Cypher2009 on Chain of Command (15mm)

Added a few units of “Heavy” Support. Infantry Tanks and Cavalry Tanks.

Vickers VI
Matilda I
Cruiser Tank I (A9) (Notice the 2 single man MG turrets)
Cruiser Tank IV (A13)

The camo scheme is much lighter than it would have been in reality, but I chose a lighter scheme for tabletop play.

Ok. So before the start of Hobby Night Live, here is where my project currently stands:

One squad and one 2 pdr AT gun and crew are being used as test models and partially painted.

One squad, one Bren gunner, a 2″ mortar team, the 2 man Boyes AT rifle team and the High Commander are undercoated.

Two full squads (minus one Bren gunner) need to be undercoated.

Hopefully HNL will give me motivation and I won’t end up just watching and get very little on my own hobby done…

Well, we will see. I will post updates throughout the night.

Have a good Hobby Night everyone. 🙂

So, while painting up the British, I fancied a small change and see if I could do something a little different.

I started to work on a JOP (Jump Off Point).

I used three spare British Infantry from Peter Pig. Two soldiers are having a cup of tea and a Radio Operator is loitering in the back, either side of a Universal Carrier (The empty Carrier is also a PP mini). The base is a 50mm mdf base.

The Infantry are being painted up exactly the same way as the rest (See colour list in previous Plog entry). I am still working on colours for the Carrier so will post a list in a future post when happy with the colours.

Bases: Dryad Bark (GW), then Stirling Mud texture paint (GW) then Tyrant Skull dry paint (GW).

Infantry Uniform: Primed German Grey (Vallejo), English Uniform (Vallejo), Agrax Eartshade (GW), highlight with English Uniform.

Webbing, gaters and bags: Green Grey (Vallejo), Athonian Camoshade (GW) at the moment, no highlight colour, but may highlight.

Gas Cape (Small roll on some infantry): Olive Grey (Vallejo).

Flesh: Bugman’s Glow (GW), Reikland Fleshshade (GW) (Will add some highlights to this).

The above image is my current force for the British. It currently includes:

4 8-man infantry squads (4-man rifle team, 3-man MG team and a commander)

3 2pdr Anti-tank guns (3 man crew on base and additional 2 crew)

2 2″ mortars (2 men on one base)

1 Boyes Anti-tank rifle team

1 high commander (possibly level 3)

…. I have now put the glue and Jaffa Cakes packets down and I have picked up a paint-brush…. Honest…

So, after watching a number of videos on Beasts of War, one system sparked my interest. After digging around, I came across a load of 15mm WW2 minis from a project I did a long time ago. Time to get creative…

So, first of all, base sizes?

I decided on 2 base sizes (I know the rules may say “All minis need to be on this base size” but hey… its my hobby! 😛 I decided on 1p’s and 25mm MDF circular bases. The reason for two sizes is that some prone figures are slightly larger than 1p.

So, as I want to use a basing texture paint for quick and ease, I wanted to make the 1p’s flatter and easier to base on…

Enter the first task of hobbying…

Yum yum yum…. Well, now thats done… First step is to glue the 1p’s to the cardboard to get a flat surface.

Once the glue is dried, cut out the bases using scissors and/or a hobby knife.

When the bases are cut out, start gluing the minis to the bases.

My British force at the moment: two squads of 8 men (4 man rifle team, 3 man Bren team, one commander), one 2-man Boyes Anti-tank rifle team, two 2pdr anti-tank guns (need to base two more crew for each gun to make a 5 man crew for each gun) and two 2″ mortars (they are on one base, but as its a two man team, I figured it wouldn’t matter too much). So far, all figures are from Peter Pig. I will look at adding other ranges at a later point.