more stuff

As I continue to complete my fictional South Americans, I plan on getting a bunch of flames of war bases or litko 1 inch by 1 inch bases to base up the big amount of leftover minis to base up for use in large scale battles.

I am still considering making 2 armies for AK47 Republic. If so, I need Soviet Post WW2 regulars with AKs 47s in 15mm. The time period would be 1960-1980s so I can use a wide variety of forces.

I considered both forces having a few infantry platoons, some militia bases and some BMP-1s. One side could potentially have Centurions and a couple M113s? The other T-55s, and a couple T-34s. We'll see.

I'm also painting up more plastic War of the Roses minis made by Perry Miniatures for my 2nd Mordheim warband. I will have pics of them up sometime soon.

It's been very quiet here on the Noize Hive...

Don't worry I haven't fallen off the earth. I just haven't gotten around to post up stuff on here.

I've bought a few starships from the company Zandris 4 miniatures. They are pretty well sculpted and will post pictures of my painting efforts soon.

Stay tuned. Happy 4th of July!

Recent developments....

I managed to paint up some 10mm fantasy minis that were already halfway completed. Namely, some Warmaster Empire and some Chaos plague demons.

Remember those 10mm buildings I bought at a hobby store some time ago? Well I'm going to make some terrain pieces using blank cds and integrating all 4 of those buildings into my terrain.

I painted some more detail onto my Sarabonista M26 Pershing tank. I'll take some pics of that later.

I made some terrain

I put some stuff together for my fictional South Americans.

I got a blank cd and placed some old plastic 40k ruins from GW on it and some pebbles as well as some twigs to act as tree trunks.
Below we have some Sarabon Civil Guard making their way through the terrain.

The Ground Zero Games part of the trade is...

made up of lots of NAC Royal marines in helmets and berets, FSE Colonial Legionaires, and some NSL armored infantry.

I'm not sure when I will do something with these guys but I also have some GZG ravagers, 15mm.co.uk's post apocalyptic warriors to fight with them. I think I will paint them up for use with Mutants and Death Ray Guns from Ganesha Games or something.

We'll see.

Got a nice package in the mail

well, two actually. The first package was of another free sprue of Mantic Games Ghouls through Wayland Games. This surprised me a bit actually, considering I already received one. I don't mind. They are very nice minis.

The second package was of a mix of stuff from a trade. It was full of GZG 15mm Sci Fi, Rebel Minis thugs, terrorists and two Peter Pig militia men from their AK47 line. Also in the bag was a smaller bag full of Old Glory WW2 Russians. These Russians will add themselves into the ranks of the People's Defense Force of the People's Republic of Tunalia.

The Russians consisted of a Light Machine Gunner, a few infantry commanders, lots of tommy gunners and riflemen, a light mortar team with mortar, two heavy mortars with crews and two extra gun crews that I am planning to get artillery guns for really soon.

Not bad.

Thoughts...

I've been reading this fascinating book about the Spanish Civil War written by Hugh Thomas. I've known little about the conflict before and it was mostly about German and Italian support for Franco's forces and his political repression as Spain's dictator afterwards.

Reading about the various factions involved in the fighting got me thinking about wargaming the conflict in 15mm or 28mm. Of course this project would be among the hundreds others I have in progress. Miniature wargaming really is an addiction isn't it?

So I thought of doing skirmish in 28mm using the range sold by Empress miniatures. They are superbly detailed and not too expensive.

However, I am more interested in doing this in 15mm but my options are few. There is the range from Peter Pig but I'm not too impressed by the sculpts. I did find a small company called The Late Queen producing a full range in 15mm for the SCW. The sculpts are pretty good quality. I was thinking of doing this project with several minis on a base.

Aside from the Spanish Civil War, I have also considered wargaming the Russian Civil War. No concrete plans on that project just yet.

I am making big strides in my fictional South American forces. Particularly with the Tunalistas.

My completed 6mm British...

Here is a unit of British Line Infantry made by Baccus.

Here is another unit.
Some Heavy Dragoons.
In column.

Some more for the Mordheim warband

When the Perry brothers put out the next War of the Roses plastic box, which is supposed to be filled with pikemen and handgunners, I will be able to incorporate more than just bowmen and halberdiers.

This guy below isn't quite finished, his cap needs some more work.
I like these minis a lot.

Some Perry Miniatures!

I forgot to upload these a couple days ago. I painted up some of the War of the Roses minis I got a time back. I painted them with the idea of making all 80 of my War of the Roses minis as Mordheim warbands with various gang colors. This particular warband wears Red and Grey.

This figure will be a Captain.

This guy might be a champion or Henchman.
Marksman. These Perry sculpts are really good and the minis are really easy to build and paint.
A henchman.

Sarabon Liberation Army regulars

The previous pictures of Sarbonistas with full camo uniforms were of the elite soldiers trained by the CIA in counter-insurgency warfare. These are of the regular army and trained in a Joint US/Sarabon training program. We have a sergeant.

A pair of PIAT gunners moving into position.
and two more regulars advancing.

Infantry of the People's Defense Force of the People's Republic of Tunalia

Not the best picture but here are a bunch of Tunalistas.

I am planning on running a game for my local gaming group sometime next month once I get enough minis painted up and decided whether to use a modded Necromunda rule set or use Flying Lead.

Tunalista T-55

This cost the Tunalista treasury a bit more but they got in a few T-55s along with their order of T-70s. This is one of the more advanced tanks for the time period (late 50s, early 60s).

Equipped with all the fancy gadgets, it is Tunalia's best tank to counter the tanks of the Western-backed nations at the time.
The T-55 is made by QRF and I have another I need to build and paint up.
Patria o muerte!

T-70 of the Tunalistas

The People's Defense Force of the People's Republic of Tunalia got their hands on a few shipments of Mid WW2 era light tanks from the Soviet Union in exchange for a large shipment of goods.

Though small and armed with an underpowered gun, the T-70 is suitable for patrolling the jungles along the Tunalia/Sarabon border.
With it's superior speed and mobility, the T-70 will hopefully be able to outmaneuver threats posed to it and hit the enemy at its flanks with its 45mm gun.
The tank is from Battlefront and the riflemen is of course from Old Glory's command decision line.

So get this...

here I was all excited about finding my camera charger but now my SD card won't go into the camera like it's supposed to.

I looked inside the slot where it used to just click in but there is this tiny plastic thing sticking out just slightly enough inside it that the card won't go in all the way. The plastic thing is apparently part of the camera but it never had problems before and now this teeny tiny thing is being a pain.

I'm not even sure as to what to do.