Dead Cows

Yep. Dead cows.

I'm not very happy at all with how these poor exploded fellas turned out, but I didn't want to commit a lot of time to repainting them. They are just dead cows.

I guess you can't win them all.

German Third Squad

I actually painted these guys when I went up north for Christmas, but never got around to finishing their bases until I needed them for a test game I played last week. I had hoped to get my big order of paras by Christmas, but they arrived the day after I got back. Oh well, I can always use more plastic Germans.

Paras Command Section

This is the command section that came in the Red Devils boxed set. I'm pretty glad I only got one of the boxed sets, because I'm not sure I would have much use for two radio operators or bugling Frosts at the scale I'm playing, but they will be nice, distinctive figures to use in my games.

Paras MMG team

A bit of support for my poor, beleaguered paras. This time, a Vickers MMG.

As with my mortar teams and other weapons groups, I made a plastic base to contain all the figures. They are stuck on with Blu-Tac (you can actually see it in the first pic) so they can be removed as needed, or just used individually if I need to set them up in a window or whatever. 

Paras Second Section

Second section complete:

There were a few different poses in this section compared to the last one. I'm not sure about the guy lunging forward as he throws a Mills bomb, but the rest of them look good to me. As always, these figs were a pleasure to paint, and I feel like I have learned a few ways to make my painting a bit more efficient.

A Wild Snacky Appears!

This is a Bearded Dragon, in 1800mm scale, that I've been working on for a few years now. I think it's turning out pretty well.

Red Devils Specialists

Before tackling another section of paras, I decided to paint up the pack of specialists in case I need a sniper or mortar for a game of Operation Squad. They turned out fairly well, I think:

Again it's hard to see the camo in their Denison Smocks... I need to figure out what's going on with my photo pipeline and try to make it more visible. I'd rather be painting miniatures than doing that, though, so it may be a while.

I have two snipers, two mortar men, and two PIAT teams. That may seem like a lot for the scale of battles I'm planning, but the scenarios I'm working on in the Skirmish Campaigns book call for all these, and more, so it isn't a wasted effort.