What I Did In My Holidays

Good evening,

My term break is pretty much over. School on Monday, but gotta get ready, so...here's what I did in my holidays!

They're assembled, undercoated, base coated, and wargame ready while I whittle away at their camo...

First up, my Panthers.



I actually finished two of these at the end of last holidays. I'm thinking of a simple green stripe for these, AKA Italy...











...and to make them look a touch different from my Pz IVs and Tigers.

I've also done the same my PSC Stug IIIs...





...and a couple of PAK 40s.


I'll do all these in the standard three tone scheme.

Lastly, some recon bikes.



Mostly all these need is to complete their bases.

Sorry for the poorly lit photos. I'll do better next time!

I also managed to get in one battle. A Spearhead stoush at Keith McNelly's place using his 6mm kit going up against Andrew, with Robin in support.












Robin using his phone to take pictures for his report, 'cause his phone's camera is better than his class one!

Man, these things are small!


And here comes the Typhoon proxy - a Fairy Battle!














Long story short - I tried to capture/defend objectives either side of the table with infantry brigades, holding a reserve of armour in the centre ready to be deployed to either flank. Andrew piled in the pressure on my left, I brought on my armour too late (and too constrained by terrain) to have any effect, and realised too late that he had no off table flank march coming in from my left.

Well and truly done, I was! Well played Andrew, well played!

Oh, and I also went to a local Lego display.






Yep, that's Mark, showing off a wee Brik Wars display with some mates.


That's Mark's Darlent - a cross between a Darlek and an Ent!







Back to the grindstone!

Nick

Wolverine, The Musical...

Good morning,

Working on some more German armour (will it ever end?), but in the meantime...


Nick

Y Wing Victorious...

...well, sorta...

Good morning,

With our school production out of the way (it went better than I could have hoped!), I should be writing report comments. They're due by the end of the week, and, well...ughhh...

Anyway, my lad Matthew invited round his mate Andrew on Friday night, and, as I hadn't played with my new A Wing before, we set up a game. About 83 points worth, as the fourth TIE fighter's peg snapped as I was getting it ready, so it had to sit out the game while some glue dried.

This was also my first game with some 3D asteroids that I got from a bloke in Dunedin via Trade Me. A little big regulation wise, but way cool!

Andrew took the Imperials, I took the Rebels, and Matthew took a seat to enjoy the view.

Around zipped the A Wing...



...and bammo! Torn to bits it was thanks to the TIE-A's cluster missiles!


(I've since read that the A Wing is best to zip thither and yon rather than head straight in.)

And so the Y Wing continues it's lazy arc, escorted by the X Wing (who probably feeling like a sitting duck next to this, well, waddling duck...)


Wait for it...




Success! My Y Wing's first ever kill. The X Wing ended up with nothing to shoot at.

However...


...turned out that it didn't get much of a chance to do anything but die!



And that's where we left it. There was just no way the Y Wing could survive against the three remaining Imperials.

However, upon further investigation, that A Wing would more that likely have survived that first encounter. We were adding the "+1 attack die when attacking at range 1" modifier to the missile attack which you don't do to missile attacks, just primary weapon attacks. So Andrew would have only thrown 6 dice, not the 8 that he did (cluster missiles essentially attack twice. Urghh.)

Sooo...I call that an inconclusive result! Who knows what the A Wing might have added to the Rebel's cause!

Anyway, we set up for another game. Same sides, same forces.





(Note the candy the boys were eating. Most appropriate, I thought, given the setting!)

Things were going much better for the Rebels this time (I was surprised that the A Wing survived that cut across the middle there), but Andrew had to shoot through as he had work in the morning.

Still, it's a great wee game.

And I just picked up a TIE-I yesterday to add to the mix...

Nick