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These Norman Spearmen are my first attempt in painting for medieval 15mm wargaming. I did already paint Perry Spearmen for WAB, but to be honest the game does not interest me enough to get motivated. The look of WAB is not interesting enough for me, because I have a very visual approach to the gaming rather than mere gaming. A very good wargaming friend of mine, Frank Bauer, did recommend Field of Glory a lot. Since I share a lot …
Plastic Viking review: Neldoreth wrote an great review on Gripping Beast and Warlord games plastic Viking miniatures. Events: yesthatphil visited the Festival of history and shows modern coverage and English Civil War stuff. Great pictures and videos. Scenery: Frank Becker presents his excellent Pegasus Bridge Gaming table using lasered models by Jens Najewitz.
In my last Blog-Post I introduced my civilian fleet. For a fan of the television series it was a big challenge for me to paint the Battlestars and Basestars. For the paintjob I used Vallejo Gun Metal in a 2:1 mix with different highlights from Vallejo German Grey to Vallejo Cold Grey and Vallejo Stonewall Grey. The models were easy to paint and I finished all 4 models on the same afternoon. I hope you like them. The model dimensions: …
Parking lot gaming tables: Zac rants about GW 40K gaming tables. He is absolutely right. Aber sowas von (emphasis for our german readers). Don´t miss his finding on infantile gaming style here. Water Effects: Massive Voodoo has an very nice article on water effects. Song of Samurai…: Frank Becker is working on a Samurai setting for „A song of blades and heroes“. 15mm scenery: lewchips made a wonderful 15 mm dark age village terrain piece.
German Eastern Front Fortifications: Excellent Website article on german bunkers, dug outs and security concepts. Eastern Front Pictures Impressive Picture Gallery made by a tank artillery regiment. Zombietown: If you ever planned to build a Zombie game table you definetly should visit Zombietown! It reminds me of Grimm´s atomic cafe, which should be appreciated too!
In our upcoming campaingn there is already one thing for sure: The axis has to cope with a lot of russian tanks, since most club members start their force with a tankovy battaillion. I will have a game this week against 11 KV1s. Therefore I urgently need heavy gun options. The Panzer IV for sure is one option against heavy soviet tanks. I decided not to fix the gun barrels to the turret permanently but to use rare earth magnets …
Outstanding Theoden (besides the strange balustrade): Massive Voodoo Author Der_Ben showed an really impressive Theoden. Remember that this model is true 28mm! Realistic futuristic weathering: A cool future vehicle designed by Antenociti, painted and weathered by dwartist. The 28mm vehicle looks really impressive. Weathering with pigments is not as easy as it seems to be, so look how the pro does it. Early war preview by Battlefront: The new Flames of war boxes really look excellent! Ebobs 1:700 Battleship model: …
Usually I do not care about WIP posts. Personally I do not like WIPs when they show miniatures besides the painting technic is somewhat special. However I decided to show you my Toldis and Csabas before they are finished, because I managed to airbrush a quite good 3 color camoflage. Frank Bauer and Lemming told me in the german Sweetwater Forums when they saw my Famo trucks, that the scale of the airbrushed camo is not right. For sure I …
Scenery Cianty has a nice post on model supplies for furniture, markets and inn signs in 28 mm. Tree Tutorial Frank Bauer did an excellent Tree tutorial in german. However pictures should help you to understand the tutorial, I can help if you guys have questions. By the way Frank used the italian Houses Rusus and I designed in 15mm. Science Fiction terrain Rémi Bostal did post marveless pictures showing alien minatures in his scenery. Painting Knights Antipater continued with …
This platoon has seen a somewhat funny story: I painted it in order to support either my hungarian tank company or motorised infantry. For sure artillery is important and the german 10,5 cm guns can provide a means against russian tanks in artillery bomardments. To field a hungarian platoon means, that you have to buy two blister guns, a hungarian artillery crew blister and the towing vehicles as well. A lot of money if you consider to field alternatively mortars …