I've been taking my painting in short spells - an hour here, a couple of hours there. Last weekend I got a lot done with my US machine gunners, mortar crews, and commanders. No pictures of most of the guys yet, but here's a dark photo of a lone gunner to the right.
I believe that I will need to add in some wood glue or filler to sort of level the HMG base out with the terrain on the plastic base, and I will probably do the same for the mortar crews. I might get away with just going kind of thick with the flock, but that base is pretty deep.
Speaking of commanders, Battleground recently announced new US SMG platoons. I think I've seen a number of the figures in other packs (typically NCOs and officers), but there are others I have not seen before. While they are presented as a way to build the SMG squads and platoons of the 2nd US Infantry Division in France in the summer of 1944 (see briefing here), these troops look like a great way to build spare command and recon teams or simply add a little flavor to rifle teams or whatever. In a lot of ways, I think this pack has a lot more flavor than the old US infantry company headquarters pack.
Working on the ShamBattle/Portable Wargame battleboard (Part 2)
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Once I had glued the first layer of foamcore to my baseboard, I marked the
8cm x 8cm grid on it using a long ruler and a Sharpie pen.
I did this to give ...
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