December Wishlist & Project Review

Or the Review of the Project Review dating October 1.:

I wanted to organize my head a little and take the occasion to share it here.

Projects mentioned in the previous review:

1/72 TYW/Wars of the Polish Commonwealth: Ouch. Ouch. ModelHobbies. Ouch. And the two boxes of Cossack cavalry I'm working on. I'd like to play some and write scenarios as well.

15mm Ostfront: PSC Russian Infantry painted, Germans partly complete.

For Christmas I'll be receving a box of Panthers and T-34s, with this the armored forces will be nigh complete. Using the PSC turrets I'm going to convert two Zvezda KV tanks to KV-85s, so I'm going to have two T-34/76s and two T-34/85s besides the one already in the army. I'll have to buy another plasticard sheet because I butchered the former for the naval project.

AT guns, one to each side: PSC Zis-3s and Forged in Battle Pak-40s.

1/72 JWI ImagiNations: Nothing done, nothing lost.

Scratchbuilding: I have built those tiny ships which sort of counts.

Not mentioned oder change in plans:

In the Navy, the small scale naval project: 32 ships painted. I'm going to expand the two fleets with carriers, subs and light ships.

28mm Copplestone stuff and the game called Big Game Hunter: This is but a little side-project.

Medieval/Fantasy: the Zvezda Peasant army and Caesar Adventurers bought, latter painted. One or two more boxes (Zvezda English infantry and French knights) and I can make a large-ish game,  plus there is a campaign set.

I have in my possession 2135 figures now, thanks to the 130 figures in the PSC boxes.
It is also likely I will skip this year's Games Day because of studies, but I only wanted a couple of d8s from there. The number of historical games is tempting though.

Project 'In the Navy': Painted Ships

One can inspect here the paintedly finished fruits of my scratchbuilt work. One fleet has grey color (Fleet Grey) and brown decks, the other has green main hull and grey main deck (Fleet Green). I have painted them while watching 12 Angry Men on Saturday evening, using the same method as with all figures and a bit more daring highlights. 

Caesar Adventurers

This magnificent set travelled the world from Taiwan to me. It has 18 1/72 figures and some diabolical monster which I did not paint. I have painted 15, excluding a dupe of the female ranger and two sword-swinging Bronan the Barbarians, these latter are kind of half naked so I want to add some greenstuff magic to them.

A failed campaign and a new one

TYW Campaign map.

The unsettled case with Model Hobbies means my plans to execute a Thirty Years War campaign during the Christmas holiday are ruined. I have sent the fifth letter today and I'm not likely to give up my 30 quid.

Anyway, here are the campaign rules I have worked out earlier, not so secretly inspired by Master Featherstone's War Game Campaigns.

But alas, I must occupy myself with something, so here is another hex map layout for another game.

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Medieval Kingdom map with surprisingly straight roads.

In this game, the players will take the role of a knight in an un-named kingdom. The map has an opposing kingdom and uncharted territories as well. The players and the referee will have two separate maps, and I might or might not add a 'fog of war' feat, so that players don't know the outlay of the map until they have discovered it.
The knight starts with picking a fief and managing it, hiring underlings and protecting peasants. Each fief will have a main production feat and one type of possible threat. The knights must engage in local politics and support their King if fighting with the other kingdom is necessary.

PSC 15mm late war German infantry, first batch

Here are the magnificent men from PSC. I was out of glue so I started working on the poses which don't need assembly. The German set has some radio operators too, but the standing figures for the LMGs do not wear the MGs, only the ammo belts. 

Small Wooden Ships

I have built, based and now undercoated these little wooden ships. I have used pine pieces bought from and RC model store earlier, but have just realized this is a cheap and quick way to build steamers too.

Cool Copplestone Characters Conveniunt

Copplestone Castings having a pre-Christmas 10% off sale on last weekend I have ordered two packs of figures and I definitely will more, because they are cool. I'm also working on a game called 'Big Game Hunter' (accidentally one of the figure packs is called the same, but I started laying the foundations of the game before realizing it existed) where hunters can chase all sorts of creatures. It uses d10 and d4, the latter for deciding what sort of beast the hunters spot. I will upload it later.

Naval Rules Revised

During this week I have built a lot of small warships out of wooden bits. They are in the dorm but I'll bring my camera and take photos.
Because the Inter Arma rules for naval warfare are a little bit insufficient, I've worked on them a little and here is the result: Inter Arma d8 Naval Supplementary. As usual, Google Drive messed up the pages.
Mediafire link with .zip file: Link 
I have tried uploading it to mediafire and converting it to pdf but it was still messed up.

Read through it if you wish, comments are welcome

I have painted a bunch of Copplestone figures this weekend, but there won't be enough time for basing. Photos are on their way. I'm expecting two other orders to show up next week, the PSC German infantry and Caesar's fantasy adventurers.

Zvezda 1/100 Katyusha, ZIS-5 and Opel Blitz

Materiel and heavy armature for 15mm WW2 gaming. Cheap, easy to assemble and paint. There were minor troubles around the axis and wheels though, they could be an easier fit. It required a lot of drilling and sanding and it almost broke.

Katyusha and little brother. The painting scheme on these was the usual, black basecoat, block painting, wash, highlights and finish. I did not add any further weathering. On the tyres I used a dark grey highlight and black glaze.