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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: Uncle Bourbon on June 24, 2017, 10:04:51 PM
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First post of our efforts in VBCW in Norfolk. Expect amusing shenanigans, disregard for rules and a very bolshie disregard for etiquette.
Featured are some elements of the Norwich Popular Front contingent as well as the Yarmouth Fishermen and Sailors Soviet. Up the workers!
(http://i.imgur.com/WclHH9F.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/3nImkbe.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/Zoe2FvE.jpg)
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Lovely, good looking figures. :)
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Thanks, will stick some game photos up over the summer when I get the chance.
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On the workbench at the moment, BUF somewhat ironically on the left with soon to be fisherman's soviet and Norwich front on the right. In the background are some lurking monsters and similar for METRO 2033. I also have something very big and nasty on the way but unfortunately won't be posting it until it hits the battlefield as I'm informed my gaming mates are watching this thread and I don't want to ruin the surprise lol
I was also saddened to find some of my footsore arrivals were damaged, has anyone had any experience with this and how footsore miniatures are like about replacing minis? Cheers (http://i.imgur.com/mnmBRQK.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/sSjvTuP.jpg)
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I had the same with a Footsore minis. I just emailed them and the figures were replaced (after Footsore had replaced the faulty old mould)
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Same for me, quick replacements, but the molds are 'old' and have been in use for a good bit, i'm told redoing them is in progress.
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I've sent an email and have replacements on the way, I'll have to think of some ways to use the two of them, maybe some handswaps. Thanks guys
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I've sent an email and have replacements on the way, I'll have to think of some ways to use the two of them, maybe some handswaps. Thanks guys
Colonel Bills doe some nice packs of interest:
Lewis Guns (3 very nice guns with bipods)
Lee-Enfields with fixed bayonets
SMGs and Grenade launchers - forget the GLs, but you do get 3 x Thompson and 3 x Bergmann BMP32 (with the magazine on the right hand side)
I use these for most of my VBCW conversions, although for your broken pistol you might have to be a bit more created - perhaps converting the hand to be clutching a bible or somesuch?
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Replacements arrived yesterday, along with the mystery monster :D
I decided to use bolt action weapons that I had lying around to kit the damaged ones out, though the lure of bergmanns may be too strong to resist. I think the petrol bomb works quite well with the figure's scared face, almost as if he's trying to pass it to someone else lol
Also got some BUF (boo!) painted up, I was unsure if thunder flashes are covered under swastika, nazi and similar imagery so I tried to avoid including any in the actual photo. (http://i.imgur.com/NpfuDqr.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/hlVNmJD.jpg)
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Nice work!! he BUF look suitably nasty!! :)
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Looking really good 👍
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Cheers chaps, probably going to build the BUF lot into a small flying column with staff car, transport and armoured support. The reactionaries always suffer in this project as everything I get has a mysterious habit of turning up red :D
On another note I'm thinking about flag designs, has anyone had much success designing their own? I've tried hand painting some designs but I don't think I'll ever be satisfied and my printing efforts usually result in a loss of colour or clarity.
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Nice looking figures!
Who makes the figures in the first picture with the brimmed hat?
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Who makes the figures in the first picture with the brimmed hat?
They're Copplestone Ghurkhas, I greenstuffed their shorts into trousers and gave a couple headswaps with brodie hats. I don't like having too many troops with helmets, they're supposed to be the 'Norwich Citizen Army' ode to the Irish predecessors hence the broad rimed hats and green tunics.
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Fairly large update today as a few things are finished. Firstly the BUF squad is complete, just needing the basing to finish. To oppose them I also did a few militants for the Fishermen's Soviet as well. I fished a suitable staff car for my BUF officer out of a box so the flying column can begin. Finally I've got banner bearers ready, the one on the left will have a flag of the Yarmouth Soviet while the one on the right will have a George's cross for either Anglican or rightwing militia. The other two I am not sure of just yet.
If anyone has any advice on flag designs that would be much appreciated as I'm having trouble getting the lettering right.
Cheers!
(http://i.imgur.com/XadshkT.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/tvfsI1V.jpg[img][img]http://i.imgur.com/fyrUza2.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/zjV1wL0.jpg)
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Taking shape very nicely indeed. :)
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Thanks, trying to bulk out the infantry and banners to give it more period flavour. Banners are finished up apart from the two I don't know what to do with. (http://i.imgur.com/Hhiinwn.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/ssqE9BV.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/aDUFbWH.jpg)
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Very nice, great work on the banners. :)
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Very nice, great work on the banners. :)
Cheers! Still having difficulties with them, the close up photos are not kind. I'm taking the approach that quantity will make up for quality on the battlefield and hopefully work on my IT skills to get some nice looking complex designs printed out.
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Been a while since last post but the Norfolk front has not been quiet, I have got back to my whole collection for the summer and games will be on over the next few weeks. Pictures are not quite all but most of the units including, French and German mercenaries who spend as much time insulting each other as fighting their paymasters enemies, regular army, armed monks, armoured support, a police squad under construction, the forces of the left and support weapons that can serve either side.
(http://i.imgur.com/ztUOk1G.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/w8jWoDb.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/Vhoa7hu.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/eRuwb3b.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/FqDV0Qm.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/dqsgnwU.jpg)