tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33585623468229122462024-03-13T23:03:59.629-07:00S.A.S. - Short Attention SpanTabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-88680854182434908532018-02-12T23:33:00.000-08:002018-02-12T23:35:12.913-08:00It's been a while...Long overdue update - Today I received my Panzer Mech miniatures from Westwind Productions!<br />
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Panzer Mech is part of the Secrets of the Third Reich Weird War range and got financed on Kickstarter a while ago. I decided to get a couple of things to expand my WW2 Brits into that territory.<br />
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First up, the Allied Sherman Mech:<br />
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Here' s a scale comparison to a 28mm miniature:<br />
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Next up, the Bulldog Mech, an indigenous British design:<br />
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Also quite a big boy!<br />
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Meteor jump troopers provide increased mobility:<br />
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And Terrier automated guns help with the defense:<br />
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The Kickstarter also unlocked an eclectic mix of miniatures:<br />
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And last, but not least, I grabbed a 25 pdr artillery piece from the Berlin or Bust range form the pledge manager:<br />
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I hope to get some of these things assembled soon, and I'll have an update on the Magach and my Epic Emperor;s Children soon!Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-33904913463530252692017-11-22T23:11:00.000-08:002017-11-22T23:12:52.996-08:00Slow ProgressSo, I totally blame Ghost Recon Wildlands for my slow progress. I finally caved in to buy it when it hit the 1/2 price mark, and it was actually quite enjoyable to play (once you just accepted that it is everything but a military tactical shooter...).<br />
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Anyway, you are not here to read my ramblings about video game!<br />
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I did some more work on the Magach:<br />
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And I also finally put together Natalya Federici and the Protos Avatar, to be painted for a Femme Fatale challenge on the German forums:<br />
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And I prepared the 6mm Sd Kfz 251/1 and some vehicles for a CO base for painting:<br />
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Last, but not least, and to prove that the name of this blog is accurate, I joined a facebook group of local Epic 40K players. I don't have a proper Epic army, but I know that there is a lot of excellent miniatures out there!<br />
My favorite idea so far is an Emperor's Children army (NetEA rules) using <a href="http://www.onslaughtmini.com/">Onslaught Miniatures</a>' Hellborn Fallen Sisters.<br />
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Marines <br />
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Raptors<br />
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Havocs<br />
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Terminators <br />
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Noise Marines<br />
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Demons<br />
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For vehicles, I prefer <a href="http://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/">Vanguard Miniatures</a>' Novan Elites range (although I would have to convert them to the dark side).<br />
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Rhinos<br />
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Land Raider<br />
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Well, that's all for today.<br />
(And did I mention that I just bought Horizon Zero Dawn?)<br />
<br />Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-14624493773443468542017-10-24T20:52:00.000-07:002017-10-24T20:54:28.421-07:00New BeginningsHello,<br />
as you might know I recently moved to a new place. That was the main reason why I haven't done a lot of hobby stuff lately, but now that we are settled in to our new home I have to sort out my hobby room!<br />
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(Well, I have to share it with the wife's sewing machine and knitting supplies, but that's a small price to pay, isn't it?)<br />
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I thought that would be a good opportunity to show some of my collection, although very little of it is actually finished.<br />
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Let's start with some 6mm Cold War Commander armies, i.e. Syrians, British Army of the Rhine and IDF:<br />
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Next, most of my Bolt Action armies: 8th Army, Early War Soviets, Hungarians and Late War Germans<br />
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As you can see there is a lot to do, I need to paint/repair a lot of the 8th Army vehicles, and the Soviets should get some reinforcements soon since we are going to have a big Bolt Action battle again at the start of December. In the background you can just make out a GAZ AA, Komsomolet and some Black Tree Design infantry.<br />
Well, and the Hungarians and Germans are not even half painted... One day I will finish the 44M TAS and Rohamloeveg in the fictitious ambush camo pattern I want.<br />
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I also plan to venture into 1/35th territory:<br />
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I love IDF armor, and the Meng Production figures are awesome! I hope I won't get too annoyed by the tracks with multiple pieces per link... <br />
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I also decided to expand my 6mm Germans for Blitzkrieg Commander:<br />
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I guess a fine drill and some steel wire are in demand to fix these barrels... Anyway, I am planning to paint those units and some infantry as part of a P500 on the German Tabletopwelt forum. This is a nifty little event they have every year in which you pledge to paint a full army with each 500 points block being finished in 6 weeks. It's a great way to get feedback and motivation, and I think this kind of "pressure" is very good to get me doing something. And since one of those Jagdtigers is already worth 280 points, I also decided to double the points per block to 1000. More about this project soon, it starts on November 1st!Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-18869577400220645772017-07-26T16:14:00.003-07:002017-07-26T16:18:55.812-07:00Top 3 Miniature Ranges That Don't Exist (But Totally Should!)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>28mm Modern IDF </u><b><br /></b></span><br />
This is really a surprise for me. I mean, there are pretty comprehensive ranges in 6mm and 15mm, but nobody seems to care about producing 28mm Modern IDF units.Which is a shame, because the IDF has some of the most unique and iconic armored vehicles in the world: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkava"> Merkavas</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagmachon">Nagmachon</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDF_Achzarit">Achzarit</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magach">Magach</a> and more!<br />
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Oh, and I totally <strike>want</strike> <i>need</i> Oketz troops!<br />
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There are some bits and pieces around in 28mm, but nothing that would make me want to build a force out of it.<br />
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<i><b>Who should do it? – Perry Miniatures, they have the right sense for detail and poses. </b></i><br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">2. Weird War 1812 </span></u><br />
