Historical Miniature Wargames
Kim and I visited Salute and picked up a copy of the new tank rules from Two Fat Lardies: “What a Tanker!” With Eero, Petri and Kim we had a few eastern front games, BTs vs T-34s (Finns in the BTs), PzII and PzJgr I vs T-34, and Matildas and T-34s vs a behemoth of a tank destroyer, Jagdtiger. Much …
Getting slightly better at painting the wood. More subtle effect works better.
1/72 Albatros C.III from Pegasus. This was my first try of painting wooden fuselage and the effect should be way more subtle.
1/72 Esci Albatros D.III with transfers from a Roden kit. Pilot: Bruno Lörzer. When I was a kid I found a place that was clearing the Esci kits for like 80 cents or so (5 FIM) so I bought a bundle as well as Microscale decals to make plenty of beautifully colorful biplanes. Having bought the Roden kit I noticed that …
1/72 model for Canvas Eagles by Airfix. Pilot: Ritter von Schleich
Some German balloon markers done for our 1/72 Canvas Eagles campaign. Made from modelling clay and florist’s wire and the ack ack tufts are obviously made from bits of cotton.
Some time ago I hosted an Eastern Front 1944 Campaign for the club. As I was actually living in the UK at the time, I had to come up with a way to create some umpire-led confusion into games I couldn’t physically attend. I wanted to script a sequence of off-board events, that would be hidden from the players, and …
We wanted to see howForce on Force would work with slightly larger scenario and so we gave it a try with couple of mechanized Sov platoons reinfrced with a tank platoon. Defending against the red onslaught was a platoon or so Germans. More or less in the vein of our Germany 1984 FoF Campaign. We didn’t notice any new problems …
We got the FoF campaign rolling. The games re actually very quick to run and you can play 2 or even 3 during an evening. To add variety we had charts from which we could purchase assets for each game after rolling how much points we had to spend. Unlike our normal games we also used the fog of war …