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Title: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Leon on 14 January 2021, 08:10:47 PM
Just in case anyone is curious about what our sculptors have got on their schedules for this year, here's a handy list:

Phil

1.  Arab-Israeli figures - Already underway.

2.  Fantasy additions - Already underway.

3.  Modern US and Soviets - These will follow the same structure as the Arab-Israeli ranges.

4.  Sci-Fi infantry - To go along with a load of new vehicles we'll be getting done.

5.  TB Line tweaks - To finish off the TB Ancients ranges.


Tony

1.  Peninsular Naps project - Already underway.

2.  Crimean War revamp - To update and expand our current range with new sculpts.

3.  WWII additions - Artillery crews, casualties and maybe a few other bits if we've got time.


Mart

Trucks
US    - M35
UK    - Bedford RL & MK cab
Russia   - ZIL 131
   - Gaz 66
German   - Unimog
   - Mann 630
   - Mann 5000
   - Mann 7000

MBT's / AFV's
UK    - Chieftain
     - FV432
Russian    - T-64 A + B
Germany   - Leopard I
France    - AMX-30
Sweden   - Stridsvagn 103

Soviet kit
BMP-1
BTR-60
BRDM-1 & BDRM-2


Steve

Panzer I revamp to replace existing models:
- Ausf A
- Ausf A command
- Ausf B
- Ausf B command
- Panzerjager 1B
- sIG-33 Pz I

Panzer II revamp to replace existing models:
- Ausf A/B/C
- Ausf F
- sIG-33 Pz II
- Marder II
- Wespe
- Wespe munition carrier


We might have a few things that we squeeze in along the way but this should be pretty much it for the year.
Title: Re: What We Are Working On!
Post by: fsn on 14 January 2021, 09:08:23 PM
Right, so apart from Amazons, new SF, Arab-Israeli and now Brigadier Hackett's "1984: The Third World War", what will Pendraken do for me in 2021?


Sheesh! It's as if you want me to stay at home.

Hang on ... there's an S-TANK!!!!!!!   :D :D :D :D :D :D
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Stridsvagn_103_Revinge_2013-1.jpg)

I'll have to borrow some of Techno's ABBA tapes to get me in the groove!

This is exciting stuff!
Title: Re: What We Are Working On!
Post by: Leon on 14 January 2021, 09:23:52 PM
Quote from: fsn on 14 January 2021, 09:08:23 PM
Hang on ... there's an S-TANK!!!!!!!   :D :D :D :D :D :D

Yep!  I was talking to Mart today and he asked if we could put it on the list as it's such a cool looking piece of kit (and useful of course, but that's secondary to being cool!)
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Ithoriel on 14 January 2021, 09:47:30 PM
"3.  WWII additions - Artillery crews, casualties and maybe a few other bits if we've got time."

3-men-in-a-trench for the Russians? Or even for all of those armies that don't have them?
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 14 January 2021, 10:22:54 PM
S tanks!!! Yes!
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: hammurabi70 on 15 January 2021, 12:45:49 AM
Sweden   - Stridsvagn 103

Is this an S tank which I see before me
I fear a new project is in the offing.
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 15 January 2021, 07:19:23 AM
Add me in for the S Tank, but you will also need the APC and recce Lt Tank (too lazy to walk across flat and check designations)
Title: Re: What We Are Working On!
Post by: Techno II on 15 January 2021, 07:39:16 AM
Quote from: fsn on 14 January 2021, 09:08:23 PM
I'll have to borrow some of Techno's ABBA tapes to get me in the groove!
!

OI !.....You OIK !

Abba tapes indeed.....You can make do with some of the Marillion ones.

Cheers - Phil  ;)
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Leon on 15 January 2021, 09:15:33 AM
Quote from: Ithoriel on 14 January 2021, 09:47:30 PM
3-men-in-a-trench for the Russians? Or even for all of those armies that don't have them?

Potentially, I've just blackwashed the British one for the website photos and I think we can make a much better model there.  It might be better done with a trench piece and separate inserts for the different nations.
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Raider4 on 15 January 2021, 11:45:10 AM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 15 January 2021, 07:19:23 AM
Add me in for the S Tank, but you will also need the APC and recce Lt Tank (too lazy to walk across flat and check designations)

Pbv 302 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansarbandvagn_302) is the main APC. There's an earlier Pbv 301 and a later CV90 that may be used as well, depending on your timeframe.
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 15 January 2021, 12:41:09 PM
The Lt tank is an IKV ?
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: OldenBUA on 15 January 2021, 01:53:03 PM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 15 January 2021, 12:41:09 PM
The Lt tank is an IKV ?

