Winter WW2 US

 Focus Project; No

   Another post that has come as a surprise to both you and me. I bought a WW2 winter Americans a couple of years back when I was feeling flush and we were playing quite a bit of Bolt Action. Then Waylands closed their gaming centre and the 3rd edition of the rules came out and we just didn't pick the game back up.

   Now, however, my wife has a friend who it turns out is a gamer. He currently only plays LotR but he would like to get into Bolt Action, so I'm putting on a quick demo for him using the theatre that interests him - The Battle Of The Bulge - and it felt right to get the correct troops painted up.

   I've painted a real minimum platoon just to give him a feel for the rules - 2, hopefully, historically accurate squads of 12 men and a lieutenant with mates for some mobile punch.

   I'm also fairly sure I've got the base uniform slightly wrong - possibly the brown trousers by this point, but I'm happy with how they look.

Will the next post be the first focus project post of the year? Who knows.

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The Bullgryns

Focus Project; No

   I am very much still struggling with painting time - work is mental at the moment and a fair bit of my hobby time is fitted between jobs as a screen break - while the rest of my "not parenting time" is spent either running or at Wayland Games. At no point will you see me complain that I am now gaming again, but it has meant my backlog of painting isn't getting much better*.

*read as much much worse

   On that note, I have a game lined up for later this week where I plan to use my Imperial Guard. My opponent is going to be deep striking Terminators behind my line, so I wanted a unit to be able to deal with them, even if deal with just means a substantial speed bump. The idea I came up with was 6 Bullogryns - abhuman mutants that the Imperium uses for their sheer bulk. 

   I already had 3 from a past project that I repainted the trousers a few years back to match my Hervictus infantry but now I wanted a full 6 and to tidy them up properly.

   The Imperium is currently losing our campaign, so lets see if I can help or hinder their cause with my Guard.

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