Bolt Action Tournament Feb 2023

 https://m.facebook.com/groups/boltaction/permalink/2321717951331465/?mibextid=Nif5oz

Flames of War Bulge Campaign II - 2022

 So BlitzMinis organise another Bulge campaign in 2022.

Here are the battle reps that I posted

1st Game vs Lance

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FlamesOfWarGame/permalink/8269389149802393/

2nd Game vs Anderson

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FlamesOfWarGame/permalink/8393342967407010/

There is a 3rd game against Daryl but no batrp was done.

In addition, I have also done up two units for this campaign.

Assault Grenadiers with StG 44

Marder III Assault Guns

Flames of War Bulge Camapign

 I participate in a Blitzminis FOW campaign during the Bulge Release.  The links to the battle report are attached below.

1st Game, vs Dino's Brits

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FlamesOfWarGame/permalink/6355069347901059/

2nd Game, vs Lawrence's Americans

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FlamesOfWarGame/permalink/6479690398772286/

3rd Game, vs Jerome's Americans

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FlamesOfWarGame/permalink/6499150403492952/

My Historical Journey continues

After about a good 4 years of AOS and some 40k, I am back in doing historicals.  First a minor update on my kislev

Well, I did not paint this but i did eye Ebay once a while, and when I noted this original Kislev unit at a decent price I snapped.  No I am not going to repaint it as there's too much work and I definitely cannot do it as well.

Next will be the main meat of this post

I have finally met my KPI.  For years I lamented that as a historical player, I do not have an army of my own race.  Finally when my friends want to start BA, I jump into the opportunity as that game has rules for China. 

I had actually, technically, finished my army 3 months ago (was working on them from August 2019 to December).  It was an amazing three months effort thanks to contrast paint and my improve techniques (I paint almost every day or at weekday after all).  However I need to quantify that the army is small at about 60 miniatures and I have not based all of them.  As I am working on expanding the army from NRA to PLA/PVA (In Korea), I used the opportunity to base my old squads while adding new units.  So here  they are, those squads with decent pictures to date.  I will add more photos along the way as I am preparing for a big game.

BA China, despite pains with the rules (that are due to unfairness or sloppyness by designers rather than the historical context, is one of my favourite armies.  Simply because of my background.  Always like the idea of ww2 chinese fighting, with scant resources, against their stronger rivals.  This is especially true in BA as my opponents tend to play late war units.  Sadly a lot of the local players in the community do not care about history at all, they fit units from different era together for the sake of efficiency.  This is the problem of BA, which trades historical correctness for coverage and playability. 

I also started FoW and TY as 15mm is my real interest when I move to play at BQ. I still prefer the look of 28mm armies but Warlord miniatures, though characterful, tend to be of lower quality.  This is especially true of their weapon teams with lots of badly casted parts that you do not know what is flash and what is model.  Battlefront Miniatures on the other hand tend to be of good quality.  Gameplay wise, BA is more sophisticated while FOW and TY have more interesting and more historically correct army construction.  I find FoW/TY gameplay to be a bit bland though as it streamline a lot for large scale play.

Axemen completed

I made a blunder for my axemen.  I actually did not buy enough models form Pendraken, resulting in my only managing to finish 4 out of 6 axemen units.

Well at least I have enough models to play a warmaster game now,

A return of Kislev. 2015

My last real update on my Kislev was on August 2013.  It was about my painting challenge.  I did some Kislev/Poles/Russians but still failed the painting challenge in the end.  After that I did some WAB followed by a year plus on Epic 40k (covered in my other blog).  Now with my epic completed, I am back to Warmaster again although I am not sure if I will finish an entire army before moving to another project.

The above is my painted force to date, most of them were done during the painting challenge in 2013 but the archers were only done recently. I have used a simplistic way to base my archers, but am not fully decided if I am using this technique for the entire force.

Anyway my target is to have in addition to the above, 6 units of Kislev/Cossacks completed and (a stretched goal) of 2 units of steppe cavalry completed by September 2014.  Let's see how.

First unit of Byzantine Archers

It has been a LONG time since my last post here.  I have failed to meet my painting challenge target due to real life commitments.  Some things were done but I did not get a chance to take photos.  I will do so and upload next time.

However I have managed to complete a unit of Byzantine archers.  I started on them at the turn of the year and took about 42 days to do them.

So here's the pic

As usual, I have not done the base yet.  I will do so later as I want to do lots of basing in 1 go.