I haven't been able to game much recently, mostly because I have spent a lot of the time on the road recently. I have managed to get some painting done however, which has been nice: the metal mountain and plastic pile were starting to get a bit higher than was comfortable.
There is a reduced company-worth of Baccus 6mm WW2 British Paratroopers:
They are nice figures, and just big enough to at least hint towards a Denison smock! The only real problem with the figures is that the ankles on the last figure on each strip seemed quite fragile and I had a few breakages.
The other recent project was finishing two small WSS armies, again from Baccus 6mm, one British and the other Franco-Spanish. French & British (dismounted) Dragoons:
and then the rest. British first:
The Franco-Spanish:
Apart from that, there are some 1/300 plastic WW2 aircraft, 6mm dismounted French Dragoons, 6mm Vanguard SF, 28mm Gripping Beast Dark Age warriors and some Stargrave crew in various states of preparation, to be done over the coming weeks. Game-wise, my main activity has been more air wargames using my version of the Portable Air Wargame rules with the maps and counters from Achtung spitfire! More on that in a later post.
Glad to see you have been busy on the painting front and the WSS armies look great:).
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve, appreciate that.
DeleteGood progress and output. I remember years ago, the rather fine and proportionate Heroics and Ros suffered from ‘weak ankles’.
ReplyDeleteThanks Norm. Yes, as you say - it is very rare in Baccus figures. The only ones I have noticed over the years have been these Paras ankles, some of the Roman Legionary heads, and the old Napoleonic French infantry bayonets.
DeleteThe early H&R Cold War Brits were rather delicate in places, mainly the ankles. I think their newer sculpts are chunkier and be default stronger.
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