Every time I look for something else I find more cultists. At least you cannot have too many of them.
I am not sure where they are from and frankly my dear…………!
All I know is that they are metal and are sculpts, not out of the ordinary, for you basic cultist.
One will do as a leader and the other as his acolyte.
Hopefully these are the end of my “mummy painting”. Incidently it was good to see that the movie “Napoleon” showed his interest in Archaeology and Egyptology specifically. The Rosetta stone was found by French Archaeologists during his time in Egypt,
These models are from Black Tree Design, here and here.
The shields are completely wrong and I will replace them when I find my pile of spare New Kingdom Egyptian Shields.
Despite the shield they are not bad models.
These “aliens” are again from CP Models. They are “Loor Scouts” from their Alien Federation range. I have some more from this range that I will complete leading up to Christmas.
“Loor Scouts”
“Loor Scouts”
“Loor” Scout with Heavy Weapon
“Loor” Scout Advancing (1)
“Loor” Scout
“Loor” Scout Advancing (2)
“Loor” Scout Tracker
“Loor Scouts”
“Loor Scouts”
“Loor Scouts”
The Consolidated PBY Catalina was an American flying boat, and later an amphibious aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s produced by Consolidated Aircraft.
It was one of the most widely used seaplanes of World War II. Catalinas served with every branch of the United States Armed Forces and in the air forces and navies of many other nations, including Australia.
During World War II, PBYs were used in anti-submarine warfare, patrol bombing, convoy escorts, search and rescue missions (especially air-sea rescue), and cargo transport.
The PBY was the most numerous aircraft of its kind and the last active military PBYs were not retired from service until the 1980s.
Even today, nearly 80 years after its first flight, the aircraft continues to fly as a water-bomber (or airtanker) in aerial firefighting operations all over the world.
The model and crew were purchased for one of the many rescue scenarios that occurred in the Pacific during WW2 involving the Catalina.
In the Pacific Australian pilots more often than not adopted the Khaki shorts and shirts of the Infantry due to the excess heat.
The WW2 crews from Q.A.N.T.A.S. used a military style khaki uniform.
These are painted in the RAAF uniform.
I opted for a 1/72nd scale aircraft as even that is large for a tabletop game.
Sorry guys I was trying to get super organised and for some reason my New Years post went out with the 2022 date rather than in three weeks time. The sentiment is the same have a great Christmas and New Year. I have changed the date so you will just get it again!
Guru.
When the South finally surrendered, many hard-bitten Rebs, led by the charismatic (and completely unhinged!) Jebediah Crane, refused to give in and took to the hills and swamps to wage a guerrilla war against the hated Yankees.
These bitter and desperate men tore the secrets of Vodou from a captured Bokor of the Congregation and twisted them to suit their own aims, raising Revenants from their graves.
With this new-found necromantic power, the mad General vowed that the South would – quite literally – rise again!
A Dark Confederacy Posse is always led by a Master Necromancer, one of General Craine’s inner circle. This model is the focal point of your Posse, and has access to various arcane powers as well as the ability to raise a number of Revenants before each game.
The Revenants themselves allow the Dark Confederacy to outnumber most opponents and, being undead, are terrifying to face and hard to kill, but slow and mindless. The Necromancer must control them from a distance – they never activate by themselves, instead acting when the Necromancer does.
This allows for some unique tactics for multiple activations that no other Posse can match. If the Necromancer falls, however, the Revenants collapse and become harmless corpses once more.
The Necromancer may also summon a Vengeful Shade – a ghostly Confederate that excels as an assassin, passing through solid obstacles in the hunt for mortal targets. Osprey Publishing
This is the start of my “Dark Confederacy Posse” for Dracula’s America. All I need is to paint up some Zombies and they are ready to go.
The figures are mostly from Dixon Miniatures Civil War or Old West ranges.
I have Quantrell’s zombie raiders from Artizan’s “The Risen South” range somewhere and also the Dark Confederacy Posse from North Stars “Daracula’s America” range. Both are somewhere in the back reaches of the “cave” and I must do a decent search for them!
Back to the WW2 Greeks after a wee absence. The sixth squad of eleven consists of an NCO, Light Machinegun Team, a VB Launcher and seven riflemen for a total of 161 Bolt Action points.
Light Machine Gun Team
Light Machine Gun Team
VB Launcher
NCO
Seven riflemen
I now only have the mounted and dismounted Greek Cavalry to finish, and the army is done.
“I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
CP Models have a large range of “Alien” figures. Unfortunately most are anthropomorphic as it would be nice to have something really different.
I have several sets of their range which were originally purchased for 5 Parsecs from home.
This first lot is some of CP Models Goloth range.
“This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.”
The Modified Hotchkiss machine gun was a Greek improvement of the French Hotchkiss M1926, in turn an evolution of the Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun.
Existing stock of French-built weapons was modernized before World War II in the Greek State Military Material Facility (EYP) of Athens.
The main improvement involved the gun’s weakest spot, its firing rate which in practice was only 220 rounds/min, about half that of contemporary machine guns.
Apart from accomplishing increase to 420 rounds/min and improved stability, the same facilities undertook the production of a large number of auxiliary parts, with minor improvements.
The gun was extensively used by the Greek Army during World War II. Information obtsined from Wikipedia.
However, they remained in service until 1943.
I have finally finished my Panzerkampfwagen V Panther
The development of the Panther tank was a direct response to the superiority of the T34 and KV1 Russian tanks they encountered during operation Barbarossa.
Far more manoeuvrable that the Tiger 1, the Panther tank was only slightly dearer than the Panzer IV to produce. Over 6,000 were produced between 1942 and 1945.
The use of sloped armour kept the weight of the tank down but maintained its protection level. The angled front 80 mm armour glacis plate gave more protection than the Tiger tank’s 100 mm vertical armour plate.
The Rheinmetall-Borsig KwK 42 (L/70) high-velocity gun was used by the Panther.
It was a 75 mm (2.95 in) gun with 79 to 82 HE, APCBC-HE, and APCR rounds, often in low availability.
Despite the moderate calibre, the large propellant charge and long barrel contributed to making this gun a very efficient armour-piercing weapon.
The shell had even more penetrating power than the 88 mm (3.46 in) of the Tiger. Secondary armament comprised, typically, of one coaxial MG 34 machine gun and one hull MG 34, usually fired by the radio operator.
Tomorrow more Greeks.