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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: TacticalPainter on March 13, 2022, 12:33:49 AM
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I thought it might be easier to follow in the footsteps of others and create a single thread for posting work on my 20mm Second World War collection. Anyone interested in seeing earlier work can find lots of stuff on the 20mm SWW page on the blog which is here http://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/p/miniatures-20mm.html
Latest additions are for my early war Germans and specifically with the 1940 Chain of Command campaign we are currently playing set in the Netherlands. I've had a few of these sitting on the shelf of shame for a while - they were made and primed and this campaign was the incentive to get them moving (also part of a NY resolution to finish off as many unfinished projects as I can before starting anything new).
The PzKpfwI are a mix of kits, with two from s-models and one the very old kit from Fujimi. The crew figure is from the Orion plastic Panzer WWII Soldiers set.
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The PzKpfwII is also from s-models and the crew figure is again from the same Orion set as the PzI.
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Looking good mate!
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yes, very cool.
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Nice work, great modelling, the S Model kits as you say are a nice balance between gaming and modelling, but for early 1940 (Case Yellow period) they should be in the two tone grey/brown camo scheme.
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Gorgeous work! I believe I follow you on Instagram (?) and always love your posts! Thank you for sharing!
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Gorgeous work! I believe I follow you on Instagram (?) and always love your posts! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks! I’m not on Instagram but I am on Twitter (@PainterTactical).
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Nice work, great modelling, the S Model kits as you say are a nice balance between gaming and modelling, but for early 1940 (Case Yellow period) they should be in the two tone grey/brown camo scheme.
Ignore him - everyone knows Panzers are grey. Until they are yellow.
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I've had a collection of figures and vehicles for China that I put together for Crossfire many years ago. More recently I've based them individually for rules like Chain of Command, there's not a lot to choose from when it comes to this theatre in 20mm, so there's a mix of existing and converted figures and kits. There's a longer post with more pictures on the blog here http://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2022/03/second-world-war-chinese-national-army.html
One of the very few ranges of figures include a very small group from Wargames Foundry:
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/924/WehOM0.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poWehOM0j)
Otherwise it's been a matter of adapting and converting existing sets like this HaT 7.7cm Feldkanone:
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/923/ZE98T3.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnZE98T3j)
The Chinese bought tanks from a number of countries, so there's a nice selection of light tanks from the interwar years to include:
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Very Nice!
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Part of my NY resolution for 2022 was to finish off as many uncompleted projects as possible before embarking on any new ones (I know, I know....famous last words). Anyhow, so far at least, I've been doing that quite successfully.
Last year I made up the Armourfast Achilles. I detailed it with a bit of scratch building and plundering the spares box to make up an interior for the turret. To finish it off it needed stowage on the exterior and a crew. I have a couple of the resin stowage sets from Value Gear which are, perhaps unsurprisingly, great value. I couldn't find a specific crew and so I've used figures from various AB Figures sets. The Armourfast kits can be rather basic but I find with a bit of detailing they can be very presentable.
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Next up was an Archer. This one is from Early War Miniatures and was a mix of resin and metal. Not the crispest casting by any means but, a bit like Armourfast, much can be done by adding a few details and a crew. The crews for British self propelled AT guns came from anti tank gun units not armoured units and so didn't wear the black beret of the RAC (although from what I can see, they did wear Pixie suits). In my case I've kept the crew in the infantryman's steel helmet, as I've seen several pictures of crews like this. Once again the crew is made up of AB Figures and these come from the 17 pounder AT gun crew.
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Top notch as ever
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Lovely work!
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Great detail :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Lovely painting, sir ! :-*
And a chinese army is a nice change in this part of the forum !
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Great painting. Lovely looking efforts as usual, with one slightly jarring thing which is the black bull insignia (11th Armoured) looks too big.. maybe 28mm decals on 20mm vehicles?
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Great looking collection of models fella.
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Great painting. Lovely looking efforts as usual, with one slightly jarring thing which is the black bull insignia (11th Armoured) looks too big.. maybe 28mm decals on 20mm vehicles?
Yeah I know. They were supposed to be 1/72 decals from PSC but I’ve always find them large, so not sure why I persisted using them. I’m thinking of covering them with camouflage netting rather than trying to paint them out.
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Well Doug, you managed to spur me into action to sort out those large decals. I've been working on camouflage netting for another project so quickly applied it to the Achilles. Oversized decals sorted and an upgrade to the model at the same time. Result!
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The other project was an upgrade to a old Armourfast Cromwell. Added stowage from Value Gear; camouflage netting made from a bandage and a crew figure from AB.
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You paint 20mm better than I paint 28mm, great work!
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Really excellent work. :-*
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I have a fair few of the 'simpler' kits designed for gamers from the Plastic Soldier Company and Armourfast. As I've said before, they are not bad but they have their issues. The Armourfast stuff tends to be very basic and the PSC kits have a lot of rather chunky over-scale details. Both are robust for gaming as a result but often benefit from detailing to improve their look.
I've been going back to some of these to find ways to improve them. Like I did with the Achilles and Cromwell I can use camouflage netting to cover up parts of the kit. In other ways something as simple as a good crew figure can make a difference.
One of the issues with the PSC German kits is that the bow machine gun is a rather thick rod of plastic and looks nothing like an MG34, so with this PzIV and PzIII all I've done is replace the MG barrels with one from the spares box and added a crew figures from AB.
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In the case of the very nice Tiger I from Revell the kit hasn't needed anything more than replacing the original crew figure I had used (a spare one from a PSC set) with one from AB.
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Great painting!
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Stunning work :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Lovely stuff.. I confess I had fun with late war camouflage too in 1/72
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But yes, those look way better, and with markings obscured you won't feel guilty about proxying for 6th Guards or 7th Armoured..
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Nice tanks you have there. Love 'em!
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I've wanted a Soviet DhSK 12.7mm and crew but have had trouble finding something. My best solution has been to use set of AB crew for a Maxim and add it to a gun from SHQ.
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That works for me... :)
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Nice DShK. Well done!
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An addition to the early war Far East British collection. The venerable 18 pounder was still in service in the 1930s. The carriage was modified and wheels changed to pneumatic tyres so the gun could be towed by a vehicle. Other than the inclusion of an AP round it was much the same gun that served so well in 1914-18. At the start of the second world war a number went to France with the BEF and a number were already stationed in Hong Kong, Malaya and Burma. The gun model is from SHQ and the crew are from the AB set for the 25pdr in the Western Desert. I've hazard a guess it was painted in pre-war Bronze Green and likely remained that colour, but as I say, it's a guess.
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One incentive to getting the 18pdr gun finished has been the play testing we have been doing for the forthcoming Far East Handbook for Chain of Command. At the moment the focus is on the early part of the war in places like Hong Kong, Malaya and Burma with a particular focus on how best to represent the Japanese and the specific terrain of the region, particularly jungle. There are some very nice ideas in draft form at the moment so we took the opportunity of a club night to play a game set in Malaya and use my early war Far East British. Overall the theatre specific rules are playing out very well and are definitely heading in the right direction. If nothing else it was good to get the Far East terrain and figures out again.
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Looking good mate…. And keen to see that new book getting published!
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Great looking table and figures :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Great looking table and figures :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Wot he dun said!
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Yep.. my forces for Malaya are awaiting the publication.. Lanchester armoured cars standing by.
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TP,
I've tended to be very quiet lately but wanted to let you know how much I love and admire your work. Just lovely to look at - the models and the photography.
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Beautiful game! Great terrain! Fantastic figures!
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Love it all - very impressive. The tropical plants in particular are nicely done...
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A really interesting general post. Love the early Chinese Nats. IIRC their Pz1s might be in two-tone camo, but Fall Gelb not so much.
I look forward to reading your Far East CoC expansion, always intrigued how people handle jungle.
I'll be back
Cheers
John
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A really interesting general post. Love the early Chinese Nats. IIRC their Pz1s might be in two-tone camo, but Fall Gelb not so much.
I look forward to reading your Far East CoC expansion, always intrigued how people handle jungle.
I'll be back
Thanks. Rules for jungle were created for a campaign set in Malaya but now that the Lardies are putting out a Far East supplement they are revisiting all the rules. Some will remain unchanged and a few are fine tuned. If you're interested in following how we've played with the Japanese so far you might want to look at how we played the Malaya campaign (called Malaya 1942) and one set in Singapore (called Last Stand on Opium Hill). You can find links to every game on this page http://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/p/chain-of-command-campaign-aars.html
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Inspired by the Major Thomas Foolery blog I think I've found a solution to creating scatter terrain for my Far East games in places like Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya and Burma. I converted this Lledo Dennis van and there's a bit more detail on how I did it here http://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2022/07/converting-die-cast-vehicles-for-second.html
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I really like that, great idea!
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That's come up really well, now stop mucking about painting stuff unless it's for a forthcoming campaign. :)
Seems like the TFL Far East supplement is still some time away, so we're back to doing European battles. I'm hoping to do Bloody Bucket next... still some figs to finish.
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Loving it mate! Brilliant work on that truck. Very inspirational!
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Great work on the truck :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Love the redo on that truck. It sure looks the part.
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A few Japanese additions. These are all from SHQ. Their figure sculpts are slimmer than most other 20mm ranges and they don't always sit well side by side with them, however in the case of gun crews I don't think that really matters. As long as the crew all fit together the chances are they won't be seen directly adjacent to other figures anyway. It's a strange thing, but I'm always a bit disappointed when I first receive SHQ figures yet they never fail to paint up well and look the part.
Here is a 47mm AT gun and crew:
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A few extra casualties to add to the mix. They are always handy for illustrating the AARs and it seems you can never have enough.
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More great-looking stuff. Well done again!
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I've painted up the lovely set of AB Figures British tank crew bailing out to use in photographs to illustrate the Chain of Command AARs on the blog. As always with AB, these are very expressive figures that all help tell the story. More pictures of these and the German set here http://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2022/08/bail-out-20mm-ab-crews-abandoning-tanks.html
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You continue to impress! 👍
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Lovely work, the Churchill is excellent (my fave tank).
