Work in Progress

Some pictures to show a bit of end of year progress on my several on-going projects......2022 has cetainly had its challenges both real world and gaming wise for me, but its ending on a fairly positive note gaming wise. 

Without further ado here are some of my more recent works:

Firstly some Pendraken 10mm Irish Confederate pike and shot units for refighting the Battle of Benburb 1646 using For King and Parliament rules. The figures were painted, excellently as usual, by Paul R.

I based them up and added the flags labels etc. We are looking to refight some Irish battles in 2023 now that we have finished the Celtic Fringe "house rules" for FK&P and are putting the finishing touches to our take on Montrose's campaign in Scotland in 1644 - 45.  

Onto a 1944-45 Soviet Tank Corps Motorcycle Battalion for Spearhead using lease-lend equipment. At the top are 2 Heroics and Ros 1/300th scale SU-57's - a Soviet 76mm AT gun mounted on a American M3/5 halftrack. Below them are 3 Baccus 1/300th scale M3A1 Scout cars carrying a SMG armed recce company - they're very nice models but a considerably bigger compared with the H&R halftracks, which I believe use the same, or very similar chassis to the wheeled scout cars? 

A shot of the whole battalion, rounded out by the HQ and a Tank company of British lease-lend Valentine IX tanks and another company of SMG armed recce company, this time mounted on motorcycles.

Next up is some 1980's Danish Army kit. Firstly 1/300th Heroics and Ros Danish Army Centurion Mk 5/2 DK's for Modern Spearhead. These are various company sized units (10 tanks per company) that make up part of the tank and mechanised battalions of one of the mechanised brigades. Up until 1990 the two "regular" Mechanised Brigades of the Zeeland Divison were equipped with these upgraded Centurions, while the tank companies in the better known Jutland Division were equipped with German manufactured Leopard 1A3's (4 companies of which are on the bench to do next). 

We are looking at playing a MSH game in February 2023 depicting the Polish 6th Parachute Division (a brigade only actually) dropping into Zeeland in the opening days of a hypothetical 1985 "Cold War goes hot" scenario and holding until relieved by follow on Polish and East German mechanised forces.  

A closer view of the very nicely sculpted H&R model with the laser rangefinder hood next to the main 105mm gun.

Danish brigade support weapons - Jeep and M113 mounted TOW ATGW's in front then a company of Hamlet (US sourced Redeye) SAM's with Landrover transport and a full squadron from the Corps level recce battalion behind them. Equipped with M41's, and from the late 1980's updated M41 DK1's which you can see at the top left, another very nice fairly recent H&R model.

The recce squadron close up, with M41's (and M41 DK1's for late 80's games in the back) on the left with 3 recce sections in M151 Jeeps on the right with a M113 mechanised platoon and M125 mortar vehicle behind to give a bit more solid support if required once contact has been made.

And that's it for now. Thanks for visiting my blog. For me 2023 is going to be a year of (at least trying to!) finishing off existing unfinished projects....though like many gamers out there I'm sure its a resolution they make most years! 

Have a good 2023 both gaming and real world wise.