Today's Worktable

Today's WIP are all plastic. in front are 19 Lace Wars 18th century pieces. Some will be like the 3 partially painted grenadiers, but most will be a mix of French line and grenadiers.

In the back is Blackpool from Atomic Mass Games.  To his right are two British in tropical kit.
 

Once a King-Now a Judge of the Dead

Minos, mortal son of Zeus, once king of Crete of labyrinth and Minotaur fame. Bringer of law to Crete.

Upon his death was appointed one of the three Judges of the Dead!

In Hades, his was the deciding third vote, for he was the arbitrator when 

his two stepbrothers Aeacus and Rhadamanths could not make a decision on a soul's placement in Hades.

 This is a plastic piece from Mystic Battle that I finished yesterday.

Late War Germans

All that's left of a German squad in 1945, two men with and MG42, a soldier and an officer armed with the StG 44 Assault Rifles, all excellent weapons, but too little to stop the Russian juggernaut.

I normally don't paint Late War Germans, but these were a freebie pack I put together and painted in 2019.

 

Commando Raid

Australian elite Jungle Commando's gave the Japanese a run for their money in the Pacific Theater.

Armed with a mixy of rifles Bren Gun LMG and the excellent Owens 9mm submachinegun, the Aussies were trained to hit fast and hard. The Owens was an Australian design that was both rugged and reliable. It saw action with the Aussies from 1939 World War Two too Vietnam.

I painted them in June 2019
 

Truck-ATG Light Mobile Firepower

The M6 37mm Gun Motor Carriage (GMC) An early war attempt to give mobile anti-tank ability to US troops.

Before the War, the 37mm ATG and other like pieces (like the British2 pdr) was the standard ATG of the World's major Armies.

By 1942, it was way too underpowered to take on the latest European Theater tank designs.

Still the tried-and-true 37mm was used in a variety of vehicles till the end of the War.

The 5100+ M6 37mm GMC's, while rarely in US service in the last years of the War, continued to see service with the French forces to the very end of the Second World War.

These are resin and metal pieces that I finished this week.
 

WWII WIP

Mostly World War Two. In front lone US Marine, 5 IJN soldiers and a M16 MGC-quad .50 cal. AA halftrack (3D printed) affectionally known as a "Meatchopper." Directly behind the Meatchopper is a squad of Imperial SNLF (plastic).

To the rear of the M16 are two 20mm terminators (plastic), a couple of completed IJA soldiers (plastic), a mounted samurai (plastic and metal) and a British officer (metal).  Yes, now days I like to paint a variety of pieces and periods.
 

1941-News from the Fronts

From the Pacific, a squad of valiant Philippine Constabulary hold back the Japanese hordes long enough for American forces to retreat towards Bataan.

While in North Africa, 8th Army Sikhs advance against the Axis in another victorious British campaign.

And in Russia, a commissar directs his messenger to take the latest commands to the Soviet forces in the Great Patriotic War.

                  These are all plastic pieces that I painted in August of 2019.