And nice to see such good painting here in Oz :)
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Okay. Now you're just showing off... :D
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Okay. Now you're just showing off... :D
😂😂
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A small addition for the Japanese. This is a set of three mules and their handlers that comes from the 172 Miniatures range. I have in mind a few Chindit raiding scenarios and envisage these being amongst the targets.
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Very nice. It was the Airfix German Mountain Troops set that came with a mule IIRC, in grey blue plastic. Nice model as I recall. Now wondering who does a pack mule STL.
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Very nice. It was the Airfix German Mountain Troops set that came with a mule IIRC, in grey blue plastic. Nice model as I recall. Now wondering who does a pack mule STL.
Thanks. The Airfix Jungle Hut came with a few mules and Japanese handlers. I have two sets of them in a box somewhere. The figures were quite small but might match up okay with these. Will give me a pretty good size mule train (if you were a Chindit you might describe it as a target rich environment 🙄)
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Very nice addition :-* :-* :-*
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Thanks. The Airfix Jungle Hut came with a few mules and Japanese handlers. I have two sets of them in a box somewhere. The figures were quite small but might match up okay with these. Will give me a pretty good size mule train (if you were a Chindit you might describe it as a target rich environment 🙄)
I am not quite sure how best to wargame Chindit operations, given they rarely did 'stand-up' fights, and were more tasked with hit and run. Though building a Wingate figure would be interesting. Who does a 28mm bible and bearded fanatic? :)
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I am not quite sure how best to wargame Chindit operations, given they rarely did 'stand-up' fights, and were more tasked with hit and run. Though building a Wingate figure would be interesting. Who does a 28mm bible and bearded fanatic? :)
I have made notes for a PSC with Chindits. The idea is they don’t follow the traditional ladder structure in sequential order but rather approach different maps from a couple of ‘off ladder’ maps conducting raids and hit and run. Challenge for the Japanese player is where to allocate units to protect the LOC, but also allow an option for a ‘counterattack’ where they send out a force on a search and destroy mission. I’m sure I can make it enjoyable for the Chindit player, hopefully I can find enough to make it the same for the Japanese.
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Don't forget that in the second Chindit campaign, the Chindits defended two localities - White City and Broadway, as well as a temporary base at Blackpool. There was heavy fighting in all three locations.
In addition there was the attack on Indaw by Ferguson's brigade and Mogaung by Calvert's brigade.
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Not the most exciting of additions but everyone needs trucks. These are from the Plastic Soldier Company set of German trucks. I made up one of the Opel Blitz a while ago to serve as a civilian truck, but I've only now got around to finishing off the others. You get three kits in a box but there are options for both Opel and Mercedes cabs and so I've been able to squeeze out a fourth kit by using some of the left over parts and doing a bit of scratchbuilding to give me an extra Mercedes truck.
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While I had the airbrush out I finally got around to putting paint on a few allied vehicles that were intended to be lend-lease Red Army AFVs.
The Valentine and Sherman are from Plastic Soldier Company and the Matilda from S-Models. Crew are from AB Figures.
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Lovely trucks and tanks. Especially the tanks! :D
Well done again!
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Lovely vehicles! I really love the dirt om the running gear!
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Gorgeous work on those trucks and tanks!!!
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While I was painting up the lend lease Russian tanks I also painted up a Dragon T34/85. Nice kit with much better detailing than the PSC kits (that said, the PSC kits are more robust for gaming). I made this one specifically to have some of the AB tank riders mounted. I've actually glued these in place as I think it makes a lovely piece that's almost a little diorama in its own right and I wanted something for those games where I use tankodestantniki.
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A really great clean paintjob, the weathering is just fitting the scale, not overdone.
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You're right - the tank riders look great on that
EC
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Yup - I think they look great too!
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Something a little different. I bought six railway carriages on eBay some time ago and I've been hoping to find a suitable locomotive to go with them. It is possible to find fairly cheap 'non-runners' given most railway modellers prefer a working train, but so far no luck. In the end I decided to make one of the Dapol kits. These were first released by Kitmaster in the last 1950s before going to Airfix for many years. Considering their age they hold up very well and more importantly they are very reasonably priced. It was a bit more work than I was hoping to do, but I actually found it a nice change from the usual mix of guns and armour. This can be for scatter terrain (I'm thinking railyards in a major city) or for a scenario (partisan action?).
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Nice, I've been looking for a cheap equivalent for 28mm for some time with no luck. All the various stl files are designed to sit on railway modellers chassis and gubbins... and O gauge running gear isn't cheap! Any suggestions welcome...
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LOVE the Russian armor and the trains!!! Can’t wait to see them in action!
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I'm on a bit of a roll at the moment with the Second World War stuff and finishing off several projects that have needed doing for some time. One of those was a crew for one of my SU76. The AFV is a kit from UM and I had used a couple of spare Russian mortar crew figures from one of the Plastic Soldier Company sets as the gun crew. They never looked quite right and so I picked up some of the AB crew figures last year when I placed an order for some other things. They are now painted and in the SU76.
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It was great to see a SU76 up close on a recent visit up to the Australian Armour and Artillery Museum. It was one of several Russian AFVs they have in their very impressive collection.
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Another purchase made at the same time was the set of Russian casualty figures, something I've found very useful for using in photographs of the Chain of Command games on the blog. Once again these are from AB.
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Now for a slightly different shade of green and a few American vehicles. Two tank destroyers from Armourfast with crews from AB Figures to round out my US AFV collection - a M18 Hellcat and a M36 Jackson.
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And something for the late war. A M26 Pershing from Trumpeter with a crew from AB once again.
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I have the trumpeter kit as well. But not doing 20mm any more.
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The reason I made the Pershing and M36 was driven by seeing the Bazooka Town campaign for Chain of Command in the 2021 Lard Magazine. It's set in 1945 and the Americans have a Pershing and a M36 Jackson available as support options, so that inspired me to add those two to the collection.
More unusually the campaign features two Tiger IIs, something you don't expect to see in a platoon level skirmish game. Even more bizarre I actually had a box of two Tiger IIs from Pegasus Hobbies that I'd never made and had even failed to sell at a convention bring & buy sale. I unearthed them from the stash and completing them means I have all I need to start the campaign should I wish. As always with these quick build kits the level of detail is not high, but I think they will do the job. The crew figure is from AB. There's more about them in a post on the blog here https://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2022/10/a-tale-of-two-tigers.html
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Brilliant work across the board mate, loving it all! 👍
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It's interesting your last 2 sets of vehicles were big cats, and big cat killers...
Lovely work on all of them. And, level of detail notwithstanding, those Tiger IIs look great. Well, so do the M18 and M36.. :D
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At that date in the war, no spares so no track lengths on the turret and you could have just painted grey barrels and red oxide all over... sad you didn't go for octopus camo.. I would love to see what you could do with that..
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A few pieces of scatter terrain in the form of more conversions of Lledo die cast trucks for the Far East. I posted the locomotive earlier and now I've added a small MDF train station.
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Hi mate
Nice thread, like those trucks, I went back and looked at your locomotive, nice build, what particular Dapol model is it? And what is it’s scale? I bought a Trumpeter German locomotive kit a few years back, but it’s 1/87, thought it may be a bit small, so never built it, wish there were more readily available 1/72 train models, there maybe, I’m just unfamiliar with that whole side of the hobby.
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Hi mate
Nice thread, like those trucks, I went back and looked at your locomotive, nice build, what particular Dapol model is it? And what is it’s scale? I bought a Trumpeter German locomotive kit a few years back, but it’s 1/87, thought it may be a bit small, so never built it, wish there were more readily available 1/72 train models, there maybe, I’m just unfamiliar with that whole side of the hobby.
Thanks. The locomotive is a Schools Class. The Dapol kits are OO scale, so perfect for 1/72. I’ve looked at the Trumpeter kits as they look very good but hadn’t realised they were 1/87 (that’s HO scale in model railway speak). The Dapol kits are much cheaper but much older and probably nowhere near as detailed.
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Did a bit more research, they also do 3 1/72 kits, I think those came out after the 1/87 ones, I might pick up one of those Dapol kits, about half the price of the trumpeter ones.
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So much to like on this thread - I think the Chinese trucks are my favourite but the station and the Tiger IIs are both great as well, very jealous mate.
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Love the tap and bucket on the building - its all lovely - keep 'em coming...
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Yeah - the trucks and that building do indeed look good. Well done!
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Love those trucks!!!!!
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I had one die cast truck left over and wasn't sure what to do with it. I'm working on a campaign for the Chindits and that will need a few Japanese trucks so I thought I could paint up this one imagining it is a captured or requisitioned civilian truck in Burma. Just did a simple paint job in Khaki and added a driver.
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More for the Japanese in the shape of a Type 92 Chi Ha Shinhoto (the later model of the Chi Ha with the larger turret and 47mm gun). This one in resin from the 172 Miniatures range:
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This Type 89B is a rather nice plastic kit from IBG which includes photo etch parts:
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Lastly, this is a Precise Ho-Ni that I picked up very cheaply on eBay many years ago at the same time I bought a few of their Ha Go. From what I understand the Precise range was designed to be sold as part of a magazine or something similar but that never evenuated despite the fact the models had been manufactured. They went out cheaply on eBay as a result, but I now see they are fetching higher prices. Nothing very special - they came pre-painted and virtually fully assembled bar a few pieces but do suffer from thin, rubber tracks. They only saw action in the Philippines late in the war but I thought I might as well paint it while I'm doing other Japanese tanks.
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And altogether:
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More great stuff there. Keep it coming!
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Loving it all mate!
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I've put together a blog post on making the rail station for the Far East but also one that talks about the other rail related terrain I've put together for the period. You can see it here http://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-train-station-for-far-east.html
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There's also mention of this signal box for East Prussia but you can see that full build in this post if that's of interest http://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2019/02/railway-signal-box.html
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Those look good!
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Very nice, as always, and having seen your work on the delivery trucks, I think I am going to take a punt on some Matchbox Yesteryear models for my 28mm. I believe they should be around 1/50.
