Christmas Calendar - Final Entry

To give a proper end to the christmas calendar (and to this year), I´ve spent some more time today on completing the African Soldiers. Here is a range of pictures, staged as a fight between the woodland-camoed and the desert-camoed units:

Elite Units the NAM advancing against enemy positions

Osambi Mukutu in action

Defenders lying in Ambush positions behind the field

Waiting to strike...

I hope you enjoyed the calendar ;)
I wish everyone a happy new year!

Merry Christmas

Now, that´s the last mini that is going to be presented in daily installments of the christmas calendar.
Due to the crappy nature of the last few pics and the amount of figures that I´ve painted during the last weeks, I´ve decided that I´ll finish this calendar with a special set of bonus pictures, featuring all the minis that I´ve prepared on  New Years eve. In the meantime, we´ll enjoy our christmas holidays ;)

I promise that I´ll show you some proper pics of the last 4 gentlemen when I get home from my family-visit. Please have some patience until then.


So, apart from the Bonus pics I´ve promised above, what´s next on this blog after this little christmas project is finished? Here´s my list of things plannd for the next few weeks:

-I´m planning on writing an entry on our most recent addition to the campaign system, which should encourage taking strategic objectives on the map and add some interesting choices for the players.

-We´ll hopefully be able to resume the campaign sooner or later.We´re working on a solution to continue our latest game after we´ve been interrupted as I´ve moved in November .

-I´ll paint more Taliban and present the results here!

-I´ll add more buildings (especially more town-buildings, as I think I have enough farm & greenzone-terrain for the time being. And I´ll make some more courtyard/compound walls, as I lack some of these.

I hope that will suffice to keep you entertained for the next month or so!  If you don´t want to miss anything, you can subscribe - if you haven´t already.
Merry Christmas & a happy new year!

Christmas Calendar - 23

It´s coming to an end...

Todays guy is Safari-Man:

BGs Christmas Calendar - 22

Sorry for the crappy quality, won´t get better until christmas :(

BGs Christmas Calendar - 21

As now apocalypse has occured today, I´m obliged to post another picture.

I´ve decided to paint 4 Light Infantry/Special Forces Types (or maybe even Paramilitaries). As I´m visiting my family again for christmas, I had to prepaint all 4 minis & take fotos in advance, which is why I didn´t take the usual time for prepping the environment.

BGs Christmas Calendar - 19 & 20

Today I had the opportunity to catch up, so here are the two missing guys:

Crossfire!

No Pic Today

I just wanted to leave you a note for information: I´ve just returned home after being away since 8:30am (its now 11:20pm) - I haven´t had any time to paint a mini or do anything else at home today. You´ll have to wait until I find some time tomorrow to paint two figures. Just bare with me and have some patience ;)

Good night!

BGs Christmas Calendar - 18th Window

"Take Cover!"

BGs Christmas Calendar - 17th Window

Today we have another RPG-gunner. This was an accident, as I realized that I´ve already painted one in woodland camo and there´s usually only one in a typical NAM-squad according to my TOE...
On the other hand, the distribution of minis is such that there are more RPG-gunners than normal anyway. Guess some guys have picked up rebel weapons, or supplemented missing equipment through private means... a very special kind of african life insurance for soldiers.

But here we go:

BGs Christmas Calendar - 15 & 16

Now that I´ve done the painting - here are the guys No. 15  and 16 in a group footage:

BGs Christmas Calendar - Window 15

Hey guys,

I´m a bit delayed with this one, as I didn´t find the time yesterday. I thought I could paint another African at the morning, but time was short and I didn´t get to it before I went to our gaming club session.
This is good and bad news:

Bad: This means I´ll update this post later today with the picture once I get to paint.
Good: I´ve a whole lot of pictures of our FoF-game from yesterday for you, which will be up as an AAR sooner or later.

Hope this outweights the delay ;)

EDIT:

Here we go:  Minis 15+16 in a rare group picture!

BGs Christmas Calendar - 14th Window

Today it´s going to be quick and dirty again, without fancy stuff. I had to pimp my terrain which also took some time and have no motivation left to edit the picture to make it more shiny.

Somehow, the pictures look bad and not as good as in reality... :(
But here´s what I was working on today as well:

New Buildings - still drying, which is why they are somewhat spotty. It will go away.

Upgraded Compound Walls

BGs Christmas Calendar - Window 13

As you can see in yesterdays post, I´ve finished one squad (8 soldiers) of the regular NAM-Troopers. This means now is a good time to switch to the woodland camo-scheme. Unfortunately the pictures aren´t optimal to show the pattern...

And another one to see the detail:

BGs Christmas Calendar - Window 12

The first half of the calendar is already over. However, contrary to sports, I don´t take a break...

Thats our man for today.
And as all those poses are somehow repeating over and over, I´ll add another picture so you will believe me that I´m not posting the same minis over an over ;)

A Full NAM-Squad + Special Forces Team

Organisation-wise the NAM-squad will probably be split into one large Fireteam (3 AK + Support Weapon) and two Weapon teams. One of those will be an RPG-Team (RPG+Support Gunner) and the other one either an MG team (PKM + Ass. Gunner) or a Sniper Team (Dragunov + Spotter).

Even when running on low ammo (-1 FP) this will give them a lot of firepower:
4 Dice for the Fireteam (4 + Support - Low Ammo), and 3-5 FP for the Weapon teams (2 men + Support Weapon (if used) + 2 WT Bonus -1 Low Ammo)

BGs Christmas Calendar - 11th Window

Almost halfway through ;)

Heres the guy (its the prone figure):

As the postures will be repeating again and again from now on, I´ll probably switch to the US woodland camo scheme for the last 5 Figures. I guess my african country is pretty short on cash and in the process of replacing the old camoscheme (US woodland) with a new one (Malonga Bush Camo) - but this leaves troops with a mix of schemes. Or maybe the NAM uses two different camos for jungle and bush terrain, but  the current crisis left no time to order more stocks for the lighter camo...

BGs Christmas Calendar - 10th Window

And number 10:

A NAM soldier taking cover in the fields

BGs Christmas Calendar - 9th Window

Take Cover!

BGs Christmas Calendar - 8th Window

From the training camps of Djigutu...

RPG!

Again, a little more quick & dirty than usual...

BGs Christmas Calendar - 7th Window

A somewhat late update for today, but here it is:

As I am visiting my familiy this weekend, this & two other guys where pre-painted yesterday to enable a frictionless calendar experience for you ;)

BG Christmas Calendar - 6th Window

And here we go:

Another Bonus Pic for today:

Soldiers of NAM engaging the enemy