I've spent too long staring at code today, so I've put off the last of the painting of bazooka teams until tomorrow. However, this does mean I've had time to
pretty much finish sorting and tidying everything else, base a couple of stands of LCVP passengers and actually make some more beach ramps.
Still to do tomorrow: paint the last details, base and label the remaining bazooka teams, paint and base the Higgins Boat passengers, print off the rest of the player handouts, the relevant pages of the original scenario, and a couple of 'boat sections go ashore in THIS order' sheets, find some more D8s (I know I have loads in the Deadzone box), lay the scenery boards out just to check I'm not mussing anything and then stack 'em, find the two pull up banners (one for the game, one club).
This is kind of what Bloody Omaha packs down to (except for the boards which will be in tomorrow's post).
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First batch of Higgins Boat passengers. These are purely for the look of the thing, but I found them, so... |
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Hopefully Anne won't ask why we're short on kebab skewers. I honestly can't remember the last time we had kebabs, so... Quick couple of minutes with a razor saw and file, superglued at the join, black Halfords primer, heavy zenithal dusting of AP Fur Brown. Lazy but effective. |
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Top box is all 18 boat sections (minus their bazooka teams), plus the Navy engineer teams, all the American Big Men (and sabot bases), and medics. Bottom has what feels like several miles of barbed wire and minefield markers. |
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Reference library, rule book and QRS, big dice, shock and kill micro dice, pin and other markers, tape measures, scatter lichen, dice tray. |
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Bottom layer, Higgins Boats (and eventually passengers), bunkers, beach ramp obstacles (15 - possibly need more but we're out of kebab skewers :D), custom activation deck (partly to pack the bunkers in and stop them bending their guns!). Top layer, explosion markers, beach mine stakes (38 - probably enough now) and hedgehogs (22 - not enough), Sherman DD's. |
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Germnan mortar teams, small pillboxes, Tobruks and MG34 gunners, US kill markers (basically if a team gets really messily wiped out, their base gets replaced with one of those). Empty tray for bazooka teams when they're done. (Note to self,. need to free up another 4L box). |
"Lazy but effective." - Never, I won't have a bad word said against you !!!! . They do look good, hope it went well today (Sunday).
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