Assorted Side Projects

Having finished up the Escher gang and trying to generally play more games with the miniatures I have, I am also focusing on building out the components and tools for the games I have.

US Paratroopers and ECI Bersaglieri combat excerise

Over the past two weeks, I have happily played 4 games of Konflikt '47.  My Co-belligerent Italian (Allies) Bersaglieri reinforced platoon  have faced off against US Paratroopers, Soviet Werebears, the Desert Fox with walkers, and veteran Desert Rats*.  All of these games were fun and seemed close.  My knowledge of the rules is of course improving and the games are getting better and faster.
*No K'47 unique units in the army.

ECI Rounded Out

This previous weekend I was out of town and definitely didn't get any miniature work done.  However, I got lots painting done the previous weekend, to include rounding out my forces for Konflikt '47 Co-belligerent Kingdom of Italy (ECI) company.

Big items added were a Stuart-T with a Tesla Cannon, an MMG team, and an Anti-Tank Team.  It gives my reinforced company some much needed firepower against vehicles like medium walkers, light/medium tanks, etc.  I am probably still lacking in firepower against medium tanks and heavy walkers, but that will be more interesting games, working around them.

A big goal going forward for me this fall is to play more of games of the armies I have collected. I have tons of painted minis to put on the tabletop.

Useful Additions

K'47 ECI Bersaglieri Infantry Sections

Fully painted, basing still to go

I have been steadily working on painting up units of Bersaglieri infantry sections for my K'47 Co-belligerent.  They are almost complete.  Basing will be done before next weekend if everything goes well.

I am running two five-man sections of Bersglieri infantry sections.  I painted their back-pack rolls red and orange to make it easy to tell the difference between them.  The light mortar team and command section have light backpacks that are the tan they would be.

Once complete, I still plan to add a Sherman-T and MMG team.

During Basing

ECI Jump Section

ECI Jackal

Over the past two weeks, I have worked on painting up my Konflikt '47 Paracadutisti with Firefly jet-packs and a Jackal Walker.  I envision these being paired and working together to pressure a flank relatively early in a game.

Background-wise, they are from the same unit.  These teams respond to incursions across the front lines by ENR forces.

I started by painting the Paracadutisti, emulating the box art with some slight adjustments.  I then based the Jackal's scheme on the Paracadutisti.  I added Co-belligerent iconography and the Italian flag.

Firefly-equipped ECI Paracadutisti

A few more pictures follow.

Third Component of Rats Based and Washed

Pretty straightforward update for this past week.  I got the third components of my Bolt Action Desert Rats base color painted, washed, and painted.  In addition, I bought and assembled a Jackal and opened, assembled, and primed some ECI Fireflies for K'47.

My FLGS is re-igniting Konflikt '47 league/play, so I will likely focus on my ECI 1,000 point army for the next few months.

The other project I am notionally signed up for is to participate in a Krieg Linebreaker army build with my brother and his best friend is aiming for the fall.

State of my Hobby Station 

Busy Week

Not even the whole Warlord

I have been busy this week.  I knew that the British 8th Army sets for the Western Desert Campaign was arriving at the store.  I dove into finishing my current Italian Infantry Section and assembling my Warlord titan for Adeptus Titanicus.  The Warlord was put on pause for magnets, which arrived Sunday - after work began on the 8th Army unit.

My 8th Army will either be British or Australian; I have not yet settled on which exactly.  Any armor I build out will be from a Royal Armour Regiment.  The long term plan is to have two platoons, one Reinforced Infantry Platoon and one Armor Platoon, both hitting 1,000 points, with the potential to expand to 1,500 points.

Konflikt '47: Infantry In Progress

Simple update for this week; weekend was a busy one filled with lots of stuff other than painting or gaming.  I have an infantry squad and my Lieutenant with attendant in work.

Progress shot

Konflikt '47: Bersaglieri Complete

I finished up the heavy armored Bersaglieri this weekend.  As I was getting to the layering stage, I realized that I am not looking for these to be as high-quality paint jobs as my Horus Heresy Ultramarines.  This is an project to have an army to fight Weird World War II battle!

Bersaglieri Armoured Infantry

I skipped on details like eyes or other parts to really focus on getting them looking like a unit.  I think they will look good on the table.  I did decide after looking at the models to add the bright grass. I need to figure out what is next in my ECI efforts, I have a list written out, just no models to jump into.

In addition, a group of us are considering playing Bolt Action, North Africa campaign.  I have been given the wife's blessing to play Rommel's Afrika Korps.

Konflikt '47: Co-Belligerent Italy

My FLGS is in the midst of a Konflikt '47 league.  The store owner, my friend encouraged me to get into it, to include trading in other products for Gates of Antares that I had yet to start working on and was not getting played as much.

After talking over the various factions with my immediate family, I was told 1) no Axis and 2) that I should do the southern Italians.  The core theme for them is supposed to be infantry heavy, so I intend to theme them more as a mountains force, supported by some lighter armor.  We will just have to wait and see.

I have been slowly working through the Bersglieri Armored Infantry. One will be a spare as I also picked up the Captain Maximo model.  Since there are no rules for him, he gets to be the bad-ass NCO leading the Bersglieri.  The Bersglieri unit can run as low as 4 models or up to 8, giving me a nice range of options in deploying them.

ECI: Bersaglieri Armored Infantry Squad