The Calm Before the Storm

Below are some photos of the set up for the Operation Market Garden game I'm running for it's 71st anniversary.

The Reserves

Hell's Highway

Osterbeek

Asten/Someron

US Paras (Older Update)

Bit of a blast from the past here but I started painting a US para force earlier this year. I've just found some old photo's, so I thought I should post them up.

Airborne HQ

The Airborne HQ, 2 Airborne platoons, the LMG platoon and the Mortar Platoon, plus the P-47 support

An Airborne Platoon and Light Machine Gun Platoon

 An Airborne Platoon and Mortar Platoon

The Mortar Platoon

The P-47 Thunderbolt

The Airborne Pioneers

Pegasus Bridge

For Market Garden I needed a large bridge for Nijmegan bridge. There's few bigger out there than 4Ground's Pegasus bridge, and I was offered a discount version due to a damaged box by those nice people at Colonel Bills. So that was one problem solved, all I had to do was build the thing....

While the end result is pretty darn good, the kit is a bit of a pain to put together. This isn't helped by the fact that I had received a base section which was incorrect. 4ground were great and sent me replacement, correct sized sprues and a discount code for the inconvenience. This new sprue still had a couple of issues, I had to cut off a couple of tags as they no longer fit, and I'm sure the rear ramp isn't sized correctly now, but both of these I can bodge. All in all however , I'm pretty happy with the kit, guess I need Cafe Gondree now as well (Because my french town needs a forth Cafe, on second thoughts that is very French!).

Market Garden

My Market Garden campaign day is fast approching and I'm pushing to get everything done on time. Combine that with the usual household chores and I'm a bit busy at present!

I need to get some troops painted up for Market Garden, so check out below to see what I've done.

British Bofors AA Tractors head up Hell's Highway to resupply their guns

Sadly the Germans have broken through and prepared and ambush of Snipers and Panzerschrecks.

The 82nd Airborne push back down the road to help clear the way again. Quite what use the AA are going to be I'm not sure, but hey, you use what you have!

Meanwhile the German train up some new recruits with obsolete light mortars and anti-tank rifles, it's getting that desperate! At least there's a berm to catch the stray rounds!

The Armada is coming

Star Wars Armada that is. While there's not much to be painted, I did give the fighters a simple paint job. You can see them in the photos below.

It's been a long time

So having barely just opened the blog I've already neglected it for nearly 2 months. Painting has been going on in that time, it's just been slow going and multiple project have clashed. Thankfully I can start to show some of these now.

Here is the first of my projects continuing the Necromunda theme from the previous post, 2 Underhive Scum.

"But I don't want to look at 28mm", I hear you cry, "what happened to the Flames of War stuff?" Well fear not as I've got two new units for you. The first are my Jagdpanthers.

 

 

The second platoon is my Royal Engineer, Field Platoon.

Necromunda Van Saar Gang

Bit of an odd one here, I've been doing some 28mm painting for a chance. I wanted to use my old Necromunda gang as display pieces, unfortunately I painted them when I was 14, so they needed touching up. As such, a week or so later here they are.

 The full gang

 The Juves

 Leader and Heavy

The Gangers