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Now that we are playing the Ruckzug campaign for Chain of Command I thought it would be good to have a few broken down German vehicles as scatter terrain. Obviously plenty of other uses too. I've had this Roden Opel Blitz Omnibus in the stash for a little while with a project like this in mind. So nothing like a campaign or a game to revive a project. I particularly liked the option to have the bonnet open and the engine revealed, it fits the narrative of the abandoned, broken down vehicle very well and will certainly fit the theme of the Ruckzug campaign.
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While I was at it I had a Kubelwagen that came as a free 'extra' with a Dragon PzIV, so finished that off too.
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I do really like the bus. It's exactly right for the narrative, and looks like a cracking build.
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Very nicely painted.
Look forward to seeing in one of the up coming battles.
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The Ruckzug campaign continues to drive the completion of a few outstanding projects. The British may need a little more help in the way of high explosive and so I thought I'd better provide Dave, my opponent, with more options. The first is a Sexton. This is resin and I can't recall who makes it. It's not the cleanest casting I've seen and at first I was very unimpressed but it's amazing what a coat of paint can do. Also, before anyone asks, no I am not basing my vehicles - this resin cast comes complete with base and it's far too much effort to remove it. The crew are a few spare Plastic Soldier Company figures although at some stage I'd like to upgrade them with something from AB.
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Secondly there is a Bofors 40mm gun. In the later stages of the war this often saw service in a ground support role. That said, the crew are from AB and as you might expect for a crew from an 'AA' gun, they are looking skyward! The gun itself is the old Airfix kit.
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I also have one for my Americans but in this case the gun is a Zvezda kit.
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Very nice, not sure I know any 20mm manufacturers who do cast on bases, I would be sticking that thing on the belt sander :)
Now enough painting, more playing! :D
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Great job!
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Very nice, not sure I know any 20mm manufacturers who do cast on bases, I would be sticking that thing on the belt sander :)
Now enough painting, more playing! :D
Ready to Roll and in the past Minimi
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Ready to Roll and in the past Minimi
Ah thanks, that’s it, it’s a Ready to Roll.
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Love the bus that is awesome and really good to see something a little different. You need a chap working on the engine with his head under the hood. Maybe his sleeves rolled up and showing some grease on his arms...
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A very quick job here. I needed a Centaur or a Cromwell IV or VI with a 95mm gun as a close support version. I had a left over Armourfast Cromwell that I had made up and was messing around with placing stowage on the back using various spares and Milliput. It was primed and ready for paint but I decided to do a rather rough and ready barrel swap using a spare 95mm barrel left over from the PSC Churchill set. The way it is mounted in the mantlet is not quite right and lacks some finesse, but I think it will do the trick.
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Love the bus that is awesome and really good to see something a little different. You need a chap working on the engine with his head under the hood. Maybe his sleeves rolled up and showing some grease on his arms...
Well, that put an idea in my head. I have a set of tank crew figures from Orion that include several in overalls. While no one is leaning into the engine I rather liked the idea of a bunch of mechanics who've given up hope of getting the bus back on the road. I painted up these three and put them on a separate base giving the option to have them there or not. It may be taking the idea of scatter terrain a bit too far, but what the heck, it looks good!
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Oh, those are perfect... lovely figures, painting and posing.
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As always, brilliantly inspirational work! 👏🏻
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Scatter terrain tells a story adding a lush backdrop to any Wargames table….those are perfect….if a little relaxed once the bullets start flying! Lol
Excellent work.
…and now I want a bus!
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Scatter terrain tells a story adding a lush backdrop to any Wargames table….those are perfect….if a little relaxed once the bullets start flying!
Indeed. That’s one reason I have them on a separate base, depends on the circumstances. I used this in our Ruckzug game yesterday, we started with the mechanics there but once the British showed up off they went!
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Maybe you need some running chaps next! 😉
Keep it coming!
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I like the mechanics. I used the same set to populate the diecast half track repair vehicle I got a few years ago
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While I haven't been making much in 20mm for the Second World War the good news (for me at least) is that I have been playing a lot. I've been posting updates in a separate thread here on LAF about our Ruckzug campaign, but I've also introduced a new player to CoC and we've been playing the Kampfgruppe Von Luck campaign.
In one of those games the Germans had a Lorraine Schlepper and the 150mm gun managed to collapse a building. As we had to replay on that table due to a German defeat I needed to substitute the building for a ruin. I have a few but none that would fit the footprint for this particular table. As you can never have enough ruins (or trees, it seems) I thought I'd do a quick scratch build that matched the footprint exactly.
Using foam core, coffee stirrers, cat litter and all the usual bits and pieces for this sort of build I made the ruins including a detachable bit of rubble so that I can keep it versatile.
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I then painted it up to match the colour palette of the building that was destroyed.
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As it happened the Germans failed to take this table at the second attempt too which entailed a third game, so the ruins were well worth the effort.
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Not only that, I managed to find a use for it in the fourth of our Ruckzug campaign games as well.
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A lovely addition, & if anyone hasn't read your AARs I recommend that they do, ASAP. :)
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I've added a new post on the blog as part of the ongoing project to document my 20mm Second World War collection and where possible to match the models up with the pictures I've taken of the actual vehicles in museums I've visited. This latest one cover the late war German vehicles that I have. There's too much to put in a post here, you can see it all here http://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2023/06/second-world-war-late-war-german-armour.html
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Ooh! Ooh! Tanks! Just lovely!
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While recently doing a reorganisation of my hobby space and in particular my boxes of spares I realised I had several surplus figures that might work well theming jump-off-points for Chain of Command. Here’s a few of them and I’ve put together a blog post on the process which you can find here: http://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2023/06/new-jump-off-points-for-chain-of-command.html
Figures are a mix of plastic and metal from several different ranges:
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Excellent narrative elements to those mate.
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Nice idea and it does give the opportunity to use figures that are normally consigned to the “what do I use these for” box.
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This Sarissa large factory (20mm version) has been a project I've been wanting to do for a while, finally got around to it and posted a separate thread about it here in the forum.
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Lovey factory!
I will need to borrow your idea for the jump-off-points, that's a very cleaver idea :)
Cheers,
Seb
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I painted an AB Figures SS Pak40 crew when I first painted the SS platoon but they were evicted from their base when I needed a normal Heer crew to man the gun for a campaign. I've been meaning to fix that and part of the project that led to the extra jump off points was to do that.
This is the AB crew with a Zvezda Pak40. For the price I find all the Zvezda guns well detailed and certainly good enough for the game table.
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Like that gun. Well done, lad!
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I just found you here TP! Thomas Moore here.
I'm not on LAF much.
Some beautiful work here. I see you use a different paint scheme for the British/Commonwealth vehicles and US ones. You must have an airbrush as there are some wonderful color variations.
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Great thread, you do really nice work.
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I just found you here TP! Thomas Moore here.
I'm not on LAF much.
Some beautiful work here. I see you use a different paint scheme for the British/Commonwealth vehicles and US ones. You must have an airbrush as there are some wonderful color variations.
Hi Thomas, good to see you here. Yes, I do indeed have an airbrush!
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Hi Thomas, good to see you here. Yes, I do indeed have an airbrush!
One day I will have the space for one.
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A little project in preparation for the Operation Martlet campaign for Chain of Command. Found a use for a spare PzIV for a slightly indulgent terrain project that will work well for the campaign. Full details of the build in a blog post here http://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2023/07/dug-in-pzivh.html
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Looks excellent, more of this kind of thing I say. Full immersion.
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Well, that's cool. I presume you have a whole PzKfwIV for when it backs out... ;)
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Well, that's cool. I presume you have a whole PzKfwIV for when it backs out... ;)
Haha, indeed I do, several in fact. You’ll see from the blog post that it’s because I had a spare PzIV that I was able to be this extravagant and cut one in half.
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Just wow. A dug in tank that looks the part. The next logical step would be to use some of those extra infantry that you must have lying around to make dug in markers. lol
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Just wow. A dug in tank that looks the part. The next logical step would be to use some of those extra infantry that you must have lying around to make dug in markers. lol
Well, funny you should mention that……
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More about making them here https://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2020/07/making-foxholes.html
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Excellent work.
have you considered using the discarded legs (with a tarp. covering the 'bodies')
as casualty markers?
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Oh Man those guys in foxhole's look amazing!
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Quite a bit of terrain building happening at the moment. For the Operation Martlet campaign for Chain of Command I've made a few new bits of Normandy terrain. These two farm buildings are MDF models from Sarissa. The first is Decoster's House and while it's intended for the early 19th century it works well right through to the 20th:
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/qFxYa9.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnqFxYa9j)
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This second one is the same. It's part of the Haye Sainte farm but would work as a stable across several centuries:
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/zE4Hs1.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmzE4Hs1j)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/qYX3ZM.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmqYX3ZMj)
I scratch built a base and some walls so that I could make up a walled farm compound but keep the buildings free for other uses. It uses the Sarissa Decoster's House and a barn from Charlie Foxtrot:
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/9yZ7pz.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pm9yZ7pzj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/70T7yA.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/po70T7yAj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/LfBYjl.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnLfBYjlj)
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A few other pieces for France. Both of these are 3D prints from Sabotag3D. A calvary, which features in the first map for the Martlet campaign.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/QpYkmg.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmQpYkmgj)
And 10 concrete telegraph poles:
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/FH0NC7.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnFH0NC7j)
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Then a complete change of theatre and something I've been meaning to do for some time - bunkers for the Japanese in the Far East. These are all scratch built using XPS foam as the core base for the shape. I made five - two for LMG teams; one slightly larger for an MMG team and another for an AT gun, and, one large bunker to house two weapons teams.
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Nicely done 👍.
Just ordered the CoC dashboards and the drinks cabinet from Sabotag3d.
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Lovely terrain bits there. Love that crucifix...
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Lovely new additions to your terrain collection! The details like the telegraph poles will still enhance your beautiful set-ups! I particularly like the japanese bunkers, very effective. Also really impressed how your basing works well for différent theaters, I mean except for the banana leaves and maybe a bit of longer static grass, the basing looks the same between Normandy and the Pacific, but it works well in both cases - very efficient!
