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Well I have finally started some 6mm BKC armies for WW2... Only several years in the waiting!

Our first game...

http://www.guildwargamers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic....

And the two armies were painted in a few hours during the day before the game. Gotta love 6mm... Only takes a couple of hours to paint a whole army!

Piers

I think that a double 1 rolled when calling artillery brings it in dead on target (with no deviation roll)? Not twice!

Nice one, Piers - the table looks very good

Double 1 on requested artillery strikes halves the deviation.

We dont play artillery double 1's like that... Deviation halving is too soft, its for girls!

We play that hit symbol on the die results in a direct hit and double 1 is two salvos... Much more fun and bloody.

Excellent! A very bad day for the yanks

Very nice, mate, very nice...good to see you back here too

Cheers Nik... Lots more BKC to come...

More Germans and Yanks for Late-War, some early and Mid war Russkies, some early/mid war Germans in grey and possibly a little British force too!

Slowly building up the forces to have 4000 points of each.

Plus the added benefit is all the US stuff can get used for my Indo-Pakistan War armies!

Coolio - I'm looking at early Eastern Front at the moment - July '41 in 6mm & November '41 in 10mm...will have the advantage of 'portability' for 6mm Germans [lots of kit useable for France / Poland] & 10mm Germans in winter kit [Norway methinks]

Whose figures are you using - I'm guessing Navwar or Scotia?

A mix of both... I aint got the urge to paint any infantry at the moment... Im just using the stuff I did for the moderns!

In 6mm no-one seems to notice any difference... Though I do have a battalion of Germans waiting to be painted. I may get a few Yanks to paint up, but as I have loads done for Moderns, Im using them for now... Plus I prefer painting the tanks!

So its DD-Tanks and KV-1s tonight...

Then I await a load of bases to arrive to get on with the rest of the Russkies (hordes of T-34/76s) and yet more Shermans... Plus a few grey Germans bits as a chance to do something different.

Also got another 25 buildings to paint too!

Careful Nik...

We'll soon have you converted to 6mm

Nah - never happen

I love my 10s too much - but sometimes there are limitations on kit - most of which seems to have been covered by 6mm manufacturers over the years; and, if you're looking at large forces, there is a significant difference in price as well of course!

I've spent the morning tidying up my games room - and have discovered that I have actually got quite a bit of 6mm kit:

FWC / Epic: Imperial Guard & Eldar
FWC: Brigade Models Eurofed & Pacfed
CWC: USMC, US HDV, Chinese PLA, SADF, Angolans, West German & Czech...

No WW2 yet though

Yet - being the operative word

Come on over to the dark side Nik!

6mm is the way...

Appeals to my 'paint an army in a day' lifestyle...

I buy GHQ and Adler, so I feel the urge to lovingly paint them in a way that shows off all of the details of these beautiful figures. It means it takes me a long time to paint them but I'm happy with the results. It does make me envious though of those who can crank out armies at a drop of a hat.

I cant afford GHQ... But those I have painted, I find the extra detail makes them even quicker to paint as the model works to your advantage.

Base colour, wash, re-highlight with original base colour followed by drybrushed highlights of base colour with a buff or off-white.

Job done.

"Appeals to my 'paint an army in a day' lifestyle..."

Rock 'n roll, baby

Seeing as how you don't want your 10mm stuff anymore, I can find you a good home for it

I do have a load of 10mm US Airborne...

Drop me a PM on AA forum if ya are interested mate.

Done - speak soon