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.