I am getting stuff painted for my D-Day game, but I don't actually seem to be getting any closer to running it! But I had a good weekend otherwise...
On Friday night, we played a
Might of Arms Renaissance playtest variant game of
Louis XIV's Dutch War. I played
Turenne, and only my personal intervention with my cuirassiers in the center allowed the French forces to win the day. Or so I remember it, anyway! We followed it up with a game of Dominion. I came in third out of five. Glad there were two people there who'd never played before I could beat! :-)
I finished up my first aircraft for Flames of War, a
P-47 Thunderbolt. I painted it up as a high-res picture I found on the Internet. I ruined two sets of decals trying to get the side numbering on it. Even the third and last set I tore in half, but manage to align them acceptably, I think. Man, I really, really hate using decals.
I also finished the DUKWs. That
should have been the last figures I needed for the 1750/1000 point Hit the Beach game! So, I printed out rosters and started assembling troops, thinking I might get Number One Son to playtest it with me over the weekend! Got all the Americans together, no issues. Then I started on the Germans. Let's see...the 10.5cm battery needs a staff team...hmmmm...I'm pretty sure I have never painted a German staff team. How could I have painted the 10.5cm battery up and never have painted a staff team...UGH!!
I haven't painted my 10.5cm battery yet!!! Not sure how I convinced myself that I had. So...onto
the queue it goes. I started on it over the weekend, and am maybe 2/3 the way through. Soon...
The decal looks fine to me. At least you did have those 105's. If it was ASL though all you would need to do is pnch them out LOL
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Yeah but I think FoW has too many rules!! :-)
DeleteThat P-47 looks really nice Andy.
ReplyDeleteDecals might be a pain, but having painted many, many planes (albeit smaller ones), I can tell you they are better than hand painting those letters and insignia
There is that. All my armor have NO markings, mostly because I don't want to deal with decals. However, they did seem too distinctive here to leave off.
DeleteWe'll do D-Day some day. FYI, I will have my 6 LCVPs painted this week. Picture and paint colour you sent helped alot.
ReplyDeleteYay! "Some day?" More like one day this month! Well, I hope, any way.
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