Gunbird invades Peleliu - Bookkeeping finished

 After using my free time to crunch some numbers, I think i have it all noted down.

Japanese Scenario 1: 

• Infantry - more than enough, plenty of spares from the Army Box alone. The LMG's will come from Peter Pig (in stock) but I am lacking 2 so added a pack to my order.
  
• AT-Guns - enough in the box for the scenario, loader teams will come from Peter Pig (in stock)
• HMG - same
• Sniper and Spotter - Peter Pig (in stock)
• Off table 81mm - I can pre order this blister that has 4 teams of 81mm and a Observer team (always useful in Battlegroup). available from July 5th so I will wait.
• Grenade L. battery - Enough in the Army Box and I have spares from Peter Pig

Japanese Scenario 2:

•  Infantry - still enough left overs in the Army box, and a few from Peter Pig so ok
•  Rifle and Mortar spider holes - enough spares to cut a few apart, no worries
• Snipers - more in the Peter Pig pack
•  Timed Mortar Barrage - use the models as counters
• HMG - sorted
• Type 90 75mm gun - 2 of these in the Army box so sorted. 

 So besides chasing down a blister of 81mm mortars I'm ok for the Japanese.

USMC Scenario 1:

• BAR - I have 9, I need 18. Noted this for a order with Peter Pig
• Infantry -  I need about 60, there are 25 normal joes in the army box, the rest is NCO etc. I need to go over my Peter Pig USMC stash again for this, but I am coming up short.
•  Forward HQ - sorted
•  60mm mortar teams - I need 3, I have 2. So added to the order for Peter Pig
•  30.cal teams - 2 in the box, just what I need and i have spares from Peter Pig
•  LVT-2 - will be 3D printed
• Bazookas - Box has 2, I need 6 - Added to Peter Pig order 
• Demo man - just sculpt the charge bags on the models. 

USMC Scenario 2:

• If I have painted all the infantry for Scenario 1, I just need to add 3 BAR's and 9 more men, so added those to the PP order
• Forward HQ - sorted
• 30.cal teams - sorted
• Captured Type 92 - already working on it
• 2 Corpsmen - I'll use spare loaders suitably painted.
• Captured Pillbox - I'll reuse 2 from the previous scenario and modify another to be more American
• Barbed wire - I'll knock those out in an hour, easily sorted
• LVT-2 - I'll use the one from the previous scenario 

 

Now....let's get it on :)

Marine Woodpecker WIP

 No, not some weird mythical creature. Would be fun though :)

No, for the 2nd Scenario in Battlegroup Pacific the USMC get's a Captured Type 92 HMG with 3 man crew. Right...no one makes that. But I can :)

I picked up a pack of USMC 30 cal teams and a pack of Japanese HMG's. That gives me 1 spare team each for later, or to rebuild into loader teams. Who knows.

I removed the Type 92 from the gunner but kept his hands and feet (sounding like a slasher movie now) on the gun. The hands cause they will need to connect to the USMC gunner cause those have to go, as he he has his hands on top and behind the gun on the paddles instead of the lower grip.

Yes, I know it's a 15mm model, but hey, it's what I like. And I only ever will need 1 team.

I removed the hands and gun from the USMC gunner, saving the gun for later. Sanded down his base a lot cause there is a difference in size between the 2 models.

That brings me to the Type 92. The model is very compressed compared to the original, so I took off the the rather short barrel and replaced it with a longer bit of paperclip after some very dodgy drilling. Sadly I can't fix the back end. Well, I could, but then I might as well build a full new gun

Gunbird invades Peleliu - The planning fase

 Right - O.

PostNL just dropped off the Battlefronts USMC and Japanese starter armies, I checked those and put them aside with the rest of the 15mm Pacific collection.

Unlike the Stalker project, I need this to be much more organised to prevent burn out, so....check list. 

Check what I have and mark that off.  

Build what I have and mark that off.

Paint what I have and mark that off.

A bit schoolish, but it works if I want to get a project done.

I'll be using Battlegroup Pacific and playing the following scenario's:

• Scenario 1 - Getting "The Point" - Peleliu, 15th April 1944
• Scenario 2 - Holding "The Point" - Peleliu, 15th-16th April 1944

 That means build forces, build scenery, prep table, game. I'm giving myself 12 months cause I habitually keep doing stuff in between :)

I made checklists for all.

Scenario 1 - Japanese Forces

Scenario 2 - Japanese Forces

Scenario 1 - USMC

Scenario 2 - USMC

For both armies, the 2nd Scenario has plenty of duplicates, so I don't need to paint it all again (thank God!). Tomorrow I'll go over my stash and sort what I have for this, and see what I still need. As far as I can tell now I'm short a USMC 60mm Mortar team and 4 Bazooka teams

And that's it for today. Long day. Tired.

Edit - and tired I was, I accidentally tripled the amount of USMC I needed. Modifed 10/5/2025

15mm Pacific (cause we all need more distractions)

 With the upcoming release of Battlefronts Pacific 42-43 (with a lot of dubious stuff purely put in there to sell tat) I've pre ordered the Marine and the Japanese army deals. I never pre order stuff but in this case it felt warranted.

I've been looking forward to the Pacific for a long, long time. I don't have much in stock for it, a couple of 70mm guns, knee mortars, LMG's and infantry for the Japanese. So, with a few child free days on the horizon, why not start cleaning and basing what I have. Fortunately, the 70mm guns are the old blisters, so they come with extra command and spotter figures that are perfect for Battlegroup. I'm guessing those figs will be sanitised in the new edition (higher cost, less figures....shrinkflation much) so I'm happy to have them. I'll look at Peter Pig for additional gun crews for loader teams, casualties etc.

I need to make something to hold these figures when I sand down the bases though, I've noticed my hands cramping up even quicker so I need a work around. 

And I thought my IG18's were small guns!

I need to get some detailing done, ammo containers etc but this photodump will help me with that :)

Bamboo Test Model #1, #2 and #3

 Decided to test of the basing looks just as good, better or worse by substituting plastic leaves for Dill, so #1 is 100% plastic leaves, #2 is 50/50 plastic/Dill and #3 is 25/75 plastic/Dill.So far it looks rather good, but won't be 100% sure till the lot is painted, but I think it will be ok.

LtR - #1, #2 and #3

Scale wise they work for my needs, 15mm and 28mm.

28mm Stargrave figure (that I REALLY need to finish) and 15mm Peter Pig Citroen Car

Storage is also sorted, a RUB 9 Liter box will hold quite a few

 

Bamboo test model #1

 Made 10 test bases of bamboo for Nam'68 and am now looking where I can speed up things for reasons of not going completely mental. I'm not stripping the stems, that might be fine for one or 2 bases if you want to use them for photography backgrounds, but not when I want 40-50 bases of these. Same goes for cutting off individual leaves, ain't nobody got time for that, so now looking for a suitable bunch or other workaround for something resembling the shape. Other than that, just dandy.