Thursday, January 8, 2009

Horses, Orphans, and Loonies Who Jump From Planes

Updates! They're not quite the updates I wanted them to be, as I appear to have lost my GS. As in, it's somewhere on my desk and I don't know where. Unfortunately, things being underneath other things is my personal kryptonite.

Anyways, here's the new cavalry, bringing the total up to five. Due to aforementioned lack of greenstuff, I haven't done their reins, carbine cases or bedrolls, but they're worth posting pics of anyways.

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And a group shot:

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And because I keep yapping about them, here's the newest War Orphans.

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And finally, an in-progress Yukoni Drop Trooper. This guy was made on a whim, because I had parts for only a single dude left. I have no idea how I'll use them, if I make a full squad, but I used the incredibly cliched pose (I've seen it a lot, especially with Blood Pact, strangely) because I want to try my hand at sculpting a, uh, a hand. He carries an autogun instead of the usual Rosch lasrifle because I figure that you can't really properly flash-suppress a laser gun and a bunch on lunatics who insist on jumping out of perfectly good airplanes would need a gun that isn't guaranteed to give them away.

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The lack of GS pretty much stymies everything I was going to do tonight, so maybe I'll build some terrain. I need a couple more buildings, and I think I've figured out how to make craters.

5 comments:

  1. Cool - as ever.

    There was a pretty good craters tutorial in the 4th Ed rulebook...

    - Drax.

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  2. Yeah, that's vaguely what I'm basing mine on, though it's a little more rough & ready, like the buildings. I made three of them, but I haven't time to get pics before work. Tonight!

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  3. By the way,

    With regard to your "horses...and loonies who jump from planes," are you aware that there is, in the UK, a 7th Parachute Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery? - Surely they truly are loonies who jump from planes...on horses!

    - D

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  4. I...what? Madness. MADNESS!


    Actually, I didn't even know there was more than one Parachute Regiment...

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  5. I can't remember the details, and the British regimental system is pretty convoluted (not to mention archaic!), but they do exist! They're a para-badged airbourne artillery, firing 105mm light guns.

    Confusingly, I think I'm right in saying that the arty are technically all one big regiment: the Royal Regiment of Artillery, (usually 'Royal Artillery') but it is sub-divided into many smaller units which are still called regiments.

    And - for the record, and to add to the insanity - King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, still ride horses!

    - Drax. Whose brain is fried by the week's work.

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