I am currently writing the scenarios for the actions in Gorlovko (Горловка or Gorlovka or a couple of other spelling variants) by the 80th Roma Regiment. The city has a very interesting history that does not really belong in a war games scenar…
Here’s a collection of 15mm WWII French vehicles I recently completed for a customer. This addition will add to his existing collection. It includes some soft skin trucks and Char B-1′s.All miniatures are from Battlefront Miniatures. The first set of t…
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Here’s a 28mm WWII German SS force we completed for a customer for the Bolt Action rule set. All the figure are from Warlord Games’ Bolt Action line.I did these in eichenlaubmuster, or oak leaf camo. Its was a popular pattern first issued in 1941 and u…
Here’s a collection of 28mm WWII US Paratroopers for a customer. The figures are all from Warlord Games’ Bolt Action line, with a couple of Artizan bazooka teams thrown in at the end for comparison. These are set up for for the rule set Bolt Action. Th…
This game of Nuts! was played cooperatively. Andrew and I each took a squad of squarehead Nazis and pitted them …Continue reading »
The CSIR supplement is coming along at a better speed. I am well into the scenarios now. At this point in time, the supplement will feature 22 scenarios for IABSM and an additional 12 scenarios for either Troops, Weapons & Tactics or Chain of Command…
Here is the protagonist squad for the coming solo Nuts! campaign set on the eastern front during Operation Barbarossa. I …Continue reading »
The revolving drum and chains on a Matilda ScorpionThe mine-clearing flail concept was first devised by a South African officer, Captain (later Major) A. S. du Toit. While du Toit went to England to develop the idea, Captain Norman Berry, a mechanical …
Last night I finished off the minor changes on my Padre figure. Ultimately, this is not the figure I wanted to go with as he lacks some of the drama I wanted for the figure. He looks way too subdued. There is a figure in the Peter Pig WWI Russian pa…
We started with the basic scenario in the Nuts! game, an assault on a house by a few GI’s, in …Continue reading »
Today was the monthly Strategy Wargaming meet-up at Sentry Box. I managed to be able to arrange a game of Combat Commander with Kevin. He graciously brought along his collection and we determined that we would play the St. Martin de Fontenay, Normandy scenario (#116) that, I believe, came in C31 issue #26. The scenario […]
I saw this book several weeks ago and decided to buy it primarily because I had read other works by this author and knew it would be a good read. Pier Paolo Battistelli earned his PhD in Military History at the University of Padua and is a scholar of G…
Following with the theme of the last post, I have decided to take some pictures of the Italians that I have. First is a picture of one of the trays from the shelf with the majority of the infantry company. These are in several stages of being done. …
I took the wife and the young Padawan to Duxford on Sunday to tak advantage of the fine spring weather that has finally arrived in time for the Bank Holiday weekend. I’ve been to Duxford dozens of times (it’s less than an hour from where I live) and as…
I found a Mig3 from the NewRay Pilot Model Kit range the other week. It was cheap, with only about …Continue reading »
This unit has been on my desk for several weeks as I have been sidetracked by one thing or another. Now that I have cleared my desk of diversions, and and re-organised it, I have finally made time to finish this Platoon. This Heavy Anti Aircraft Gun Pl…
During the Easter Holidays I went away with the family for a few days and I managed to slip in a quick visit to the Eastbourne Redoubt Military Museum. I’ve been here several times before, back when they used to have a small wargames show, but its been…
I managed to get some painting done this week. It is the lovely Iron Clad Miniatures chapel. This is a small chapel that could not hold more than a few people inside. Something that might be found in a remote farming community. I tried to paint it…
There has been quite a lot of “new” ASL products coming into the house lately. One of the local ASL gamers was clearing out their duplicate ASL modules so I was able to grab Hollow Legions, Croix de Guerre and Yanks for an attractive price. Certainly far less than I would have been able to [...]
Here’s some WWII British Paratroopers and some Germans. The figures are mostly from Warlord Games’ Bolt Action range with a few from Crusader Miniatures to fill in a couple of spots.First up the British:Next up the Germans. These are the Bolt Action pl…
A while back my good friend and fellow blogger Derek gave me an excellent book of Wartime posters form the Imperial War Museum. Fit Men Wanted includes 64 full page reproduction posters along with some details on the back of each. These are fantastic e…
It seems that the end of every Challenge creates a certain panic amongst many of the participants (me included) to get those last projects submitted under-the-wire. Unfortunately both Sidney and Jacco sent these in after the deadline but I felt t…
I was chatting to a friend the other day about my North Africa 1942 Project and he asked me why I chose that particular moment in the Desert War to focus on. To be honest he stumped me for a few seconds because when I got started late last year I picke…