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Author Topic: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan  (Read 3109 times)

Offline TWD

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Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« on: May 20, 2018, 09:32:23 PM »
Chum James invited me to help out with his Crete game at Partizan.









Many more pictures over on the blog:
http://tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/tavronitis-bridge-crete-at-paertizan.html

Offline Truscott Trotter

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Re: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2018, 11:58:54 PM »
Fantastic looking table and figures   :)

Offline ARKOUDAKI

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Re: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2018, 10:53:40 AM »
A great looking game!!!!!!!!  :-* :-* :-* Well done!

Offline DintheDin

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Re: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2018, 11:19:07 AM »
Splendid! Magnificent spectacle! I envy the lucky ones who prticipated in this great game! Cheers!
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. – Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

Offline majorsmith

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Re: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2018, 01:31:24 PM »
Was a great looking game, this and the Stalingrad game were real stand outs

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Re: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2018, 02:11:39 PM »
brilliant stuff  8) 8)

Offline Andym

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Re: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2018, 04:06:38 PM »
Wow! What a game! :-*

Offline TWD

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Re: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2018, 05:33:24 PM »
Thanks chaps. All credit for the game should go to James (whose idea and much of the scenery it was) Sam and Mike (who provided lots of soldiers)..

Offline majorsmith

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Re: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2018, 10:43:17 PM »
Any idea where the carpet was from?

Offline TWD

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Re: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2018, 07:25:12 PM »
The fleece mat?
I think James just bought it from a local fabric shop.
He then added some paint and even glued on some sand he collected from the Hill 107 in Crete.
Just for that extra touch of authenticity.

Offline majorsmith

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Re: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2018, 08:49:44 PM »
I was going to do a Crete project a while back, seeing this layout makes me want. To do it, thanks for the mat info

Offline jfariahitech

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Re: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2018, 10:00:13 PM »
WOW! What a table!
 :-* :-*

Offline James Morris

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Re: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2018, 07:50:18 AM »
Cheers all; it was a great day out, exhausting as ever, and the weather was perfect for the 77th anniversary of the battle.

The cloth is, as Tom says, just a fleece cloth bought from the market, with some  splatter and spray painting, plus flock and sand patches. We created the Tavronitis river bed by raising up the tables on either side, giving us a flat valley in the middle.  The whole set up fits in the back of a car.t

Offline DintheDin

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Re: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2018, 07:58:00 AM »
You did an excellent presentation! Congrats!
I keep revisiting the pics on the blog!

Offline Poiter50

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Re: Tavronitis bridge, Crete at Partizan
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2018, 08:05:42 AM »
And now I have ordered the new Crusader Partisans to add to my Gorgon ones!  lol
Cheers,
Poiter50