Retreat From Moscow - Deployment Markers or Command Stands

 

As if I haven't got enough to paint already??

Me and Lee are planning to use Sharpe Practice for our Retreat from Moscow shenanigans

We spoke about the Deployment Markers used in the rules, I had a few spare figures and said about using some of those instead of a counter as per the rules?

Lets just say I got a tad carried away and only used 2 of the spares I had and bought another 2 packs of Perry's to make them both.......

The standard bearer is one of the spares, he's from the plastic Guard figures from Victrix.

I must say, I'm pleased with how they both came out.

Lee hasn't posted any photo's on his blog of the 2 stands he made, he posted a video on You Tube BELOW, instead. Its only after I finished mine when I looked back to Lee's and realised he only painted 3 figures per base, Damn!!!!

I've gone for the full effect....5 figures per base!!!

We both bought our flags from Andy at Grubby Tanks

The spare I had for this base, is once again the standard bearer, but this time he's a Front Rank figure.

The figures are a mix of Perry's from packs, FN51 Support Staff and FN53 Hangers On High Ranking Officers, while the bases are from Warbases.

Which way, should we go?

Unfortunately most figures on the bases have no thick coats of scarves to keep them warm, but hey, they're the best of the best in French elitism, they're making the decisions, so they don't need to keep warm??? Do they??

So what are they Deployment Markers or Command Stands?

Retreat From Moscow - Yet more Scatter Terrain

 

I seem to be collecting lots of scatter terrain for my and Lee's Retreat from Moscow project.

These two wagons are all the way from China via Temu, (once again, don't tell, the kids!)

They only cost a few quid for the pair, so can't be bad.

They are the same wagon, both carrying bails of hay. I didn't want the hay showing, to make them look like they're carrying boxes of some kind. So I cut the top layer off of one model and covered both with a piece of kitchen roll and painted it with several layers of PVA glue.

I'd ran out of MDF bases and didn't want to wait for an order, so used card instead to get that random kinda shape.

So there we have it, more terrain.

Retreat from Moscow - Trees

Both me and Lee are still trying to get our Retreat from Moscow shenanigans to a point where we can put on a game. I've been buying trees.....loads of 'em! We do plan to have a day where we can work on the trees, but I thought I'd get a quick head start.

Back in June, regular readers may recall, me and Lee had a mega terrain day and snowified loads of terrain, including some sabot tree bases, (easy storage). So it was about time we filled some of those bases.

As I said, I've been buying whole forests of trees from ebay, Temu and other sources including these. They were the easiest to get to, to be honest as they were purchased at The Other Partizan a few weekends ago. The 2 greener trees are from the Tree Fella, my plan was to buy loads of his trees, but he only had 2!!! I need to get back to hm as he was supposed to be making us more? 

The others are from the most excellent, The Last Valley, the trees were glued to a 70mm round base and given our usual snow effect. 

I experimented how to put the snow on the trees, this time I made up the snow, very wet and dabbed in over the trees, mainly on the raised areas. It was very messy as the branches flicked the snow everywhere, with very little actually staying on the trees!! Groan!

With the next small batch the plan is to spray the trees with either watered down PVA or spray glue and sprinkle the dry snow powder over.

Well, that's the plan at the moment anyway???