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Yet another Post

I have been meaning to get posts on here for a few days, but have only finally done it.

I have continued to paint, though only when I have time, which is rare these days.  I have managed to finish my 10 15mm.co.uk Canine Punks and 5 Corpulati.  The Punks look pretty good, in my opinion.  The Corpulati, well, they are slugs, so were pretty easy to paint.  I think they look decent, though the yellow I had didn't really cover them well and there are a few spots where you can still see traces of the black undercoat.

The Corpulati are the little slug guys.

 

I think the yellow looks a lot better for the goggles.

Besides painting, I have managed to get in some reading.  Starting in January, I began reading Harry Turtledoves TL-191 Settling Accounts Books.  I have previously read the very first one, the first WW1 one, and parts of the first Interwar one.  Settling Accounts was a fun read, though at some points, the parallels got in the way of the plot.  The thing that annoyed me the most was the character "Henderson V. FitzBelmont".  His name was quite unrealistic, and after looking it up, it appears there is no record of anyone having that surname, and I cannot imagine anyone named Belmont, so the name could not exist.

Also starting in January, I read the Machine Crusade by Brain Herbert.  I knew I had begun it, but did not know how far I got, but upon reaching the end, I realized I had previously finished.  However, I finished that series, then read "House Atreides".  After reading that, I have the same thought I did after reading the original Dune.  Why is it that House Atreides is comprised of only a few people.  The other houses are similar, with the Harkonnens having only about five, though at least Corrino has a dozen or so, though most of them are daughters of the same guy.  I would expect that the houses would have dozens, maybe hundreds of members, spread throughout the Imperium.

Finally, starting on Sunday and finishing today, I read Robert Conroy's "1945", in which General Anamis militarists take Emperor Hirohito in August 1945 and the US invades the Home Islands.  It was a pretty good book, though I did think having Hirohito being taken from Japan in a commando raid was sort of unrealistic.  However, the actual fighting scenes were pretty good, I thought.

Reading Settling Accounts has made me interested in playing out some miniatures games in a "Weird Civil War", featuring British, French, and Brazilian Interventionists on the southern side, utilizing Highlanders, Indian Troops, Black Confederate Troops, fighting in exchange for their freedom, and "D'Orleans Louisiana Zouaves" a unit of Zouaves under Gaston d'Orléans, Count of Eu and husband of a Brazilian Princess.  Opposing them would be Fenians and the Joseph Sturge Brigade, a unit of British Abolitionists.  Technology would mostly be real-world, but with gatling guns and possibly some airships to make it "Weird".

Update

It's been almost a month since the last update, so I feel I have to put something out.  Anyway, in the last month, I have worked on the Pendraken Stuff, but also, since my birthday is just around the corner, I have purchased some 15mm.co.uk figures just a few days ago.  When they arrive, hopefully I will get around to photographing them before painting.  Also, I spraypainted some chili cans, and with a stencil, wrote numbers on them.  They look surpisingly good!

Also, I just noticed these new "Porkers!" from ZombieSmith games, which also makes the Quar.  Basically, the Porkers are 15mm scale WW2 Germans with the heads of Pigs.  They would be an interesting addition to what I have so far.

The Last Space Marines You Will Ever Buy

I am not really a Games Workshop player.  I am a fan of the setting, and have used other figures as proxys at times.  Normally, I only check the Games Workshop Site once or twice a month to see a picture, but the last time I went on, this is what I saw.

 

We proudly present our most ambitious collection ever! Nearly 1,200 Space Marine models representing the Ultramarines as deployed at the Battle of Orar's Sepulchre 888.M41. Marneus Calgar leads his entire chapter against the perfidious Eldar of the Iyanden and Alaitoc Craftworlds.

Every Warhammer 40,000 hobbyist dreams of owning a complete Chapter of Space Marines - this special collection is your chance to achieve that dream in one fell swoop.

This Space Marine Chapter is made up of 1 Veteran Company, 4 Battle Companies, 4 Reserve Companies, and 1 Scout Company, with roughly 100 Space Marines in each. You will also receive all the codex-specified vehicles and support units that go with them. Be sure to have a look through the Company-by-Company photo guide above to see the chapter in all its glory.

We will also contact you personally to arrange a delivery time that is convenient for you, so please ensure that the contact details which accompany your order are accurate and up to date.

 That is just rediculous.  Who has that sort of money!  I wonder when we will hear the first report of some child buying this with his parents money, and then them going bankrupt and losing their house?

Anyway, I am done with Flashman and the Tiger and now I am working on the Dorsai and Two other books as well as A Small Colonial War, so I may do some 15mm Sci-Fi Stuff, considering my birthday is coming up.

Ratmen

Well, here are some pictures of the Ratmen and Beastmen.  It turns out I have one finished rat "horde", one rat horde in progress, and one Haedusman behemoth unit done.

The Finished Ratman Unit.

Rat-polean!

The Haedusmen.  They look alot better when seen from further away by the naked eye.

The In progress Unit.  I am puzzled by the Cross.  Are they meant to by a Contingent on the crusades?

