2018 painting challenge: reduce the mountain some more!

[petercooman]

Forgot to ask,Anybody else who owns the terminator game, or did somebody play it?

I have read it's Alessio Cavatore's best and most streamlined game so far. The playthrough on beasts of war looks promising!

I like his rules design and actually play a lot of his games: LOTR strategy battle game, kings of war , and bolt action gives a nice game as well (although it's a bit "gamey" for WW2, it is great when playing as a group, with some nice banter).

Too bad it was a bit of a "miss" for them. Lots of the interesting stuff is out of stock, and it looks like it is dying. Getting that bundle deal on warlord games was a bit with mixed feelings actually, as it feels a bit like a closeout sale. Always a sad thing if a game (or line) fails to shine. Especially if 99% of the reviews/playthrough's are positive. But that's the risk of tying your product to a license/movie. IF the movie gets bad ratings, you probably suffer from it.

[petercooman]

So, no love for the terminator game?

In other news:

Managed to get them done by the end of the weekend like i was hoping!

mg 42 team



command team


two 5-man rifle squads with lmg



a rifle squad with a couple of stg44's





So,adding 21 model means: 151 models painted and 6 forces done:

1) pirates   20
2) privateers 10
3) British forces to battle the pirates 19
4) bolt action USMC  33
5)  bolt action IJA 33
6) bolt action germans 21
7) bolt action US airborne 30
8 ) deadzone marauder warband 8-9?
9) deadzone plague zombies mob 30
10) unknown


Decks are cleared, ready to start assembling terminator models tomorrow 

[paulr]

 

Well done that man

But, but... what about the US Airbourne

[lowlylowlycook]

All I know about the Terminator game is watching that same Beast of War video so I can't really help you there. 

It is interesting how many existing IPs get miniatures games released these days.

Germans are looking good.

[petercooman]

But, but... what about the US Airbourne :-

They are next on the list, after i assemble the new"shiny"

It is interesting how many existing IPs get miniatures games released these days.

Germans are looking good.

Yes a lot of interesting stuff coming out. Bad for the wallet 

[Techno]

Very nice work, Peter. 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good work Peter

[petercooman]

Thanks guys!

The standard of my painting is slowly getting worse though, bit tired of all the camo colours. Feels like i'm rushing through. After the us airborne, it might be time for someting completely different! (or maybe i can sneak something in before i start them?)

[Smoking gun]

I've got the Terminator game, bought the bigger boxed set with the full rule book and ltd ed Lt figure when it was on sale last year, I then bought the smaller box off a cut price website for around £7. I've not seen the Genisis film so I can't comment on the accuracy of the resistance figures but to me they seen too uniform so I'm planning to mix in some of the ex Wargame Factory Survivor figures and convert some plastic figures into infiltrator terminators using bits from the terminators as the exposed metal skeleton.


There's a lot of stuff on the River Horse website.

Still haven't played it yet or painted the figures I have assembled.

Regards,

Martin

[petercooman]

I've got the Terminator game, bought the bigger boxed set with the full rule book and ltd ed Lt figure when it was on sale last year, I then bought the smaller box off a cut price website for around £7. I've not seen the Genisis film so I can't comment on the accuracy of the resistance figures but to me they seen too uniform so I'm planning to mix in some of the ex Wargame Factory Survivor figures and convert some plastic figures into infiltrator terminators using bits from the terminators as the exposed metal skeleton.


There's a lot of stuff on the River Horse website.

Still haven't played it yet or painted the figures I have assembled.

Regards,

Martin

I have the big one as well. Already planned to cannibalize a crawler to make an infiltrator or two. Guessing i can make a "gunslinger" terminator with two rifles from leftover guns from the resistance fighters.

speaking of the resistance fighters, i will see if they can take a head from a bolt action kit. I have quite some bareheaded and  service cap heads leftover so maybe i can give them a bit more individuality!

the terminator models are actually pretty nice, i just assembled a couple to see how they look!

[petercooman]

So, the models did not fit the bolt action heads, so now i have one with a big head 

The spare helmets from the bolt action kits fitted better, so i have added a few to them. Also made someother conversions, gunslinger terminator, command terminator and some infiltrators using a cut up crawler and 3 resistance models. Also made a t-1000. just made holes in it's body that i have to paint silver, and replaced a hand with a pike.

All in all, worked out ok!

