All the Basques in one Entrance

Jon F, Caesar nominated blogger of Palouse Wargaming Journal, has been a play tester during the development of "For Whom the Dice Rolls".  A few weeks ago he offered to paint me a new unit, if I had a gap, because he wanted to have some "skin in the game". I said if he was really resolved on the idea he could twist my arm and I'd be able to squeeze in another unit of Basques.

He finished them just over a week ago and posted a quick pic on his blog. He then entrusted them to the USPS and the Royal Mail. They got here this weekend.

I'm pleased to say they survived their trip intact, all nicely wadded up. I'm very impressed with the look of them, as not only do they have Jon's excellent brushwork, but they're also the most recent Peter Pig beret-wearing sculpts.

Just to prove nothing goes to waste in this house, the figures have been based on Peter Pig 30mm square plastic bases, recovered from my Taiping re-basing exercise from a few years ago (actually nearly four years - crikey!), with the normal polyfilla/sand combo and a bit of dry-brushing and some mini pebbles. Here's a rifle company. Alas, no matter how careful I am with the filler, I'm afraid it laps over the boots a bit.

This is an LMG section. You can just see the Basque flag painted on the left arm.

Command stand. You can't see that the flag isn't perfectly lined up in real life. Need to get my fine point scissors out.

Here's all the small arms bases together. The new Piggies are a bit chunkier (mini 28mm build), but the animation and poses are good.

Lastly, the MG teams. Mr Pig doesn't make a beret crew, but the pasamonta caps will do just fine.

I hope Jon is pleased with the basing work I've done. I think it sets the figures off really nicely. There's a space in a storage box just waiting for them too. Now I only need to decide how to introduce them on the table top.

So, thanks Mr F. Much appreciated, and very nicely done too.