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Monday, 14 July 2014

German Ostfront Grenadiers Complete

This is officially the Year of Finishing Unfinished Projects here at Chez Millsy. Thus far things are well and truly on track and the following is proof - my completed Flames of War 2000pt Eastern Front German Grenadier army for Mid/Late War.

Over the last few weeks I've finished the following:

Full grenadier platoon one

Full grenadier platoon two

120mm heavy mortars

Machine guns

That gives me a really solid force when combined with all the completed support and weapons platoons. All up the force consists of the following:

HQ plus attachments
Full grenadiers
Full grenadiers
MGs
120mm heavy mortars
Light infantry guns
Heavy infantry guns
PaK 36s (4)
PaK 36(r)s (4)
1/2 battery of nebelwefers (3)
Full black pioneers with goliath
StuG Gs (3)
Marder Is (2)

I've gone for a sort of Spring/Summer woodland theme on the bases with plenty of exposed earth and some weeds/flowers/grass tufts amongst all the rock and broken trees.

When laid out it takes up a fair bit of space as you can see from the following (which is sans armour and a few transports as well).

I'm well chuffed to have this finished. The grenadiers were horribly miscast to the tune of about one in five miniatures and required significant work to get them up to something like usable. They are the main reason it took so long to get this army complete. They're quite nice sculpts but the end product was of such inferior quality I won't be buying Forged in Battle miniatures again. A shame really as they are much better value than Battlefront.

Cheers,

Millsy

Savage Orc Army Update

I've been putting off basing work for some time now. I find it really tedious and will do most anything to avoid it. The inevitable consequence is that when I DO get round to it I have a pile to do and that was the case with the Savage Orcs.

So anyway, over the last couple of evenings I've knuckled down and completed everything that has been painted to date. And here they are, photographed in the lovely afternoon sunshine yesterday...

Da Red Arrerz. Dakka dakka!

Da Bloo Skullz. Big 'Uns with extra hand weapons and Da Idol of Gork. Or maybe Mork.

Da (Not So) Big Waaagh

Next up I need to paint some vanilla boyz...

Cheers,
Millsy

100K Giveaway winners

Thanks everyone for the wonderful comments on our 100K milestone. Now that the cut-off date for entries into the giveaway has passed we can announce the results thanks to good old random.org.

If your name appears below please use the contact form on the right-hand side of the blog to forward your full name and address so we can get your loot into the post.

Prize ONE
Won by..... Johnny Rosbif!

Prize TWO
Won by..... Natholeon!

Prize THREE
Won by..... Pat G!

Prize FOUR
Won by..... Robert Hingley!

Winners have 7 days to claim their prizes or we'll pass to the next individual in each draw.

Thanks again to everyone who took part and congratulations to the winners!

Cheers,
Millsy

Saturday, 12 July 2014

100K Giveaway - Now in the Home Stretch!

The C&G lads are celebrating 100,000 page views, and there are only seven and a half hours to go before the Canister & Grape 100K Giveaway closes at midnight, Australian Eastern Standard Time!

Get your entries in here and you could win your choice of one of the four great prizes up for grabs - don't delay, enter now!

Cheers,

Ev

Saturday, 5 July 2014

100K and a giveaway

Right then, so sometime over the last 24 hours we coasted through the 100K page views mark on the blog.
As you'd expect the increasing number of followers (now 175) and the increasing number of posts (282, with Evan more than doing his share) is helping that along significantly. That aside, we are immensely grateful for all our wonderful blogging mates who pop by and leave comments and participate in our madness.

Having hit the milestone it's time for the bit of the old giveaway madness that we all love so much.
We're going to stick with the tried ans tested rules for getting yourself into the prize draw.

The rules
Do each of the following for one entry in the draw and up to three if you do the lot.

Leave a comment on this post telling us which prizes you would like in order of preference.
Provide a link back to this post from your own wonderful blog.
Become a new follower of the blog.

The draw
The compo closes at midnight AEST Saturday 12 July (one week from now). We'll use a suitably random method for working our the lucky winners and post the results on Sunday morning.

Prizes

Prizes will be allocated based on people's preferences. Once you have won something you'll be out of the running for any remaining prizes i.e. one prize per person only. The first winner gets to choose from the lot, the second winner the two remaining prizes, etc.

Here's the loot...