Where Have I Gotten To?

I would first like to thank Bob over at Evil Bob’s Miniature Painting service for the excellent work he has done for my Lebanese militia and Syria Commandos. I look forward to using the militia against Mark’s IDF.

These pictures are from Bob’s blog.

Now some of you may wonder why I appeared to of fallen off the planet. I have enjoyed gaming this period with friends and have introduced the TOOFATLardies’ rules to many gamers new to the TFL way of gaming. At Historicon I had a great time watching my PLO get hammered by a well played SLA sweep. But current events in Syria and Libya have been hitting me very close to home. I wish the people over there well and I find it hard to game a conflict so recent that the players could have been there.

I thank you all for your understanding as a take a hiatus from the world of Lebanon 1982.

100th Post

With this being my 100^th posting I would like thank you all for visiting my blog. I have had over 13,000 page views from 72 different countries. This is better than I could have ever hoped for.

I would like to thank my friends like Mark Kinsey for his support. He has helped me to acquire new buildings, terrain and miniatures in a new scale. Something I said I was not going to do. Thank you Mark.

I want to also thank Richard Clarke and Chris Stoesen over at the TOOFALardies for their input on the rules and the period.

So as the year continues I look forward to doing more with Lebanon 1982, and The War of Attrition. Operation Raviv and Green Island are both coming along nicely and I look forward to playing them and reporting back to you about the results.

Once again thank you all.

Jon

2011 - Looking Forward

It is hard to believe that 2010 went so fast. For me it has been great. I started a blog (been wanting to do that for awhile), got back into 15mm figures (thank you Mark), and several new periods.

Lebanon will be an on going project for 2011 as will the War of Attrition. The figures for Operation Raviv are coming along nicely as is the idea of building Green Island for doing the raid (Thank you Mark)

I have even started a check list to show my progress painting. A positive number shows I am getting down the stacks of figures, and a negative number means I bought some more. Not sure how to handle selling figures or the figure I ordered last year from QRF.

I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year and look forward to seeing you at the conventions and online.

Newest Syrian Acquisition

Due to the good graces of my compadre, Mark Kinsey, my Syrians now have an Aérospatiale SA.342 Gazelle added to their order of battle. I think this is mostly due to the number of new helicopters of his that I have shot down the first time they were brought out on the table.

I was interested in the Gazelle after reading the following article on the Syrian during the Lebanese conflict. I was also interested in that the Syrians preferred the Gazelle over the scaled down Hind.

Syrian Tank-Hunters in Lebanon, 1982

By Tom Cooper & Yaser al-Abed

Sep 26, 2003

http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_279.shtml

I will be basing my model on the image above that appears vintage.

I will base the changes on the model on this Gazelle in an Israeli museum.

Now how do I use it and not get it shot down? I am sure Mark will help.