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Overall, I'm happy with the final results and am looking forward to seeing how it performs on the table.
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I'm back with the last of my modern African figures; the storage box is finally full, so there will be no more expansions beyond this and the remaining vehicles on the painting table.
While looking for additional Western forces for my modern games, I found an Etsy seller who had these figures from Predator (1987) and I thought these would work great as a special forces/ mercenary team, and would also make a fun stalker crew for Zona Alfa. They normally are printed in 32mm size, but I managed to find a vendor who would scale them down to 28mm to match the rest of my figures. Some of the figures have multiple variants, with alterations to make them more compatible with the Colonial marines from Alien or WK40K. I did my best to grab the movie versions, with one error mentioned below.
Earlier this year I bought into the Miska Miniatures' Kickstarter to produce African militiamen and assorted vehicles. It was my first time joining a Kickstarter (I've always been a bit hesitant after hearing about some of their fiascos), but I felt sponsoring designs for 3D printing was fairly low risk. I don't have a 3D printer myself, so purchased the physical copies. They arrived this summer in some of the most robust packaging I have ever seen used; not a single item broke coming over the Atlantic. The sculpting quality was quite good, and the printing quality was overall acceptable. I had two infantry figures with some printing defects (I think they shifted slightly during the print) and the two technicals had some warping and cracking (they are still to be painted), but nothing that couldn't be fixed with some sanding and filling.
So first off the table were the militiamen. I was really excited to get these, as there were so few figures actually designed specifically for the Sahel region.
It seems like you can never have enough insurgents, so I've purchased and painted more. These figures were designed by Quartermaster 3D and printed in 28mm by JJG Print 3D. The shipment I received was well packed, but some gun barrels still broken crossing the Atlantic. Luckily, I was able to glue most of the bits back on, and I could recreate the other bits from brass wire and green stuff.
Overall, I am very happy with these figures. They are on the thicker side, so depending on how picky you are, you might not want to mix them into units with some of the thinner sculpts out there (Again I'll take comparison pics in the future). But the sculpting is good and I found them fun to paint. Definitely recommend!
My friend Steve was passing through town, so we met up to try another game of Spectre Operations. In this scenario, French special forces were tasked with capturing the notorious warlord, General Assimi. Informants had alerted the French that the general would be making a propaganda appearance at the local market, and that he would only have a few bodyguards with him at the time. The French hid a small capture team in one of the shops and waited for their informant's call.
At the start of the game, the location of my French and their informant were hidden from Steve, and Steve could then place the general at any starting location in the market that he wanted. We then rolled a scatter die to determine the entry points for the reserve militia and the exit point for the French.