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I never really got the appeal of Napoleonic warfare, mainly because its tactics and appearance are alien and counter-intuitive for me. Nevertheless, 1812 saw conflicts throughout the Americas and Europe, and offers a multitude of factions. Considering that this is also the year Grimm’s Fairy Tales were published for the first time, it doesn’t take much to imagine a version of this year all mixed up with mystical creatures and weird contraptions. <br />
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The closest think we have to this is <a href="https://www.alternative-armies.com/">Flintloque/Slaughterloo</a> with its Napoleonic Fantasy races, but Goblins riding Dodos is maybe a little bit over the top:<br />
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I am rather thinking of something along the lines of Konflikt ’47 – offering an interesting new twist on existing armies <br />
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<i><b>Who should do it? – Raging Heroes seems to be fearless enough to tackle such a project, but their scale and style might not mix well with existing ranges. So, maybe we can get a Black Powder supplement, Warlord Games?</b></i> <br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">3. Mass Effect </span></u><br />
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Like, c’mon, HOW is this not already a thing? Okay, a lot of people didn’t like ME:A, or the end of ME:3, but over all , this is such a rich universe that begs to be converted into a skirmish tabletop. Just the Council races (Humans, Salarians, Turians, Asari) offer vast differences in style and tactics, and you didn’t even start to get Krogans, Quarians and Geth in the mix. And let’s not forget the Collectors!<br />
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Sure, the license would be expensive and/or impossible to get, but I guarantee you Kickstarter would bury you in money.<br />
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<i><b>Who should do it? - Corvus Belli or Modiphius Entertainment could pull this off in an awesome way.</b></i><span style="color: red;"></span><br />
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I took advantage of Warlord Games' recent "Wheels of Steel" offer and god myself a new bunch of tanks. Sadly I ordered early and could only chose from the limited selection - bad move to open up to every plastic kit at the end... The only reason I got the M10 was because I needed to add a third kit, and I would be way happier with a Firefly. So next time I will think twice before ordering a special offer from them...<br />
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Anyway, I am not sure yet if I want to convert the M3 to a Satan for my upcoming USMC or a Stuart Recce for my Desert Brits. So today I'll just talk about the M10 and the Churchill.<br />
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First the tank destroyer. a pretty simple kit, but nevertheless they managed to mention parts in the instruction which are not on the frames... I assume a copy/paste error from the M36 kit? There are several other wrong numbers, too, so be careful. Nevertheless, quite embarrassing.<br />
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Overall, the instructions could do with some more sub-assemblies since it was not always clear what would be the best order to put things together. Details are good, but the contact area for the threads is pretty small which makes it quite a pain to get them on.<br />
The only choice you'll have to make with this kit is if you want to use the American or the British crew. I actually had to look up if the M10 really had a 5 man crew - the turret is ridiculously crammed!<br />
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Color-wise I will go for this pattern from a British unit in Italy in 1944:<br />
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For the Churchill, I had the ambition to build it in a way that allows to field it in as many different configurations as possible, and I managed 5 - not bad!</div>
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Sadly, the 6 pdr of the Mk III won't fit into the cast turret, so no Mk IV for me.</div>
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Since the kit only comes with 2 antennas, each turret is missing one. maybe I'll try to find some plastic rods to fix that. I also should build a straight-edge turret box for the Mk III, and add the one from the kit (with cut-off corners) to the cast turret.<br />
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This one will get painted in Kingforce colors, which is of course somewhat inappropriate for the AVRE and NA75 to say the least, but I don't really mind:<br />
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And because it is freaking awesome, I leave this here, too:<br />
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They needed work anyway (a lot of transport damage...), and this was a great reason to get it done.<br />
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Some of my infantry, supported by a Matilda II, 2 inch mortar and a 2-pdr ATG. The 2-pdr is from Perry Miniatures and so fragile that it needed its own support base - sadly I haven't had time to paint it :/<br />
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M3 Grant (in the 4-tone camouflage as seen on the one at Bovington), SAS jeep and troop and a squad of Sikhs.<br />
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I count those towards my goal of getting 200 miniatures ready - 38 down, 162 to go!Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-28993130945723221692017-03-21T01:01:00.000-07:002017-03-21T01:01:40.330-07:00Desert Terrain WIPIt has been a while again...<br />
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But I haven't been procrastinating - well, not all the time at least. I started to build up my terrain collection, especially pieces that will fit onto my desert table. For this I bought an oil derrick and two nodding donkeys from Fenris Games:<br />
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Very nice kits, both of them. Sadly, both nodding donkeys were missing several piece - i.e. the ladder sprue and some of the tubing. I tried to contact Fenris Games but to no avail... I don't know, it is kinda telling that both times exactly the same parts were missing - I would assume a rushed job. That;s a shame because otherwise it is a very cool and unique piece of terrain.<br />
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The derrick is better, complete and a very nice construction, but several of the sheets were not completely lasered which made assemble unnecessarily difficult:<br />
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Yeah, so there was some disappointment, but once you have the finished pieces in front of you it's mostly forgotten and forgiven :)<br />
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I also built a storage tank out of a can and some bits:<br />
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Now I need to paint everything and then I want to make some mine fields and barbed wire obstacles. Hopefully it won't take taht long again to show you new pics!Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-24705553173248968112017-02-03T16:37:00.000-08:002017-02-03T16:37:08.709-08:00Ghost Recon Wildlands Beta - First ImpressionsAloha,<br />
After a couple of hours of Ghost Recon Wildlands I am ready to share my first impressions.<br />
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For those with little time: This is much more Far Cry 5 than Ghost Recon.<br />
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Don't get me wrong, it is a decent game and fun so far, but it is not a Tactical Shooter. The gameplay is very much like Far Cry 4, with some good new additions I'll mention later.<br />
But enemies and missions feel sadly familiar.<br />
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My biggest worries so far:<br />
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- The story seems to be non-existent. Yes, there is a lot of lore about the cartel, but I don't expect any depth or even surprises during the game. This is not telling a story.<br />
