SITREP: Sunday update #2

Last week I worked on some of my Northern French buildings and a new group of AWI Continental skirmishers for Sharp Practice 2.

On Friday I received a package from Fantasy Welt that I had just ordered last Saturday. Kudos for their celerity. It included Perry's amazing American Farm House and Rubicon's Utility & Light pole set. I also ordered a batch of 6 extra 8cm tall trees. 

The two Northern France buildings I worked on where from Patrick Miniatures. I painted them in a way they can also be used for my Llardona 1808 long time Peninsular War SP2 project.

Work in progress

My AWI Continental Skirmishers were a pack of North Star figures for Muskets & Tomahawks II. To be precise the French & Indian War French Canadian Militia 1 6 figure set. They look amazing. Really rugged woodsman style. My only criticism would be that I had to work hard to remove the cast marks from the lower legs. It took longer than cleaning most plastic figures.

I've also started researching a bit the possibilities for next year's big Winter War / Eastern Front project for Chain of Command. I found it's better for me to use a Pint Sized Campaign to guide me. That way I can figure out what miniatures and terrain to buy / make. As there was no official campaign for the war in Finland, I found Winter of No Surrender which at first sight seems quite well documented and useful. To complement it I also purchased Storming the Citadel an official PSC from the TooFatLardies. That allowed me to realize that I will need plenty of Russians and Finns as both use four squad platoons. In my shame pile of lead I have plenty of Soviet Russians from Warlord Games, so should be quite enough, but only a limited amount of Finns (by the same maker). In addition, seems that Warlord Games Finn squads lack a LMG, so I'll have to figure out another source or a conversion to get some. 

SITREP: Sunday update #1

Last week I worked on magnetizing part of my miniatures and terrain. 

As most of my stuff is set on metallic fender washers, and I'm not to keen on buying tons of small magnets and attach them to each and every base, I've decided to buy magnetic sheets from Supermagnete and attached them at the bottom of my plastic storage boxes. 

Some of my bigger miniatures were set on 40 or 60mm plastic bases, those have been rebased into wider metallic fender washers.

I also have created a couple of artillery markers for Sharp Practice 2 inspired by John Emmett's ones. They are used to mark the remaining canister shoots. 3 by default. 

In addition I created a barricade for the same rules. 

Artillery counters.

On Tuesday I received a package from Stronghold Terrain that includes all I need to finally finish my Sharp Practice 2 American War of Independence forces. For one side I'll use a Perry Miniatures' British AWI box to create the remaining groups of both sides. I like the idea of mixing some Continental soldiers with dyed British uniforms for my state troops and militias. To add a bit more variety to my Continental skirmishers I've purchased a Canadian Militia pack made by Northstar for Muskets & Tomahawk.

In the future I'm planning to purchase new commanders for both sides, as I'm using 28mm oversized Warlord Games one that break the nice proportions of my mostly Perry's force. 

On the terrain front I've been working on a couple of buildings for my Northern France WW2 village. I prepared them in the same way as my Catalan Napoleonic Peninsular War buildings -with a layer of wood filler and patches of sand- and painted them in faded yellows. The idea is to be able to use them both for WW2 Northern France and Italy as well as Napoleonic Mediterranean settings.