28mm Sassanids by A&A

First regiment is complete now that I have LBM shield transfers and a banner. 5 more to go!

WW2 microarmour

Stripped and repainted these chaps for a miniature version of Desert Heat. They are GHQ PzIIIs and IVs I stripped using oven cleaner - they still looked pretty grim out of the caustic stew but came out okay in the end. (Note to self - white undercoat, middlestone wash, Vallejo black wash, 50/50 middlestone/buff drybrush).

thanks for passing these along Jonathan!

Sassanids and Sarmations in the queue...

Death of the First Panzer

I have micro armour painted to play the first West German scenario of the Lock and Load game Eisenbach Gap Deluxe



Here we have Soviet T-72s with a BRDM-AT

And the stalwart West German panzergrenadiers with a Jaguar AT and Luchs for support:

I still haven't worked out whether I want to run this using a hex mat or convert it to measures.

I also picked up the WW2 Desert Heat version of the same game design:

Which is a very slick game, trouble is, the orbats and scenarios are complete fiction. I am not a complete rivet counter, but this has Piats in 1941 and at Bir Hacheim, Germans riding PzIVGs in 1942, Italians armed with 88s, and the 7th RTR riding Valentines. C'mon - every schoolboy knows they drove Matilda IIs!!!!

I don't get it - nice designed game, beautiful components, 16 "historical" scenarios, but WTF? Why not use historical orbats (Matildas, PzIVd, e maybe f1, etc...) for the same cost and effort?

Sassanids

I have a new long-term project - 28mm Sassanid Persians. I picked these up about a year ago in a lot on TMP - there are 60+ cavalry, 4 elephants, probably 50+ archers and levy, all by Foundry, A&A and Old Glory. Yeah - long term project. Maybe for MayDay 2015 if we have one.

Here are the first mounted - these are A & A models - they are almost complete as I am still waiting for LBM shield transfers for the bucklers and small round shields. But I think they are very nice figures. I decided to do them on 60mm frontages and probably in regiments with 4 bases per regiment in the same colour scheme. So here we have the start of 2 regiments.

I now have Persians in 4 scales....

Stuka and 88 for Bolt Action

Next week I will run another WW2 scenario using Bolt Action - these rules are simple and fun, easy to pick up and run at the club. I will run the Across the Meuse - Sedan scenario from the Skirmish Campaigns scenario book on the 1940 Meuse campaign. These books are generally excellent, and this one is simply outstanding.

For this scenario, I needed an 88 flak gun and Stuka support, as well as a bunch of bunkers for the French defenders. The 88 and Stuka are from Zvezda's new Art of Tactic range and are excellent, simple models. The bunkers I made from 6 of the many empty Minifigs clamshell packs kicking around with my reusable packing material. Hey - the price was right!

Late Roman command and cavalry

The last few stands for my MayDay game are complete, these a couple of stands of cavalry and a commander. Foundry again, shield decals are Warlord auxilia leftovers but do the trick:

Auxilia palatina

Slow month on the paint table, busy month at work including a week in a hotel conference room in Ottawa adjudicating a national research grant competition, followed by a week of recovering from a nasty rhinovirus one of the other group members brought back from Africa. Thanks for that!

But I did finish a few more stands of late Roman foot for my MayDay game in the meantime- these are auxilia by Foundry. Now I just have a few stands of mounted to finish and it's ready to go.