This one, I think? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanterikanonvagn_91
Title: Re: What We Are Working On!
Post by: jimduncanuk on 15 January 2021, 02:09:06 PM
Quote from: Techno II on 15 January 2021, 07:39:16 AM

Abba tapes indeed.....You can make do with some of the Marillion ones.


In days gone by at our club (SESWC) in Edinburgh we always had members and guests sign a Visitors book on each visit.

One of the entries is a certain 'Derek Dick'.

Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 15 January 2021, 02:16:54 PM
Quote from: OldenBUA on 15 January 2021, 01:53:03 PM
This one, I think? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanterikanonvagn_91
That be it....
Title: Re: What We Are Working On!
Post by: Techno II on 15 January 2021, 08:32:38 PM
Quote from: jimduncanuk on 15 January 2021, 02:09:06 PM
In days gone by at our club (SESWC) in Edinburgh we always had members and guests sign a Visitors book on each visit.
One of the entries is a certain 'Derek Dick'.

What ?......'Fish' from the original lineup of Marillion !  :o

Cheers - Phil. :)

Title: Re: What We Are Working On!
Post by: Elliesdad on 15 January 2021, 08:47:17 PM
Quote from: Techno II on 15 January 2021, 08:32:38 PM
What ?......'Fish' from the original lineup of Marillion !  :o

Cheers - Phil. :)

'Fish' wasn't in the original lineup of Marillion. Early days, for sure, but not the original lineup.
FWIW I used to work with a guy who was in the original lineup of the band.

Cheers,

Geoff
Title: Re: What We Are Working On!
Post by: jimduncanuk on 15 January 2021, 08:48:47 PM
Quote from: Techno II on 15 January 2021, 08:32:38 PM
What ?......'Fish' from the original lineup of Marillion !  :o

Cheers - Phil. :)


Spot on Phil, that's the man, I mean fish.

He's still on the go with a recording studio just a few miles east of Edinburgh.
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: jimduncanuk on 15 January 2021, 08:52:10 PM
Not only him but one of our current gaming chummies is a Mr Ray Neal from Miracle Legion.
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Zbigniew on 15 January 2021, 10:57:56 PM
Is there a chance for panzer III N turret without armoured skirts? with panzer IIIL hull it would make exellent early Panzer IIIN :) good for winter 1942/43 Wintergewitter and 3rd battle of kharkov.
Title: Re: What We Are Working On!
Post by: Techno II on 16 January 2021, 07:43:03 AM
Quote from: Elliesdad on 15 January 2021, 08:47:17 PM
'Fish' wasn't in the original lineup of Marillion. Early days, for sure, but not the original lineup.
FWIW I used to work with a guy who was in the original lineup of the band.
Cheers,
Geoff

Good point, Geoff. :)

I think Steve Rothery is the only member of the band from the earliest days....I don't think the original line up even had a vocalist ?

Quote from: jimduncanuk on 15 January 2021, 08:52:10 PM
Not only him but one of our current gaming chummies is a Mr Ray Neal from Miracle Legion.

You're one up on me there, Jim......I don't believe I've ever heard any of their stuff.

Cheers - Phil :)



Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Zbigniew on 20 February 2021, 07:41:25 PM
Do we know which of the Marder II types we will get 131 or 132?
Title: Re: What We Are Working On!
Post by: jimduncanuk on 20 February 2021, 09:05:59 PM
Quote from: Techno II on 16 January 2021, 07:43:03 AM

You're one up on me there, Jim......I don't believe I've ever heard any of their stuff.

Cheers - Phil :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3tdbkvDAw8&list=RDS3tdbkvDAw8&start_radio=1&t=145
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Techno II on 21 February 2021, 07:00:47 AM
 :-bd

Well....I like that one !!

Thanks, Jim.

