{"id":5056,"date":"2016-12-01T23:58:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T23:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2021-10-29T03:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T02:00:41","slug":"lead-mountain-ii-emergency-reinforcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/lead-mountain-ii-emergency-reinforcements\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead Mountain II \u2013 Emergency Reinforcements"},"content":{"rendered":"

So my plan of working on the boiler suited criminals got tweaked last week after I arranged to run another Spectre Operations game. So rather than painting a load of redish brown boiler suits, I was instead rushing to get a few more insurgents painted up.<\/p>\n

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The bulk of the figures are Empress Insurgents, painted up to look more trained militant than local with gun. I again used a similar colour scheme with some variation to tie them together visually (as well as speed up the process). I also painted up the Taliban HMG from Eureka (and then managed to bend the barrel), an Insurgent from Spectre to act as a squad leader in Spectre and then five of the weapon caches to be used as objective markers.<\/p>\n

Having just played a Spectre game before writing this, I’ve decided I need to get some more bad guys painted up and ready for Bazistan. So I’ll be finishing off the Empress Insurgents before working on the Spectre range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So my plan of working on the boiler suited criminals got tweaked last week after I arranged to run another Spectre Operations game. So rather than painting a load of redish brown boiler suits, I was instead rushing to get a few more insurgents painted up. The bulk of the figures are Empress Insurgents, painted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1093,903],"tags":[954,914,941,905,939,955,926],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-wargaming","tag-modern-wargaming","tag-skirmish-sangin","tag-spectre","tag-spectre-miniatures","tag-spectre-operations","tag-ultramodern-wargaming","tag-wargaming"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Michael Charge","author_link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/author\/chargedog\/"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Features<\/a>","Wargaming<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Features<\/span>","Wargaming<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Modern Wargaming<\/a>","Skirmish Sangin<\/a>","Spectre<\/a>","Spectre Miniatures<\/a>","spectre operations<\/a>","Ultramodern Wargaming<\/a>","Wargaming<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Modern Wargaming<\/span>","Skirmish Sangin<\/span>","Spectre<\/span>","Spectre Miniatures<\/span>","spectre operations<\/span>","Ultramodern Wargaming<\/span>","Wargaming<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 01\/12\/2016","modified":"Updated on 29\/10\/2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 01\/12\/2016 11:58 pm","modified":"Updated on 29\/10\/2021 3:00 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvEn5-1jy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4985,"url":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/lead-mountain-ii-the-bad-guys-strike-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":5056,"position":0},"title":"Lead Mountain II – The Bad Guys Strike Back!","author":"Michael Charge","date":"14\/11\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"If you have been following my blog, last year you would have seen The Lead Mountain - an attempt to paint all my figures. 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