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- For god's sake, if I am supposed to be the best of the best on a black ops, don't drop me in a foreign country with nothing but a MP5! That's right - you start with 1 (!) weapon load-out, and you have to unlocked everything else. Including the customization parts. You get a sniper rifle after the first mission, but still... Not cool.<br />
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- Talking about sniper rifles - if I put a bullet from a dedicated sniper rifle in your face, I expect you to drop. But some enemy heavies take to high-powered shots. Tactical shooter? Yeah, sure...<br />
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- Side missions are do-or-die. If you mess one up, there is no second chance. That's fine, but if the mission is "shut down this antenna" don't throw a " now shut down the second antenna that was never mentioned before 1 klick away within 90 seconds" at me.<br />
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- While I can see that this game will be heaps of fun with a group of people you know, the single-player is sometimes frustrating. Your team is usually better left behind while you scout, and the very limited orders make them useless for any kind of stealth approach. There isn't even a "cover me"-command!<br />
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- Enemy AI is not very good, either. They don't care much about people being dropped within line of sight, but once they are alerted, they call for reinforcements. And there is close to no chance to stop them. Just Cause 3 gives you a couple of seconds to drop the guy with the radio, but here, no way. Then reinforcements show up exactly like they do in Far Cry, and that's it. I tried to escalate a fight, but reinforcements seem to be unable to call for more reinforcements. Weird...<br />
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- You can free imprisoned rebels in enemy bases, but all they do is grab a gun and start a firefight with the guards, blowing your stealth and get reinforcements being called. Yep, just the kind of " help" I need. *slowclap*<br />
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- Oh, and Bolivia has a helicopter density like an airshow - there must be well over 20 just in the province you are allowed to play...<br />
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So, what about the good stuff?<br />
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Well, if you look at it more as a military RPG, it is quite good. What I mean i, if you embrace the premise of being an operative deep in enemy territory, you can get that feeling.<br />
Also, the addition of interrogations is pretty cool, and the Intel actually opens up different approaches to story missions (a grain of salt here - I have not checked if some Intel is mandatory to make story missions playable).<br />
The world looks much better than I expected, and it feels pretty fitting. I am actually looking forward to seeing the other climate zones.<br />
The beta gives you only a very tiny idea of what you can do to mess up cartel operations. There are 4 different "departments", and I am sure if you put a lot of effort into going after supply, I hope that you can actually start an internal conflict within the cartel by going after production or public relations.<br />
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All in all, it is not what I hoped for, and much more what I expected. Nevertheless, I like it so far.<br />
But I can't really see myself buying this over Mass Effect Andromeda.Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-36214597591413301142017-01-14T21:17:00.001-08:002017-01-14T21:17:45.869-08:00Review - Airfix 1/48th Bedford MWDI needed another truck for my Bolt Action British, so I picked up a 1/48th scale Bedford MWD from Airfix.<br />
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First a couple of words about the original:<br />
The Bedford MWD was the ubiquitous 15cwt truck in British service - over 200.000 have been produced during the war and it served in every theater. Also only 4x2, it had a powerful 72 hp engine and reached a top speed of 95 km/h with a range of over 400 km. It could transport a 10-man squad or up to 800 kg of material.<br />
The early version had only canvas doors and tiny screens for the driver and passenger, earning it the nickname "pneumonia wagon". In 1943, the design was updated to have half doors and a proper windscreen, together with some changes to the engine covers and instrument layout.<br />
In the desert they were also used as 2pdr ATG portees.<br />
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The Airfix kit comes with 95 parts on 3 grey sprues plus one clear sprue for the windshield.<br />
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It allows to build both the early and late version and several canvas configurations, so you'll have a decent amount of pieces left after you finished:<br />
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You could even further reduce the number of used parts by omitting the engine parts and some of the interior that might not be visible in the version you want to build.<br />
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The kit comes together without any issues and I only encountered two small pitfalls:<br />
First, the tires are flattened on one side so be careful when you assemble them to make them fit correctly.<br />
Second, the instructions skip one step when it comes to the steering wheel, but it is quite obvious how it should work.<br />
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The final product is a fine little model:<br />
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I found several pictures of MWDs in North Africa, and it seems to have been quite common to remove the side covers of the engine, so I left them off my truck, too:<br />
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I also left the hood separate to allow easy access to paint the engine:<br />
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Size-wise, it fits quite well with 28mm miniatures, mostly because the MWD is such a small truck. A Company B driver doesn't look out of place at the wheel (apart from his missing legs...):<br />
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And next to some Perry Miniatures 8th Army soldiers it still looks good:<br />
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Even in direct comparison to a Warlord Games 3-ton Bedford the scale difference isn't outrageous:<br />
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Just to put the difference between 1/48th and 1/56th scale into some numbers:<br />This MWD is 1.3 cm too long, 0,6 cm too high and wide.<br />
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And with a coat of sand color it is almost ready to roll!<br />
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All in all, this was fun to put together and the kit makes a very nice looking model. The scale is acceptable in my mind, and I am looking forward to finish the paint job soon!Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-1348566972502945162017-01-02T22:18:00.002-08:002017-01-02T22:23:18.463-08:00Bolt Action Pulp Partisan Cultists<div class="tr_bq">
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I am a huge fan of Weird War settings, but sadly, there is not much interest in that at my gaming club. Generally, they are quite conservative and like to stick to the rules as they are, while I like to be more... experimental.<br />
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Anyway, after realizing that there is almost no way to get away with a British '46 army based on a late war German list (basically an excuse to build some British assault engineers and use<a href="http://www.diewaffenkammer.com/great_britain.html"> JTFM's Tortoise</a> as a Jagdpanther), I thought up a new concept: Cultist Partisans!<br />
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Every proper Pulp setting has a sinister cult performing strange rituals to end the world/ wake up an ancient good / summon creatures from the other side / have NSFW social gatherings.<br />
