The support walkers for the Weird World War 2 US army from Clockwork Goblin. Very nice figures, as I've come to expect from CG, which go together very easily, and paint up well.
On the right, the Kodiak Walker; on the left, the Ursus Walker:
Ursus
Kodiak
I've finished the Royalist platoon for the Quar from Zombiesmith. I haven't added them to the official Gallery yet, as I forgot to photograph them by section, but here's a sneak preview of the leg-infantry element of a Royalist 'company':
Action from the Small Sagas blog, where they re-fight the first scenario from the IABSMv3 rulebook: North of Caen.
Another great IABSM AAR from East Africa in 1941. This time, James Morris describes the desperate fight for Brig's Peak.
The frog-like Aphids are back in action!
This time it's an encounter mission against the insectoid Hive. Who can get, and stay, across the canal?
A short WW2 battle report from Paul Scrivens-Smith takes us to East Africa. It's 1941, and the British and Italians are fighting for the Cameron Ridge.
I've added the transport for my Late War German Panzer Grenadier company: half tracks all round!
The standard SdKfz 251s are from Zvezda, the SdKfz 251/10s (the one's with the ATG) are from Plastic Soldier Company. The PSC half-tracks are their standard model plus the /10 conversion kit. Easy to put together and paint up well. And yes, I did paint them at a different time with a different yellow!
A WW2 battle report from Mike Whittacker, with scenario #02 from the IABSMv3 rulebook.
Sapper Joe reports on his first game of Charlie Don't Surf: it's scenario #02 from Surf's Up: Sniper
Great game of Q13 last week. Aphis versus Felids in a screening mission involving the kitty cats desperately trying to hold off a superior frog-force whilst their engineers rig a vital reactor for demolition!
A WW2 battle report from Benito, who is warming up for a Hell's Highway campaign.
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I have added a gallery for the Gitungi: one of Micropanzer's really innovative ranges of 15mm sci-fi figures. Heavily armoured bipeds reminiscent of the aliens from The Fifth Element or even the Sontarans from Doctor Who, the Gitungi range is currently quite limited, but Jason Moore, the force behind Micropanzer, has promised more support weapons soon.
The Gitungi on the Micropanzer website are painted in a desert yellow colour. That looks good, but I wanted something more extreme. Mine are painted in three shades of gold (paints from Games Workshop) with the Scouts then washed with a light green wash. I think the Scouts look best of all, with the extra shading from the wash, but I'm going to see if the pure gold main force grow on me before I do anything else. I need to get them onto the tabletop and see what they look like there!
Here are the Gitungi as shown on the Micropanzer site:
and here are my Scouts:
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The third instalment in Grah's Stalingrad campaign. More fierce and bloody fighting.
Grah continues his Stalingrad campaign with the Soviets counter-attacking. Looks like some nasty FIBUA action!
A first time player's report covering one of the scenarios given in the v3 rulebook: North of Caen.
A rather unsubtle bludgeoning by a Soviet heavy tank company with Yours Truly on the receiving end. Good fun, though.
I've had the Battlefront Heavy Tank Company box set sitting on my painting table since Christmas. Finally got a chance to paint them up, with not a small amount of delay caused by the fact that two of them had badly damaged hulls.
I can repair a bit, or green-stuff a bit, or even paint up damaged models as battle-damage, but two of the hulls had major damage to the mudguards. Now I know they replaced them as soon as possible after a simple e-mail, but this sort of thing just shouldn't happen. I have ordered loads of stuff recently and, time and time again, it's only the Battlefront stuff that consistently arrives damaged or missing a part. Is it any wonder that people are switching to FiB or PSC or Zvezda?
Anyway, five beautiful models with the heft and weight that a heavy tank should have:
I have often raved about Khurasan's range of 15mm sci-fi figures: Garn, Felid, Stikk, Kingdom of the Jasmine Throne, Karkarine...a seemingly never ending list of top class models. Now, however, Jon has broken even better new ground by launching the MAKO range of 15mm sci-fi support equipment.
The range consists of a gun tractor and cruciform stand onto which fit a range of different support weapons: currently an autocannon and a heavy mortar. So far so good, you say: cool idea, but not incredibly novel. The new bit is the fact that Khurasan are producing crew figures for each of their alien races to go with the support weapons, so that you can use the MAKO equipment with whatever range or ranges you happen to be collecting, with the possibility of two opponents on the same table top using the same equipment to fight each other.
Although the Kark crew aren't launched yet, the Felid are (along with other ranges I'm not yet collecting) so here are the current Felid MAKO units in all their various combinations:
Mako Autoguns with Felid crew on mixed mounts
Mako Autoguns with Felid crew on Mako Gun Tractors
Mako Heavy Field Mortars with Felid crew on Mako Cruciform Stands
Mako Heavy Field Mortars with Felid crew on mixed mounts
With the release of the late war Eastern Front supplement (Vpered Na Berlin) I've been checking that I have everything I need for the Soviets, and have found a few holes in the collection.
Here the first "plug": a platoon of BA-64 armoured cars. Lovely little models that paint up beautifully. These are spray undercoated in black, then have a coat of GW Orchide Shade, then a heavy dry brush of Vallejo US Dark Green, then a coat of Citadel Agrax Earthshade wash. Do the tyres and crewmember, add decals and done!
So I made the usual pilgrimage to Salute on Saturday. Much busier than the last couple of years (could this be a sign of the end of the recession?!) and with a real buzz.
There were the usual problems with the queue: it took an hour to get in which, given the show is only on for a day, is neither big nor clever.
Met and chatted to loads of Lardies, and picked up some new toys too. One purchase which I couldn't wait to build were some Russian Front log houses from 4Ground. Very nice models which go together surprisingly easily once you get the hang of them. No need to paint them either: these can go straight onto the table, and I will definitely be getting some more. I love the smell of laser-cut wood in the morning!
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