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Keeping with the Far East theme of the bunkers I've added a few wheeled vehicles to the Japanese.
First up an Austin MkIV from MasterBox. This one comes with decals for the Japanese, simple as they are. Not sure how much service these saw beyond the 1930s but the Japanese made a lot of use of armoured cars in China.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/jpvTGF.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmjpvTGFj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/ZKAwsV.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmZKAwsVj)
Hasegawa make this nice Isuzu petrol tanker which comes with a trolley and a handful of oil drums:
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/bNMOJR.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnbNMOJRj)
IBG do a range of soft skins for various nationalities and I picked up one of their Isuzu trucks. It comes with an engine and so I decided to make the most of that and so it's a broken down version. Should make for a good bitter of scatter terrain.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/CNT9oL.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnCNT9oLj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/6VuxEi.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pn6VuxEij)
Last but not least is the diminutive Kurogane car, this one a resin cast from 172 Scale Miniatures. It's not the finest model in the collection and doesn't bear too close inspection but it looks the part. Only found out recently that this was the first four wheel drive utility car in any army in the world.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/wbC2qZ.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/powbC2qZj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/asj42h.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poasj42hj)
Some useful additions for the Far East.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/JGYJWh.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnJGYJWhj)
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Very nice indeed. Interested to know what colours you used, as those have turned out well?
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Thanks. I used Tamiya Khaki as the base colour and lightened it with Tamiya Buff. Glad you like it, I think it works well.
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It does work well. Interesting, it looks a bit greener than I would have expected from Khaki and Buff.
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I like those vehicles. They look really good!
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Following on from the Japanese bunkers I posted earlier I've now added spider holes as individual weapon pits. These are from a set from 172 Scale Miniatures and all I've done is added slightly larger bases. I've put together a longer blog post on the bunkers and these which you can find here http://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2023/09/bunkers-spider-holes-and-soft-skins-for.html
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Noice! :)
Great work. By the way, your CoC are amazing! :D
Cheers,
Seb
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So many great ideas in this thread. Love the Japanese defences.
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Introducing a new player to Chain of Command and playing the Storming the Citadel campaign set during Kursk. It’s been the inspiration to getting around to finishing off some Russian AB Figures. Over time I’ve been replacing the plastic figures from PSC that I used when I first came back to miniatures. Nothing wrong with those figures per se and they’ve served me well, but you know, AB Figures are just….better.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1280x1024q70/924/wRnsCm.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/powRnsCmj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1280x1024q70/924/HR3GuR.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poHR3GuRj)
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(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1280x1024q70/923/F4GRxh.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnF4GRxhj)
Included in my order from Eureka Miniatures was this rather nice sniper, also from AB.
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If you've been following this thread you will know that the bulk of my Second World War gaming is played using Chain of Command and my figures are normally based individually. However the rules that brought me back to gaming with miniatures about ten years ago were Crossfire and after a hiatus of nearly thirty years the first miniatures I painted were Plastic Soldier Company 1/72 figures which I based on 40mm squares.
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Once my gaming shifted to Chain of Command the Crossfire armies remained stored away. More recently I dabbled with Crossfire using the 12mm armies I'd put together for O Group. They worked well but lately the club has shown interest in playing more games in 20mm. That's inspired me to dig out the old Crossfire armies and begin refreshing them. A few at the club have based their's on 40mm round bases and I like the look of those. As part of the refresh of the old figures I decide to rebase them and to match up the basing with the urban ruins that I had originally created with Crossfire in mind but have used more often now for Chain of Command.
The first batch is finished and gives me a German company. Here they are and you can see how the new basing works well with the terrain.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/KT1igQ.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poKT1igQj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/hxAbia.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnhxAbiaj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/IwLVVq.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmIwLVVqj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/43h8vb.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pn43h8vbj)
The Russians are next in line for the same treatment and then I hope to put on a few games set amongst the ruins.
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Fantastic work! I'm stealing the half figure prepared position idea!
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The Crossfire revival project continues and now it's the turn of the Russians to be rebased and have a bit of a refresh. I think one of the good things about multi-basing is that the eye is drawn to the unit rather than the individual figure, in the case of this project that's a bit of a godsend as these figures are some of the first I painted when returning to miniature gaming. They are passable, but not my finest hour!
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You sure do those 20mm chaps justice. Well done!
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A great looking force for sure!
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Despite many additions to existing units, it's been a little while since I added an entirely new platoon to my collection for Chain of Command. It was well over a year ago that I bought a number of Fallschirmjager. Mainly from AB Figures but I added a few more MG42 LMG teams with others from Wartime Miniatures. I seem to recall being inspired by talk of a Market Garden supplement for CoC and rumours of a few campaigns set on the Dutch/German border in late 1944/45. It was definitely time to add a Fallschirmjager platoon to the collection. It's taken a while to get them painted but they are now finished.
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Lovely stuff. Looking forward to seeing these in a battle report sometime soon. Would also work for Carentan etc?
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Lovely stuff. Looking forward to seeing these in a battle report sometime soon. Would also work for Carentan etc?
Thanks. Yes, these should be good for NW Europe and late war Eastern Front. AB do a nice set in tropical kit for Nth Africa, Sicily and Italy but I’m not going down that rabbit hole just yet!
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They look fantastic! That camo pattern is particularly impressive for sure. Looking forward to seeing more from you! ;)
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Great job on those Germans!
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Lovely ….. as always :-)
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I needed a new bridge and fancied the idea of a lift bridge (needed? Actually, no. Wanted? Yes). While MDF kits make a great starting point the tell tale features of laser cutting like sharp angles and smooth surfaces are best disguised in some way. Gave a simple lift bridge a bit of a facelift and was happy with the end result.
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(needed? Actually, no. Wanted? Yes).
In our house we don't do 'Needed', just 'Wanted'
My wife doesn't NEED any more handbags &
I certainly do not NEED any more Wargames stuff. lol lol lol
Lovely job on the bridge by the way.
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I'm with has.been. Only with my wife, it's cookbooks, not handbags. And we take the same approach to buying books - me with wargames rules and scenario books, and her with cookbooks. If they are (even vaguely) in oru areas of interest, are well-produced, and have a bunch of pretty pictures, we buy 'em. Whether or not we actually ever use them is beside the point... :D
And great-looking bridge, by the way... :)
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A few extras for the Far East. I picked up a few of the Foundry 20mm sets and the Australian weapons group really took my fancy. I liked the idea of mixing up the range of poses that I currently have which are all from Eureka, it's always good to add variety. These will also work well as Chindits for my Burma games. The set includes three Bren guns with a loader and two Vickers MGs with a loader.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/IgQv9h.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poIgQv9hj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/duezdC.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnduezdCj)
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When I bought the Japanese in spider holes from 172 Scale Miniatures which I posted earlier I also added a few from their Chindit range including a few leaders, a media and a radio operator.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/YHoeY8.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmYHoeY8j)
They are slightly shorter than the Foundry figures, but not enough that you would really notice and otherwise mix well.
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And the first trial of one figure for my new project for 2024, a platoon of US Marines. He is from Eureka Miniatures and was sculpted by the same person as the Australians and Japanese. I really like the look of these and this first figure is one I received from them a year or two back as a sample in one of my orders.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/Ew9omp.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnEw9ompj)
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The rest of the Marines are in the process of being based ready for priming.
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Looking good. Whats the orange stuff you are using to build up the bases?
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Looking good. Whats the orange stuff you are using to build up the bases?
It’s Milliput, their cheap terracotta stuff.
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When I bought the Foundry Australians I also included an order for the British NW Europe support weapon set. I was after a few more prone bren gun teams and a prone 2” mortar team. As much as I like the AB sets I have a few more standing bren and 2” mortar teams than I need. Invariably I'm looking for a prone team rather than one standing. The Foundry set also had a couple of Vickers teams which I intend to use for my Crossfire games as I was short of some of those. So a few birds killed with one stone. As always figures are nicely sculpted although I would have liked to see the helmets covered in scrim and camouflage (I tried making my own using Milliput but couldn't get them to look right and gave up).
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Excellent work always nice to see 20mm and especially your contributions to the hobby. It is sad to see so many abandoning the scale for 28mm. Keep up the good work.
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Those lads look grand!
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Wrecks always make for good scatter terrain but I also have a use for them when playing our pint sized campaigns for Chain of Command. It's not uncommon to fight over a map more than once if the attack has been unsuccessful and therefore not unusual that the battlefield shows signs of earlier fighting be it wrecked vehicles or buildings. It all adds to the narrative. It was with that in mind that I made up a kit of a PzIV from Dragon as a wreck. The kit included options for open hatches and so was ideal for showing a hastily abandoned tank.
I achieved the blistered paint effect by using AK's Worn Effects fluid (although a cheap hairspray will achieve exactly the same thing).
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That is an excellent burnt out tank - wrecked vehicles are rarely seen on the tabletop but dotted around in the background a lot of period photos of combat.
Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain
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Great stuff. Very effective looking wreck.
And I see the next episode of Martlet is up on the blog. A cracking read.
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Nice looking KO'ed tank. Well done!
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Lovely, but a decent recovery unit should get it running again. lol
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A few more projects completed, mainly with the Far East in mind. First is a D7 Armoured Bulldozer from 172 Scale Miniatures. Overall this is a nice model, however the tracks are excessively chunky and let the model down. This can serve many uses from the 79th Armoured Division (Hobart's Funnies) on D-Day through to the US Marines.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/P1GK62.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmP1GK62j)
Next is a CMP truck from the Plastic Soldier Company set. This is intended for the Far East but given the colours it could quite easily find itself somewhere in Europe (that said, the crew are in tropical uniform, however it's very hard to distinguish that unless you give it a very close inspection).
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Last is an Indian Patter carrier, again from 172 Scale Miniatures.
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And here they are for a group photo to give an indication of relative size:
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I like that dozer. When I was a kid, my next door neighbor told me he drove one of those things ashore in the first wave at Okinawa as a SeaBee...
