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Small Wars in Southern Africa: July 2016
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Monday, 18 July 2016. A couple of Crusaders. This is my attempt at the 1/56th scale Rubicon Crusader Mk II/III- a kit I reviewed. Earlier in the year. The kit was a pleasure to paint - plenty of crisp details to pick up with washes and dry brushing. Also, the way the kit goes together allows sub-assemblies (running gear, turret, hull) to be painted separately and then assembled. And below, pix of the same hull with the Mk II turret. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). PWG "Big Game" 2012.
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Small Wars in Southern Africa: A couple of Crusaders
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Monday, 18 July 2016. A couple of Crusaders. This is my attempt at the 1/56th scale Rubicon Crusader Mk II/III- a kit I reviewed. Earlier in the year. The kit was a pleasure to paint - plenty of crisp details to pick up with washes and dry brushing. Also, the way the kit goes together allows sub-assemblies (running gear, turret, hull) to be painted separately and then assembled. And below, pix of the same hull with the Mk II turret. 20 July 2016 at 00:40. Both look great regardless of the kit used. Galle...
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Small Wars in Southern Africa: May 2016
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Monday, 16 May 2016. Operation Cobra: 28mm Bolt Action. First line of defence: Heer veterans make the Allies pay for every yard of their advance. Table One. Round "dunkelgelb" markers indicate deployment positions of one Heer force, while paper markers indicate positions of their second line of defence. Some SS elements have arrived on the left flank. It was a huge, multi-faceted, chaotic, wonderful game, and was Bolt Action at its best. The difficulties of advancing through bocage country. and the a...
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Small Wars in Southern Africa: November 2016
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Monday, 7 November 2016. Pretoria Regiment Shermans, Italy 1944-5. A pair of Shermans to add some teeth to my 28mm South Africa 6th Armoured Division force. They are my first attempts at SCC 15 - the British and Commonwealth interpretation of Olive Drab. By all accounts, this paint color faded towards light green, as opposed to the US paint mix, which faded towards a brown ochre hue. Links to this post. South African 6th Armoured Division. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Project Gallery: 28mm Saffas in Italy.
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Small Wars in Southern Africa: October 2016
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Sunday, 16 October 2016. Just off the painting table, a kit for the weird WW2 game by Warlord and Osprey - Konflikt '47. And then a unit of genetically modified wolf/dog/human stormtroopers. the majority of these figures are from Westwind miniatures - one is from Warlord Games. And finally, a few Steppe ghouls produced by mixing parts from the Mantic ghoul and zombie sprues, and the Warlord Games plastic Russian infantry sprues. (Figures in the background are Westwind Russian zombies.). Links to this post.
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Small Wars in Southern Africa: Rubicon Models Crusader: Unboxing and build review
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Friday, 29 April 2016. Rubicon Models Crusader: Unboxing and build review. So whats in the box? Three, individually wrapped (so parts knocked off don't float around the box) sprues of dark green-grey plastic, a comprehensive instruction sheet and a very practical decal sheet. The plastic is harder than the grey Renedra/Warlord/etc plastic that wargamers are more used to - this is much closer to the hard plastic found used in scale model kits from, say, Tamiya or Dragon. So how does it build? Project Gall...
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Small Wars in Southern Africa: PWG "Big Game" 2012
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PWG "Big Game" 2012. Pic courtesy of Greg Pullin. Arnhem liberated by XXX Corps after two days of Market Garden (the re-fight). A Rapid Fire battle report by David Davidson. On the Reconciliation Day long weekend, Peninsula Wargames Group refought the battle of Arnhem with a team of 13 players – and changed history. Initiated with simultaneous landings of three parachute divisions (the US 101. Airborne divisions), at around 13h00 on 17. Sept, changing history by probably shortening WWII. Paras, the bridg...
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Small Wars in Southern Africa: Project Gallery: Mike's ECW Army
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Project Gallery: Mike's ECW Army. Painting and pix by Mike Schubert. Mike Schubert's English Civil War Project. I had the pleasure of participating in my first English Civil War game (see the brief battle report here. And a good percentage of the figures that graced that table were from the collection of Mike Schubert. He sent me th is. Brief description of his collection:. 1st Battalia - Charles Essex's regiment. Painting and pix by Mike Schubert. 1st Battalia - Lilburne's regiment. The Cuirassiers were...
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Small Wars in Southern Africa: Gallery: General Gaming
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Bolt Action from Warlord Games/Osprey has proved to be a popular ruleset for skirmish scale (platoon plus) encounters. Tending towards the abstract and free-flowing, rather than detailed, its strengths are an immersive turn sequence and easy-to-learn rules. The Bolt Action supplement Tank War. Allows for encounters between larger forces than the original rules. It works well in both 15mm and 20mm, with the compact ground scale of BA suit the smaller miniatures. At the gates of Nicaea, First Crusade, 1097.
