More Necrons

My buddy Steve passed on a bunch of older Necrons models to reinforce my collection. They were already assembled and part painted, so I finished a bunch of them in my turquoise scheme to match my existing army. There is a Ghost Ark, a squadron of destroyers, some warriors that I converted to Deathmarks, a bunch of Scarabs, a couple of characters and three Immortals. There is also a Gauss Pylon at the back that I picked up from TTCombat (it's actually a laser cut wood model).

I still managed to lose my last game to Eliot's Dark Eldar, thanks to drawing miserably useless tactical objective cards.

Soviets for Bolt Action

As part of a commission for a chum I painted a crapton of Soviet infantry - naval brigade and regulars - shown here. The figures are mostly from Warlord with a few Black Tree and Plastic Soldier mixed in.

Have you seen the Elefant?

Well, here he is, in 15mm scale by Zvezda:

With two platoons of PzIVH tanks - Battlefront in the foreground, PSC in the background. The Battlefront models are beefier, taller and have better raised detail.

Some half-tracks - two hanomags and two captured French ones:

A battery of 105s

And to keep it varied - some 28mm Thracians by Crusader that I will use as light infantry for my Macedonian army:

More Macs

Here we have 3 more regiments of phalagists:

And more WW2 Germans to finish off my Bolt Action platoon - here are command, panzerschreck, MG and flamethrower teams:

Macs and Paks

Macedonians and Pak 40s, that is.

Flames of War Pak40 ATG teams for the upcoming Fortress Europa release:

Some 28mm Macedonian phalangists from Warlord Games for a Kings of War Successor army I have started:

And some 28mm Bolt Action German grenadiers with some light support - a Sdkfz 251/7 and MG armed kubelwagen.

MayDay and 3D printed Bolt Action tanks

This weekend was our annual MayDay games event. On Sunday I co-hosted the Battle of Marston Moor using my sizable ECW collection and the For King and Parliament ruleset. Jonathan and I provided over 300 figures and two game mats for a grand scale event.

It went over very well - we determined that unless the Parliament side broke the Royalist by the end of turn 6, with the chance of extended daylight adding a turn or two, it would be a Royalist win. Well Parliament came 1 point short of breaking the Royalists and night fell!

On Sunday, I played in the Kings of War tournament and managed to finish second with a record of 3 wins and one loss. 

My fine trophy for finishing 2nd.

The loss was determined by a blindingly lucky attack roll by my ratkin opponent who inflicted 21 wounds from 25 attacks on my skeleton horde - causing it to rout and cough up the winning loot on the 7th turn. So - I was one roll away from going 4-0. But in fairness - if two other rolls went the wrong way in two other games - I could as easily have been 1-3 and awarded the Wooden Spoon. I'm not complaining!

I also just finished painting a couple of very sharp 3D printed 1/56 scale vehicles for my Bolt Action Germans. Here they are from start to finish, painted by airbrush with a bit of detail picking by hand at the end:

Lastly, I assembled (what a pain they were...poor instructions and ill-fitting) and painted some PSC Marders for my Flames of War desert Germans. They shoot better than they look ...

Bolt Action British army

After resisting the temptation to start a WW2 project in yet another scale, I relented and obtained an unpainted 28mm Bolt Action British army from a mate and painted them up. I know a few guys who play and I have always thought the rules were okay - so I'll give it a go.

Nice figs and models in any case.

I also added a couple of 57mm ATGs to my 'Merican FOW army.