Sunday 8 April 2018

Repaint, Rebase, Repurpose! (15mm)

Firstly I must apologise. It is just very DULL here and I am unable to take any decent pics, despite 3 separate attempts. So this is the best of a bad bunch.

Secondly 2 skirmish stands for my Viking force in Longships. Very old figures with at least 3 coats of paint Probably (much) more. 3 Minifigs and 1 2 dragons for those that are really interested all purchased some 40+ years ago originally. Not much to say as they all very old and very nasty but Vikings did not ever have a lot of skirmishers and these are 14 points out of the 400 max I am allowed so I probably will rather use more spear carrying force and less skirmishers.

In the rules Skirmishers are an annoying distraction. Many forces Like the Irish or the Scotts don't even need to pay points for them. But Vikings have to and to be honest they are annoying but don't cause too much pain to the enemy so are generally best left until you get a cavalry unit to ride them down. Oh yeah Vikings don't use much cavalry! I suspect you can see the cunning flaw in that plan.






3rdly (am I making up words again) a change of project. Here are Modern Russians.  Again 15mm. I was in two minds about selling these on eBay. Instead I have rebased and re-paint, and they are now repurposed.

Starting with the "regular" soldiers I now have 3 bases of Professional quality troops. While you may hope that all your troops are of this quality in the bush wars of Africa (At least in the AK 47 rules) these are actually very rare troops. So rare in fact that I have NEVER used any professional quality troops! They are all armed with Assault rifles (AKs as it happens) some even with underslung grenade launchers. In the rules Profesional quality troops are good but the points cost makes them VERY limiting. They are also my only troops that have helmets!


 Along with Assault rifle armed troops I now have 4 bases armed with RPGs (Rocket Propelled Grenades). As in the rules you asre limited to 2 stands per unit I have enough for 2 units. Also in the rules they can act as "Normal" professional quality troops they will all do double duty as riflemen. As the points value is exactly the same Most (if not all) AK players buy these first for a unit as it just makes more sense to do so.


The RPG is a common sight in news footage but realistically they should be a little more rare. But just as camera-men in modern times like to take pics of RPGs a similar parallel can be drawn with WW2 camera-men liking to take pics of TANKS, which were actually a lot less common that most wargamers think.

Next up I have 4 stands of LMGs. Now the points cost means I am probably not going to use these much unless I use them as Riflemen., but as the rest were revitalised it made sense to do these as well. You never know It is possible to have a unit promoted a grade temporarily for a battle so it is possible they may get used a lot. Well one can dream can't one!

The last 2 pics is of all the professional troops together. I have slim hopes of getting them all on the table at one time, but you never know stranger things have happened in my wargaming pastime. That being the case I will keep my fingers crossed.

The modern Russians are team Yankee figures and it is a single pack now used as AK-47 figures. It works out a LOT cheaper to do this than to buy dedicated Peter Pig AK figures.

Now my AK 47 force is just about finished. By that I mean I have more than enough to play a game but there is always room for more and I do have my beady eyes on a few more acquisitions. But they an Wait until Selwg at the very least.

Thanks for looking today. My work bench is now clear so on with 28mm figs next! (Insert evil cackling as desired!)






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    1. Thank you Ray. some 28mm on the way now. The kind of figures you will enjoy I think.

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  2. Lots to see and enjoy with this post, Clint. I'm especially taken with the Modern Day Soviets, as their paint-scheme really shows off your excellent basing palette too. They look truly awesome imho, and I'm looking forward to seeing your "AK-47 Force" in action :-)

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    1. Thank you Blax. I will be swapping to 28mm figs next. Just started some foundry. A little apprehensive as never painted this period before.

      However I really do thank you for the comment on the Russians. They are done and put away now, hope to have a game in the next few months. Either that or get my Diesel punk off the ground.

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  3. A 'clear' workbench.... Heresy! Lol

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    1. Thank you Lee, you will be delighted to know "no longer clear!" $ started for Matt and one for my self, all 28mm, all Historical and all a right pain in the whatsits! (I knew that would make you smile.)

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  4. A very productive output here. It's good to hear you're going back to painting 28mm scale figures. That's something I can relate to much more easily.

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    1. Thank you Bryan. 5 started but I think only 1 is totally your thing.... the one I am painting for myself. The other 4 are for Matt and in fancy uniforms! (boo !)

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  5. Love those last shots Clint, wonderful stuff.

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    1. Thank you Michael, truth is the Flash worked on the last 2 shots but not before. Yeah I know! Typical! It is taking me a time to get back into painting 28mm figs though. AND I nearly got sidetracked again.

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  6. Looking very good Clint, even with the blurry shots they look good

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    1. Thank you Dave. With luck the 28mm figs will look OK as well. But a LONG way to go before they are done!

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    1. Thank you Tamsin. The 28mm s are not behaving as they should might have to call it quits for the day

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  8. Wow, you have been a busy chap and I thoroughly approve of the re-purposing of 'old' figures.
    Your AK 47 forces have suddenly got to be quite huge too!
    All good stuff Clint.

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    1. Thank you Joe. You are right my AK force is now quite large enough. Still I shall continue to work on it both as new figures are acquired and as new options are explored. I have NO APCs for example or no Anti aircraft.... you I am sure get the idea

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