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Over the weekend, I took a look at my tank turrets and realised that I had to do something to make them spin more freely in the turret slot. Ignoring the sensible advice to reprint them 1% less in future, I realised that maybe I should be using the dremel I got for chopping plastic model kits apart. Attaching the pen accessory, I did a little sanding down while wearing my usual facemask before looking at the dust all over myself (and on my the cutting surface and the model) and realised that cloth was not really suitable for this.…

Taking a break from scenario work, I decided to start painting up the Spectre’s Criminal Heavies. As my collection is much more focused on the military side rather than the law enforcement, I’d always planned for them to be some kind of Special Forces team. I hadn’t nailed it down but after thinking about the first real combat zone for ChargeReal, it just had to be a team from inside the Bazi Empire. Part of my pitch for the Bazi Empire is to bring some of the royal intrigue that existed in historical times and add it to the modern…

One of the perks I’m offering to the backers of my Patreon is access to the scenario files of Battle Reports going forward. I spend a lot of time writing each one, especially when I was playing at the club and wanted each player to feel like they were controlling a proper force, rather than simply what I threw together. There is a post on the Patreon with a few more details on what these new scenario files will be like and I’ve included it’s content below I mentioned in the pitch for this Patreon that you’ll be provided the…

Over the past few months of Anvil Patreon subscribing, I have a collection of Anvil parts that are just begging to be used. The problem comes with when I’m kit bashing, I usually don’t want to wait for the printing to finish as it interrupts my inspiration. Luckily, I have a solution! Print off a shit load of heads all in one go and put them in my bits box. Which I’ve done! Along with some test heads from Turnbase Minis which I rescaled to the same size as Anvil. I used one of those heads on my heavy bolter…

Taking advantage of Combat Octopus’s latest releases, I’ve started assembling my Bazi Emirati forces. My pitch for these guys (and Bazi Empire as a whole) is that they are a Middle Eastern force that isn’t just Russian Forces but more ragged. For this reason, the new Indian Army guys actually work out very nicely – the Insas is strangely late 20th Century looking rifle (stock, short mag etc) while the clothing is the right level of quality I was wanting (the kevlar helmet + solid body armour). I still need to do some cleanup on these guys (a few support…