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During the german wargaming convention Tactica 2011 in Hamburg we will show a Flames of war gaming table depicting an Eastern Front scenario. We want to show the area at the Don bow next to Stalingrad. Since the fight took place at the country side we focus on realistic looking trees. These here are the prototypes for our woods. The first tests using Flexibark by Green Scene and MiniNatur tree foliage made us quite happy. These trees were made by …
Miniature Designers working for their children: Tom Meier designs a miniature inspired by the imagination of his four year old daughter. Priceless! Basic Impetus Fantasy: A gaming report of a LotR game using Basic Impetus rules by Geektactica. I am very interested in that ruleset. Paintjob by Axebreaker: Fow Fallschirmjäger. Gaming Table Madness: Hughe Spanish Gaming Table. (via Aquarius @ Sweetwater Forum) 1:72 Ancient Armies: Frank Becker shows his ancient 1:72 FoG collection. (german language, excellent pictures) Battlefront Article: Myths …
This week I managed to finish the hungarian Recce troops. Some time ago I mentioned the paper masking airbrushing technic I used to spray the camo scheme. I am very happy with the finished troops. The tanks looks somewhat simple, but I would like to mention some special things in order to let you know how much work these tiny armoured vehicles were. First of all every turret was fixed with rare earth magnets to the chassis. Then I added …
In the german Sweetwater Forums, I read that Wargames Factory will design orcs. Murphy posteted a picture and DonVoss mentioned that the design reminds him of an Angus McBride Illustration. Wargames Factory notes: „Sculpture by Tim Barry. Artwork by Diego Gisbert Llorens“. Personally I think there is one reference missing: The Illustration from ICE´s Merp Supplement cover „Denizens of the dark wood“ by Angus McBride. The illustration by Diego Gisbert Llorens looks very exact like a compositon of two of …
War Artisan is the designer of several great canvas based gaming tables. Decebalus from the Sweetwater-Forums gave me an excellent reading tipp on War Artisan´s technic. The idea and the result is really stunning. Therefore I urgently recommend to have a look on War Artisans various webpages and picture galleries. Personally I consider to give that technic a try with on gaming board test. http://www.flickr.com/photos/war_artisan/sets/72157624371716442/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/war_artisan/2752049374/in/set-72157606657233854/ http://www.warartisan.com/gallery2 A friend of him did post an how-to gallery here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/36331979@N00/sets/72157610259987470/detail/
Dwarf conversions: Lugdhuk shows on La Guerra del Anillo nice dwarv conversions for artillery and command models. 1:87 Movie inspired Dioramas (tipp by Trollbock): No Country for small men by Florian Tremp. Diorama: Kevin Dallimore shows his excellent Diorama „The Hound“. Impetus basing: I really love this late Roman cavalry by Ansbachdragoner prepared for the usage with the Ipetus rules.
Photoshopped: Russian Fotographer combines WWII Pictures with modern ones. (via Fefes Blog). Fallschirmjäger: Axebreaker´s new WWII models and thoughts on Camoflage wear. Natural wall painting: Ellandan´s murals with fencing. Basic Impetus gameplay and look: Saxon Dog shows this wonderful game pictures on the crusades. This stuff really thrills me!!
When I bought the game Grand Fleets from Majestic Twelve Games I always wanted to replay the famous hunt for the battleship Bismarck. So I bought many World War 2 ships to replay this scenario. My ships are from Hallmark in the 1:6000 scale. I bought them from Magister Militum. On the picture above you can imagine the size of the ships compared to the 5ct coin. The German ships I was a long time uncertain how to paint the …
Currently I am working at my Mid War Ostfront hungarian company. At the very beginning of our campaign I will just be able to field a hungarian Tank company as painting an whole infantry company simply takes a lot of time. However my first games will see 7 38t tanks, 3 Panzer IV, 3 Panzer III, 3 Stuka, 2 Nimrod, an motorised infantry platton, and a 10,5 cm artillery battery. The force consists of elements which actually were present during …
This image in bigger size. It´s done, finally. I painted a War of the Ring army for really a long time, now I am really fed up with Easterlings having painted the last Hero Options for this army of Middle Earth. I want to start with this family picture, later on I will write an documentation article on this army on our LotR page. However I am quite happy with the result although I cannot stand the GW plastic bases …