Cheers - Phil. :)
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Rougue on 02 August 2021, 07:14:29 AM
Leon: Is there an ETA on the Crimea? Rougue
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Leon on 02 August 2021, 12:26:35 PM
Quote from: Rougue on 02 August 2021, 07:14:29 AM
Leon: Is there an ETA on the Crimea? Rougue

Not much I'm afraid, the Crimean revamp will be a job for the Peninsular sculptor so we'll need to get that project finished off first.  At the moment it's likely to be into 2022 before we can get him started on that I think.
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Leman on 03 August 2021, 09:41:41 AM
Ah the ravages of time. As mine is becoming more limited (age ) I have had to look to Magister Militum to get my Crimean project off the ground. Napoleonics have never really grabbed me. Incidentally I used to hang out with the lead guitarist in Stanley Stamp's Gibbon Catalogue.
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Westmarcher on 03 August 2021, 10:02:23 AM
Quote from: Leman on 03 August 2021, 09:41:41 AM
Incidentally I used to hang out with the lead guitarist in Stanley Stamp's Gibbon Catalogue.

What page?
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Ithoriel on 03 August 2021, 11:10:30 AM
I had lunch regularly with an ex-member of The Water Boys, over the space of a decade or two. It's amazing what one's colleagues have done before they wound up where you did.
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Orcs on 03 August 2021, 11:34:37 AM
Quote from: Zbigniew on 15 January 2021, 10:57:56 PM
Is there a chance for panzer III N turret without armoured skirts? with panzer IIIL hull it would make exellent early Panzer IIIN :) good for winter 1942/43 Wintergewitter and 3rd battle of kharkov.
Can you not just cut the gun down on PzlllL?
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 03 August 2021, 11:42:21 AM
Not a possiblity, the 75L24 is a very distictive shape.
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Rougue on 04 August 2021, 08:11:57 AM
Leon: NP I can wait for the Crimea range Thank You! for the reply! Rougue
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Leon on 04 August 2021, 04:56:49 PM
Quote from: Rougue on 04 August 2021, 08:11:57 AM
Leon: NP I can wait for the Crimea range Thank You! for the reply! Rougue

No worries, hopefully we can get on to it sooner rather than later! 
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Bunny on 12 January 2022, 06:18:19 AM
From the opening post

Tony

1.  Peninsular Naps project - Already underway.

2.  Crimean War revamp - To update and expand our current range with new sculpts.

3.  WWII additions - Artillery crews, casualties and maybe a few other bits if we've got time.

Great new on the Crimean War revamp.  Any plans for a GNW revamp too??  How about early Napoleonics, Napoleon in North Italy fighting Russians and Austrian??

Please keep up the good work
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Leon on 12 January 2022, 06:58:43 AM
Quote from: Bunny on 12 January 2022, 06:18:19 AMGreat new on the Crimean War revamp.  Any plans for a GNW revamp too??  How about early Napoleonics, Napoleon in North Italy fighting Russians and Austrian??

The Crimean revamp has been bumped temporarily until we can get this Peninsular project finished off, so we'll come back to that later in the year.  A GNW revamp isn't currently planned unfortunately, it would make sense for that to be a Clib range and carry through from the LoA figures, but I'd need to chat with him about that.

Any other Napoleonic-era ranges would have to go into the queue along with revamped Russians, War of 1812, Revolutionary ranges, Wellington's time in India, etc, etc.
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Chad on 12 January 2022, 10:19:02 AM
Revolutionary period 👍👍👍
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: steve_holmes_11 on 12 January 2022, 01:52:19 PM
I am painting and basing a mixture of Pendraken Renaissance (and a few other ranges).

They are proxies for Portuguese explorers/colonists during the 16th century.

Rules are Irregular Wars.
Title: Re: What Are We Working On?
Post by: Bunny on 22 January 2022, 05:16:42 AM
Quote from: Leon on 12 January 2022, 06:58:43 AMThe Crimean revamp has been bumped temporarily until we can get this Peninsular project finished off, so we'll come back to that later in the year.  A GNW revamp isn't currently planned unfortunately, it would make sense for that to be a Clib range and carry through from the LoA figures, but I'd need to chat with him about that.

Any other Napoleonic-era ranges would have to go into the queue along with revamped Russians, War of 1812, Revolutionary ranges, Wellington's time in India, etc, etc.

Thanks Leon, I am in no rush as I have a mountain of projects, like all us wargamers lol

Its nice to know that it is in the 'mind'

Keep up the great work