Painting Update - more 02 Hundred

Howdy folks,

I hope all is well on your respective fronts. I will admit the past month or so has been very busy and hasn't given me the chance to post as much as I had initially planned to, hopefully next month will be kinder with that.

Anywho, as the title says, this is a quick update on my painting progress with my 02 Hundred Hours purchases that I made at this years CanGames. I have already finished all of the SAS figures from the starter box, here, and I thought I would keep up with the other Allied troops that I bought. For this post, I present for you, a blister pack that looks to be an assortment from Artizan Miniatures range of WW2 British and Commonwealth.

These have been packaged up for Grey for Now, but looking at Artizan's website, the blister I bought is sourced from SWW115 and SWW118. These are meant for the North Africa expansion and are SAS reinforcements and when I saw them, I figured what the hell...I'll get them, try out the game, and probably pull the trigger on expansions later.

While the starter box and Wargames Atlantic contributions are plastic, these SAS reinforcement figures are metal...so the detail is there, but not as crisp as the plastic sculpts, but they do have some good weightiness to them.

Anyhow, inspired by some Osprey pics and Rogue Heroes stills, I painted them up in what I guess is somewhat classic look...I did not flock the bases as I had originally intended. After I had painted up the bases and added some wash, I thought they were strong enough on their own.

I hope you enjoy the pics.

 

Running up that Lead/Plastic Hill...

Painted

1/200             4 

15mm          53    

28mm+        36, +4

Terrain           1

Fabricated

     

Bought      +36 

Progress   +58

Painting Update - Hela & Loki Marvel Crisis Protocol

Howdy folks,

I hope that the end of September is treating everyone well. This is just a quick post to show off some pictures of the Hela and Loki figures from Atomic Mass Games line for Marvel Crisis Protocol. These figures are pretty expressive and have a really great dynamic look to them. They were quite enjoyable to paint up, and after having just finished Thanos, they came up very quickly in comparison, lol.

For the most part, I stuck barely close to the box art. I did take a look at some of the comic book artwork for each figure as well, but pretty much painted up Loki using the box art as a rough guide. I ended up going a little brighter on some elements, and the basing I went with a more literal take on the frost giant theme by adding some Valhalla Blizzard from Citadel to the base just to give more of that frosty winter look.

For Hela, I looked at the box art, I looked at the comic book art, and I had access to a painting guide from Sorastro. In the end, the painting guide was excellent to have and it did help provide some critical guidance to me. But I stayed much closer to the colour of paint that I had available and also staying closer to a couple of pictures I had from the comic books. So I used Sorastro’s guide much more as a loose guideline, as Captain Jack would say.

At the end of the day, both figures were quite enjoyable to paint up, and I’m really happy with how they turned out. I hope you enjoy the pics.

A very dynamic duo!

The big sister, Goddess of War, Hela

The trickster, Loki

Running up that Lead/Plastic Hill...

Painted

1/200             4 

15mm          53    

28mm+        32, +2

Terrain           1

Fabricated

     

Bought      +36 

Progress   +54

Painting Update - the Mad Titan

Hey everyone,

I hope the long weekend finds you all well. It has been a summer…certainly not as planned, but things could always be worse. I haven’t had any chances to get any gaming in, and anything I had planned  unfortunately had to be pushed to the side. Regardless, I look forward to the next game and am hoping to try 0200 soon.

Anywho, as the title says, this post is all about that maddest of the Mad Titans…Thanos!

For help on this, I took a look at Sorastro’s YouTube channel and watched his Thanos video a few times to help with the process and some of the colour choices. 

The video was super helpful…as always…and the figure was a lot of fun to paint up, although not without its frustrations, lol. I chose to use two bases, one with and the other without Thanos…this gave me something to put in the slot of the Throne terrain piece whenever I did not have Thanos on that piece. It did take me a couple of iterations to get the gold armour just right…and the throne effects themselves took a few tries to get the way that I wanted. 

I did get pretty frustrated at the mid point…and by the time I got to 95% completion, I pushed harder to get the last 5% done. Full disclosure, lol, it took me almost a month off and on to get the piece completed.

With that preamble, hope you enjoy the pics…and for some additional ambiance, I used my Space scene Cigar Box Battle Matt.

Running up that Lead/Plastic Hill...

