Xmas - that time of year again

To all of those that enjoy and celebrate this time of year, I hope you enjoy it and you and yours are safe and well in all that you do. 

Lunar - Blacksite Studios

 

After having this game and it’s wonderful Astronaut miniatures for quite some time, I have finally finished two factions. 

Below are NASA’s All American hero’s full of the ‘Right Stuff’ with a Lunar Rover to get them around and a few remote vehicles. 

Next up are the antagonistic Communist Cosmonauts, in this games alternate history, Russia landed a man on the moon first, and they will fight to keep the moon for Mother Russia. 

And finally, a couple of Hero’s. One for NASA, one for the Soviets and the one with blue banding is a Mercenary/Corporate agent. 

Blood Red Skies New Aircraft

Boulton Paul Defiants - RAF 264 Squadron. I split the 6 aircraft that came in the squadron box so I would have one vic (3 aircraft) of night fighters and one vic of day fighters as the squadron alternated throughout the Battle of Britain. 

 

Spitfire Mk II - RAF 74 Squadron. Battle of Britain squadron led by Sqd Ldr Adolf ‘Sailor’ Malan

Messerschmidt BF 109E - Luftwaffe JG 26. Battle of Britain. Half Staffle led by JG commander Adolf Galland. 

 

Battletech - Federated Suns - 4th Deneb Light Cavalry

                                                     

                                     

The unit was originally a Rapid Deployment Mixed Arm Force (RDMAF) of the Star League Defence Force, Headquartered on the planet Deneb Kaitos. When General Aleksandr Kerensky launched Operation EXODUS and led the bulk of the surviving SLDF out of the Inner |Sphere in the wake of the Amaris Civil War, to eventually become the Clans, only one surviving RDMAF chose to remain behind.

This unit joined the Armed Forces of the Federated Suns accordingly and became the Fourth Deneb Light Cavalry with enough personnel to facilitate a number of other regiments.

4th Deneb Light Cavalry

                             

Battletech - St Ives Compact - 1st St Ives Lancers

                                         

The First St Ives Lancers are an Elite unit of the Capellan Confederation Armed Forces, that also briefly served under St Ives Compact Military Command during the 4th Succession war, when the Compact seceded against the Confederation, also allying themselves with the Federated Commonwealth to stop the CCAF from retaking their planets. In 3060 what was termed by most as a civil war, broke out between the Compact and the Confederation resulting in the Compact being absorbed back into the Confederation.

I have painted my units and will use them as they were in the 4th Succession War - independent from the Capellans!

1st St Ives Lancers

Battletech - Clan Ghost Bear

 

Clan Ghost Bear

Powerful Clansmen, Clan Ghost Bear is one of the original twenty Clans founded by Nicholas Kerensky and one of the four original Clans to participate in the Clan Invasion of the Inner Sphere in 3050. Following the Clan's defeat at the Battle of Tukayyid, their philosophy changed towards becoming Wardens and since then the Clan has moved wholesale into the Inner Sphere where they renamed their realm the Ghost Bear Dominion.

Battletech - Draconis Combine - 2nd Sword of Light

 

Representing the Pillar of Steel, or the Military, in Combine society, the Second Sword of Light was one of the most prestigious units in the DCMS. The elite Second took part in some of the most notable Combine military actions.

All Sword of Light Regiments use a flat red paint scheme in the field and on parade. The Second use a Steel coloured Kurita crest to denote their regiment, painted on each Battlemech's left shoulder. The symbol of the regimental division, a blazing sword, appeared on every 'Mech's right leg.

   Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery, 2nd Sword of Light