Afrika Korps and assorted vehicles painted.

Finished painting and basing the following yesterday.

10 PZIIIJ
15 Honey
18 Squad. (54 figs)
12 Heavy Squad (36 figs)
10 Light Mortar(20 figs)
20 HMG (40 figs)
13 LMG
12 Leaders
18 FO
19 Individual SMG figures
22 Kneeling Riflemen
12 Advancing Riflemen
5   Soviet lmg
4   Soviet mmg

For a total of 25 tanks and 255 Infantry.  My hands are tired!

A Picture of everything.

Advancing Riflemen, Kneeling Riflemen in the background.

LMGs

Another LMG pic

Russian LMG and HMG troops.

HMGs, the assistant gunner was a separate piece on these, a real pain in the butt putting them on the base with the gunner and the MG!

Light Mortar.

Closeup of a squad stand.

Honeys, from game table distance the brown splotches give a decent caunter cammo scheme effect.  Just run the brush from front to back on the mini.

Out of Focus PZIIIJs.

That's better!  Unlike late war German equipment Desert stuff is a breeze to paint.  Base coat, a couple highlight colors (black wheels on top, a black smudge at the end of the barrel),  tracks in grey, and the dip and your done.

Heavy Squads in front, Honeys in back.

Side shot of a squad.

Finishing off with a side shot of a couple Kneeling Riflement

With these finished up I have most of the forces I need to play out the Fireball Forward North African scenarios I purchased last year, the IABSM scenarios I've been sitting on for years, and a bunch of Fistful of Tows scenarios based on "Sands of War"

6mm Miniature painting update

Finished off some more miniatures today.

5 ZSU 23/4
5 PZ IIIN
5 Brummbar
4 SturmTiger
5 Elephant
5 PB41 25mm. 2 crew each
3 Puppchen, 2 crew each
8 Shrek teams
2 Shreks
16 Panzerfaust

All of these are GHQ miniatures, some new, some pulled off the lead pile - in the case of the Fausts and the Shrek teams they had been in the pile for at least three years now...

Overview of everything

Panzerfausts.

Panzershreks.

Elephants

SturmTigers

Puppchen (Front) and PZ 41 25mm (rear)

Brummbars

PZ IIINs

ZSU 23/4

Next up on the painting table is 15 Honey tanks, 10 PZ IIIJ, 2 packs of GHQ Afrika Corp Riflemen, and 1 pack of Afrika Corp heavy weapons.  Someday I may actually plays a game...

FAB Bulge Turns 3.5 to 6.5

Continued my game of FAB Bulge on Saturday.  Excellent game, I'm liking it more and more.

End of Allied turn 3, blowing more bridges...

End of German turn 4.  More bridges blown, 82nd moves in to help at Bastogne and together with the other allied unit manage to hold the city.

End of Allied turn 4.  Kept supplies flowing to Bastogne and fortified the line.

End of German turn 5.  A little blurry but Peiper moves across the Meuse along with another armor unit.

A close up on the Meuse area.

And another closeup on Luxemburg.  Where the allied defense crumpled up like a wet paper bag...

End of Allied turn 5.  Sorry for the blurry pic again, Bastogne supply is once again open, it is hard to keep closed with allied reserves coming in each turn and so few German units around.

End of German turn 6.  they have cleared the Meuse bank but an attack up near Luxemburg has faltered.  Bastogne is cut off again but another unit is waiting to re-open supply.  The German offensive is pretty much spent at this point, but can the Allies are not quite ready to push them back yet.

Desert Rats!

Finished up another batch of 6mm Miniatures yesterday.  Two packs of GHQ's UK Desert Troops and one pack of Heavy Weapons.  My best work so far (still not near the best out there but good enough for on the table!)  these boys will end up in many a game of Fireball Forward, I Ain't Been Shot Mum!, and Fistful of Tows.

Total in this batch.

6    2 man MTR teams
12  MMG/HMG
23  Squad (3 figure stands without Bren)
9    Heavy squad (the ones with the Bren gun on the base)
9    ATR  (I think those are ATRs...)
41  Individual Riflemen
6    Bren gun
18  Light MTR
11  FO
12  Leader

The whole crew

FOs

Brens and Light Mortars

Leaders

Heavy Squads

Regular Squads

Brens, that red splotch is supposed to be a copper color

Lots of 6mm Miniatures painted.

Painted up and based a LOT of miniatures since January, I finally decided to write them up with this latest batch complete.  The minis are for gaming with Too Fat Lardies IABSM and IABNM rules along with Fistful of Tows and Fireball Forward.

First batch of pictures includes the following.  All are GHQ except the Cold War Russians which are Heroics and Ros.

Japanese
22 LMG
6 HMG
3 FO
2 large gun
4 small gun
3 knee mortar
9 grenade thrower
12 leader
21 riflemen
8 type 95 tank
4 type 97
2 truck

UK Desert
5 Humber scout

Afrika Korps
5 pzjgr1
5 sdkfz222
5 sdkfz231 8 rad

France WW2
5 H39

US WW2
4 trucks
1 sniper
1 BAR
3 bazooka teams
1 loader

1 soviet ATR WWII

Cold War Russian (these are Heroics and Ros)
3 mortar team
3 as missile team
5 sagger team, desert
4 sagger team Europe
6 at missile team
3 mg team
3 agl team
7 leader teams
12 RPG
4 squad stands
5 leaders
5 radio men
3 ft men
3 engineers
12 saw men
43 riflemen

The second Batch are WWII Russians I had done back in January but never took pictures of.

29 squad stands
21 heavy squad stands
17 lmg
31 mmg/hmg
45 riflemen
24 mortar team
12 ft team
15 FO  (GHQ has way too many of these in a pack)
25 leader  (these too)