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Miniatures Adventure => The Conflicts that came in from the Cold => Topic started by: Viper4Dan on March 05, 2014, 01:15:14 AM
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As we're getting ready for our 20th year of the HotLead Convention in Stratford, Ontario, I'm finishing off a few projects to run a French Indochina game in 28mm. One of the projects was to finally finish my French STCAN/FOM patrol boat. Its the old rag boat from the 1/48 Monogram "Rambo Assault Set", with Warlord Games crew and various tarps, boxes, etc added to give it a more cluttered and lived in look. The kit is easy to assemble and needed just a little extra work. As a gaming piece, its pretty impressive. It has an armoured (ie bullet-proof) hull with a front .50 cal in an armoured turret, and 3 light mgs (one on each side sponson and a top turret) as well. Two of the crew (6-8 crew usually) were also armed with rifle grenades. If I wanted to go all out, I could have mounted either a .30 cal or a 57mm recoilless rifle on the front pilot house, and replaced the top turret mg with a 60 mm mortar. As is, it definitely provides an interesting challenge to both use and face in a game.
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Sorry, I seem to be overly fond of one of the photos. Here are the other two.
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Great pics, great looking boat and terrain. I would love to play French Indochine especially with 28mm (those Redstar minis are incredible), post some more pics and eventually pics of the games.
Cheers,
Damien
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Your boat looks great.
I have 2 of them, need to put them together.
Hope my boats look a good as yours.
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Nice job. How difficult was it to cut the hull to the waterline?
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That looks great!
With what rule-set will you be playing Indochine?
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That looks superb! I too am curious on how easy or hard it was to waterline.
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Awesome! Love the boat. I actually considered buying the model myself.
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Apologies for the thread necromancy 🧟♂️ but this thread inspired me to pick up one of those kits on eBay and advice on how to do the waterline would certainly be appreciated.