So why not make a fun Bolt Action army based on this concept?<br />
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This is the list I envisioned:<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Kingsport Irregulars (Partisans)</span></u></b></blockquote>
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<b>Second Lieutenant </b>with SMG<br />
+ soldier with SMG<br />
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<b>Partisan Squad 1</b><br />NCO with SMG<br />
Soldier with Panzerfaust<br />
16 soldiers with rifles<br />
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<b>Partisan Squad 2</b><br />NCO with SMG<br />
Soldier with Panzerfaust<br />
16 soldiers with rifles<br />
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<b>Partisan Squad 3</b><br />NCO with SMG<br />
11 soldiers with SMGs<br />
Anti-tank grenades<br />
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<b>Guerrilla Squad</b><br />NCO with SMG<br />
11 soldiers with SMGs<br />
Anti-tank grenades<br />
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<b>Anti-tank Team</b> with Bazooka<br />
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<b>General Purpose Truck<br />General Purpose Truck</b><br />
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Pretty straight-forward: Two large squads as a solid base, and two assault squads in trucks to get right in your face. Plus a little extra in case of tanks. Anyway, not the best list ever, but okay to play.<br />
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Now the fun part - miniatures!<br />
When one thinks of cultists, the excellent <a href="http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=7731">Frostgrave plastic box</a> comes to mind immediately. Combined with an abundance of left-over firearms and Molotov cocktails from different Warlord Games boxes this should be a great foundation for this army.<br />
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Of course one could just use some army trucks as transports, but if I go wacky, I go wacky all the way:<br />
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Behold <a href="http://sloppyjalopy.com/">Sloppy Jalopy</a>'s 1910 Type B bus - the perfect way to ride into battle in style!<br />
For the second one I would take the Ford AA panel van from the same manufacturer:<br />
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Or I get a <a href="http://www.shapeways.com/product/XEA8ST8A9/pv26-mack-bulldog-model-ac-28mm?optionId=41210142&li=marketplace">Mack Bulldog Model AC</a> from Shapeways:<br />
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Or, to fit with the tongue-in-cheek approach, this little vehicle from <a href="http://www.greatescapegames.co.uk/">Great Escape Games</a>:<br />
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This army also offers some interesting options for mission objectives and markers. <a href="http://fenrisgames.com/">Fenris Games</a> has a whole range of Mythos-inspired pieces like these:<br />
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"Sir, we need to blow up the rune stone before those lunatics complete their ritual!"<br />
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And if you are looking for some further inspiration, have a look at <a href="https://ospreypublishing.com/">Osprey Publishing</a>'s books about the military struggle against the Elder Ones:<br />
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On that note: <i>Cthulhu fhtagn!</i></div>
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Happy new year!<br />
It's the tim eof the year when we sit down and make plans about how to improve things in the future.<br />
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So here are my resolutions for 2017:<br />
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<b><u>1. Finish 200 miniatures</u></b><br />
That sounds like a lot, but I have so many half done armies that I think it is a realistic goal. My 8th Army needs some repairs and basing, and you might remember the Hungarians I started. There are also more Winter War Russians and I started a Late War German army, too. And that is just Bolt Action!<br />
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<b><u>2. Start a new system</u></b><br />
Sometimes I feel a bit of "Bolt Action fatigue", so I think I should start another system. Not entirely sure what, but SAGA has a good chance of being picked.<br />
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<b><u>3. At least 25 posts on this blog</u></b><br />
I feel bad neglecting the S.A.S. blog, and at the beginning I envisioned 2 posts a month as being reasonable. And that is my goal for 2017.<br />
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Now that I have written it down and published it I feel much more pressure to actually get something done :)Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-34902101475039937122016-10-29T18:55:00.001-07:002016-10-29T18:59:36.812-07:00Book Review - Ghost FleetI just finished the World War 3 novel "Ghost Fleet" by P.W. Singer and August Cole and thought I might share my thoughts with you.<br />
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The Story of Ghost Fleet is set about 30 years in the future and pretty simple: After a coup that topples over the Communist Party in China, the new technocrat regime decides that it is their time to become the dominant world power. In a surprise strike the PLA invades Hawai'i and defeats the US military through deception and sabotage. Basically, they sneaked backdoors into some of the microchips they sold the rest of the world, and suddenly all your high-tech gimmicks are not actually doing what they are supposed to do.<br />
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The main set-piece of the story is the USS Zumwalt, the only completed and then prematurely retired US "stealth" ship, and there is another storyline about the occupation and resistance on Hawai'i.<br />
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I knew P.W. Singer from his very good non-fictional "<a href="http://wiredforwar.pwsinger.com/">Wired for War</a>" book about drone warfare and was quite surprised when I found this novel with his name on it. So it is no surprise that this book heavily features autonomous robots and a lot of<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6sAUHwTP4A"> technology DARPA dreamed up</a>. And while the action feels right and mostly well-paced, the narrative is kinda worn out. Nobody will be surprised how it all ends, and who dies and who lives. It seems to be a movement in this genre to move away from the, let"s say "holistic", style of Tom Clancy (covering everything from the commander in chief to diplomats to boots on the ground) to a more cinematic narrative. And while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Suarez_(author)">David Suarez</a> largely succeeds in this (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Decision">Kill Decision</a>), Singer and Cole deliver a mostly uninspired story.<br />
At this point I have to mention some not very well crafted pop culture references and some plot points that seem to be attempts at some kind of comic relief, but they don't work very well (but to be fair, this part of the story gave me the best "Oh no they didn't!" moment in the whole book).<br />
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Another slightly annoying thing is that a lot (and I mean A LOT!) of events are mentioned in the book, but never explained... Well, while this is usually no big deal and just a way to make the fictional world more real, it becomes somewhat annoying in this book because I felt like I am missing pieces of history that led to the starting point of the book. Even major events like the break-up of NATO is just fed to the reader as a matter of fact without any further explanation, and that happens within the timeframe of the story!<br />
The lack of political "bigger picture" story also makes the end somewhat disappointing, but I don't want to discuss this as it would be a major spoiler.<br />
