It's a new year, and therefore, it's time for a new post.
This time it's more on my Japanese Bolt Action force. Pete is the enthusiastic owner of a 3D printer, and as part of his constant trawling of files turned up a couple of designs for the type 98 320mm spigot mortar.
This unusual weapon has a profile in the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign book, so I have rules for using it at least, so I fiddled about with some plastic sprues to make enough crew.
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| Winter sun gives you some very long shadows |
The only slight fly in the ointment is that they don't seem to feature in any theatre selectors, so I can technically only take them in a generic Japanese platoon list. Will have to see if we can house rule an exception.
I also painted the second mortar...
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| One of these is a weird unit I'll struggle to field, so two of them... |
I'll need to cobble together a second crew for that at some point.
So, there you go. I've painted some things!
Unfortunately I also received some things from a Christmas gift voucher, so it's still January and I'm already in negative figures. But still, let's have a look:
Painted: 8
Acquired: 26
Lead Pile Reduction: -18
More work needed there.
