Trip to "The Other Partisan"

Simon from the club very generously offer to drive us over to Newark for "The Other Partisan" so Andy and myslef joinied him for the trip. It was a great day out and here are the pictures I took (captions to foloow)

Progress against plan 3Q24

Well on the way to ending the year with 2,226 items completed, however about two thirds of those were reworking/rebasing.

Compared to my much looser plan than usual I have done the following:

1. Rework/Rebase as many figures as possible - underway but still plenty to do
2. Enhance/Add some new forces to the collection - still looking, but I've still not seen anything to tempt me into a new period, but tempted by Gangs of Rome or some variant on Wild West gangs.
3. Maintain or ideally reduce the stash - had another purge on ebay this quarter
4. Exploit the 3D Printer - Just completed a new print run using 8K resin with very good results for figures. The Creality FDM printer I bought for terrain wouldn't work and neither would its replacement so I'm back considering what to do
5. Enjoy Games & Shows - underway with plenty of trips. The Other Partizan and Recon are planned.

Amplifying the above:

1. Rework/Rebase as many figures as possible.

• Start on the Napoleonics (this may take a couple of years to do) - I made a start on the British last year - I've completed the British, Portuguese, Brunswick and Spanish plus my figures for skirmish games. French are now well underway
• WW2 Winter Russians - Completed
• Early War German Fallschirmjager - Completed

2. Enhance/Add some new forces to the collection in no particular order

• 15mm DBA Italian wars army (for the forthcoming inter-club tournament) - bought a Hungarian army but it didn't have all the necessary options, so I sucessfully used some borrowed "Florentines" for the games - This project is now shelved and the Hungarians sold off
• 28mm Female Gunfighters - not started yet
• Add a unit of WW2 Japanese SNLF - Completed
• Extra units for the Crusades - Completed
• French Dragoons for Egypt 1800 - Completed
• Modify the SYW Austrian Grenz to use for Prussian Frei Korps - I bought some specific figures and have just printed them
• Some extra Aztecs for skirmish games - not started yet, but I have trialled a couple of 3D printed figures
• Various figures and terrain need for Montgisard 1177 - completed and sucessfully ran the game at both Vapnartak and Phalanx, but I now need to think of a new scenario to offer
• WW2 BEF infantry (I plan to 3D print the extra needed figures, etc.) - I decided that the print files available were not good enough so the project has been shelved.

3. Continue to clear out all unwanted items, including painted figures

• Re-assess each existing period, army, and units to consider if I am really going to use them - Sold off my Boxers and Wind & Lion colonials among several others
• Reduce the stash (figure and plastic bits box) from 4 crates to 3 - Reduced to 3 crates but still more to do
• review my 1/300 collection and decide its fate - Cleared out all my old WW1 and WW2

4. 3D Printing - the bulk of my immediate needs have been printed so I will work on

• gradually replace existing diecast and other poor quality AFVs in my collection - slowly underway
• components for houses and other terrain - not started yet - I was hoping to use the FDM printer for this
• work on how to make/modify files to meet my specific needs - underway, I've enhanced my 1/80 Waco and I've created a similar bath-tubbed Horsa glider that has printed OK and now been painted

5. Gaming

• Continue supporting the Beacon Club and attending as many weekend events as possible - underway only two weekends missed so far due to other commitments
• Attend at least as many shows as last year - The list of shows completed are Vapnartak, Hammerhead, the Easter big game. Now attended Phalanx and Attack this summer.

On the workbench - October 2024

The year is rushing by and so I plan to work on:

• Complete the 28mm ECW gun crew I 3D printed now I have also printed a gun
• A British desert and Russian Model T for WW1
• Finish the Crusader gun tractors now I have sorted out the markings
• Rebase the Imperial Guard and other Allied Guards including the newly 3D printed command figures
• Rebase the remaining French Line Infantry, this will include repainting some Guardsmen and Grenadiers
• paint the 3D printed Napoleonic Austrian Commanders
• Maybe restart the 3D Resin Printer using 8K resin to produce some more figures

British Horsa Gliders

Just in time I finished painting my four 3D printed Horsa gliders for the Wargamers Forum Arnhem Speed build.

Painting the invasion stripes took a considerable time, when I last painted one (link) it came with decals for this as well. AS a reminder the Horsas are bath-tubbed by reducung the length and wingspan to 1/100 scale while the fuselage diameter is 1/80 just like my Wacos.

The only downside is that the models are tail heavy. I did debate modelling them with the undercarriage collapsed, but I thought I would wait till that happened with use.

Humber Light Reconnaissance Cars

I already had a single Ready to Roll Humber Light Reconnaissance Car, and I wanted to have a bigger unit, but I was never happy enough with it being the based, so I took the opportunity to buy the STL file in a recent sale and print off a batch. They are now painted and ready for action.

Backing them up are a Daimler and Staghound whose hulls had exploded and had to be replaced

Free French Tanakes

A blast from past with the old Rapid Fire books, a pair of Free French Tanake converted armoured Dodge trucks with either a 37mm or 47mm gun.

These were free 3D files found on Thingiverse, but I have yet to find the more heavily armoured "Conus"

Replacement hulls for Lanchester Armoured Cars

Yet again I have had to replace a couple of vehicles from my initial attempts at 3D printing. In this case the hulls developed a crack, one was too noticeable but the other was minor, so I decided to replace them both.

The original post is here (link)