Painted

1/200             4 

15mm          53    

28mm+        30, +2 (Thanos and second base)

Terrain           1, +1 (Thanos’s Throne)

Fabricated

     

Bought      +36 

Progress   +52

Painting Update - 02 Hundred Hours

Hey folks,

I hope all is well on your end. While I was exercising a high degree of control for most of the year, I admittedly had a misstep and fell off the buying wagon at Cangames in May. There was a good variety of vendors at the Con, but one caught my eye as they had brought a really great selection of inventory with them. Not only that, but I had great chance to talk with the owner over the weekend, and Kamal was really great all-around. If you’re looking for an online gaming shop, then I would definitely check out Centuries Historical Miniatures & Tabletop Gaming.

I had seen a fair amount of reviews and articles on the 02 Hundred Hours game from Grey for now, but I hadn’t had a chance to check it out beyond the internet. Kamal had a great selection, so I ended up with the Starter Set and a pack of SAS/LRDG commandos (I thought I could make them fit and I’ll probably pick up the Desert Raiders later this year). Duncan also picked up a few boxes and we had been talking about giving the game a run through over the summer. 

So, for your viewing pleasure, I have just painted up the 12 SAS commandos in preparation for our first game. I have to admit, I took longer than expected but I also wanted to do the figures justice. I had found some excellent reference pictures from the British Paras museum for the Denison smocks (which I found a little intimidating) and also found an excellent tutorial for painting British Paras. I adapted the tutorial along with a guide I had from Battlefront for 15mm Paras. Ultimately I wanted something that was simple enough for my brain to replicate, something that looked good, and I really liked the idea of keeping the smocks lighter so that they didn’t get lost on the table (thanks for that Moiterei!)

The figures are from Wargames Atlantic and my main criticism of the figures so far…a lot of options (which can be good) but boy some tough decisions. But really, it comes down to how frail some of the pieces are…when I was trying to cut a Lee Enfield from the sprue, the sling broke in 2 with the centerpiece of the sling breaking off. I ended up taking another broken sling, cutting down the section I needed and splicing that in with the original piece. The dog handlers that come with the box had some similar issues with their leashes meant for the dogs…these just broke off and I will need to do some crafty MacGyvering to make them work.

Here’s the team…

Classic group shots…

Overhead shot…I took some extra care with the bases and painted up some rocks to break up the flock.

Front and centre, the 'main' group…Thompson SMG, Sten SMGs, Enfields, and a silenced pistol.

Close up shot with a few of the troops…

The artwork on the cards looked really great and I made sure to build my officer as he looked on the card. He has a really great ‘Clark Gable’ movie look to him and I really went with that.

The classic Bren gun…and another silenced pistol…I did piece together a Sten gun for the left hand of the  pistoleer…and I have to say, with the power stache he is sporting, all I can picture is a WW2 version of  old school Thomas Magnum

One of the specialized troops…radio operator on the right.

The Tommy gun…

Left to right, Radio Operator, demo-man, marksman, and silenced carbine.

Hero shot…silenced pistoleers and marksman

Running up that Lead/Plastic Hill...

Painted

1/200             4 

15mm          53    

28mm+        28, +12

Fabricated

     

Bought      +36 

Progress   +49

Painting Update - Team Yankee BTR-60's

Howdy everyone,

I do hope that all is well on your side of the 1's and 0's. I recently finished up the Battlefront's BTR-60 box from their Team Yankee line. I was looking for some additional or alternate transport for my Soviet Motor Rifle folks and thought that the '60 could fit in so many different Cold War settings as well.

The models went together fairly well, you can see some obvious gaps in a few of the hull seams...I think those are more operator error than anything else, but the parts were good...they came off the sprue easily and were easy to assemble. In terms of paintjob, I hit the internets and googled a few dozen pics. I ended up settling on a green/desert yellow scheme (picture from Google below). This was partly to try out a different scheme for the platoon/company, but also it let me find one that was suitably neutral or usable for real-life Cold War history and for imagi-nation Afropia history.

In the end, I based in green...either reflective green or vj 894 (can't entirely remember) with a dash of olive green and medium olive to brighten it up a bit. Looking at a few 1980's Afghan pics, I went with desert yellow 'splotches' on the hull...and I ended up lightening these to desert yellow/iraqi sand, with final highlights using straight up iraqi sand. Russian-Afghan war era photo that I found on Google as well, helped guide the painting as well. 

Hope you enjoy the pics.

Running up that Lead/Plastic Hill...

Painted

1/200             4 

15mm          53, +7    

28mm+        16

Fabricated

     

Bought        0 

Progress   +73