I also plan on adding some artillery, possibly some of the Pendraken Desert Rat MG Teams to use the crewmen as the crew of a Ballista.  I also plan on getting some Irregular minatures rat and goatmen to mix in with the units I already have and make a new unit.  Also, with that Irregular order, if it occurs, I plan on getting some of the 6mm ratmen, then using them as hordes, by using strips of them in rows, painted white as mousemen.

An interesting thing happened it my latest Moderated Game.  In this one, called CNG: Roaring Forward, which began in 1919 after the First World War, I played a Zoroastrian Persian Monarchy.  In the interwar, it became nationalistic, and while I was gone fought a war against Afghanistan.  When the Second World War broke out, I was invaded by the Communists of Bharat (India) by way of Afghanistan.  We eventually lost the war, and the emperor, now of the Irano-Indic Empire, fled to Russia (The Holy Russian Empire, a Salvationist [super-fascist] empire).  But then, I returned and used Hungaro-Romanian and Rhomanion (Byzantine) troops to liberate my country in 1951.  Then, I asked for some investment to help my economy.  These are the two replys I got.

To: Iranian Empire
From: Colombia
We'd be happy to help you in this regard. Hell, we'll even throw in a good discount - if you'd open up and relax some regulations on oil and mineral extraction for Colombian companies?

and

  To: Iran
From: The Holy Roman Empire

We would also like to invest in your nations oil industry, if possible. We also offer you a discount on Italian heavy industrial products such as mining or agricultural equipment.

A perfect set of offers!  I can have HRE oil investment, and get cheap mining equiptment to assist in mining for Colombian companys!

Questions and Comments are welcome.

Yet another attempt to Restart

I have not posted in two and a half months.  I am not dead.  I have intended to post, but, being gone for a week on a camping trip with no internet access, and then another two weeks was not helpful.  Now, I am back home, and intend to post at least once a month.  I am now in school again, so that may not work out.

Anyway, I have been working on painting up my ratman army, and have at least 1 unit of Beastmen and 1 of Ratman hordes done if I remember correctly.  Unfortunatly, these days, I have little time to work on them, and, when I get out the paints and set up my station, I have to take it down many weekends, and Wednesdays, so work only occurs when I really am motivated.  I dont have any pictures at this time, but will try to get some up by the weekend (or on it).

Also, this summer I have played alot of moderated games on AH.com.  I guess this is because I actually have time to devote to it (more than 5 minutes), so I am able to create updates that actually fit in, not two sentences about an important country, covering 5 years of time.  In the first game I played, I played as "The Union of the Fourteen Countys", a Boer republic based out of Michigan and the Wisconsin coast.  Basically, in that world, it was decided that there were Dutch colonys up the Delaware River, (known as the Hudson in TTL).  When Spanish forces conquered it, eventually, many of the "Amerikaners", as they were known, fled west, into the Ohioland.  At the time the game started, in 1820, they had fled to Michigan.  Since we were in areas claimed by the Basque Republic (yes, there was a Basque state in New England), we came up with a deal to move to the Ozarks to assisst the Basques in gaining control of the west.  Unfortunatly, this area was dominated by the New Caledonians, crazy militaristic Scots based out of Texas, and Pennsylvania, theocratic militarists based out of Virginia.  Unfortunatly, my people thought the ruling council was in the Basque sphere, so they headed into the Missouriland and set up a new Town, Fort Niuewland north of OTL St. Louis.  I decided to play as them, and so began play as the Niuewland Republic, and set up town guards and even began construction on a new capitol, but while I was gone for a week, the game died.  It was pretty cool because I had the Roosevelts, van Halens, and de Walles, and if the game had gotten into the early 1900s, I was planning on having a Theodoor Roosevelt as a major military leader, and later on maybe a President Eduard van Halen.

Amerikaner Flag

A map of the Amerikaner movements.

Also, this summer, I did a good bit of reading.  Some of the books I read are (and know that I write them out, I cant remember most of them):

• The Man with the Iron Heart  I liked it, but at some points, it was just kind of boring, and at others, really strange that the German partisans never seemed to get caught or make mistakes.
• Dorsai!  Pretty good book of Military Science Fiction, the idea of a dozen human states with their own speciality is intriguing.  I wish there had been more about the with the United Orthodox Church.  The book is quite short.
• Flashman on the March  First one of the books I have read.  I really liked it, though it is really quite vulgar.
• The Guns of August  I actually read this for extra credit for school, but I had it on my shelf and had planned on reading it for a while.
• The Last Kingdom  Part of Richard Cornwells Saxon Tales, it is just good all around, but especially in describing the battle scenes.

I am now reading Flashman and the Tiger as well as Three to Dorsai, which is three of the Dorsai novels in one big book (which still is only a little thicker than Flashman and the Tiger).

Haedusmen Pictures

I finally got some pictures of the Haedusmen, the Bull People I am using as Behemoths.  I do really like how they were sculpted, and easy to put in uniform ranks.

All of the "Men"

The whole army fits into a Sour Cream Carton.

The Rat Command Unit

I really like the face of the one on the left.

I plan on having the shield be red, with a white skull

All of the Haedusmen in this unit

Any Comments are welcome!