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Great work as always. Can I ask a quick question?
What in game purpose would a truck have? Sounds daft I know but isn't a truck to get you somewhere close to the start line and then you walk the rest of the way. ie once bullets are flying that truck should be nowhere near the front line. I see so many transport vehicles people build that by rights shouldn't be on the board but they presumably feature in various rulesets. I could see some scenario specific use for it (eg ambush type scenario or someone got lost) but their shear ubiquity makes me think I'm missing something.
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Great work as always. Can I ask a quick question?
What in game purpose would a truck have? Sounds daft I know but isn't a truck to get you somewhere close to the start line and then you walk the rest of the way. ie once bullets are flying that truck should be nowhere near the front line. I see so many transport vehicles people build that by rights shouldn't be on the board but they presumably feature in various rulesets. I could see some scenario specific use for it (eg ambush type scenario or someone got lost) but their shear ubiquity makes me think I'm missing something.
Sorry for not replying sooner, I’ve just seen this. I’m with you to some degree, in a normal combat situation the trucks shouldn’t appear. For me the main purpose is scenario specific. In the case of the Far East I see potential use of British trucks for retreat/breakout scenarios during the retreats in Malaya and Burma. For the Japanese I see them as potential targets for Chindits.
We recently played the Ruckzug campaign for chain of command. The chances of a successful German withdrawal is greatly increased by their trucks. While they don’t need to actually appear on the table (their primary function is abstracted and determines how many units transition successfully to the next map) we placed them at the rear of the table as scatter terrain to add to the narrative.
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Once we complete the Operation Martlet campaign for Chain of Command we will move onto the Scottish Corridor and for that campaign the British will be on the defensive. It made me realise that I don't have as many defensive poses for my British as I would like and it just so happens that when I was perusing the Eureka Miniatures stand at CanCon this year there were sets of AB British in defensive poses for sale. How could I resist?
Lovely figures as always and a useful addition that should see action in the coming weeks.
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Lovely paint job, as usual. I look forward to seeing them in an AAR.
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Lovely paint job, as usual. I look forward to seeing them in an AAR.
What he said... :D
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Another of the very useful 20mm sets from Wargames Foundry. This time a set of German support weapons. This fills one small gap in particular- a 50mm mortar with a crew in mid to late war uniforms. While the mortar was little used as the war progressed there are games in 42-43 where they can still appear in the order of battle or as support choices.
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The figures carrying ammo for the MG34/42 are also handy as extra crew figures for the MMG/HMG version. As previously, all nice sculpts.
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They look fabulous, nice paint work.
I really like the 1940 Foundry stuff, the 50mm mortar is an excellent piece and often forgotten piece of kit.
Cheers
Matt
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very nicely painted troops, I am always admired by the care that you manage to put in every aspect, especially (but not only) the visual one, from figures to vehicles to terrain, really inspiring.
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very nicely painted troops, I am always admired by the care that you manage to put in every aspect, especially (but not only) the visual one, from figures to vehicles to terrain, really inspiring.
Thank you, that’s very nice of you to say so. What draws me to miniature gaming is the visual aspect, so those things are important to me. I only returned to miniature gaming about 10 years ago after playing historical board games for 25 years. I worry much less about the visual aspect with board games (as long as the game is good), but it matters a lot if I’m playing with miniatures, otherwise, what’s the point?
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Made a fair bit of progress with the US Marines, my first new project for the year. I've painted up the first platoon and they are just waiting for varnishing and final work on the base. In the meantime I've been working on a few LVTs and an M4a3. I've used a colour scheme inspired by a set of Star Decals and these are schemes used on Iwo Jima or Okinawa.
The LVTs are all from 172 Scale Miniatures. They are not overly detailed and a bit chunky in parts but from playing distance I think they look the part.
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Last is a picture of the M4a3, this is a plastic kit from Trumpeter. I didn't like the rubber band tracks much, they were too tight and needed stretching. Still not perfect, but better.
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Very fine work there Mark. Rubber band tracks are the spawn of the devil.
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Brilliant work there TP
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Nice :-* :-* :-*
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The first batch of US Marines finished for the Pacific project. These are from the Eureka Miniatures 20mm range and they are lovely figures, probably my favourites of that range.
I'm surprised at the relatively small range of choices for Marines in this scale. I wanted to fill a few gaps using the Grubby range but when I put together an order worth £29 I was a little shocked to see they wanted to charge me £30 for postage. Not sure how they calculate their postage but I know for a fact that a parcel that size from UK to Australia shouldn't be more than £10, probably less. Needless to say I didn't proceed. I'll be back in England later in the year so will probably pick them up then when UK postage for the same parcel is £3.95.
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Those Marines look great, you nailed the color of the uniform.
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Excellent! I love your colors!
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Gorgeous stuff! I suppose these companies have to make money somehow but £20 extra charge on postage is ridiculous- hope we’ll get to see the range painted when you’re back in England ;)
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Nice work on those Jarheads and their LVTs...
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It's going to be really interesting to see how Chain of Command handles a small part of a beach assault.
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A quick and simple conversion of a PSC Stuart into a Satan flamethrower for my US Marines.
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(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/9REHxf.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pn9REHxfj)
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Lovely job :-* :-* :-*
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Cute little bugger! Don't piss it off, though... ;)
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Those of you that read the game AARs on the blog will know that I've been using an Airfix model of a Ju87 when a game has a pregame Stuka Bombardment. The model is not necessary as that part of the game is abstracted but I like the way it helps to tell the story of the AAR.
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With the release of the new Far East Handbook for Chain of Command there are now very similar mechanics for a Zero Attack for the Japanese and a Hurribomber Attack for the British. So I needed very little incentive to make up models for these as well. The Zero is one of the very nice new tool Airfix kits:
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/qUIdd3.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnqUIdd3j)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/BxUGzw.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmBxUGzwj)
The Hurribomber is a simple quick build from Hobby Boss:
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/FTGYOY.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmFTGYOYj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/SIQOvV.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmSIQOvVj)
While I was on a roll with making aircraft I also made up a couple of recently released Airfix 'vintage classics'. Well, they are certainly vintage, yet for me they retain the charm of old and so many memories of my childhood. With a bit of love they actually come out okay.
I have the Brewster Buffalo in mind for scatter terrain for places like Malaya:
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/CBcCjz.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnCBcCjzj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/AIb2g4.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnAIb2g4j)
The Far East Handbook will be followed by one for the Pacific and partly with that in mind I thought a CAC Boomerang could work well for the Australians:
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/hVybm4.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnhVybm4j)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/AYgZZi.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poAYgZZij)
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Wonderful stuff indeed! :-* :-* :-*
I have the Airfix Buffalo half finished in the Malaya box, if it turns out half as nice as this I'll be happy!
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Lovely job on those :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Look great. What's the nationality of the Hurricane? I don't recognise the roundels.
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Great work on those aircraft. I have a few 1/144 kits that I intend to do the same but for Battlegroup. If mine look half as good as yours I'll be very happy.
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Look great. What's the nationality of the Hurricane? I don't recognise the roundels.
It's an RAF Hurricane based out of India. Markings are SEAC roundels. The traditional red, white and blue roundels were dropped because the red centre roundel could be confused with the Japanese markings.
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It's an RAF Hurricane based out of India. Markings are SEAC roundels. The traditional red, white and blue roundels were dropped because the red centre roundel could be confused with the Japanese markings.
Thanks, SE Asia is a front I'm not very familiar with. I'd never realised they changed the markings.
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Those planes look great! Well done!
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Great looking planes, something that is on my to-do list too :-*
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A couple of support options for my Volkssturm and Fallschirmjager. Pak40s are from Zvezda (I picked up a bunch of them very cheaply at a bring & buy). The crews are all figures from the old Wartime Miniatures range (now sold as Simon's Soldiers).
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They look fantastic! :o
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They do indeed look good!
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Wonderful stuff and a very good impression of German Field Grey. I do like the Zvezda kits, I have one on the painting table now but destined to have an AB crew. However having recently bought some WW2 French from Simon's Soldiers (the old Blitz Miniatures) I may see what else is in his range.
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Lovely work on those :-* :-* :-*
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Playing a campaign set in Burma 1944 and I needed to add a couple of extra sections to my British. The existing figures are from AB Figures and so it made sense to have more of the same. Here they are:
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/JuTjjF.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmJuTjjFj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/WodNeK.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmWodNeKj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/eRl6Eb.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmeRl6Ebj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/Ksk6i9.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmKsk6i9j)
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I wasn't completely happy with the Fallschirmjager MG42 teams from Simon's Soldiers that I used with my AB Figures when putting together a platoon. I resisted the urge to replace them but in the end I picked up a few of the AB HMG sets (which are essentially men carrying MG42s anyway). Much happier with these and the way they fit in. Had Adler released their Fallschirmjager sooner I would have grabbed a few of those and I may yet pick up a few. Meantime here's the new AB additions:
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(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/jap4In.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pojap4Inj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/VQWep6.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmVQWep6j)
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Very nice indeed.
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Very nice indeed.
What he said!
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Wonderful painting. :-*
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A new piece of terrain from an old kit. This is a Tri-ang bridge, later produced by Hornby. A nice sturdy piece that looks the part and soon to feature in a campaign set in Malaya 1942.
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(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/5kAgdZ.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pm5kAgdZj)
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That's a lovely bit of terrain. Ideal for the Sittang Bridge or similar.
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Lovely work! I wish I wasn't so invested in 28mm! Beautifully done!
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ooh - I like that bridge. Well done!
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The bridge saw its first action in the opening game of a Driving Charge campaign for Chain of Command set in Malaya. Also a first outing for a new river made using a method I’ve seen used very effectively by using plastic sheet.
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Your table never disappoints. Looks great and the river is very effective
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Great to see the bridge in action. Super table and terrain.
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Fantastic work all around, minis, bridge and table all look great.
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By no means required for a game but I thought a marker to remind players that when a Zero Attack is in effect during the first turn the allied side will find their deployment unpredictable. I had the Zero already made so it’s been a matter of making a suitable base.