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So this book is no <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Storm_Rising">Red Storm Rising</a> (for me still the benchmark for a WW3 novel), but it is also not a piece of pure Cold War propaganda like Team Yankee. The setting, although feeling somehow familiar from mostly FPS video games, is fresh enough to make this book worth reading. I got through it in just over a week (which is tremendously fast for me at the moment), so I guess the story sucks you in quite good.<br />
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All in all, it was an interesting read, informative and entertaining. If you are interested in near future warfare and can forgive the lack of an elaborate story and characters you should give it a try.Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-28905313826795109162016-10-11T01:40:00.000-07:002016-10-11T22:07:26.594-07:0020 kg of AwesomenessOne thing I did during my vacation was sending a package to myself - 20kg of toys that were in storage at my parents place. Today, it finally arrived!<br />
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The box was pretty beaten, but it travelled around the world. I was just hoping I packed everything reasonably safe...<br />
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Nope :(<br />
The horror...<br />
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Man down! Man down!<br />
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But luckily most of it was okay.<br />
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So what was inside? For example my 6mm Modern IDF:<br />
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And some half-done Germans:<br />
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Plus reinforcements for my BAOR and Syrians:<br />
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Some 6mm Brigade Models Neo-Soviets:<br />
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One and a half 15mm Mighty Armies forces:<br />
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And two more:<br />
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A 15mm Walker from Micropanzer Wargames, long time oop and awful to assemble:<br />
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But the main part of it was BattleTech miniatures. I bought my first BattleTech novel, Way of the Clans, when I was 14, and I was hooked. Got the Mechs! box as a present soon after, but never actually played the game until I was 17. But then, BattleTech was HUGE in my circle of friends, especially during my last years of school and first years of study. We played an ongoing campaign with a mercenary unit, and back in the day there was heaps of organized play throuch MechForce and communities like Lordprotector and Batchall. I still own hundreds of BattlecTech miniatures, and maybe half of them are now back here with me.<br />
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Sadly, they suffered the most during transit...<br />
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First we have the mangled remains of my Clan Hell's Horse Omega Keshik:<br />
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The Hell's Horses always have been my favorite clan, I loved their schism between Crusaders and Warden and I loved their use of second line Mechs beside OmniMechs and their combined arms tactics. They were like one step smarter than the average clanner.<br />
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Well, if you are looking for a game with even more ridiculous tank designs than 40K, look no further! Also, I have way more ProtoMechs than I remember...<br />
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Including a Fenris with this quite presentable free-hand logo I did:<br />
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And a bunch of unpainted Clan Mechs, including 3 Dire Wolves :) <br />
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One of them is a Widowmaker, produced by the MechForce UK. But I suspect mine is a re-cast.<br />
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Beside this, I also created my own mercenary outfit, with the rather unoriginal name of Ronin. They were a bunch of soldiers who lost their units, families and/or homeworld in the Clan invasion. The core was the remnants of an FRR unit which teamed up with a beaten up Steiner mercenary lance and went from there. Yepp, I had a very detailed background for this unit.<br />
They adapted the same organisation as the clans with 5 Mechs per unit, and employed an "open" company structure, meaning that lances were put together into comapanies according to teh task at hand.<br />
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This is the command lance:<br />
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I was not very skilled when I painted those, and I think they deserve a new (hopefully better) paint job.<br />
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The Ronin employed three combat lances of mixed weight, employing embedded scouts in combat units:<br />
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The Thug is a bit of a stretch for a mercenary outfit in 3052, but I am sure there was a very good story for it being there.<br />
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The other two light lances are more combat oriented, with an ambush lance of 5 Javelins, well, technically three JVN-10N Javelins and two JVN-10F Fire Javelins, and a Hunter/Killer lance with two Phoenix Hawks and three Valkyries.<br />
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More specialized units come in form of an urban combat lance, as heavy as possible while being jump-capable and painted brightly red for easy identification in the chaos of close quarter combat, a fire support lance and the pride of my collection, the Guard lance with an Unseen Marauder II, two Unseen Marauders and an Unseen metal Warhammer (the painted Warhammer is plastic)!<br />
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Later, I expanded the Ronin to a full bataillon with Mechs from the newer TROs. Here are some of them, although each lance is missing at least one member - I guess they stayed behind when I packed the box...<br />
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And some more unaligned Mechs:<br />
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The last picture also contains a disturbing amount of unaccounted bits...<br />
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I hope you enjoyed this little trip through my hobby history! <br />
And there is still another smaller box sitting here waiting to be unpacked. :)Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-61064737257678868782016-09-25T22:59:00.000-07:002016-09-25T22:59:32.651-07:00The Shape of Things to ComeHello everybody, here is a quick teaser of what I am going to present to you in the near future - it's all about Normandy!<br />
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Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-31257759766196995702016-09-02T17:51:00.001-07:002016-09-02T17:51:41.261-07:00Bring & Buy 2016 LootHello,<br />
today was the first day of the Christchurch Wargaming Club Bring & Buy 2016, and I decided that this year I would be solely on the "Buy" side ;). The event grew quite a bit from last year, and we got a couple of hundred people through the door before lunchtime!<br />
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I spent 80 NZ$, which is about 58 US$. And look at my loot!<br />
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I got a couple of awesome books for 5 NZ$ (3.6 US$) each:<br />
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Another awesome score was this box of 1983 Grenadier Models Orcs - still in their original, also slightly decomposed, foam inlay:<br />
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These Reaper and Bombshell blister cost me 1 NZ$ (0.72 US$) each!<br />
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<br />And same for these Epic Demolishers and 6mm Dark Realm Miniatures tanks!<br />
