Something big and hairy has obviously bitten Russ on the butt - and I think its the Normandy Bug! He has placed probably the single biggest order I've ever seen (at least the biggest since I bought my US WW2 army!).
How big? Lets just say that Andy at Heroics and Ros was last seen puffing on a huge Havana cigar - the one they roll on the thighs of young Cuban virgins as the sun sets over Havana - while checking out his stock portfolio on his brand new iPad 3.
Having said that, Russ checked out how much the same army would cost from GHQ and it came to 3 times the price!! So H&R are still by far the cheapest and (for me) the best purveyor of affordable 6mm WW2 troops and vehicles.
I did say to Russ that - in assorted boxes in my Big Room of Stuff (aka my painting / model / dumping ground room) that I probably had 95% of the list below - albeit either unpainted or needing repainting. But - rightly - I think he'd rather collect and paint his own WW2 army than paint mine for free! (damn! I nearly got away with it too, if it hadn't been for those pesky kids).
So stand back readers, and take in the full glory of a ma-hassive British late war army.
12 x Sherman Firefly
8 x Sherman DD
6 x Stuart M5 Tank
19 x Sherman M4 A3
2 x Sherman Crab
2 x Scorpion Mine Clearer
2 x Churchill A.V.R.E Petard
2 x Churchill ARK Mk1
1 x Churchill Carpet Layer
2 x Caterpillar D8 Dozer
3 x Bedford Office Body
8 x S.A.S Jeep x 2
16 x Bedford QLT
25 x Universal Carrier
5 x British Command Strip
7 x British Infantry
4 x British Heavy Weapons
25 x Bedford QLT
9 x 6 Pdr Guns
9 x 17 Pdr AT Guns
8 x 25 Pdr Field Guns
9 x 40mm Bofors
27 x Quad Tractor
9 x Bofors Morris Tractor
6 x M3 Halftrack
6 x Daimler Scout Car
36 x Landing Craft
Luckily these are in 6mm. If that was for FoW we'd need an ballroom to set the table up in and Russ would have to re-mortgage the house to pay for them. But it seriously again gives an indication as to why 6mm works for us. In larger scales (15mm to 28mm) then a Normandy landing would mean a skirmish at one end of a beach. In 6mm we are doing the whole of Sword Beach as well as Pegasus Bridge on the same table (the Brits need to relieve the Paras holding the bridge as one of their objectives).
I don't know how he's going to paint them all (I'd be tempted to just put the lot in a pot of dark green paint and give it a shake!). Knowing Russ, these will turn out superbly but that is an awful lot of metal to paint by October. Not that I can talk as I'm the one whose going to do most of the Normandy scenery (hedges, bunkers, roads, hedges, fields, hedges, barbed wire, river banks, hedges...). And then there's the 6mm ancients, samurai, the new Napoleonics, the AWI stuff....(*wraps a cold flannel round his head).
How big? Lets just say that Andy at Heroics and Ros was last seen puffing on a huge Havana cigar - the one they roll on the thighs of young Cuban virgins as the sun sets over Havana - while checking out his stock portfolio on his brand new iPad 3.
Having said that, Russ checked out how much the same army would cost from GHQ and it came to 3 times the price!! So H&R are still by far the cheapest and (for me) the best purveyor of affordable 6mm WW2 troops and vehicles.
I did say to Russ that - in assorted boxes in my Big Room of Stuff (aka my painting / model / dumping ground room) that I probably had 95% of the list below - albeit either unpainted or needing repainting. But - rightly - I think he'd rather collect and paint his own WW2 army than paint mine for free! (damn! I nearly got away with it too, if it hadn't been for those pesky kids).
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| Russ yesterday - with his order confirmation from Heroics and Ros. |
So stand back readers, and take in the full glory of a ma-hassive British late war army.
12 x Sherman Firefly
8 x Sherman DD
6 x Stuart M5 Tank
19 x Sherman M4 A3
2 x Sherman Crab
2 x Scorpion Mine Clearer
2 x Churchill A.V.R.E Petard
2 x Churchill ARK Mk1
1 x Churchill Carpet Layer
2 x Caterpillar D8 Dozer
3 x Bedford Office Body
8 x S.A.S Jeep x 2
16 x Bedford QLT
25 x Universal Carrier
5 x British Command Strip
7 x British Infantry
4 x British Heavy Weapons
25 x Bedford QLT
9 x 6 Pdr Guns
9 x 17 Pdr AT Guns
8 x 25 Pdr Field Guns
9 x 40mm Bofors
27 x Quad Tractor
9 x Bofors Morris Tractor
6 x M3 Halftrack
6 x Daimler Scout Car
36 x Landing Craft
Luckily these are in 6mm. If that was for FoW we'd need an ballroom to set the table up in and Russ would have to re-mortgage the house to pay for them. But it seriously again gives an indication as to why 6mm works for us. In larger scales (15mm to 28mm) then a Normandy landing would mean a skirmish at one end of a beach. In 6mm we are doing the whole of Sword Beach as well as Pegasus Bridge on the same table (the Brits need to relieve the Paras holding the bridge as one of their objectives).
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| These are waiting to kill all Russ' new tanks once he gets them on the table |
I don't know how he's going to paint them all (I'd be tempted to just put the lot in a pot of dark green paint and give it a shake!). Knowing Russ, these will turn out superbly but that is an awful lot of metal to paint by October. Not that I can talk as I'm the one whose going to do most of the Normandy scenery (hedges, bunkers, roads, hedges, fields, hedges, barbed wire, river banks, hedges...). And then there's the 6mm ancients, samurai, the new Napoleonics, the AWI stuff....(*wraps a cold flannel round his head).