Marines.
Speaking of which …
So their close-order drill on their morning formation might need a little work (not much cover and alignment in those ranks), but the Marines for my 1991 Desert Storm force are pretty much done..
The basing is still pretty fresh, so some “crumbs” are still coming off on the t-shirt backdrop.
Modern War (1960s forward) US armed forces really should have different skin tones included among the infantry / vehicle crews / officers.
15mm Battlefront / Team Yankee (Ryan’s Leathernecks, LAV-25 platoon, US Infantry Platoon) – also two AAV-7Ps from Forces of Valor (although Battlefront has a 2-vehicle pack for them as well, I think).
Next on to the Iraqis! I have nine T-54/55/Type 59-IIs built so far, two ZSU-23-4 Shilka SPAAGs, and five BTR-60s on the way, along with a heap of infantry.
Also …
@144artist – Epic building, especially the indoor parts rooms and staircases … the most important tactical part of a building, or so they said in Stalingrad.
@panzerkaput – More great character studies for VBCW. Speaking of Edward VIII / Duke of Windsor (although I suppose he was never created Duke of Windsor officially in this time line), I started watching Netflix “The Crown” when I saw Season 2 started with a focus on the 1956 Suez Crisis. We did an Ops Center episode on this … actually my very first one, to kick off our Arab-Israeli War series.
@innes – great job on those pirates, man! 😀 😀 😀
Day 17 into the world of 1938 A Very British Civil War and today it is turn of the leadership of the Anglican League. H.A.L. Cosgrove, the Archbishop of Canterbury led to attack on the King suggesting that he should Abdicate if he wanted to marry Wallis Simpson because the head of the Anglican Church cannot marry a divorcee and remain the head of the church but Edward VIII choose otherwise. This led to Cosgrove forming an alternative Government in Canterbury and setting up the Anglican League to oppose the King and made him see sense.
Cosgrove with a fiery character, strong morally and strong in personality too. This character built the League of the first major opposition to the Royalists and the British Union of Fascists, fighting them in Kent and seeing them off as well as fighting in the Royal Heartlands of the Severn Vale, but with more limited results. Cosgrove does not want the end of the Monarchy but rather supports the Monarchy if it follows the rules of the Church.
@oriskany thank you for your kind words and support. I love the marines mate.
Finished up this Galladoria Games Christmas Mimic! Posted a review with painting suggestions. https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/18/18404.phtml
ps. Galladoria Games now sells .stl files, starting with… mimics! : https://galladoria.com/collections/new-releases
Ho-ho-horror!
Day 18 of my sweet journey into all that is 1938 A Very British Civil War lands today on the leadership and command of the British Union of Fascists. In 1936 when at the time the current Prime Minster, Stanley Baldwin, resigned over the failure of King Edward VIII to do the right and proper thing and abdicate over his marriage to Wallis Simpson, the King invites his good friend and ally Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley to help him form a Government and led the country as Prime Minister, this meant followers of the BUF given high favour and positions. One of these fellows was Emma Picton- Bryant.
After experience as an ambulance driver on the Salonika front Emma Picton-Bryant founded the British Fascisti in the early 20‘s. By the time of the General strike they were a small but efficient operation, organising transport and protection for ‘black leg’ labour.
Picton-Bryant’s personal life led to a period of rehabilitation in a Swiss Clinic. She was well enough to return to Britain in 1937 as the crisis was developing. Through her efforts the British Fascisti support was mobilised and transformed into a militia at the outbreak of war.
Seeing Mosley’s considerable incompetence in the Canterbury campaign she pledged her support directly to the King and took her militia over to Worcestershire. As the structure of the Severn Valley Forces emerged, her organisational ability continued to impress, so much so that she was given the field rank of colonel and command of the 3rd Volunteer Brigade with the job of rebuilding the eastern defences after the Severn Valley campaign
All the Orks done for Aeronautica Imperialis.
Until the next release … ?
Day 19 of my beautiful little yomp through the world of 1938 A Very British Civil War and today we are going to have encounter with a very special character. This is Lord Cirencester, Commander of the Army of the Severn and an intriguing personality.
Harry Beecham, 5th Lord Cirencester was born in 1892, 29th in line to the throne. He served with the Gloucesters as a young captain in 1914. Having received a back wound that made him walk with a slight stoop he was quickly promoted to major and gained a transfer to the cavalry eventually becoming post war the Colonel of the Gloucestershire Hussars. In 1918 he won the Military Cross during the rapid advance on the Western front in the closing stages of the war.
He continued with the Gloucestershire Hussars until 1930 when, upon the death of his father he took up his seat in the Lords. By nature ambitious and calculatingly ruthless he enjoyed the game of political life. He became friends with the Prince of Wales through being members of the same London clubs and a shared interest in breeding race horses. Along with Lords Montfort and Glamorgan he was a staunch member of the King’s party, pleading with the King not to bow to Baldwin’s demands over his marriage. His support was rewarded with an independent command as civil war broke out and trusted with powers to raise troops.
Outwardly loyal there is a far darker side to Cirencester as he plots to further his own position. The Bill of Attainder removing
the exiled Royals from rights to succession and confiscating possessions and titles, swept away many of those with better claims than himself, he continues to harbour designs upon the throne, to this end he has been involved in numerous intrigues
to damage the relationship between Wallis and Edward and furthering his own power at court.
More Blood &Plunder.
And some more.
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