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I also found a "Never Surrender" British Para (that was the pre-order exclusive for the first edition of Bolt Action):<br />
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And somebody was even selling demons from the The Others: 7 Sins boardgame!<br />
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And last but not least, 1/35th and 1/72th model kits which just looked like fun to build:<br />
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I am very happy with this pile of new toys!<br />
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And here are some more pictures of other interesting stuff on offer which sadly didn't fit into my budget:<br />
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Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-73031051251705280202016-07-27T11:42:00.000-07:002016-07-27T11:45:31.403-07:00Review - Heer46 Russian B-4 HowitzerTime flies when you have a real job to do - my apologies for the long gap between posts...<br />
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Anyway, today I have a look at Heer46's massive B-4 howitzer.<br />
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The 203mm howiter M1931 B-4, nicknamed Stalin's sledgehammer, represents the heaviest artillery used by the Red Army in significant numbers.It entered service in 1933 and was used as division and corps artillery until the 1950s. During this time the "Bolshevik" factory produced over 800 of these guns. It was mounted on wheeled or tracked carriages, both without their own engine. Overall weight was close to 20 tons with an overall length of 9.3 m. 15 men were needed to achieve a nominal rate of fire of 1 round per minute. Every shell contained 100 kg of high explosives and had a range of 18 km.<br />
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The Heer46 kit comes in just 7 parts and assembly is pretty straight forward. No additional work beside a good scrub with soap water was needed and everything can be put together easily with superglue.<br />
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The only major issue I have with the kit is that it can only be build in transport position. It is not possible to elevate the barrel and the tail is just one piece.<br />
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There is also no crew available, so I've built mine out of Warlord Games's Soviet Infantry (Winter) box.<br />
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Here are some pictures of the partially painted version (together with partially painted crew of 5):<br />
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And last but not least, a size comparison with the T-26:<br />
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Taken together, the B-4 is a nice model and a good addition to every Soviet army. It is definitely exotic and an eye-catcher, and I can't remember how many times I was asked if that is a 40K gun ;)<br />
Anyway, an option to build it in firing position would be great.<br />
The prize is 23.5€ (~ 26 US-$ or £20), which is okay considering that it comes from a small company and is the only way I know to get this particular gun.<br />
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Next time (and hopefully not again a full 4 weeks in the future) I will have a look at some infantry sets I recently received from Black Tree Designs.Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-49607183919476076742016-06-26T22:42:00.001-07:002016-07-27T11:42:20.890-07:00Review - Baker Company T26 "A" & "B"Today I take a closer look at the T26 "A" and T26 "B" from Baker Company. As far as I can tell they are not in production at the moment, I got them as part of the hapless Winter War Kickstarter (still waiting for most of my stuff after just 3 years...).<br />
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The T26 was one of the many "improved" Vickers 6-ton which popped up all across Europe in the 1930s - in reality, most of them were blatant local copies of the original design. The T26 came in two main flavors, single turret with 37mm or 45mm gun (sometimes called "B") and twin-turret with wtwo machine guns (variant "A"). There were some attempts to build versions armed with 76mm artillery pieces, but those didn't develop past prototype stage. Hundreds of T26 were shipped to support the Republicans, and a couple were used at Khalkin Gol.<br />
Large numbers were used during the Winter War against Finland, were the T26 proved to be already obsolete. The Finnish anti-tank rifles couldd penetrate its armor at decent ranges and the tank units were poorly coordinated with infantry which led to avoidable losses.<br />
When the German invasion began they faced thousands of T26, who were in most places slaughtered by Panzer III and IVs, but especially by the Luftwaffe. Several hundred were lost in the first months of Operation Barbarossa.<br />
Although basically already outdated at the start of the war, they were used until 1945 against the Japanese in Manchuria and at the Leningrad front.<br />
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The Baker Company models are not very high quality. Details are sufficient, but the material is rather brittle (this might be partly due to a couple of years in storage, too) and prone to break. Their is also quite a lot of excess material on the back of the tracks that impairs fitting. In other spots it looks like miscast surfaces were sanded down rather roughly. <br />
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The base platee for teh twin turrets was pretty contorted, but due to its thinness I could fix that with some hot water. Nevertheless, the hull for this versions has bolts on the top which need to be removed to make the base fit - I don't know why that was designed in this way...<br />
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The single turret variant suffers from the same deficiencies:<br />
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Assembled they son't look too bad, but you can see the amount of filler that was necessary:<br />
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I'm a bit torn on these ones. On one hand, they are just not nice-looking models and have their share of issues. On the other hand, I got them like really, really cheap and they do look the part once they are assembled and painted.<br />
To me, it comes down to price, which I cannot judge because they are not available at the moment (and most likely never will be again). During the Kickstarter they were £22, which is obviously a joke when you can get a supposedly much better quality T26 for less from Warlord Games...<br />
Yeah, so if you ever come across one of those, either pick it up really cheap or giv it a pass - there is a lot of nicer stuff out there.<br />
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PS: We played our Barbarossa event last Saturday and it was a blast - I only have pictures from my phone but I will post them in the next days. And as soon as I can find my camera I'll write the review of the much nicer and cooler Heer46 B-4 howitzer!<br />
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PPS: I just ordered a Komsomolets armored tractor and a Zis 6 truck :DTabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-75302834370172232812016-06-12T23:21:00.003-07:002016-07-27T11:42:39.253-07:00Review - Warlord Games BA-6 Armored Car<div>
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The <span lang="ru">Broneavtomobil 6, or
BA-6, was a slightly upgraded version of the BA-3 armored car. It is
based on the three-axle GAZ-AAA chassis and entered service in 1936. The
BA-6 featured the same turret as the BT-5 and T-26 m 1933, a conical
design housing a 45mm 20-K anti-tank gun and a co-axial 7.65 mm DT
machine gun. A second machine gun was mounted at the front. The design
was severely under motorized with a meager 40 hp engine for a 5ton
vehicle, and it lacked maneuverability off-road. Top speed (55 km/h) and
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<span lang="ru">It </span><span lang="ru"> was used in the Spanish Civil War and </span><span lang="ru">served
in the early Soviet campaigns of WW2 against the Japanese and Finns.
