What a Tanker! Monday Knights Christmas Break Up

The Monday Knights' Christmas party was a quiet one, with only about 10 able to make it (in part people away on holidays, others not well, etc). The TooFatLardies' WWII tank combat game What a Tanker! was chosen for its simplicity and allowing us to bring a 15mm tank model of our choice. I brought my United Nations T-72, simply as it doesn't get much table time. This was just representative, as each of us had 12 points to allocate between armour and strike (the tank's gun). I went with a 5 / 7 configuration. Most other were this or 4/8. Tyler went with 6/6.

Games were of four, with the two winners of game one playing each other, and the same for the two losers (based on kills). I quickly got to grips with the rules, but my luck was not with me tonight. After two games I only managed to kill Paul.

A pretty bad year, looking forward to 2023.

Eureka Miniatures 18mm Sci-Fi Mayans

A fun mini project to complete were these Eureka Miniatures' 18mm Sci Fi Mayans in the style of Jack Kirby (Marvel comics). They were a gift from Nic, and I planned to use these for post apocalyptic car war games, but they're a little small compared to 1/72 / 20mm toy cars. So I'm currently writing so skirmish rules for them.

They were fun to paint, a little flash that was easily cleaned up. I also added magnets to the 20mm washer bases, to see if this is a viable storage solution (Mike has convinced me to start a 20mm Soviet Battlegroup army...). Apart from Kirby, their style also reminds me of Pierre Christin's Valerian comics (particularly Empire of a Thousand Planets).

In addition in the same painting session I also painted these 28mm Victorian lamp posts (all from Eureka) for my ongoing botanic gardens terrain project.

Battletech Mechs and 28mm Stargate Team

Just finished off some Battletech mechs from the most recent version box set (link), painting them as Lyran Guards. I used Vallejo dark blue (70.930) and off white (70.820) that allowed me to edge highlight with white (new found love for this technique). Canopies were painted in a bronze/gold to compliment the blue. I also used an oil wash and home made pigment powders (using non-oil pastels), finishing off with some suitable decals.

I also used the powders on these 28mm US Marine Recon miniatures from Eureka Miniatures, that I painted as a generic Stargate team. The greens are a mix of Vallejo German Camouflage Dark Green (70.979) and German Fieldgrey WWII (70.830).

They will soon be joined by some Jaffa and suitable terrain.