{"id":1394,"date":"2019-06-27T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T09:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2019-06-27T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T09:06:22","slug":"from-the-halls-of-montezuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2019\/06\/27\/from-the-halls-of-montezuma\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Halls Of Montezuma"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stephen goes all John Wayne on us.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve toyed with the idea of doing some WW2 games for a while but never really knew what I wanted to do. I had a false start with Flames Of War some time ago but I found the rules so dire that it soon fell by the wayside.<\/p>\n

But then a recent issue of Wargames Illustrated had some plastic 28mm US infantry as a freebie. I bought an issue, put them together and then slapped some paint on them. I enjoyed it so much that I decided that 28mm WW2 was the way I was going to go. I also decided that I would focus on small-scale infantry actions rather than huge set-piece battles – Chain Of Command has been played at the club and it seemed like the scale of game I was interested in.<\/p>\n

I then bought another copy of WI so I could get some more. Realising this could be an expensive way to go about it I then asked if anyone at the club had an unwanted sprue from the magazine. Phil and Marcus both stepped up (cheers, chaps).<\/p>\n

When it came to painting them I made a snap decision.<\/p>\n

I was going to paint them in standard European theatre colours and do late war games. Then I thought about the scenery. Woods, roads, hills, etc would be no problem – I have plenty already. It was the houses though, that made me pause. I wanted to do this on the cheap because WW2 would never be a \u2018main\u2019 period for me, so it had to pay its way in terms of money and storage space. Piles of European houses, that would not be used for anything else I do, would take a lot of space and money.<\/p>\n

So I suddenly thought, \u2018Pacific war!\u2019<\/p>\n

Trees, trees, and more trees.<\/p>\n

I know there\u2019ll be some out there who will object and say the figures aren\u2019t wearing Marine issue equipment. Quite frankly, I couldn\u2019t give a monkey’s. Once painted, especially in that duck-hunter camouflage the Marines wore, I reckoned no one would be able to tell.<\/p>\n

So I went for it.<\/p>\n

They were given an all-over spray of khaki. Flesh and weapons were given a base-coat of a chocolate brown colour. I then washed all webbing and weapons with GW\u2019s agrax earthshade. I use VMJ medium flesh for…er…flesh. The wooden bits on the guns were picked out with GW\u2019s Bestial Brown (or whatever they now call it). The webbing was given a base-coat made from a mix of khaki and mid green, and a bit of white was added for highlights.<\/p>\n

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For the uniforms I decided to mix it up a bit to create a rag-tag look. Some would be in green, some in duck-hunter, some in a mix of the two. For the green just choose your favourite olive drab colour. For the camouflage the base colour was a 50\/50 mix of khaki and white. And then blobs of chocolate brown and mid-green were randomly dotted all over.<\/p>\n

The sprues themselves give a good mix of poses. I managed to get a good variety, even better with a slight bit of chopping up. I\u2019ve given each squad a sergeant (armed with a Thompson), two BARs, and nine M1-armed infantry.<\/p>\n

I also scratch-built a flamethrower using bits from the sprue.<\/p>\n

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The motivation is still there so I\u2019m making head-way in painting these whilst I can. I will need a few more to complete a platoon. And I will also have to get some Japanese. So an order to Warlord will be made later in the year.<\/p>\n

By the time it\u2019s all done and ready it will likely be 2020, so for next year some WW2 games will be in the offing.<\/p>\n

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