15mm - WW2 Canadian Infantry Section

Finished off my section of Canadian Infantry today, just used the painting guide from the ViIllers Bocage book. I tried to put a blue square on their shoulders, the patch for the Highland Light Infantry of Canada, they had that with the painting guide and it seemed like a quite easy patch to do so why not!

Anyway here they are taking cover in a woods while the Lt figures out his maps.

These are from the Plastic Soldier Company 15mm late war British box, so allot smaller than the rest of the stuff I have posted so far. Pretty happy with these guys, allot of benefits to them being plastic and didn't cause any problems. I decided to use the Baccus basing kit for the basing which is intended for 6mm stuff, so the grass may be a bit short really.

Next quick project is a small group of SS Infantry for them to fight with. These are metals from an older battle front box, these ones had a fair amount of problems with flash so I kind of like the plastic ones better really. Although this BF set comes with allot more variety of guys plus allot of support weapons so there are pros and cons I guess. I was planning to just do 8 of these guys but couldn't resist the sniper  and a machine gun.

It's kind of fun painting the Flames of War stuff in smaller numbers, pretty tempting to get a support weapons set and do a few more.

Thanks;
Mike

Infinity Battle Report - Morat Agression Force vs Haqqislam

So I went down to the Ottawa Infinity club yesterday to play a few games, and managed to get a few pictures from the first one before my battery died so I thought I would put them up. They are not very good pictures but oh well.

Morat Agression Force vs Hassassins
We decided to play the 3 civilian game that one of the guys dreamed up. So there are three civilians (the bright red guys), one on each side and one in the center, whoever controls the most after 3 turns is the winner basically.

I deployed my fire team on the right between the red and blue shipping crates, a witch soldier (war band) further over, and the doctor between them. I put a sniper behind the red box i the middle, and the Sogarat (big fire support guy), and engineer and the doctors drone on the left.

A sneaky guy from the Hassasins tried to use impersonation to sneak right in close.

But then remembered he can't impersonate aliens so he was stuck just standing there.

But never mind since another sneaky guy that uses haolographs to cause confusion walked into the center building and picked up the civilian.

Then the enemy sniper decided to kill of my sniper, turned out easy with his viral sniper rifle. I thought I would take a cool over the shoulder shot but you can't see the other guy who was way over on top of a building.

On my turn this were looking a bit bad since two thirds of the civilians were way over on the wrong side of the table. But I decided to have some fun anyway. My witch soldier walk up behind a building, used a smoke grenade to block fire from the fire team, and attack this guy in a sword fight.

Who he easily killed do to his high martial arts skills.

Then my big guy took out the sniper, you can almost see him up on the building this time but not quite..

Finally I moved up my fire team and put some fire on the enemy fire team behind the red crate, taking out 1 and putting down a supressive fire with the heavy machine gun.

The turn passed back again and a Hacker dropped down with air deployment, and hacked big sogarat shutting his powered suit down.

Then a second one dropped down behind my lines. He took out doctor worm easily,

Then he moved up and took out a few people from my fire team before he died.

On my next turn I took out another couple of guys but couldn't get close to the civilians. Unfortunatly this put the hassasins into retreat, so there turn would be the last in the game meaning I had no way to win since they would just take the civilians with them.

So a big loss for me since I never achieved the objectives, but I had a good time fighting, and even managed do get a guy into close combat, so was a real fun game.

Played a quadrant control game against Nomads after this, but me phone died due to the no singal in the basement of Fandom so no pictures from that.

Thanks;
Mike

Infinity - Raktorak, Morat Sergeant Major

So got another Infinity guy done in time for some games tomorrow, this is 1 of the newer release a Raktorak with Vulcan Shotgun, basically a fancy fire shot gun.

My feeling is that this guy is going to be a bit annoying in the falling over department with his gone way of to the side, and the big hunk of wreckage hes standing on over there as well. But it is a cool pose so there you go. I kind of like the hunk of stuff as it lets you mess around with some weathering, I used gold on the top with the corroded copper wash from GW to make that look oxidized a bit, and metal with a rust one for the bottom. Can't see it much on the picture but it's not bad.

