Sunday, June 14, 2015

6MMRPC Week Two: Another Display Board

Display boards have become a staple at Historicon and I need to put together a new one for my Early War list I'm bringing to FoW Nationals.  Because of several factors I haven't had time to paint a Japanese force for the event and have had to reuse the Fallschirmjägers from two years ago. The list is a glider-borne assault pionier list at 1390 points.

I still need to paint a platoon of four 3.7cm PaK36s, an 8cm Gw34 mortar stand, an observer team and an Objective, plus three more 8cm mortars to swap onto the existing stands so they are the correct type.  The display board will be mounted into the frame I used last year, and I had the MDF and foam left over and ready to go. Some of the bases for the FJ have cobblestones and I wanted to have a section of the board match but I also wanted to match the rubble bases as well. Part of the board will have a bombed town and the other part will be a farm / vineyard.  Since these are glider troops I also want a landed DFS 230 on the board, in the vineyard. Some wall sections I picked up from the swap meet at Historicon will do nicely as accent pieces and will go with my previously constructed Objective.

Basic layout so far, the cobbled road will run along the walled courtyard. 
Wanted to get more done this week but the wife is on temporary military duty out of state and my boys have kept me busy. Next week I'll have some paint to show. Promise!

Also, thanks to Battlefront for mentioning my blog on their website!  I'm greatly humbled that anyone there has noticed this little hobby log of mine. 

10 comments:

  1. I love me some display bases :-). I'm planning on for September as well.

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    1. Nice. I remember your stuff from an event in Vancouver about five years ago, great army. Historicon is the kind of event where you need to have something like this, or else I probably wouldn't bother. Flying halfway across the country with it was a pain last year.

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  2. Really looking forward to seeing this!!!

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  3. A display boards not something I have ever done. Looking forward to seeing some WiP shots!

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  4. Last one you did was very complimentary to the army displayed, am sure this one will not fail to impress likewise.

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    1. Thanks Dai. I'm looking forward to making the vineyard for sure.

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  5. The list is very ballsy, good luck with that and I am really looking forward to seeing this one ready.

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    1. Thanks. I'm not a huge fan of Early War, as I think the Germans struggle competitively. The only lists I like I would've had to build from scratch, and I ran out of time. I don't really think I'll win many games with this one, but I only had to paint one platoon. It'll be fun though!

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    2. That's what I think also. Too expensive troops. Japanese/French are better, hordes are something you don't have time/power to kill fast enough and those gun lines...

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    3. Yeah, really wanted to take Japanese to this event.

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