BUF Men

 Here are some more BUF soldiers to join the BUF women.  I converted these from the Wargames Atlantic WWII Italians I posted on a while back.  It's unlikely I'd do much with them as WWII Italians, so repurposing them for VBCW seemed appropriate.  Especially as I feel it's better to make the BUF from recycled Italian fascisti, rather than spending new money on them.  I replaced their M33 helmets with WWI Russian peaked caps.  And of course as Mosley copied his BUF blackshirts from Mussolini's camicie nere, these blokes are all wearing black.

These troops are led by the local squire, a very pompous and self-important man.

In addition to the squire (who leads from the rear), they have a junior officer to put in front of the troops.

The BUF have an Italian Breda medium machine gun.  Where did the British fascists get an Italian MMG?  Does it matter?  Let's say that Mussolini wants to support his good friend Mosley.

However for a light machine gun, the BUF have managed to get their hands on a Bren gun!

And of course the rank and file.

Feldgendarmerie

 In 02h00, the German defenders come in two varieties:  sentries, who are regular German army (Wehrmacht), who are marginally better at combat (shooting), and the Feldgendarmerie or Military Police, who are slightly better at observation and spotting intruders.  In order to make it easy for players to know which of their figures are sentries and which are feldgendarmerie, I decided that the feldgendarmerie will all wear greatcoats.

Of course the real uniform distinction for the feldgendarmerie is their big, dinner-plate sized gorget plates.  I've added these to the figures where I could, but for game purposes the greatcoats will be the easiest way to identify them.

Most of these figures are German infantry in greatcoats, given to me by Doug.  I think but am not certain that they may be from Warlord Games.  If you can confirm their origin, please let me know in the comments below!  The last feldgendarm (the one with the flashlight) is from the Wargames Atlantic German sentries sprue that comes with the 02h00 base set.  

They look cold and miserable!  These are the rifle-armed ones.  Gorget plates are added from the WA sentries sprue.

And the rest.  Chap on the right is Wargames Atlantic.

I also built these two dog handlers.  Dogs are very useful to help the defender spot intruders and raise the alarm.

And here are the remaining guards from the sprues.  The prisoner has great potential for a variety of scenarios!

Finally, a scientist.  Some day I will need to learn how to paint things to look like glass, like this Erlenmeyer flask.  Today is not that day!

Characters

 Here are a few character models that I've just finished up.

First up are a couple of French resistance fighters from Wargames Atlantic Digital, printed by Only Games.  Officially these are WWII French Resistance, but I anticipate they will show up in gangster and other games.  

The one on the right reminds me of a certain sight gag from the movie, Top Secret!

This bloke was fun to paint up.  He's a Reaper Miniatures model that Doug gave us.  His headgear reminds me of Tim the Enchanter from Monty Python and the Holy Grail!

Medieval clergy, cargo containers and a mock vargr

 Arthur and I visited Imperial Hobbies last week, so of course I made some impulse purchases.  First up, I picked up a pack of early medieval clergy from Bob Murch's 1066 line.  Although they are intended for 1066, I will take advantage of the timelessness of their garb to use them in more modern settings, whenever a monk or nun would fit in.

I slightly modified the Mother Superior - she has a greenstuff veil added on top of her wimple (hopefully I got those terms correct!).

My other purchase was a pair of MDF containers from Canadian company Xolk.  I liked them so much I sent in an order to the company for more!  They go together very quickly and paint up easily.  They will do nicely as scatter terrain in the cargo hold for starship boarding actions.

Our recently started Traveller RPG campaign includes a vargr NPC, so I decided to convert one of Fletch's 3d printed werewolves to represent him.  This is clearly not an accurate representation, as vargr are typically shorter then humans, with an average height of only 1.6 m.  So this is a particularly jacked vargr, as he is notably taller and bulkier than Captain Handsome!

Conversion was minor, I replaced his arms with a flamer and a left hand from the bits box.

3D printed resin is regrettably a bit brittle.  You can see that this poor vargr was dropped and his ears were chipped!

As you can see, the Xolk containers have nice detail on the ends.  They can be built with the doors open, but I chose to keep them closed.

 Next week is Trumpeter Salute - I'll hopefully fit in lots of gaming :)

More Dangerous Dames and some other stuff

 I finished up a few miniatures from my backlog.  Partly inspired by the upcoming Mad Dogs with Guns Gangster campaign, I finished up some of the backlogged Pulp Figures' Dangerous Dames, along with a couple vehicles and some scatter terrain.  Plus a couple figures from the lead mountain!

First up, some Pulp Figures.  Central three are from the 2020 Dangerous Dames kickstarter (gradually clearing out the backlog!).  I call the lady on the left "the ornithologist", she might end up being a interfering busybody/helpful citizen who can inform the police (or the press) about illicit goings on in Chicago as our gangster run rampant!

These three are French resistance fighters from the Wargames Atlantic 3D STL print files (printed by Only Games).  However they are sufficiently generic that they could also end up in gangland rumbles!

A couple of figures that finally got cleaned up.  The winter soldier is HLBS British intervention in the Russian Civil War (now Tiger Miniatures) - unfortunately the rest of his unit has since disappeared from my collection!  The ranger on the right is one of Faramir's rangers of Ithilien, suitable for any sort of fantasy gaming.

And finally a couple of vehicles and bits of scatter terrain.  The Company B Model T has been sitting around for many years!  It is one of three that I bought 15 years ago.  One of the three was converted into an Armoured Autocar, and the other was chopped up to make a minefield look authentic.  The driver was converted from a Warlord Games US GI jeep driver, with a headswap with a Wargames Atlantic resistance fighter.  The tractor is an MDF creation from Sarissa.

And finally some bits of scatter terrain from JTFM.  Can never have too much scatter terrain!

Top view to show off the bed of the Model T.

Petrukha and the Shield Maidens

 No, not a band headlining at the local pub, just some figures I finished painting over the weekend :)

First up are the four shieldmaidens from Wargames Atlantic 3D/Only Games.  Playing to stereotypes, all four are blondes.  It was fun to paint slightly more colourful clothing for a change!  No particular plans for these, they may show up in a fantasy or dark ages game sometime.

Next up is my take on Petrukha, the naïve young soldier assigned to assist Comrade Sukhov in White Sun of the Desert.  I simply took one of the Wargames Atlantic WWI Russians with a budenovka hat.  This model doesn't look quite as young as the actor in the movie, but for me, he's close enough!.