The plane is one of the new tool Airfix 1/72 kits and a lovely model it is too.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/I0852S.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poI0852Sj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/AlRXXh.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnAlRXXhj)
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Nice Zero! Hope he's faster than that bomb blast - be a bummer if he shot himself down.... :o
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Nice Zero! Hope he's faster than that bomb blast - be a bummer if he shot himself down.... :o
LOL, I don’t think the term ‘danger close’ was ever created with the pilot in mind…..
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Sticking with a Far East theme I've added a few more Japanese in spider holes to make sure I have enough for two squads worth. My first set were from 172 Scale Miniatures and were specific figures made for this. This time around I've raided the spares box for unused figures that might be suitable and found a few prone plastic figures from one of the Waterloo sets and a few figures that were meant to be snipers from 172 Scale Miniatures. I simply cut off the telescopic sights from their rifles. The bases were scratch built. Quick to do and happy with the result.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/8EyZ61.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/po8EyZ61j)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/JJr1OC.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmJJr1OCj)
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Very nice! Can the figures be removed, and the covers be put in a closed position?
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Very nice! Can the figures be removed, and the covers be put in a closed position?
Haha, I like attention to detail but that might be going a step too far! Actually it’s not necessary for Chain of Command as they are not placed on the table prior to play. Once they do appear they remain in play until the figure is killed at which point they are removed (same if they suffer excess shock and break), so no need to have them in any other arrangement than how they are here.
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Working up a few ideas for Line of Communication markers for our Far East games. I've been using trucks in most cases and they do the job just fine but I've wanted to add a bit more life to them, if only to give a bit more of a narrative.
For the British in the early part of the war in the Far East I've repurposed these western desert tankers refuelling for the purpose. I'd assume the RAC tropical uniform was the same anyway. As the marker usually sits on a road it didn't make sense to flock the bases so I themed them to match my roads.
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(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/iZLdfB.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmiZLdfBj)
For the Japanese I've used something that may bring back memories for some of you. I have two of the Airfix Jungle Outpost sets and they come with figures leading pack horses. They've been lying in the spares box for some time but now I have a use for them. The poses of the horses are repetitive as are the soldiers but I can't think of a better use for them.
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(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/4smDfS.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/po4smDfSj)
In the case of a more mechanised approach I have this Hasegawa fuel truck and I've used one of the figures from the Orion Japanese Tank Crew set in the same way I've used the AB tank crews. It doesn't take much to add a bit more life and it's amazing how even a single figure makes a difference.
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(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/Fzyvx4.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmFzyvx4j)
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They look great :-*
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Great ideas, both of them.
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Great additions!
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Very interesting. And very cool. Well done!
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I keep forgetting you are doing all this in 20 mm. Really great results. You really take your games to the next level with these little bits. Are they required for the game? No, you could just plonk a marker down. Do they really add to the look? Absolutely.
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Had a busy month travelling and finally got around to finish off a load of Japanese armour that I had started before I left. Six Chi Ha, three of each of the early and late 'Shinhoto' variants from 172 Scale Miniatures. These are resin casts made up of 6-8 parts. I picked them up when they ran a 50% off sale earlier in the year.
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Not my favourite kits by any means. A little chunky for my liking, but, in their favour, they make for sturdy game pieces. The early variant is the most disappointing. The very distinctive turret aerials are basic at best and overscale. I may be tempted at some stage to go back and try and find a better solution.
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I've always thought the old Airfix Chi Ha has held up very well over time and I'm still convinced that's the case. Having said that, the Shinhoto variant is much better.
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(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/JnKdHW.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmJnKdHWj)
These last two are Type 97 tankettes, plastic kits from S-Models. This is a manufacturer that I like a lot. You get two kits in a box and in this case the option to have a 37mm gun or a machine gun as main armament, so I've opted to do one of each.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/wGpTsX.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnwGpTsXj)
They are diminutive little tanks when compared with the Chi Ha (which is hardly a big tank itself).
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/Oydq3h.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnOydq3hj)
Some useful additions to the Japanese arsenal.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/wV2R0t.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/powV2R0tj)
Did I need more of the early variant Chi Ha? Yes and no. I was really taking advantage of the sale but also wanting to ensure I have at least three of each type of tank. That was brought home to me in a game of Chain of Command a few months ago when I needed three of them but had only two of the Airfix kits and had to substitute another tank. I may never need three again for a game, but at least I know that if I do.......
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Always good to see the additions to your inspiring collection
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Excellent painting on those Japanese tanks.
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Excellent painting on those Japanese tanks.
I agree. Well done!
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A few extras for the Fallschirmjagers. Had trouble tracking down a suitable Ie18IG infantry gun but picked up a few of the Zvezda kits at a bring & buy. The Zvezda guns I like, they have just enough detail without being overly fussy to assemble, so serve their purpose well. Inexpensive too. The crew are from AB Figures.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/tz6IWT.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/potz6IWTj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/IJ7grA.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmIJ7grAj)
I wanted a few more leader figures and instead of repeating AB poses I thought I'd try a few of the Adler range. I must say, I like these very much. Well sculpted and good poses. Unfortunately they are a little on the big side, especially given how the AB Fallschirjager are definitely on the small side. It's not a deal breaker but it's certainly a shame given the quality of the Adler figures. I'm certainly going to look at some of their other ranges though, as this initial batch have impressed me.
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Love them, especially the IG. :-* :-*
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I'm running participation games of Chain of Command at CanCon in Canberra next weekend. The scenario is set on Saipan in 1944 and focuses on a small part of the Japanese counterattack against the beachhead. Here's a few shots of the playtest:
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I've added a couple of M3 75mm GMC half tracks to my Marines. These two are from the Italeri quick build set, both come in the one box and are very reasonably priced. Kits lack some detail as you might expect but overall are good. I've fudged the crew as I don't have any suitable Marine figures to hand, so these are a few spare ETO Americans simply painted in USMC colours.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/QUinwK.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnQUinwKj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/EEWCYg.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pmEEWCYgj)
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My youngest son went through a spell of making models, unfortunately his interest dwindled before his stash did. Most are aircraft, but it does mean I have a bunch of unmade models tucked away that I've been trying to find a use for.
A picture of a crashed Zero at Munda inspired me to make a 1/72 Airfix Zero in the stash. Something I will use as scatter terrain for my forthcoming participation games set on Saipan in 1944 at CanCon next weekend and no doubt other games set in the Far East/Pacific in the future.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/0nciwv.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pm0nciwvj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/7pahrh.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pm7pahrhj)
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Very nice, looks like it is goijng to be a good looking game. I really miss Cancon.
Oh, and that Zero is a really nice addition to table setting... I have a 1/48 one in the stash that would work for 28mm, but it's a 'proper' (aka - 'not cheap') model, so I am not sure I can bring myself to make it a crashed one...
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Good looking playtest. Good luck with the game. Looking forward to an AAR.
Didn't recall Italieri making a 1/72 M3 GMC... hmmm.
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Good luck with your game! It all looks good so far...
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Enjoy the game, it definitely looks promising!
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Back from CanCon and working on clearing a few near completed jobs from the workbench. These are a couple of PSC StuG III that have been sitting in the paint queue for some time, so I thought it was time to finish them off, even if I don't see an immediate need for them. As always with PSC they are a little chunky on the finer details, but the upside is they are sturdy models for gaming. I have had a go at chipping the schurtzen. I once heard someone say you need to go easy on how much you do and the moment you think you've done enough is probably the moment you've done too much! Anyhow here they are:
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/uuhkeH.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pouuhkeHj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/93XMtr.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/po93XMtrj)
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I couldn't resist adding a bit of foliage to one of the StuGs. I think it makes quite a difference (in a good way!).
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/OnEvGd.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poOnEvGdj)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/MSkTN4.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnMSkTN4j)
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Lovely work.
I love Stugs. load as much clutter as you like &
never have to worry about getting a turret to rotate. lol
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They look excellent and if I was a Stug I’d want some foliage on me
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Nice StuGs. They look really good!
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Fantastic work on those STUGs. :-* :-*
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Looks great, Stugs really look the part with a bit of shrubbery on top! I find PSC kits in 15mm are more than enough detailed, but I can imagine that the wargaming design shows more in 20mm, especially as I understand many 20mm collectors use actual model kits. Not much at all of that existing in 1:100 scale.
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Wonderful stugs
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The STuGs are great, but I love the crashed Zero……nice scenic addition!
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Three Shermans for Burma. These are all PSC plastic kits from their 1/72 M4A4 set. I've added a few details like stowage and aerials; drilled out barrels and lifting hooks; replaced the bow MGs, and, used decals from District Miniatures for Indian Armoured Brigades. The crew are all from AB Figures.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/gWiOr0.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/pngWiOr0j)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/G54uP8.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poG54uP8j)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/ewxdml.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/poewxdmlj)
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Beautiful work! :-*
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Ahh - another dose of tanks! Thank you, sir!
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Wonderful Shermans.
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As always, excellent stuff. :)
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The airbrush has been getting a good workout lately but I do find a can be very productive with it when working in batches. So, a refreshing change from tanks and a refreshing change from drab colours. I wanted a model to work as a game marker to represent the presence of air support for my US Marines and what better than a Corsair?
This is the Hasegawa 1/72 kit. I've given a bit of thought to how to create a sense of motion, not least of which is dealing with the propellor blades. If they are static they really make the aircraft appear static too. So the decision to remove them was not a difficult one. I did try replacing them with a disc of clear plastic but it ended up look like, well, a disc of clear plastic. In the end I decided no replacement worked effectively. That will be more apparent when the models are on a table with terrain, here, against a white background probably highlights it more than it would do in other situations.
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When I was in the model shop I also spotted an Italeri Mustang P51A, this kit comes with decals for the 1st Air Commando in Burma which provided very effective close support for the second Chindit expedition. The kit was inexpensive, so I thought, why not? As with the Corsair I've removed the propellor blades.
