Objectives complete

I've finally finished my new objective counters. It was an interesting challenge and I've loved putting these little scene together, so much so, that I'm looking forward to seeing what other scenes I can create. Big thanks to the TOEMP challenge for pushing me to give these a try.

Sorry they're not the best pics, I really should have waited until daytime to take the pics but it's been a hell of a weekend and I wanted to do a little painting and blogging to wind down before I hit the much needed sack. Anyway, here's the pics.







I'm hoping to get the extra command squad models done for Tuesday, the latest TEOMP deadline, but that depends on whether I can keep Real Life (TM) getting in the way of the important stuff ;-)

On the Real Life (TM) stuff, I'm knackered and by that I mean properly knackered. The wife and I had a weekend away with friends and last night was a late one. We finally got to sleep at 6am after a night of clubbing and laughing, then the hotel reception rang us at 9.30am with our wake up call. I'm really surprised that I've even finished these and blogged about it tonight.

Anyway, whilst on our way down to Brum on a cold, spitting, bitter October morning, we pulled in behind a guys cruising in his Porsche Boxster with his roof down. My lovely wife spotted his number plate and took a pic......


No question at the end of this one guys, I've decided that it makes the blog to much like an article and that just isn't me.

WIP Objectives

With the latest TOEMP challenge, I've put myself down for painting up the rest of my command squad. As I went for the easiest for the three possible challenges, I had to take a hard bonus challenge, which meant challenging myself with sculpting, body positioning, converting and parts swapping.

Well, there wasn't much chance to get this done as part of the command squad as they're pretty uniform models. So, I decided to add a set of 5 objective markers to my painting total.


When I first came up with the idea, I thought about what the average soldier would see as an objective. Stores and Whores came immediately came to mind, lacking any suitable whores, I decided to go with casualties instead.

The first two are just simple stores objectives, nothing fancy here. One of the boxes was damaged, so I had to do a little GS fixing.



Next up comes a simple casualty taking cover in some rubble, nothing fancy on this one.


The second casualty marker was a bit more involved. I used fuss wire to represent the drip line, so this casualty is getting aid in the field.


For the fifth and finally one, I wasn't sure whether to do stores or another casualty, so I did both, a casualty sitting on stores. This one was the most involved of all the objectives. There's a head mod, change in body position, hand swap plus adding a fag to his new hand.


I've still got to add a few bits and bobs, then I'll seal the gravel with watered down PVA. Let me know what you think guys.