Also got a few guys clipped out for my next mini project. Going to do a section of Canadian Infantry for WW2 in 15mm, single based. Then probably some Germans to fight them (can do either normal or SS actually with the bits I have). That will let me mess around with a few skirmish games, I want to try out Force on Force, and maybe some other things for WW2 and it will be allot easier to try then 28s.

Plus I'm moving next week and don't want to start anything big, so the procrastinating on Crusades painting continues!

I might try and take a few pictures of some Infinity games tomorrow to post we shall see.

Thanks;
Mike

Martial Arts Fanatic + Full Group

Ok so as promised finished off the Tony Jaa looking guy (Martial Arts Fanatic), basically looks like the guy from the protector. Still no fancy base so I just have it on a black one for now, will pop it off and switch later, but I still did all the spray so the guy is done anyway.

Pretty happy with this, the one is a bit off as you can see but no big deal. The ropes turned out pretty nice.

Also have a shot of the full set:

Pretty cool, so as a reminder it's the Martial Artists set from North Star with the Mosaic Bases set from Micro Arts Studio. Here is a shot of their army sheet.

Basically all the extras have Dashing (bonus when charging), and the Shaolin also have acrobat. The master then just has a bunch of stuff basically.

Not sure when I will get to try this out but hopefully sooner rather then later, if I'm honest it was more of a painting project I got on a whim just because I thought the sets were really nice.

Still I need a Bruce Lee!

Thanks;
Mike

Dim Mak Master & Martial Arts Champion

So finished up the next 2 guys today.

First is the Dim Mak Master (touch of death master), I figure he looks kind of like Pai Mei from Kill Bill, so I painted him to look a bit like that. They have him as the protagonist in the army, not sure if I like that or not, any way here is that guy.

Second I have the Champion, the bruiser for this group. I decided he looked allot like Ryu from stree fighter so I painted him like that. Was tempted to paint his suit red like that other guy to mix up the colors more, but decided to be boring and just go with white.

Always before I have been cropping the pictures and doing auto-enhance, but decided to skip the enhancing this time around. I think the pictures actually look better this way so I guess I will be doing that from now on. Pretty happy with hose these two turned out, especially the master, but I am not super keen on that miniature.

I got the Tony Jaa looking guy put on a temporary base ready to do tomorrow.

Then I will be done with all the Kung Fu guys I have. Probably will paint an Infinity guy for Friday after that and then some more historical stuff. Not sure what thou. Back to Saga Crusades maybe, but I have some half done WW2 stuff as well.

Thanks;
Mike

Martial Arts Students

Today I finished off the 2 Jet Li looking guys in the set, they are calling them martial arts students. I find these guys to be pretty sweet especially the kick in the head guy that is just good fun. I decided to paint that one with a white shirt and black pants like in the end of Fearless, and just did the other guy in purple. They seem to use all kinds of colors for that, I kind of wanted to do it like the suit Cane sometimes wears in the old Kung Fu TV show but that is kind of gold looking and I thought it would be really hard to do so I just went with purple.

Seems like I might have to work on a way to take better pictures after I move.

Hoping to get the old master and the street fighter looking guy done tomorrow, still don't have a base for the Tony Jaa looking guy which is a shame as he is prob my favorite one of these. Guess I will have to put him on a temp base for painting or something.

I did a bit of reading of the rules for this game and it seems like it might be pretty interesting. They extras seem like they are mostly intended to just die, leaving a fight between the protagonists, but those fights are meant to go on for awhile and there are lots of 'wounds' type effects that the winner can choose for the looser to have.

They use traits to make them different, the Yakuza are sneaky, the cops get hand cuffs, ect...

Thanks;
Mike

Shaolin Monks

So today I painted up the 3 Shaolin Monks from the North Star Martial Artists set. I am kind of on the fence about how they came out, pretty good poses but there was allot more flash and such then the Yakuza, one of them even lost an ear over it. Also I am not sure if I am happy with the orange or not (but I don't have many shades of Orange so not much choice).

Also the Mosaic bases from Micro Arts didn't turn out as well as I had hoped, not really 100% on those but it is what it is now I guess hah.

Note that after this picture I went back and painted the teeth. They are pretty cool but I like the Yakuza better anyway, made the others will come out better. Planing to paint the two fearless style guys next.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks;
Mike