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Not so much new stuff, more a bit of housekeeping with existing. I had based a couple of the smaller armoured cars but as I don't base any other vehicles it made little sense to keep those on a base, so they were removed. Added a few new aerials and touched up the paint jobs on one or two. The British have such an eclectic mix of armoured cars it's nice to gather them altogether once in a while.
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Back row, left to right - a Humber plastic kit from Matchbox; a metal Daimler from SHQ, and a resin Staghound from Cromwell. Front row - a Humber light reece from MMS; a Dingo plastic kit from S-Model.
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Would you mind sharing your approach to weathering with regards to the wheels and bottom of hulls ? Assuming it's not a trade secret !
Thanks.
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Would you mind sharing your approach to weathering with regards to the wheels and bottom of hulls ? Assuming it's not a trade secret !
Thanks.
Haha, not a trade secret, I can’t even claim any of it as original, it’s just a synthesis of a bunch of modelling techniques. Easiest way to show you is this tutorial on the blog which covers my whole painting and weathering process, just scroll down towards the end for the track and lower hull weathering.
http://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2019/08/172-cromwell-with-camouflage-netting.html
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Fantastic work! I do have a soft spot for armoured cars in general, and the british ones in particularl, especially the Humber!
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Thanks Tactical, a lot of detail in that blog. Much appreciated!
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I've had this resin model of a Sexton for some time and painted it last year. In fact I've had it so long I can't recall who makes it and where I got it from. It looks like one of the Ready to Roll models as it has a base as part of the model, but I'm not sure if it is. I've done a search online and can't find any images of a similar model (I haven't added the camouflage netting, it comes as part of the model, so it's quite distinctive). Anyhow, to cut a long story short, it needed a crew. In this case I've used a set from AB Figures that do the job nicely. I've had those since last year but finally applied some paint. Not sure this will ever see the table given it's more likely to be much further back (although I know of at least one instance in Normandy where it took on a direct fire role). Regardless, if I ever need one....I have one.
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I like it, but then I like all your stuff.
I could see a skirmish game with it being the target
for a small squad of Germans who've snuck through
the allied lines to take it out.
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Looks fantastic! I quite like that model, pity it's unknown who's the manufacturer. I use my models of various artillery by putting them on the side of the table, so I remember I've brought off-table artillery to the game!
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More good stuff! Well done! Again... :D
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Great work on the vehicle, netting and the figures. All of my Sextons magically fire by themselves while awaiting crew.
I'm pretty sure that is a Raventhorpe / Sentry Ready to Roll vehicle especially with the integral base. It would be "RTR 19 SP 25 pdr gun (Sexton)" in their range.
Richard
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Great work on the vehicle, netting and the figures. All of my Sextons magically fire by themselves while awaiting crew.
I'm pretty sure that is a Raventhorpe / Sentry Ready to Roll vehicle especially with the integral base. It would be "RTR 19 SP 25 pdr gun (Sexton)" in their range.
Richard
Thanks. It's one of the few models on their site without a picture, but I did have a sneaking suspicion that might be where it came from, as I have bought from them in the past.
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Absolutely fantastic work - love the airbrush work you do (I use a lot of airbrush too!).
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Okay, I know, I'm getting a bit carried away with the aircraft, but I've really enjoyed building these. These provide more for the Far East (like I need them!).
I painted up a Hobby Boss Hurricane last year, but I made the white recognition stripes on the wings too wide. A small detail, but it really bugged me everytime I saw them. I couldn't be bothered repainting and going through all that required, but was fortunate to find a built, but unpainted, Airfix Hurricane in a box of planes I made some time ago. I had a set of Hurricane decals for different theatres from Xtradecal which included some for Burma. This time I went with a Dark Earth and Dark Green colour scheme and made sure I kept those white recognition stripes narrower. Seems a bit unnecessary, but at least I didn't buy another model to do this.
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I can't say I didn't buy this next one for this project, but it's an Academy P47 Razorback and they are very reasonably priced. Simple enough kits too and quick to build. No excuses here, this was for the pure pleasure of it. The P47 is not the most elegant of planes, but it exudes an aura of sheer power and strength.
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Nice planes. They look good.
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Very crisp - lovely painting and interesting subject.
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Several years ago when I placed an order with Eureka for some AB Figures. They included their usual free sample figure. In that case the figure was a British engineer with a mine detector. He became my solitary mine clearing engineer and I would just pad out the rest of the group with riflemen. I painted him back in the days when I used the Army Painter dip method, something I stopped doing a few years ago. Ever since then I've been meaning to either, repaint that figure or, buy the rest of the engineer set from AB, so that I have an appropriate group of figures. Well, I did that early last year when I placed another order with Eureka. To cut a long story short, I've only just got around to painting them but they are done now.
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Time to show some love to Airfix. It's funny to think that the first model I ever made was from Airfix and, more than 50 years later (yikes!), I still find myself making their models. A trip down memory lane if nothing else.
Ever since I saw this picture of 5.5" guns firing over open sights at the walls of Fort Dufferin in Mandalay I've thought I should add a suitable gun to my collection.
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Under normal circumstances a gun this big is way back and not represented on a normal game table, but in this instance (and a few others I've discovered since), these big guns were brought forward to deal with fortifications. Naturally I considered the old Airfix 5.5" and Matador truck as a possible option. So, here they are:
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My brother-in-law gave me the Airfix Churchill bridgelayer as a gift one Christmas. I couldn't see an immediate use for it and for several years it sat in the stash of unmade kits. It's possible to make it so the bridge itself can be detached, so I can see a possible use in a game. Basically, the kit is the original Churchill model but, much like they did with their Churchill Crocodile, there is an additional set of sprues to carry out the conversion and additions. Needless to say, putting together the road wheels on this model has never been easy and doesn't get any easier with time. That said, when finished, it makes for a unique looking piece for the tabletop.
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Both wonderful kit builds...
... and the planes are really great.
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Look great. Would the 5.5” have had a limber as well?
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Good work, as normal for you. :)
I once explained the wheel sub assembly for the Airfix Churchill thus:-
Imagine balancing a row of peas on a knife, then trying to match a second knife on top of the peas. lol
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Good stuff! In particular, I like those engineers/pioneers. Having been a combat engineer in my younger days, I would be partial to them, wouldn't I? ;)
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Look great. Would the 5.5” have had a limber as well?
Apparently not from what I've read, but I'm no expert, so others may beg to differ. Certainly not seen anything in any contemporary photographs to indicate there was one.
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Good work, as normal for you. :)
I once explained the wheel sub assembly for the Airfix Churchill thus:-
Imagine balancing a row of peas on a knife, then trying to match a second knife on top of the peas. lol
Ah, then you don't know that the wheels are spaced on the sprue exactly right to fit into the chassis. You can glue them in place while still on the sprue and then cut them off once glue has dried. It doesn't solve all the issues by any means, but it does make that particular exercise a lot easier!
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It's been a long time since I built one of those. And this would have been nice to know then. So much for my powers of observation.
Ice job on the figures.
Skipper
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Ah, then you don't know that the wheels are spaced on the sprue exactly right to fit into the chassis. You can glue them in place while still on the sprue and then cut them off once glue has dried. It doesn't solve all the issues by any means, but it does make that particular exercise a lot easier!
Ah, but I was a naïve 11 year old & Airfix said that if I wanted the tracks to work the bogies
MUST NOT be glued. I wanted the tracks to move.... Airfix lied to me. :'(
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Vespid are a relative newcomer to 1/72 plastic kits, but so far they’ve produced a few very good models. I’ve added this Comet Ia to give me something for my late war British force. The crew are from AB Fgures.
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Together with the Cromwell (from Armourfast) and a Sherman Firefly (from PSC) that gives me a few British manufactured (or adapted) tanks.
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The Comet has a few features similar to the Cromwell but is a superior tank (and you can see within it the origins of the design that would eventually be the Centurion).
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Aaahh. Another dose of nice-looking tanks. Thanks for posting!
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Wonderful thread, the breadth of your painting skills is breath taking, loved every tank and plane and to think they are 20mm is astonishing. :-* :-*
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Impressive as always! How does the Vespid kit go together? Well fitted? Haven't heard of them before.
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Impressive as always! How does the Vespid kit go together? Well fitted? Haven't heard of them before.
Excellent fit, they are very good kits. The range is smallish at the moment but always growing, a mix of WW2 and modern subjects. I have one of their Panthers and that’s a lovely kit too.
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Lovely work on that panther...
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Despite the fact I've been posting a lot of British vehicles lately, I've started a Chain of Command campaign set in the Hurtgen Forest, so they won't be seeing any action there. This campaign is against a friend who I've been teaching the rules. I won't be posting full game reports of this on the blog, so thought I'd share a few terrain pictures here.
As always with a forest/jungle table the challenge is actually filling the table with appropriate terrain. For Hurtgen I wanted mainly pine trees, but don't really have enough (I made a batch for our Bloody Bucket campaign in the Ardennes, but not near enough to fill a table). I've also wanted to alter those trees I had made to give them bigger trunks and more height (coincidentally also making them much more game friendly). The original trees were based in twos and threes on bases like this:
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For our first game in the Hurtgen, I experimented by using wood dowel to make longer tree trunks for some of the trees. I did it with only a few but I liked the effect.
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It probably works best with the larger trees and so you won't be surprised to learn I've ordered another batch of them off eBay. Meantime, I've converted the rest of my existing pine trees. What I particularly like is the fact it improves the look of the forest and makes it much easier to place figures.
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And of course, there is no real 'scale' for trees. What is a big tree for a 20mm figure, is a smaller tree for a 28mm figure.....
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I can see lots of uses for these be it from the Ardennes to Hurtgen or East Prussia to North America.
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Great stuff TP! As a retired surgeon (of trees :D) I?ve been struggling with a similar issue and settled on a very similar solution. I know it?s only toys on a table but the under sizing of trees (and them all being wolf trees) does tend to make me tick. It?s finding the sweet spot between correct height (far too big even in 15mm) and practicality.Having scoured YouTube for model railway tree making guides I settled on making mine using guttering protector (hedgehog something?) and dowels and they look great but are quite labour intensive (and hard on the hands). I?ve gone for relatively regimented (but not necessarily forested) multiple bases for those taller, dowelled trees away from the parameter with smaller, group bases of varying sized wolf trees for edges. Overly complicated and a detail I?d imagine only I?ll appreciate but like you I can?t wait until I can populate a table with a reasonable amount.
