Heavy Bolters, Piper and Green/C

Progress continues. The piper and heavy bolter squad are now done, aside from basing, and ready for paint.

I redid No. 1 Gun's base entirely, and I'm pleased with how it came out. Like with the rubble on the other gun, I'm going to try and pile the sand/gravel up around it to try and suggest that it's a half-buried ruin, as opposed to them being in an urban area.


The piper. I gave him a shoulder strap for the pipes as Itkovian over on the Ammo Bunker suggested.


And the first four members of Green/C, the hustling squad. The meltagunner is braced as he provide covering fire.

They've got good heads on their shoulders.

Wee, my heads finally arrived.

Tragically, the sun is gone and the lighting in here is terrible, so the pics are worse than usual.


First up, the assembled piper. I did the blowpipe with GS, and I think it turned out alright.



The heavy bolter squad is almost done. I'm still not sure what to do for the base on No. 1 Gun, as using only sandbags with need a lot GS. I think I'll have a root 'round the bitz box and see if I can turn up something.



No. 2 Gun, with the gunner yelling at the loader to hurry up and load.


The sandbags I made to complete their makeshift cover.



And No. 3 Gun, with a much more relaxed loader having a cuppa after filling sandbags.




Finally, I started working on Green/C. I'm posing them as though they're hurring across the field, while the meltagunner and a couple others pause to provide covering fire. To this end, I reposed a bunch of legs based on the awesome Drogan 22nd Voltigeurs over on the Boot Camp by Digits. They mostly turned out well, though one or two could be better. Ah, well, I'll know better next time.

Guns and Pipes

The Heavy Bolter support squad is getting closer to done, just needing basing still. And heads. I went by my favourite scale model/railway hobby store, only to find they'd closed down and become a used book store! Arrrgh! Now I have no supply of plasticard and other such things. Not a total loss, though, as it's a great book store and I got an August Derleth anthology, and his stuff is impossible to find. They also had at least three copies of Mein Kampf.



I used the last of my GS to make a couple of sandbags, but I'm not sure how well they turned out...



The piper is also nearly complete. I need to sand his base, and once the new heads arrive, hopefully in a few days, I can finish him off.





And finally a group shot of Red Platoon's leadership all together. I built them a flamer guy, but he's boring and didn't warrant a close-up of his own.

Two more

Here's a couple more pics I forgot to take. The scabbard on Stiles' sword:



And the wrist and hand for the piper. The hand is a little thick, so I may paint it as a glove. The wrist I'll paint as a wrap or a bandage.

I blame the rain.

So it's coming down outside (rain in September in Vancouver, who'd'a thought?) so I had to take these pics inside, which is why they're atrocious. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.

Captain Stiles' facial hair. I think I just about had a stroke trying to get this one there. I'm not sure what's happening, but my GS is hardening really quickly and making it really hard to get it to actually stick to anything (other than my fingers, of course).



And here's a pair of Sergeants I cobbled together for Green Platoon, giving me two complete, though not completely painted, squads.

Forward the 23rd

There's the piper, thus far. Still needs GS work on his hands and around the tops of the, uh...pipe...things...that come out the back of the bag. No idea what they're called, somewhat shamefully, but wikipedia informs me they're called "drones". All hail Wikipedia, giver of knowledge! I'm still not sure how I'll be doing the blowpipe yet, so I'm waiting until I find the head I'm going to use before I make that decision.




That's Captain Callum Stiles, 2IC of Dog Company. He'll be my Company Commander in games of 1500 points or less, at least for now, while Major Micheal Brown will take over in larger games. Stiles is a bit of a martinet, at least compared to his gruff adventurer of a CO, and I think the pose shows that off. He's almost unconverted, aside from his sword which still needs some GS to hang it from his belt, and he needs some facial hair as its the Yukoni way. I'm thinking a thin mustache, like he'd really rather be clean-shaven and is just doing the bare minimum of manly facial hair.


And speaking of the Major, I prepared a few pieces for him, though I'll need another Command Squad box before I build him properly. Can you guess who he'll count-as?

The Yukoni return...with pics

Finally, back in khaki. Although I don't have any heads yet, they'll arrive next week, I did some more work on the HB section, two meltagunners for my Platoon Cmd squads and the bare beginnings of a piper for Red Platoon Command.

Tonight's efforts:


No. 1 Gun, with the sarge pointing out targets for the gunner. I don't know if I did any work on these guys, beyond assembling their lasguns.



No. 2 Gun. The gunner fends off some nearby enemies while the wounded loader struggles to get the gun back in action.



And No. 3 Gun. The loader takes a breather after entrenching them, probably filling sandbags, while the gunner blazes away.




And the other three. The guy on the left will be a piper, once I sort out how and what arms to use, while the other two are, obviously, meltagunners.



None of them have packs or bedrolls yet, so that's left to be done, but I think that's a task for tomorrow, given how long it always takes.


Cheers.