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Offline Grumpy Gnome

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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #45 on: November 10, 2021, 02:43:12 PM »
… how would you model the bubbles and bead curtains?
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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #46 on: December 11, 2021, 05:18:49 PM »
Excellent.
I assume the Harrier is too late a model:


How is the Chieftain going?

Offline madman

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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #47 on: December 11, 2021, 06:14:41 PM »
Great luck this came to the surface. With a name like that I never would have found it.

Back in the day one of my favorite hex and counter games was SPI's Berlin '85. Punched it and laid it out a few times but no opponents. Then a couple years ago found another guy interested so played a couple games since then. The French were overrun without much trouble despite having some of the best units. Just too few. The Americans fared better but the overwhelming artillery wore them away as well. Only the British seemed to have success. Held off their sector and started clearing out Soviet paras from the airports only to eventually be worn away. Still just as I envisioned it in my mind 40+ years ago.

I also have a set of scenarios for skirmish set, I think, a year or two earlier. Just getting into skirmish so they should make the table eventually.

I always loved the map from Berlin '85 and wonder if anyone has a link to a map of Berlin from the period. I am a map fanatic, and especially city maps so would love to get my hands on one. Even one of the city map books. I have one for Tokyo I bought once while visiting.

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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #48 on: December 12, 2021, 07:34:09 AM »
Excellent.
I assume the Harrier is too late a model:


How is the Chieftain going?
Id still use it. for lack of a better model.
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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #49 on: December 12, 2021, 08:56:01 AM »
Excellent project; looking forward to it developing further, and maybe some AARs.
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Offline FreakyFenton

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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #50 on: December 14, 2021, 05:19:03 PM »
So they did.  o_o

Sorry just stumbled on this, if it is of interest, one of the flak towers is still standing, albeit in Hamburg on the Heiligengeistfeld. There are a few pictures online.
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Offline Ben Cato

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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #51 on: December 15, 2021, 08:41:21 AM »
There is a Flaktower in Berlin. I visited it in 2017. Flakturm III  Humboldthanin near the main railway station for Berlin.
It has lots of concrete and is very big.
Not sure if this will work.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Flak+Tower+III+Humboldthain/@52.5474971,13.3828948,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x47a8522125f5edc5:0xfc772762ccbad6a6!8m2!3d52.5474939!4d13.3850835?hl=en&authuser=0

Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #52 on: December 15, 2021, 10:39:04 PM »
This is one in the distance in Vienna.

I did find this (in German and I have only looked at the pictures so far):
http://www.airpower.at/news03/0813_luftkrieg_ostmark/flaktuerme.htm

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #53 on: December 16, 2021, 12:24:52 AM »
The Humboldthain Flak Tower is mostly buried in rubble, they created an artificial hill from it in the park after the war. Apparently it’s a significant roost for bat colonies, so cue The Birthday Party’s ‘Release the Bats’ (nicely time and space specific as Nick Cave was living in Berlin around that time IIRC).

Won’t be looking at it, at least in part because Humboldthain Park was in the French Sector (part of the municipality of Wedding IIRC). Now if someone wants to produce 28mm early ‘80s French, I’ll be all over them like a cheap suit.
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Offline Grumpy Gnome

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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #54 on: December 16, 2021, 10:00:34 AM »
Imagine a line of 80’s Cold War soldiers from Wargames Atlantic… French, East German, British, American…. the last of the Soviets. So much potential!

Perfect for old school Twilight 2000…. Red Dawn… Operation Flashpoint… or your own project.

Offline vodkafan

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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #55 on: December 28, 2021, 05:06:29 PM »
Great looking project. Back in the 80's I had a friend in the RAF Regiment in Germany. He had wanted to be a pilot but during the tests they found his brain was susceptible to flashing lights and could trigger Epilepsy. So they offered him the RAF Regiment instead.
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Offline CapnJim

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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #56 on: December 28, 2021, 08:14:06 PM »
Imagine a line of 80’s Cold War soldiers from Wargames Atlantic… French, East German, British, American…. the last of the Soviets. So much potential!

Now, I would dig that... :D

And, while not in the area in which your scenarios will play out, there are a few flak towers left in Italy between Lucca and Florence.  We could see them from the train.
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Offline Grumpy Gnome

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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #57 on: March 09, 2022, 07:59:31 PM »
Probably the wrong scale but saw this and thought of this thread…

https://www.ebay.de/itm/185331626034?hash=item2b26a03032:g:6M8AAOSwhGlbdCwn

I seem to recall the Land Rovers of the Royal Welch in Berlin the early 90’s being olive drab and only the tanks being in this camo pattern but my memory is not what it used to be.
« Last Edit: March 10, 2022, 06:44:31 AM by Grumpy Gnome »

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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #58 on: March 09, 2022, 08:20:14 PM »
Grumpy, I have seen photos of landrovers and the FV432/Fox turret lash-up painted in the "Berlin Brigade" urban scheme.  I have painted some of my 15mm "Seven Days to the River Rhine" force in this scheme just to be a bit different. It was surprisingly easy to paint freehand.   

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Re: Ich hab so Heimweh nach dem Kurfürstendamm
« Reply #59 on: March 09, 2022, 08:51:17 PM »
Just reread this thread again - so many great ideas  8)