Thank you for the ongoing inspiration,
Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain
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Staying with terrain, this is an MDF kit. Made by Warbases but only sold through 172 Scale Miniatures (as far as I'm aware, as it's not available through the Warbases website). As I've done with other MDF buildings for the Far East this one was clad in textured craft paper that does a good job of breaking the sharp lines and flat surfaces that are so distinctive with laser cut models.
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Couldn't resist trying a picture with an appropriate backdrop to see the scene:
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Beautiful armour, and that far east house looks amazing with the textured cladding - fantastic! :o
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Good job on the building.
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That textured paper is super effective.
Would be good if the European models came with brick effect paper!
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Impressive as always! How does the Vespid kit go together? Well fitted? Haven't heard of them before.
Sorry for the tardiness in replying, not sure how I missed your question. The Vespid kits are state of the art injection moulding, so very crisp and excellent fit. I?ve made three now and can?t recall requiring filler for any of them. I?d highly recommend them, although they are true models and not quick build gamers kits, so more work than some people might want. Then again the end result is that much more superior.
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That textured paper is super effective.
Would be good if the European models came with brick effect paper!
Well, funny you should say that! This is the Sarissa factory, clad in brick embossed wallpaper that I bought in A4 sheets from an eBay seller.
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Here?s a work in progress shot. It does involve a bit of work around windows, but like the textured paper for the far east huts, it makes a lot of difference.
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There is a detailed, step-by-step post on the build on my blog, here: http://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2023/06/building-sarissa-20mm-large-factory.html
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That factory sure looks good. Well done!
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That completely changes the MDF ?look, it?s a wood building? typical look. The revolution is card! Job well done. :D
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That factory looks outstanding! (The other stuff is cool too)
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Thats looking on-point, greta work!
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A couple of 3D prints, the first time I've dipped my toe into the water with 3D. Not doing it myself, mind you, I'll leave that to others with the time and inclination.
First up a Lanchester Armoured Car for the early part of the war in the Far East. This is from Dark Castle Terrain here in Australia but I believe they hold a licence to print these from wargame3D based in Ukraine. I was very happy with this, a lovely crisp print with lots of detail.
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It will replace a resin model I have which doesn't seem to resemble the Lanchester and is a rather crude casting. Scale is way out too, the Lanchester is a substantial size (I've seen the only surviving one at the Tank Museum at Bovington). I can't recall who produces the first one I owned and maybe that's not a bad thing.
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The second is one of the armoured cars locally made in Hong Kong for the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Force just prior to the start of the war. Five were made in all and none survived the Japanese invasion, all taking an active part in the fighting. This is a 3D print of one from Sabotag3D and it's based on one of the vehicles with twin MG turrets.
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Not as big, or as elegant, as the Lanchester, but functional nonetheless.
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Wow, stunning weathering :-*
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Great work on those armoured cars but especially the Lanchester.
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I do like those new armored cars. Well done!
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All nice, but as one of my uncles was taken POW during the fall of Hong Kong, I do have a
soft spot for the latest model.
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All nice, but as one of my uncles was taken POW during the fall of Hong Kong, I do have a
soft spot for the latest model.
Soft spot for me too. I was born in HK and grew up there. For a while we lived just off Tai Po Road just below the old Gindrinkers Line. As boys we were all fascinated by the war and knew what had happened nearby. Here’s a picture of some of us at one of the reservoirs around which the line was formed. We once found the fins of a mortar in the mud when the water levels were low. Many games of ‘war’ enacted over those hillsides!
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There is a book, 'A Guest of Hirohito' In the back are some addenda.
One of those is the statement by my uncle, then an acting corporal, about
what the Japanese soldiers did to the patients & staff at the hospital. Not nice.
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Not a lot been happening for the Second World War while I've been distracted by a Germanic tribes project for Infamy, Infamy! and a Saxon warband for Dux Britanniarum/Lion Rampant. However, that doesn't mean nothing's been happening.
We've started playing The Scottish Corridor campaign for Chain of Command (I've posted a separate thread about that in the forum). For one game I selected two Churchills for the British as support but surprised myself to discover I had several Churchills, but these included an AVRE, a bridgelayer, a 90mm CS and a Crocodile, but not two regular version (well, when I say 'regular' I mean something that would work to approximate a MkIV to MkVII).
That's not totally true, as I had an old Airfix Churchill which I'd modified many years ago, but at 1/76 it is noticeably smaller than my other Churchills which are rather chunky 1/72 models from Plastic Soldier Company.
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As it happens, I did have two of the PSC versions, I wasn't totally losing my mind, but the second was unpainted. That's now rectified. Technically, for this campaign, it should be a MkVII, but I really don't want to start collecting models for each and every variant (as much of a completist that I am).
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Nice.
A friend who dabbled with wargaming (about 40 years ago) fielded a force of Churchill Tanks (all Airfix) as his father
had served in them during WW2. I never liked either the Airfix kit, or its performance under the rules we used at the time,
WRG WW2 . But he was happy.
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That Churchill looks great!
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Now that we're playing games using CoC v2 the need for a few new game markers has arisen. My new idea for representing wounded senior leaders, who are wounded for the remainder of the scenario, is to replace them with a specific wounded figure, when I have one. I've been raiding the spares box and doing a few conversions using a mix of AB Figures and Plastic Soldier Company.
The PSC German set actually comes with a bandaged head as an option, so that was easy enough.
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For my British and Americans I used AB Figures. Figures on the left is an AB body with one of the bandaged PSC heads. Figure in the middle is unaltered and from the AB Aid Station set. Figure on the right was a bareheaded figure and I sculpted a simple bandage using Milliput. You can see the original figure in the last picture.
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I also raided the spares box to use another couple of figures from the Airfix Jungle Outpost set for a Replen Point marker for my Japanese. I knew I hung on to those figures for a reason.
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Clever idea for the wounded leaders! *thumbsup*
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Those fellers look grand. Great job (and idea!)...
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Excellent indeed! Lately I've been looking into 20mm Japanese. I got WW2 in 6mm, 15mm and 28mm; but nothing for the Pacific, which would allow for turning to yet another figure size for that theatre, but choices in terms of ranges seem to be slim. So Airfix and the likes might actually be worth a look. :)
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Excellent indeed! Lately I've been looking into 20mm Japanese. I got WW2 in 6mm, 15mm and 28mm; but nothing for the Pacific, which would allow for turning to yet another figure size for that theatre, but choices in terms of ranges seem to be slim. So Airfix and the likes might actually be worth a look. :)
Have a look what I have here, a wide mix of various 20mm manufacturers in both metal and plastic: https://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2020/08/japanese-in-20mm-for-chain-of-command.html
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Recently been using my Volksgrenadiers from AB Figures to play ‘A Green and Brown Hell' a chain of command campaign set in the Hurtgen Forest. A nice campaign by David Hiscock from a recent Lard Magazine. The German force is brittle and I struggled against the Americans in the early stages, but the last few games swung the balance around, unfortunately, not enough to hold off the Americans.
The figures from AB really look the part. They do a mix of uniforms, including greatcoats and reversible camouflage. I've seen plenty of pictures of mixed clothing in the same unit, so it adds to the slightly ad hoc uniform look for the late war period. I acquired them originally to play the Bloody Bucket campaign, so it's been great to have them back on the table. I've given them a refresh and taken a few new pictures.
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Amazing brushwork as always! You'll be pleased to know that it's principally your fault that I'm trying out Chain of Command. Naughty man!
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These are wonderful, really, love the splinter pattern!
would gladly see them in action again :D
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Very nice. Your 20mm work impresses me...
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Amazing brushwork as always! You'll be pleased to know that it's principally your fault that I'm trying out Chain of Command. Naughty man!
Thanks. LOL, yes, I saw your latest blog post, had me blushing. Be interested to see how you go, feel free to ask me any questions, happy to help if I can.
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A few recent additions.
A while ago I bought a set of AB Figures British engineers. The set had useful figures for mine clearing and demolitions (I posted some of the figures earlier in this thread). However there were a couple of figures I couldn't see a use for, one of which was a man hammering in a sign. It turns out I now have a use for him. Chain of Command v2 includes an option for the Germans to have 'mines in verges' and suddenly this figure has a use as a game marker. I found a picture of a British army sign that was for sale on a militaria antiques site and simply reduced it in size. While I was at it, I converted one of my regular minefield markers to the same purpose.
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I finally got around to painting up two Russian flamethrower men. Timely because we plan to start an eastern front campaign for CoC set around Konigsberg and these may come in useful. Again AB Figures.
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Finally, while I have a healthy collection of Germans, I realised I don't have many in action poses and very few prone figures other than a few MG42 teams. I've addressed some of that with this lovely set, again from AB Figures.
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I just bought some STLs files of Russians with Panzerfausts with a similar idea but just swapping them out when I need the appropriatly armed figures.
Always inspired by your work.
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I just bought some STLs files of Russians with Panzerfausts with a similar idea but just swapping them out when I need the appropriatly armed figures.
Always inspired by your work.
Thanks. As it happens AB also do a few Russians with panzerfausts. Haven’t had that much call for them up until now, so hopefully be used in the same way you intend.
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Good additions. I like that sign...
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Quite how you manage to keep the production line rattling along at full tilt without your brushwork descending into the realms of the slapdash is frankly beyond me. Bloody astounding I say! And thank you for the very kind comment on my blog!
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A long overdue project, in the form of a few German buildings. In the past, my 'German' tables have tended to look a little too much like Normandy. Something I've been meaning to address for a while. I've recently started a campaign set in East Prussia in 1945 and so this was the spur. These are all from the Sarissa Precision range. As always, MDF buildings are a great start, but benefit from a bit of embellishment. In this case mostly by adding some sort of roofing, either tiles or thatch. Also added chimneys.
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That Jagdpanzer looks great