Tales from the Dark Side

 Following on from the Millennium Falcon, my next small scale Star Wars build was this:

The "iconic" Sith Infiltrator. I reckon that it had about 15 seconds of screen time so I'm not sure how it could be considered iconic. Anyway, it was a simple enough build but nicely detailed. It even has a fully detailed cockpit with Darth Maul pilot that then gets sealed and completely concealed by the hull so it is a waste of time to paint. I still painted it, of course.

The official colour scheme contrasts a very light grey with a much darker one. I wasn't happy with that so I have toned down the lighter sections on mine:

Here it is side by side with the Falcon. The Falcon is 1/241 whereas the Infiltrator is 1/257 but they sit together well enough. And again, sort of 6mm scale.

I mentioned in a previous post that, following an American War of Independence game, I had a notion to make a certain Hessian mercenary. A few weapon swaps with some Irregular Vikings and I came up with these:

The Hessian in life. I thought that he would look better on a white horse.

The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow! Not sure how I would squeeze him into a game but he was a fun and quick little conversion.

The main gaming focus at the moment is on the Crisis Point weekend on 6-7 April. M'colleague Neil & I will be putting on a CWC2 game set in the fictional Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1948, the excellent campaign thought up by Richard Crawley and the basis of our games at Joy of Six last year. I thought that Bohemia in 1948 would look a bit battle scarred so, while waiting for a big Heroics & Ros order to arrive, I've been making a few terrain pieces.

A ruined farm, using Timecast buildings. I actually made this in 2010 and it has sat on my workstation since so I'm glad I finally got the ruddy thing done and out of the way.

An abandoned graveyard. Walls are Timecast, the graves a mix of Leven and Perfect Six. Plus a lot of flock and static grass.

Finally, a ruined church, a Battlescale sculpt. I tried to paint it to look like sandstone but don't think I've quite got there.

It's a nice scuplt though, with little details like this dismounted bell from the tower.

Next up will be a lot of tanks and mix & match kit for the postwar, pre revolution Czech army.