Albedo Combat Patrol - Skirmish Starter Set - part one

I remembered seeing the Albedo Anthropomorphics comics at Forbidden Planet (the one on Denmark Street), but had not paid it much attention.

The stories involved stories that could have been told with human characters, but instead with anthropomorphic animals, This was the birth of the independent comics period, and the production was not sophisticated, but they had stories to tell.

If you want to read the source material, it is available here.

Time passed.

I had been following the development of the Albedo Combat Patrol game on a Lead Adventures thread, and at Salute 2019 I had decided to limit myself to buying one of the APCs.

That went as well as could be expected.

So I walked away from the Sally 4th stand with a Skirmish Starter set, and the aforementioned APC (of which more later).

The set comprises four Extraplanetary Defense Force (EDF) Heavy infantry (with various head and tail components) and seven Independent Lapine Republic (ILF) light infantry with (of course) rabbit heads. All multi-part miniatures.

The majority of the arms and weapons are cast in one piece with locating pegs and matching holes in the bodies. The material is quite soft, some of the barrels required straightening. There are some mould lines, but they were generally easy to remove with a needle file.

The EDF are armed with three battle rifles and a one sub-machine gun.
The ILF have five machine carbines, one machine carbine with a grenade launcher and a light machine gun.

Standard 25mm slotted bases are also supplied, plus the password for PDFs of the rules.

I decided that I would base mine on 32mm lipped bases (which is standard for my Superheros and not Star Wars).

I assembled one rabbit and one cat figure. The one piece arms and weapon worked okay, you have to slightly widen the inter arm gap to get them in place then squeeze it shut. This can be a bit of a problem with fast setting superglue. It might be worth only putting glue one side, then putting the arms in place and glueing the other side in-situ (which will depend on your superglue being fluid enough). For the heads, I pilot drilled a hole in the dimple in the body then opened it out to 3mm with my standard neck drill. The neck piece then fitted snuggly into the body.

The first ILF figure.

The uniform was Vallejo German Field Grey, dry brushed with Citadel Nurgling Green Dry then lightly dry brushed with Citadel Terminatus Stone. That was then washed with Citadel Athonian Camoshade. Boots, weapons and webbing were Citadel Abaddon Black with a light dry brush with the Citadel Terminatus Stone.

The hands and head were Army Painter Oak Brown, inside of the ears Citadel Bugman Glow, dry brushed with Citadel Terminatus Stone.

Scale shot with William Killian.