What are you working on....?

[Colonel Kilgore]

Bonus points for a Nivember dip in the sea!

[Sean Clark]

Nearly finished my SCW armoured trucks. As per Martin's recommendation in have gone for a fictional union with which to daub the side of the big one. The Potteries Workers Union (PWU) Great fun painting these lovely models. I'll post a picture up here and on TMP as time permits.

I've also finished two block houses for my Square Bashing trench games. I always try to get a game of Squarebashing in around Remembrance day so we are playing  a late war trench game on Friday loosely based on Passchendale.

[John in York]

A pair of SCW Republican AT guns. Once these are finished, my International Brigade will be ready for our first game of Bayonet & Ideology on the 27th.

[Leslie BT]

Busy getting my camels ready for painting for the Guards camel corp in the Sudan, and finishing, adding the bits I found I was short of for making a couple of companies for the Ardennes day.

[Leman (Andy)]

More 10mm FPW to vary my Walter Schnaffs armies.

[alex918]

I'm finally out of the dark wilderness, the painting mojo has returned after almost 2 months of sifting through the lead pile and writing, rewriting of Army lists. Managed to finish 9 command bases for PBI, some 1,600th aircraft and a handful of modern AFVs for a spot of recognition training at work.

[Colonel Kilgore]

That sounds like a pretty good haul, Alex - was that all this weekend?

And NINE PBI command bases - what are you working on to go with them?

[alex918]

All today!

TBH the command bases were a touch up to bring some order of regularity to my Brit 8th Army and DAK forces. I personally like to double base command stands for easy ID, by this I mean a standard 30x30 textured and flocked on top of a 40x40 just base coloured with the Name ID at the rear.

It helps to keep Martins sales up😁

[Colonel Kilgore]

Very impressive all in a day!

And yes, it sounds like we all need to chip in to help make up for the sad weather-induced Alumwell debacle

[Leslie BT]

Martin did get as far as Yeovil in his quest to the North.

At that point he and his faction returned to base.

He might even do a very small discount for a few days.

But on the other hand good for getting more stuff to the workshop as he was out and about at a very early hour.

[Radar]

Due to my snow induced plan to add 128 more cavalry to my ECW armies (which I'm collecting at Salute) I now have a 'to do'  list which needs to be finished before then, so roughly a month to finish the lot. Seems reasonable and achievable.

Two 34 man Covenanter foot regiments, slight problem of having to drill out 24 pikeman's hands for these. Musketeers and command for one unit 60% finished. 12 pike have had their cast pikes cut off, which is no mean task. So I think I am winning on this front.

Another 4 more wagons for my baggage trains, I've got some spare marching drummers so might use a couple to make the wagon bases look a bit more diorama-ish. I've added marching musketeers to some of my other wagon bases, and they have worked quite well. I decided I didn't have enough artillery so both sides are getting some more light guns, so 4 more limbers need painting. Both the limbers and the wagons can be painted and partially based as they require dragoon horseholders as drovers (part of my Salute order).

Lots of standards have been researched and requested. Correct number, and sizes of bases have been ordered too.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Very impressive plans and an admirable "maintenance of the aim", Radar - please share photos of your pre-Salute efforts in due course.

I guess the main question is: how many fingers will you have left after all that drilling...? 

[Duncan]

Seem to be doing a lot of things right now. I am painting some fantasy warships of a similar scale and style to the old Man O War game, currently Dwarven and Orcs from Ral-partha and Chaos Dwarves from Admiralty Miniatures who make some very nice and well cast resin ships as well as 15mm chaos dwarves (which I may have to get!)
As well as this I am painting and making bases for some 1/600 scale aircraft mainly from Tumbling Dice. Both German and British forces. I also have an old HMS Arm Royal I am repainting in the scale and have some destroyers to put together.
Also painting figures for the Walking Dead all out war game.
And painting some Colonial era British and Beja (Fuzzy Wuzzi to those of the non PC brigade. ) tribesmen. So far I have come two units of Somerset shire, one Royal Engineers and one and a bit 1st Highlands as well as a few Logistics Core with mules etc.
On top of this I am still fitting in some railway bits and bobs.
Makes one wonder how on Earth I used to fit working in!!!
Oh yes, also doing some Victorian navy steam/sailing ships also from Tumbling Dice.

[Radar]

Second regiment of Lowlanders completed. Baggage train and limbers also completed as much as I can (need my dragoon horseholders to use as drovers, but they will be in my Salute goody bag). Something that wasn't on my list was the Matchlock surgeon vignette, and the remaining loose halberds (which will be added to some of my open wagons).

Final dozen pikemen have had their pikes trimmed and cleaned off. Not drilled them yet. Still got the correct number of digits on my hands.

[Leslie BT]

Looking very good.
The complete army will look most impressive.

Any particular end goal or are you just enjoying the journey?