Time for an update on what I have been painting this year so far. Starting with figures for the Trebia project:
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| 4 bases of Spanish Heavy Cavalry. All figures are 6mm Baccus, 10 figures to a 40mm x 30mm base. A base of Italian allied cavalry was also completed having discovered I was one base short! |
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My focus had been intended to remain solely on the Punic Wars, but as ever, other stuff encroached! There are several 1/3000 scale WW2 ships in the inventory painted decades ago in dire need of attention. And sure enough a quick glance drew me in and I thought, 'well, just one painted in slow time alongside the Carthaginians will not impact on the Trebia project'. Did not quite turn out that way!
'Defending the Malay Barrier' is on the tabletop and Japanese floatplanes were required:
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| 5 x Mitsubishi F1M2 'Pete' floatplanes and 1 x Nakajima A6M2 'Rufe' floatplane. The latter is standing for a 'Jake' floatplane. All are Tumbling Dice 1/600 scale. |
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| Two of the refurbished ships. HMS Queen Elizabeth on the left and HMS Malaya. All ships on this post are Navwar 1/3000 scale. |
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| 6 x Tribal class destroyers some of which will be used in a future Narvik game. |
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| 3 x Castle class corvettes. The successor to the Flower class. A little random but these, as with the Tribals, were lying around loose among the old veterans and begged to be painted. |
The painting of Carthaginians has not stopped and I am pleased to say reasonable progress is being made. The end is in sight as an added incentive to keep going alongside the ships.
Wonderful work Jon. The shields on the Spanish cavalry are fantastic.
ReplyDeleteExcellent work on everything shown Jon. While I respect the work done on the Spanish cavalry and their shields, I really like the Japanese aircraft and the refurbished vessels.
ReplyDeleteRichard
Great paint job, as soon as I saw the shield patterns I guessed they were Spanish and scrolling down a little further the caption confirmed it. That's pretty good going to make such small figures so instantly recognisable.
ReplyDeleteAlso much taken with floatplanes and ships, using larger scale aircraft with smaller scale ships always looks good (IMO).