How much in an army pack? #:-S :-/
This much!!! >:<
(http://i.imgur.com/jX5GH5c.jpg)
Complete BARGAIN! 8)
And it's made three platoons, a company command, 4 lmgs from the weapons platoon and 3 82mm mortars, plus spares.
(http://i.imgur.com/LgFujRi.jpg)
So, now I need to source 6 anti-tank rifle teams, and 3 61mm mortars. Where could I possibly find those? ;)
Nice!
Wottalottasoldiers !
Cheers - Phil
Bout 140 in the Chinese pack, which I finished yesterday......
Excellent - thank you. I always find it useful to see how people approach
a new army.
Although I don't know a lot about this conflict (yet), it does seem that a
low level, 'bottom up' build is more appropriate and that the army pack is
perfect for a North Korean Company (with just a few extras needed).
Very useful to know.
Phil
Is that an original Jackson Pollock that you're using to put your figures on ;D ;D ;D ;D
It IS very impressive, isn't it !.
I've still got a brand new cutting mat waiting to go onto the table.
The one I still use is fine.....But a lot of the green film has 'come off'.......'Cos I've spilt* so much acetone on it.
Cheers - Phil. (What's wrong with the way I've spelled 'spilt'...it's the past participle of spill........isn't it ?.......Kitty....Advise please.)
Spilled, only leap becomes leapt
Quote from: Windle Poons on 26 January 2019, 10:05:58 AM
Is that an original Jackson Pollock that you're using to put your figures on ;D ;D ;D ;D
=O =O =O
What a load of Pollacks!
Spilt was once the standard past tense and past participle form of the verb spill, but in modern English the word has mostly given way to spilled ... I blame the education system ... just can't get the teachers ;) :d :d :d
Just ordered Soviet 50mm mortars and anti tank rifles to go with these, hopefully no one will notice...
Good start
Take care
Andy
Painted up army packs and fluff!!!
https://ww2pacificgamer.blogspot.com/2019/10/korean-war-nkpa.html
Cheers
Steve
That is lovely work! Really stand out against the lush basing which is nice for 20th century forces that are usually heavily camouflaged.
Hope to see them in some battle reports soon! ;)
Looking quite good!
Brilliant
Must start mine...
:-bd =D> :-bd
Super work ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Chucked in a few base close ups on the blog page now as the light was a bit duff yesterday.
FINALLY, got mine done (good thing too, I bought them for myself at Warfare last year, and bought some opponents at Warfare THIS year). Wanted to have a significant post for 19999...
The whole company
(https://i.imgur.com/Ck8bh61.jpg)
Company command
(https://i.imgur.com/xU41Tpt.jpg)
Infantry platoons
(https://i.imgur.com/baj9CdR.jpg)
(Command stand, 2 LMG stands, 4 rifle stands)
Weapons Platoon
(https://i.imgur.com/MHZaG0j.jpg)
Command, 3 60mm mortars, 3 81mm mortars, 6 A/T rifles and 4 LMGs
South Koreans next... eek!
:-bd =D> :-bd
+1.
Very nice work, Will.
Cheers - Phil
Inspiring as always. Neat work Will.
Its time to get some eye candy Korean range on the forum.
My North and South Koreans are getting prepped up for a Boxing Day battle as 1960s bush war Batasi rebel forces . I was inspired by "Guns at Batasi" (1964) movie, and the Christian province - evocative of Biafra - breaks from the predominately Muslim Zambalia Federal Republic in East Africa.
The shift to the East allows Arab style buildings you find along the coast.
Since Leon shipped out the much needed Saracens and Saladins the ZFR have their armour. Troops are British Falklands. The Batasi troops are a Rowntrees force. Allsorts.
One mercenary figure is Tiny Bill - a Timecast Soviet giant with a new beret head.
I could not source Mini Con aircraft for Count von Rosen (converted Arrowhead figure), so he had to do with an HA-1112.
Images will follow. :)
North Korean T-34-85s (although may almost certainly get used in other times, as other forces, and on other fronts).
Meant to be four in a company, but only remembered that AFTER I ordered them, so the fourth is on it's way from Leon.
(https://i.imgur.com/zuFQcT4.jpeg)
Tried to make them suitable grimy
(https://i.imgur.com/zZOIgc0.jpeg)
One is traversing some rocks
(https://i.imgur.com/Rvp8tXw.jpeg)
Ready to roll
(https://i.imgur.com/A5wyoFE.jpeg)
Forgot to paint the exhausts, oh well, soon fixed!
(https://i.imgur.com/WGgbLif.jpeg)
Ready for action
(https://i.imgur.com/BdPwZK2.jpeg)
Nice work, Will ! :-bd
Of course, to get the really authentic basing effect for your Korean War figures, you should really be mixing a lot of human excrement into the basing material! :o
Having read up a fair few personal accounts from US, UK and Commonwealth soldiers that fought in Korea, when researching for the BKCIV 'Forgotten War' rules supplement, the all-pervasive and unbelievably strong smell of untreated human sewage was one of the most notable things they all commented upon, when they first arrived.
Which was caused by the long-standing Korean farming practice of spreading untreated human waste on their vegetable fields .... just a thought (all be it not a nice one) ;)
:-&
I remember reading in a Featherstone book from the library in the 70's that UN forces were reluctant to leave roads & tracks and go through fields in Korea. It was baked into the rules presented. I don't remember the reason being mentioned though.
QuoteI remember reading in a Featherstone book from the library in the 70's that UN forces were reluctant to leave roads & tracks and go through fields in Korea. It was baked into the rules presented. I don't remember the reason being mentioned though.
That sound very sensible. I suspect that you'd not want to be stuck in a fox-hole or worse a tank after a colleague had run across a field!
It was something the Koreans apparently learnt to do when under earlier Chinese rule/subjugation.
The Chinese had done the same for centuries.
In fact, in 1296, Zhou Daguan specifically makes reference to the practice by the Chinese, in his book The Customs of Cambodia.
Zhou was part of a Yuan Chinese diplomatic delegation to the Khmer (Cambodian) court and he states that as the Cambodians did not spread human manure on their fields, he refrained from mentioning that the Chinese did, to avoid the distain of his hosts, who already thought the Chinese barbaric for using paper* to clean themselves.
He states that the Cambodians used water, which he found most odd.
You cannot say that you don't get 'heducated' on this 'ear' forum :)
NB: *this might be one of the earliest recorded mentions of toilet paper - unless somebody knows differently???
The 'missing' T-34-85
(https://i.imgur.com/Sq5PrlH.jpeg)
Trundle
(https://i.imgur.com/OmInU6E.jpeg)
Heavy armour
(https://i.imgur.com/TEH7D4c.jpeg)
Boom! (Which way the boom is swinging, is still to be seen)
(https://i.imgur.com/NkpyKfr.jpeg)
Can I make a suggestion for basing tanks - whilst the sand (or whatever basing material is being used) is still wet, press the model down into the ground work. Then you end up with tracks slightly into the ground rather than floating above (which can happen if there are any lumps in the basing).
Otherwise its a bit like the visual effect of the polystyrene rocks following on Sean Connery's head when he fights the Kurgen in the tower in Highlander ;)
Thanks Forbes.
The idea was to have them traversing rocks/rubble, didn't quite work out! ;D
Yeah, I thought that was the idea - but then the back needs to dig in a bit!