The BA-6 was still in used when Nazi Germany launched Operation
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<span lang="ru">The
Warlord Games kit comes as a combination of resin hull and turret and
metal parts. I was slightly concerned about that because it can
sometimes cause trouble during assembly. Luckily, Warlord Games used a
lot of pegs and holes and building the vehicle was quite enjoyable.</span><br />
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<span lang="ru">The
details are very good, and both resin and metal parts are casts in good
quality. As always, the exact alignment of the wheels is a bit tricky,
but I have seen worse. The only issue was the axle for the two spare tires - it is too short...</span><br />
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<span lang="ru">Overall a kit
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any extras like stowage, crew or decals, but those are rarely included
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<span lang="ru">The Warlord Games
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to build, well detailed and a good representation of the original.</span>Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-54641324984053315752016-05-19T19:02:00.000-07:002016-07-27T11:42:50.590-07:00For the Motherland (Part 1)Hello everybody, sadly I only have time for a very quick update.<br />
Here are some of the miniatures for my newest project, an early war Soviet army for the Operation Barbarossa event our wargaming club is organising.<br />
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The T-26s and infantry are from Baker Company, the BA-6 is from Warlord Games.<br />
I'm planning to turn the biplane into a mission objective for the Top Secret mission.<br />
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I hope I can put up the full reviews soon!Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-52963814112083445382016-05-01T00:00:00.000-07:002016-05-01T00:00:05.603-07:00Review - Anvil Industry The BlacksmithAnvil Industry is one of my favorite miniature companies, and they recently turned 5 years old! To celebrate this, they released The Blacksmith, their special 5th anniversary miniature. Of course I ordered two, let's have a look!<br />
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The miniature come with a lot of pieces: a base plate, a body, an anvil, a pair of tongs, two heads, <br />
two right hand options and three left hand options! <br />
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The quality is very good, as usual for Anvil Industry. But I was very surprised to see the amount of bubbles on the underside of the anvil piece: <br />
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Shocking! ;)<br />
Well, luckily this is completely irrelevant for the look of the miniature because the rest of the anvil looks as sharp as you can wish for:<br />
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I bought two sets so I can build one as an actual blacksmith and one as a warrior ready to fight.<br />
Assembly is easy and everything fits perfectly:<br />
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Amazing character! <br />
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I chose the flaming sword and shield combo for my warrior. You could also use the hammer for the right hand and a dagger for the left. <br />
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The tools on his belt appear a bit out of place to me, but who knows what they will be used for after the battle...<br />
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I am looking very much forward to painting these two. It's a really cool miniature, especially when built as a blacksmith. Makes me wish I could do OSL...<br />
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If you want to pick up you own blacksmith, go to: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1115388565"><br /></a><br />
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And in case you are wondering what happened to my Bolt Action Hungarians... Well, I missed the tournament due to a severe plumbing issue (I spare you the details). There was some progress painting them, and I hope I will show some new pictures soon.<br />
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Overall I promise to take better care of this blog in the future - I have sorted out my wedding, residency and new job and it should be much easier now to post an article every other week or so.<br />
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See you soon!Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-21579404914950210292016-01-12T15:18:00.002-08:002016-01-12T15:18:31.424-08:00Magyar Királyi Honvédség - Assembling the ForceMy miniatures arrived a couple of days ago and I wasted no time building my army!<br />
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The army list I will use is as follows:<br />
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Second Lieutnant (Regular) - 50<br />
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Light Infantry Section (Veteran)<br />
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+ SMG - 120<br />
Light Infantry Section (Veteran)<br />
+ 4 soldiers<br />
+ SMG - 120<br />
Regular Infantry Section (Regular)<br />
+ 6 soldiers - 110<br />
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Sniper Team (Regular) - 50<br />
MMG Team (Regular) - 50<br />
Medium Artillery (Inexperienced)<br />
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Turan I<br />
+ Upgrade to Turan II - 195<br />
Toldi I - 75<br />
Sd Kfz 234/2 Puma - 160 (Axis Support)<br />
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And here are pictures of the some of the elements:<br />
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I went for a rather relaxed pose for the Lieuntant, and decided to arm him with just a pistol. Normally, I would use Officers to get some free SMGs in the force, but this time it somehow didn't feel right.<br />
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This is one of the NCOs with SMG. Hungarian used the Danuvia 39M SMG which looked a lot like a normal rifle:<br />
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The artillery is a hodgepdoge of miniatures: I stole the gun from my Italians, the metal crew is actually from a mortar and I built two additional crewmen from the Blitzkrieg infantry box. <br />
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And the sniper team. Due to the separate weapons it was really hard to pose them in a proper way, and I still hope nobody'll look at them too closely.<br />
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Last, but not least, the tanks:<br />
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I ordered a Puma at our local hobby store, but it didn't arrive yet. If it's not here in time, I'll go back to use the Szebeny's Tank Destroyer as a Marder II.<br />
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Next I'll have to remove the last bits of flash and tub, and then they'll all get a nice white primer.Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-18549185044604915932016-01-02T19:06:00.002-08:002016-01-03T00:34:33.421-08:00Magyar Királyi Honvédség - The Plan<div class="tr_bq">
There is a Bolt Action tournament coming up on February 6th and I decided to use get some Hungarians done for that!</div>
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You might remember that I got a a whole bunch of <a href="http://ttf-sas.blogspot.co.nz/2015/10/magyar-steel.html">Magyar Steel from Mad Bob Miniatures</a>, and my first idea was to field as much of it as possible. A quick check of the army list showed me that I can get a Toldi I as my armored car and then use the Turan III as a count-as Panzer IV H. The army special rule "Axis Support" allows me to take another unit from the German army list, and the Marder II was a good match for Szebeny's Tank Destroyer.<br />
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That would leave me with a couple of hundred points for infantry, so my first list looked like that:<br />
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Regular Second Lieutnant - 50<br />Regular Squad (10) - 100<br />Regular Squad (10) - 100<br />Regular Squad (10) - 100 <br />Regular MMG Team - 50<br />Regular Sniper Team - 50<br />Regular Panzerschreck Team - 80<br />Regular Panzer IV H - 235 (Turan III) <br />Regular Marder II - 160 (Axis Support, Szebeny's Tank Destroyer)<br />Regular Toldi I - 75<br />Total: 1000 </blockquote>
