A few more Yanks in 15mm...

 Two M5A1 Stuarts and an M8 Scott Howitzer Carriage.

 

 

Some pictures from a WW2 playtest...

Tired of constantly editing/fixing Battlegroup, I started writing my own (non-commercial) rules for using my 15mm WW2 stuff.  I took a few pictures of a test game from a few months back, forgot to post them.

 

 

Some American 15mm...and a big ole' game of FSF

Many moons ago when we 'started' Battlegroup, several of my friends bought in and then predictably interest faded.  One of my buddies painted up a handful of Shermans and some American infantry, but had several spare boxes, etc.  In trade for two days of hard painting labour - he gave me his 15mm American 'stash'.

 

While I don't particularly love WW2 American vehicles or gear, etc...I'm doing quick tabletop paintjobs on the stuff to have it on hand for a new set of WW2 rules I'm writing for my remaining one or two buddies who want to play.

 

This is the first batch I knocked out.  While my buddy had some basic Shermans painted, I did up two M10s, two M36's, five M3 halftracks and an M16 anti-aircraft halftrack (the quad fifties are glued with a spare 'brace' to try to keep them from snapping...)

 

We had a few games of Famine, Sword, & Fire this weekend as well.  I didn't take any pictures but snagged some from my buddies.

 

 

My friend's Undead arise from decades of slumber!

I have a friend who has an old Warhammer Undead army from the 90's and she's been updating them and filling units with some new plastics.  Most excellently, she has designed some 40mm(ish) 3D plates to mount her 20mm bases Warhammer minis, so she doesn't have to rebase a whole army.

 

This will let her slot her army into Famine, Sword, & Fire while keeping the minis usable for Warhammer, Warhammer Quest, etc.

 

It's awesome seeing these 30+ year old minis getting back to the tabletop in the next few weeks!

 

 

Vampire count number three!

As mentioned before, my 'head canon' for the current undead force I'm doing is that the four vampires I've acquired are a squabbling 'family' of vampires (likely a set of nobles or...not nobles? all turned by a great vampire who has since disappeared).

 

While not yet named, the big guy on the chariot is the strongman...but the slowest of the bunch.  The winged vampire I did after is the brash, cruel, crazy 'young' vampire.  The more powerful of the four are the remaining two - this is the first.  He'll be the standard general in most of my games - based to slot into a unit of bodyguard miniatures (which I haven't picked out yet).

 

 

Some weird Aeronautica shenanigans...

I have a small amount of old Legions Imperialis stuff I painted a year or two ago - but we never did anything with it.  While we debated trying to find some suitable rules for the stuff recently, I picked up some Legions Imperialis kits recently from our local store which is getting rid of their stock at 50% off! (woohoo!).

 

I built and painted these Avenger (ground attack aircraft basically...think an A-10 in 30K/40K).

 

This whole project will probably end up on eBay, but I enjoyed painting the things - didn't enjoy building them.  GW has made the Legions kits artificially complex...basically to sell you "fake" value in parts count, rather than model count.  Even at 50% off, I felt the kits were barely worth their price.

 

 

Army Inventory Shots: Night Goblins and Vampires

I threw the armies on the table for some quick "where are they at..." photos.

 

 

Cossacks!? Why do you have cossacks!?

So, I wanted some evil human servants to my vampire force, and really liked the idea of a dark kind of "secret police" cossack unit.  So I picked up some (accidentally 32mm!) prints from Highland Miniatures off Etsy.  These are the 'Harbor Streltsy' --- a really nice set.

 

Originally I was going to base these for skirmishing units, but they didn't fit on 40mm circle bases and were too little on 50mm circles...so standard basing it is.

 

The HDR on my camera makes the flesh highlights pop weird, but...overall, very happy with a simple 3-day project.  The undead army is speed-running this thing.

 

 

Last unit for the Night Goblins...

I finally bit the bullet and painted the last unit of squig hoppers I had on hand.  This completes my smaller narrative Night Goblins army.  I hate painting these things, so I'm extremely happy to be done with them.  Speed-painted, quality be damned.

 

 

Quick zombies...or...quickly painted zombies.

In another move to apparently paint an undead army in under a month, I smashed out some 40+ zombies in about four days - only waiting another three days for enough tufts to finish them!

 

This is the ever-so-lovely Fireforge Undead Peasant box - but I pushed the 36 minis with some extra torsos, a few extra bodies, and some 'junk' to just squeak in two bricks of eight bases.

 

Love this absolutely desaturated "blending" palette where they just meld into a mass of junk.