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.