The Next Army Update

Now that I have a definite date for the start of my new contract (November 20th – a bit of a later start than expected but all good) I can finalise my choice. The only problem with the polling was not so much the lack of responses (I ended up with 6 respondents) but having to recall them rather than easily accessing them on this blog. The funny thing was that most people went for the Winter War Soviets, an army that will force me to practice and experiment with techniques as well as being the one army selection I’ll need to purcahse a fair bit of stuff for. I think some of you chose it because of the voyeuristic schadenfreude possibilities myself.

But you’re out of luck, in so far as immediate gratification goes. With the confirmation of the new contract I will be able to fast track my plans for that army. So it may well get started as the next but one choice.

The winner for the November Army is…
Late War Fallschirmjager (Normandy

Camo smocks, StuGs and Pak 97/38s galore. I have enough late war figures to do two companies if I get too enthuisiastic and efficient, plus it ties in with my terrain building projects for November and December.

As for the other armies, they’re gong to be put on the secondary level of completion, restricted to weekend painting time rather than weekdays which hopefully will result in some serious progress by the end of the year. The new contract involves 7.30am starts so I will be home by 5pm most days leaving me plenty of daylight hours to paint, and if the weather is good enough I’ll be able to sit on the porch and paint. Can’t beat that for peaceful environment.

The projection for the other armies is pencilled in as follows:

1. Late War Brit Paras
2. Late War US
3. Early War Soviet Summer
4. Early War BEF
5. Early War Fallschirmjäger(crete)

And the extra surprise projects I’m going to be doing are:

Reviewing, painting and building QRF’s FCM 2C model in multi-colour french camo

Edit: Added QRF’s Renault D2 as it’s newish and the only one availabe in 15mm plus it actually has a reasonable photo that doesn’t make it look too crude. And it’s another from the Dali-Picasso school of style over substance in design and camo scheme.

Reviewing, building and painting QRF’s British Medium Mark II in Desert caunter camo

Reviewing, building and painting Stronghold Miniatures’ German Nbfzg V

Plus a review of either a Peter Pig, Resistant Rooster, True North or Legions East Infantry selection (TBD)

Lots to go on with, and I’d say that most of it will be completed by the end of the summer, including the articles and photography.

Ciao for now,

P-J