Objective Markers

While having a sort out of my terrain bits box I found some 60mm round mdf bases that I had no use for and also some resin crates.  Coincidently the day before I had been reading the Dinoproof rule book as we have decided to play it at our next games night.  In the game you get crates scattered around the board. Now instead of tokens I decided to make some objective markers using the round bases and resin crates.  Hopefully they will be suitable for multiple game systems.  After checking how many crates against how many mdf bases I had  I ground I had a few bases left over so I raided my bits box for any other ideas that I could use as objective marker. I found another crate and some machinery bits I thought would make some kind of crashed vehicle with secret tech that both sides want. I also found some weapons that I could add.

Photo not the best.

The above photo is the first market I attempted I added the rifles to make it look a bit like an weapons stash (with my day fingers getting them like that was a nightmare ).

In the above photo is the next marker.  I found a cool little looking tech unit in my bits and had the idea that this could be some kind of secret power core data bank etc which I would surround with broken bits of machinery so it looked like it came from a destroyed mech or vehicle.

Here are the first 2 markers

Now you can see I've added some machinery bits to the marker and a PIAT and ammo to the other marker plus both based.

Last 2 markers

These markers are more simple and are mainly just crates. I did add some rockets to create another ammo stash feel to the one marker.  Again all based as well.

The above photos are the finished article.  I quite like them!  Have a good one people!

More painting.

Another set of models painted! This time round it was my  SAS squad and anti tank team.  First up the I decided to attempt decals on the Bren Carrier I had previous painted. I'm very nervous with water slide decals as I have fat uncoordinated fingers but since I've been listening to a Bolt Action podcast I've wanted to add a more real unit feel to my army. I did a bit of searching where the SAS worked with regular army units and came up with Operation Clipper. The Worcester regiment had SAS  support clearing snipers in area it seems (There is not a lot of info on SAS but that gives me a touch of creative license). After asking for advice on the Bolt Action Facebook group (a brilliant group!) I located the correct decals needed. I didn't have enough to to both Bren Carriers all around so applied all the decals i had to both fronts.

They were quite fiddly but withbthe aid of my craft night and some tweezers I did it.  Now they need weathering to make them look not so new.
Onto the infantry. The SAS  squad picture on the internet had a camo pattern on which i didn't think i could replicate so I went for a plain green jacket with airbourne trousers  (well as close as I can make it).

Lastly was the Anti Tank rifle team. These guys were in standard British uniform with gas masks. The loader didn't cone with anything for his arms so I bodged him carrying an ammo box.

I think the layers makes the jumper look more realistic

I'm quite happy with the jackets. I applied more layers than I normally do and they seem to have a good effect? I could be wrong though.

These don't look to bad and hopefully will go Nazi horror and mech hunting soon!
Have a great day folks

Been Painting!

Managed to get a few free evenings so got on with some painting. I had Konflict 47 British Armoured infantry, Automatons, Bren Carrier and my new Lieutenant.
British Armoured Infantry first.  These are nice solid models and I like them a lot.

Went with the standard allied green. Each one of these guys is packing an LMG so a squad can throw out a lot of shots. Next up were the British Automatons. These models were horrible to put together but look really good now.  The joins are really small to try and glue so it took me a while ( I need to practice pinning ).
The automatons are the Brits answer to manpower in the on going conflict.  Using rift technology Alan Turing has created a basic AI which enables this robots to provide fire support for troops. Each one carries an MMG so plenty of fire support  available

Next up was the Lieutenant. Technically it's Major Turntadust from Warlord games but I'm gonna use him as my Konflict 47 HQ option 

Last of all was the Bren Carrier. Not quite finished this, I have to add some decals and a wash over those.

I love the bren carrier model (plus it's easy to build), now i have 2 they will be zipping up and Down the table causing mischief ☺

Got the SAS and anti tank rifle team all primed so will start on those soon. Have a good one guys!

Christmas loot

Happy New year guys! Hope you all had a good Christmas and new year. Mine was chaos, I was working night shifts and I have 2 boys (2 and 4) so now my house is full of toys!
I was actually struggling to decide on any miniatures to ask for as Christmas gifts. I picked a couple of things and a board game off the family.
The family bought me Zpocalsype.

The game looks great fun (if a bit brutal!  But zombie slaying is no picnic), it's all about your team of survivors scavenging, fortifying their base and fighting off hordes of zombies at night. All the copponents feel great quality, the board's for tracking your squad have little wheeled dials to keep track of various stats which is really cool and one I haven't seen before. Can't wait to give it a go!
On the miniature front I got an NW Europe SAS squad from warlord miniatures.  Wanted these for ages to supplement my Bolt action British army. After listening a lot to the Down Order podcast I decided to try and loosely base my force on an actual ww2 unit  after some research looking for where the british regular army worked with the SAS and I located several instances. I chose Operation Clipper, this was a battle in Germany where the Worcestershire regiment as part of the 43rd Wessex brigade was tasked with taking several villages. There are reports that the SAS helped with anti sniper operations.

SAS jeep during operation Clipper

There is sufficiently very little SAS info which allows me to use a bit of creative license when adding SAS  to my force. I also got from the WestWind productions Secrets of the Third Reich a British anti mech rifle team  I liked the miniatures and wanted to use these in my konflict 47 force as an anti tank  (and mech and  nazi horror) rifle.  These have all been made up and based.

SAS squad

Anti tank rifle team

Now to crack on painting everything I have accumulated in the last few months.
On an slightly unrelated note.  I have recently got into podcasts.  Particularly Rift Tech Radio for Konflict 47 and Down Order for regular bolt action  really good and Infornative plus a entertaining. Check them out with a podcast app (I use podcast addict) or somewhere in iTunes I believe.
Have a great day folks!