[petercooman]

Painted a test model for my airborne army:






uniform colours look like ok to me. any opinions?

[d_Guy]

Not my area, Peter but as kids all of us had our father's, uncle's, etc, WW2 equipment (save the ranged weapons) to play with. The battle dress color looks very right (brown slightly shadowed toward green and universally called kakhi). The contrast with the web gear looks right as well - it was slightly more green than the "kakhi". The leather bits, Including the boots, where a light mahogany and again your shade looks correct. We had mainly the helmet liners but the helmets I remember had a more blue tinge than brown (but airborne may be different.). The shovel handles were painted OD and yours is spot on. Very old memories.
Don't know if that helps.

The figure is beautifully painted! I really like the low light which shows detail extremely well. Nice!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Really nice work

[petercooman]

Really nice work

thanks!

Not my area, Peter but as kids all of us had our father’s, uncle’s, etc, WW2 equipment (save the ranged weapons) to play with. The battle dress color looks very right (brown slightly shadowed toward green and universally called kakhi). The contrast with the web gear looks right as well - it was slightly more green than the “kakhi”. The leather bits, Including the boots, where a light mahogany and again your shade looks correct. We had mainly the helmet liners but the helmets I remember had a more blue tinge than brown (but airborne may be different.). The shovel handles were painted OD and yours is spot on. Very old memories.
Don’t know if that helps.

The figure is beautifully painted! I really like the low light which shows detail extremely well. Nice!

Thanks!

About the helmet, i painted it VMC brown violet, wich is recommended in various painting guides . i'll try not going over the helmet with the brown wash next time, as i'm guessing that's why it looks too brown. That or i'll re-highlight the helmet afterwards.

This is the original colour



ps: the wash was not fully dry when i took the pictures, so the end result might be a little lighter now.

[lowlylowlycook]

Looks like the test airborne soldier was a success!

[Terry37]

Don't know if this is helpful or not, but if you are doing your paratroopers in the M-42 jump suit for D-Day, then it would be a light khaki color, As you can see in this picture the jacket and pants did not always match, but were made of the same material....probably different lots. This named M-42 uniform from my airborne collection was worn by the S2 of the 502nd at Bastogne when he was wounded in his right hand.  If you look closely you can still see the blood stains.



Here are some other airborne jackets form my collection. Notice the different shades. The jacket on the left is an M-41, which was also worn by the airborne - usually just the glider troops.



If you want them for Bastogne then you would want to do the M-43 which is a green-gray color (but keep in mind the S2 above who still wore his D-Day M-42. Also at this time they were supposed to wear the new buckle boots, but most paratroopers were not about to give up their jump boots and continued to wear them. Also, they were concerned about the buckles snagging lines when they jumped. The glider troops never got the jump boots....unless they could hustle a pair, but a non-paratrooper did not want to get caught wearing jump boots by a paratrooper as they took great pride in them! The jacket in this picture is the M-43 worn by the same S2 officer who wore the full jump suit in the first picture above. The trousers however are not WW2, but Korean War issue. They were the same with very minor differences, thus the darker green color. I obtained those from a different veteran, who served in the Korean War.



Hope this is of some help.

Terry

[petercooman]

Thanks for that! Nice collection!

I am actually doing them up for d-day, so i think the colour is about right!

Easy thing about picking the d-day uniform, is that you can always say they haven't received their new uniform for when you use them in scenarios later in the war.

Only thing i can't decide is to make them 101st or 82nd!

[paulr]

 

Good to see progress on items on the list

[Terry37]

Peter,

Happy to share and glad it helps, but that is only a small part of the collection I had. Have since passed on most of it as there is just not enough room in our downsized home.. A few things - first almost all, if not all jump suits were reinforced for D-Day. so this picture may help give you an idea of colors to paint the elbow and knee patches. these are not mine as I was never able to afford a reinforced suit, even if one had come along as hey started at  $15K USD for just a jacket when I was collecting, but most guys weren't ready to turn lose of one if they had it. I've seen several and will tell you that they had been soaked in some anti-chemical warfare solution and truly smelled awful, even after all these years. They also have a slimy slick feel to them, but collectors want them big time!



Also, to keep things accurate, the 101st did NOT wear flags on D-Day on their uniforms, only the 82nd did. They both wore them for Market garden. Also, only the 101st used the crickets on D-Day.

Terry