CoC - Western Front - Martlet Map 3 Game 6 report

[Shahbahraz]

The link is to the Matchlock Miniatures Catalogue as far as I can see, but seems to be Poles, (which look nice), Volksturm (less so), a limited selection of British infantry and some German Cossack allies.

[Digits]

Ah ok, cheers fellas.

[Digits]

British Platoon Command and the first section finished.

Minis are Crusader.   They are a little squat but actually not as bad as I thought from their catalog pics.

Basing the other two sections now.  I will be adding some support from Warlord.

[gamer Mac]

Looking good
How do these scale with the warlord figures?

[Digits]

Against the British?  Don’t know yet...we will soon see though mate, I have a few support options coming from Warlord.   

I do know they stack up well against Artizan so shouldn’t be too bad.   The prone figures look a little small, but I don’t think it will be a big issue on the battlefield.  Harder to hit I say! 

[Marine0846]

Well painted Brits.
I tend to forget that Crusader has a excellent range of 28mm  figures.
I was cleaning out some boxes and found a whole platoon of German WWII figures.
I don't remember when I purchased them.
Oh, the things we find.
Must be due to my age.
Now to paint them up.

[flatpack]

Well done, David, these look great.

[Axebreaker]

Super looking British!

Christopher

[Truscott Trotter]

Very nice brushwork on the Brits.
They should match OK size wise with the newish Warlord BEF as they are on the large n chunky side.

[Digits]

Do you mean BEF?   The new late war British come out this next month.

Hopefully I’m not too reliant on the warlord ones tbh.....I but the bullet and bought a few duplicate packs of riflemen from Crusader, enough to do the support squad too.

I have to say, these little chaps have grown on me.   Lots of character I think.

Many thanks for the kind comments all.

[Mindenbrush]

Your British khaki looks excellent 👍

[Digits]

Thank you sir!

Jamie is making himself some panzer grenadiers and we were bemoaning the lack of prone poses on the Warlord plastic sprue.  I offered to have a go at a conversion, the least I could do seeing as he has kindly painted my tanks!

Anyway, putting my money where my mouth is, I have a couple of bits left on a sprue so here is a quick guide to making a prone mini.  I have done a few of these using GW Imperial guard before now but the principle is the same.

I always start by selecting my mini, then breaking the legs off, and shaving a little off the belly area in order to lift the chest off the floor.  I then glue in place the legs at a better angle approximately where they need to be.   I will often bring in other appropriate legs from other minis, but in this case they are the originals.

Don’t worry about gaps at this point.  I have also glued the MG42 where I want it.






Same with arms......there isn’t a natural arm reaching forward enough, so I broke the firming arm and glued it in position.  Likewise the loading arm, I simply cut the arm below the sleeve and turned it and flattened out the hand a little.






Don’t be afraid of bringing the ground up to the mini.  For example I raised the ground under the loading arm to make it look like it’s propped from the ground.



And then using a little green stuff, fill any gaps and rebuild shoulders / hips etc.   The trick here if your gs skills are a little limited like mine, is to cover them all with plenty of clutter hanging from the waist etc afterwards!



Et voila!

[PrivateBuzz]

Oh wow. That's awesome! Thank you.

[Digits]

No worries!  The shouldered gun was bothering me so adding a canister at the back gave it more reason to sit proud as it does....in hindsight strapping across his back would have looked less awkward but hey ho!

[FreakyFenton]

Cracking job on that conversion!