All,
No time for gaming last weekend, but I did get some stuff processed and get some painting done, and here is the visual record of the goings on. First up, I've commented quite a few times about how I'm beginning to feel like a Third-World Dictator (due to my recent megalomania in 6mm). I also commented around the yard that 1) I was contemplating a major purchase, and then 2) I made said purchase, and all I can say is now I definitely qualify as a dictator, only waiting on a suitable nation state to allow me demonstrate my special brand of dominating benevolence. So I decided I'd document the whole thing in pictures.
The whole mess, modern 6mm, all GHQ and CinC. If you're not familiar, I have a whole bunch of Warsaw Pact, which I've broken into 'green' and 'khaki' forces, then I have NATO forces, I don't have an exact count, but it's something along the lines of:
Warsaw Pact MBT: ~240
Warsaw Pact AFV: ~230
Warsaw Pact Arty: ~36
Warsaw Pact Air Defense: ~25
Warsaw Pact Recon: ~30
Warsaw Pact Engineers: ~30
NATO MBT: ~120
NATO AFV: ~115
NATO Arty: ~10
NATO Air Defense: ~12
NATO Recon: ~25
NATO Engineers: ~12
Various other crap, trucks, ammo carriers, jeeps, etc…
I also have a number of aircraft:
-CH-47
-2 x UH-1 Hog
-2 x OH-6
-2 x AH-1 (but they're pretty jacked up and I'm not sure if I can salvage either of them)
-3 x AH-64 (again, pretty jacked up, maybe can get one out of them)
-1 x A-10
-2 x F-18
-2 x A6
-1 x EA6B
-2 x MiG-23/27
-4 x Mi24D
-1 x Mi24A
-4 x Allouette
I figured it at about $3 USDk in raw lead; I bought about 85% of it second-hand, so I've spent about $900 USD on all of it. I'm going to have to get really creative with rules and basing, as I'm realizing I actually have too much ;) No seriously, I'm looking at multi-basing my stuff, i.e., putting three tanks on a base for armor, and three AFVs and some infantry on a base for mechanized infantry. Even then I don't know if I can get all this stuff on the table.
What really makes me mad is that I have a tremendous amount of infantry already painted and based on pennies, and that's not how I'll be playing with these, so I'm not sure what to do with them. I really don't want to pull them off the pennies and stick them on new bases, and I don't really want to sell them off. We'll see what happens.
And then my other project: I'm still slowly plugging away on my modern 20mm stuff that I got from Elhiem. Fantastic miniatures that paint up pretty easily. I finished off (minus basing, which I've yet to give serious consideration to) a team of four US modern shooters, and a squad of seven Russian/Eastern European troops.
All the guys I finished, US Direct Action-types at top, two sticks of Russian troops at bottom.
Now that I've got enough of these guys painted up to actually have a small skirmish fight, I need to think about 1) basing (maybe put them on quarters?), and 2) terrain, so they have something to hang out on that looks more appropriate than the kitchen counter…
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In any case, I've got a three-day weekend, so I'll look to put in some serious mileage on my Poland campaign. Stay tuned folks, there's always something going on here ;)
V/R,
Jack
