Tuesday 9 June 2009

125 Mortars - "Rounds Complete!"

Hurrah!

I can't quite claim it as a 'labour of love', but at last I've finished my first mortar squad:
I'm glad I went for the more scenic bases though - they would've felt awfully exposed on those big ol' bases otherwise.

Here are some different angles for you:
Had I more talent, I might've added some graffiti and more detail to the walls. Details I enjoy include the rifle propped up against the wall and the cable sticking out of the masonry upright. I'm not sure I liked how the rusty metal (front team) come out.

Good news: I've only the following to get finished before the first two full tactical platoons of my newly restructured infantry company are complete:

1 flamer
1 demo charge guardsman (any ideas for a better name?!)
2 melta gunners
1 normal trooper.
Watch this space.

Cheers,

- Drax.

16 comments:

  1. Demolitionist? Demolition expert? Combat engineer? Saper team? Possibilities are endless. ;)

    Where did you get those walls? They look awesome.
    I have way more to be done... Luckily to finish the platoon itself I just need 3 flamers finished... I nearly got them done, but I just got bored of it an hour ago and they're just standing here, sigh.

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  2. Thanks, and thanks for the suggestions.

    The walls are just from the Cidies of Death terrain.

    Now get back to those flamers!

    - D.

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  3. Looking good, Drax! The one base with the leaning wall looked odd in your original post just because it was a straight-on shot. Now that you've added some other angles we can see the wedge it's propped up against (which is what I assumed was behind the wall) and it looks much less awkward. Funny how photos can make a model look strange from certain angles when it looks just right in person.


    I call the guardsmen carrying demo charges Sappers, m'self. Keep up the great work!

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  4. They look great, I like the fact that all of them are similar.

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  5. really loving the terrain, Iv ordered a few odds and ends from sets on ebay (from the manufactorum and administatum) but Im going to invest in a box of the Sanctum Imperialis as you have been using here! they just look great Drax!

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  6. Good job Admiral, love them and the CoD bases. Look a great addition to your growing force. As for the Demo bloke - what about the nice naval term of a 'Wrecker' - normally a CPO (SNCO) Engineer.

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  7. Well done, maybe Guardacide bomber? um... Osama Bin Guardsmen? I could go on but there not going to get any less offencive

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  8. Very nice! They have oodles of personality, which is always good...

    I say call him Captain Calm-Down...

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  9. Looking good mate, bases look really good.

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  10. Great stuff Drax. If you have any questions about real world mortars, I was in the service as an 11-C (Indirect Fire Infantryman) and can answer most questions about them! I really dig the mortar teams and if I ever start an IG army I would HAVE to have some.

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  11. They look great! The bases look especially good, nice work with the drybrush.

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  12. They look good Drax.

    I thought you might like to see this Stokes Mortar info I found. sure, it's WW1, but the mortars look similar.

    http://www.landships.freeservers.com/new_pages/stokes_mortar.htm

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  13. Thanks, Chaps!

    I like the idea of a "wrecker", Siph - thanks!

    Peter: Please get back in your box(!)

    Cheers all for the mortar links/comments in particular. Years ago I was asked to command the mortar platoon of the Royal Anglians' TA Coy in Norwich - I've always slightly regretted not taking it, but I was in my last year of Uni, and my wife [now] would not have been happy.

    Pity.

    @ ForPhoenix: Thank you! Just out of interest, mate, how on Earth does the designation "11-C" come about?

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  14. drax, have you got any games inusing you're mortar squads recently? would love to know how it went as i have another heavy weapons squad to build and i'm just not sure whether to go fr mortars - the only heavy weapons i havent represented in squads, or another squad of autocannons/lascannons/heavybolters for bolstering the anti meq/ tank/horde side of the army.

    due to the cityfighting side of the army i am quite tempted to say dammit all and go for mortars

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  15. I'd love to say they're always brilliant - even against MEQs (it's what suneokun would say, I'm fairly sure)...however, though I often kill marines with them, they do struggle. That said, they have four great advantages:

    1) They're dirt cheap;
    2) The have a very long range from complete cover, and are therfore never a target;
    3) being 'troops' they can hunker down in cover on objectives, and
    4) - most of all - they're such good fun to play with! They really, really are.

    Hope this helps...

    - Drax.

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