Solid army,but sadly I completely neglected something I am still not used to here in New Zealand - up to 28 days delivery time for almost anything that is not in stock...<br />
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So I was limited to what I could get from the local retailers... And my budget isn't that large, either.<br />
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I decided to go for Blitzkrieg Germans as infantry. These pics here show that they should be a good match if just painted green:<br />
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I would have preferred great coats (or maybe SS-Smocks), but there was no way to get them in time and for a reasonable prize... So Blitzkrieg it is.<br />
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Checking availabilties showed me that this would be a viable list:<br />
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Regular Second Lieutnant - 50<br />
Veteran Squad (9) + SMG - 120<br />
Veteran Squad (9) + SMG - 120<br />
Regular Squad (9) - 90<br />
Regular MMG Team - 50<br />
Regular Sniper Team - 50<br />
Regular Medium Mortar Team - 50<br />
Regular Panzer IV H - 235 (Turan III)<br />
Regular Marder II - 160 (Axis Support, Szebeny's Tank Destroyer)<br />
Regular Toldi I - 75<br />
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I tried it today against Soviets with OT-34, Siberians with truck, Combat Engineers with truck, Sniper, Medium Mortar, ZIS-3 and inexperienced squad. We played Hold Until Relieved and Maximum Attrition, and I lost both quite significantly. The message I took home was that my army is too small and too slow (and that I absolutely positively hate vehicle-mounted flamethrowers...).<br />
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So there is not much I can do about mass (unless I happen to find another box of Blitzkrieg infantry in some dusty corner of my FLGS, in that case I might drop the Panzer IV to get two more squads), but I realized that a Sd Kfz 234/2 Puma costs exactly the same as the Marder II, but seems to be much more effective. And I am sure I saw one on the shelf the other day... Additionally, I can reduce the quality of one Veteran squad to get a truck in.<br />
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New army list:<br />
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Regular Second Lieutnant - 50<br />
Veteran Squad (9) - 117<br />
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Regular Squad (9) - 90<br />
Regular Squad (9) - 90<br />
Regular MMG Team - 50<br />
Regular Sniper Team - 50<br />
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Regular Panzer IV H - 235 (Turan III)<br />
Regular Puma - 160 (Axis Support)<br />
Regular Toldi I - 75</blockquote>
If my miniature get delivered on Thursday as promised, I have to paint a squad, a weapon team and a vehicle per week - Not too crazy ;)Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-84329523643028429292015-12-24T12:48:00.000-08:002015-12-24T12:48:50.560-08:00A Quick UpdateHello everyone,<br />
it has been a bit quiet in this corner of my hobby life...<br />
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My new job took a lot of energy from me (especially the late shifts till midnight) and I've had a lot of non-hobby-related stuff to do (as most of us, I guess).<br />
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So what IS going on?<br />
<br />I finished a 3-part review of the excellent Age of Tyrants for Bell of Lost Souls, which will be published over the next couple of days.<br />
Additionally, I got a couple of their tanks to review, too, of which two are with a friend of mine who runs his own painting service to be made pretty.<br />
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Next I'll write my 2015 review (for BoLS, too), which means I am going and I through all the posts on the Fix for this year - quite an effort!<br />
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Then there are multiple painting projects that need to be finished - foremost a bunch of Sigmarites I am painting as a commission, but I also started a vignette with modern soldiers, the 15mm diorama, and some bits and pieces for Frostgrave and DBA.<br />
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Talking about DBA - I did finish my army and played the tournament at the start of December, and I actually won! Well, it only had 5 players, but winning three out of four games was a very pleasant chnage from losing every match in my first two competitions. I guess it is true that miniatures painted by yourslef fight harder :)</div>
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I am still contemplating if I want to push to get a 1000 points Hungarian army for Bolt Action done in the next 6 weeks to have them ready for an upcoming tournament - but I still haven't decided which infantry to use for conversions....</div>
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So, that was the short catch-up, I hope there will be more and better structured content soon.</div>
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Happy Holidays and see you in a bit!</div>
Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-46684596091272898292015-12-02T14:44:00.000-08:002015-12-02T14:46:26.646-08:00Spray and PrayI started with the 15mm SciFi diorama and painted the vehicles.<br />
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First, I used black spray paint as a foundation:<br />
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Next was a layer of light grey:<br />
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And more stencils:<br />
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Follwed by the main color:<br />
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The Tamiya spray is pretty good and the layers are reasonably thin. Now came the most exciting part - removing the vinyl bits:<br />
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I am quite pleased with the results. Of course the Anarchy Models masking vinyl is not designed to be used with spray cans, but the "stepping" is not too bad. The vinyl left some residue, I guess because of the rather hot temperatures around here, but those rub off easily. I think that the paint from the can is more likely to get under the vinyl than paint from an airbrush.<br />
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Now I should go back and paint some 10mm Normans - they need to be ready by sunday ;)Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3358562346822912246.post-63753851530906747622015-11-22T21:12:00.001-08:002015-11-22T21:14:37.922-08:00Tiny Normans Part IHello,<br />
first, sorry for the long break. I wanted to post this last week, but then I had some trouble with my laptop and so it took a lot longer to get this one done than I wanted.<br />
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With a new DBA tournament coming up in early December Inow started to build my 10mm Norman army.<br />
Because my Normans are 10mm I am going to double base everything (i.e. use 6 miniatures on a 3Kn element) which I think is a great way to make the army even more impressive.<br />
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With what I have I can easily make enough elements to play Western Franks / Normans as well as Eastern Franks.<br />
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The spearmen line up very nicely into a solid block:<br />
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As do the bowmen:<br />
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These are two element of psiloi with crossbows (I fixed the "upright" weapons by now and removed the surplus metal bits):<br />
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But of course the main bulk of the army are the knights:<br />
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I had to cut the bases myself because I only got 40x20 bases. Front right is a base of camp followers.<br />
Talking about the camp, I also started to build a Norman wwatchtower/keep:<br />
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I'll add some windows and a gate made out of plastic card.<br />
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Most of the bases still need to be done, and of course there is the small issue of painting the 107 miniatures in the army... Well, at least I've started already ;)<br />
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I also did some work on the 15mm SciFi vehicles I showed a couple of weeks before. Hopefully I'll be able to post some pictures soon!Tabletop Fixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12421763824037425323noreply@blogger.com0