I have five more bases of rifles currently under way as well as four bases of snipers (lurkers?). I also put the base coat on a small box that will be a command bunker (i.e., a camp) for both sides. I just need to see about putting together some additional features to make it look realistic.
Up next: More 1/72 WW1 British. Maybe I'll put together the artillery I have for each side this weekend for a distraction. And the club is Tuesday night.
The battle was the first have of Chesapeake Bay from the AWI, where the French drove off the English which trapped a large army at Yorkton (I think). The British are on the left and the French are on the right in these pictures. The game opened with the lines moving into range. The French managed to get in front of the British which caused an interested curving towards the left of the battle. 
The battle then broke into two melees (foreground and aft). The foreground saw a British ship strike early which pretty much determined the outcome of that fight. In the aftground, the British lead ship is surrounded and fire poured down onto it. Alas, the French could not hit anything at the beginning of the game (nine shots and nothing hits!). This was a much more even fight where both sides were stuck in. 
It looked like a French victory as the shooting dice swung the other way but the British fought back and a series of strikes late in the game gave the British a marginal victory. A good time and the game easily accommodates four players.
Up next: A bunch of WW1 Brits are in various stages of painting and basing for HiTT. I'll then need to look at this box of stuff Tim sent to see what should follow.
After much fretting, I decided "screw it, we'll see what happens" and primed black, blocked in the colours and dipped. The end result turned out much better than I thought it would.
There are two bases of six infantry each in marching poses. The frontages are 60mm and I put six figures on a base because, well, I had a dozen and four looks too sparse. In my mind, there are green troops marching up from the rear to reinforce the line. Later bases (with more active poses) will have four figures per base (casualties being what they were).
For 40+ year old sculpts, there is a nice amount of detail. I didn't pick some of it out (e.g., pack clasps) because I was going for a relatively simple paint job (there are a lot of these figures!). I also ended up sealing the hell out of these figures (three coats of Future) because I fear paint chipping on the riffle barrels.
Some of the figures I am painting now have quite a lot of flash. Some I have carved off (above the waist). The rest I have left alone (around the putties) and we'll see how that looks. It is inaccessible and the soft plastic can be hard to trim. Below you can see my troops turned out with the "rest" of the army so far. 
Up next: I'm off to game with Bruce tonight. On the painting table are about 10 more units of WW1 British infantry. I'll then shift to some horse artillery and support weapons. I see I'm over the 1800 figures painted threshold, aiming for 2000 this year!
It looks like there are later war British and German troops as well as support weapons plus some artillery for both sides. What I need now are some cavalry units and a German tank plus I will build some special units (wire, gas clouds, etc). 
Nothing special here. Mostly some Imex extras that didn't necessarily make neat units while I was painting the bulk of the troops.
I ended up tossing out a fair number (40?) troops where the poses or scaling were just too awful to bother with. I don't normally do that but life is too short to paint crappy sculpts.
Up next: I have a bunch of 1/76 WW1 British on the go and have my first two units nearing completion. The rest of the forces have the flesh done and I will block in the colours over the course of the week. After that--who knows.
We arrived early (around 10am) and the hall was a bit spared for displays. We did see some amazing vignettes. Above is a Panzer 4 on the Russian front. And below is another Panzer 4 on the western front. It looked as if the fellow was modelling all version of this tank as there were many others.
This Russian tank was quite cool and had a very effective bit of staging. Reminds me of Matchbox kits as a kid. There were also track links from various tanks, helmets and shells. It was fun to explain to Jess how the shells worked. 
There were also more involved dioramas, such as this Berlin, 1945 ones. Truly, amazing model skills. Useless from a gaming perspective but amazing work nonetheless.
Up next: I have some 1/72 AWI Americans I will base this afternoon. And I have some 1/76 WW1 Brits underway. I'm doing these in small batched of 12 or 16.
These are old micromachines. They are a tiny bit small compared to the West End Games figures that comprise most of the army but they are a better fit that the giant titanium series speeder bikes I presently have.
All they needed was a wash and some basing and off they go to shoot up some Ewoks. I'm quite excited by these Star Wars armies and will likely use them at MayDay next year.
I also have a base of rebel bikers. I'll use all of these in HoTT and likely classify them as riders. I have snow speeders classified as flyers so that makes some sense to me.
I also have a base of WW1 biplanes for my HiTT army. These were a kind donation from a TMPer (including decals!) and are 6mm. I think HiTT classifies these as fighters. 
Up next: I'm off to the Edmonton international AFV model show this morning with child in tow so I hope to have some pictures of that to post. I also have some 1/72 AWI guys being based (the last of the Americans) and I have primered a bunch of 1/76 British WW1 troops. Need to figure out uniform and webbing colours for these fellows (brown? green? khaki?).
