A couple of Mutts

My entry for the Guild quick build challenge a pair of recce vehicles for my very slow IDF project

With Elheim crew

Wednesday night Gaming - Predator

Last night at sheffield wargames Society we played the Predator scenario (bungle in the Jungle )from AAG's classidied expansion .A good game with some home grown add ons ,the alien took out a few non descript troops before tackling Jesse Ventura and his mini gun and was given a nasty wound allowing the rest of the team to blast it to bits ,which goes to prove that you dont mess with a big Jesse . The jungle bits are the stuff Ive been making for my Nam project ,the mat is the 6x4 grasslands from urban matz the buildings are an old Brittania resin and a Sarissa MDF which is 15mm but fits very nicley with the 20mm stuff .

the table

Britannia 20mm resin&Sarissa 15mmMDF

Elheim figures

the bad guy 

AAG's classified expansion ,excellent as always 

Deutschland 83

I purhased some cold war Bundeswehr figures about 2 years ago from Elheim  and after watching the C4 drama Deutschland 83 and then a request by Tim Gow to borrow some of my cold war toys I was spurred on to get them painted ,not a complete wargames unit I still need a command group and a couple of Milans plus marders or M113s depending on year Im playing but a nice start I am sure they will stand side by side with my Brits

.A couple of pics below but i will take some better ones later .

Raffle Update ...first Prizes in and ticket news UPDATED 22nd Oct

This years raffle in aid of the British Legion is well under way ,we have sent requests to almost 100 traders for prize supportand and have had a few pledges and even some prize support arrive! . Tickets will be 50 pence each and available from the Wargames Emporiums Store in Sheffield ,I will also visit local clubs if you wish and again the tickets will be available on line at £5.00 for 11tickets yes you get 1 free go for having to buy in bulk . The Wargames Emporium will have the tickets hopefully on saturday 24th October and you can purchase on line by using the Donations link on the right ,just drop me an email  ( Hrichard77@aol.com) after you have purchased with your name and address and I will email you your numbers back ASAP .Below is a list of Traders who have so far pledged support and where known what they are sending as prizes and also some pics of what we have recieved so far .



So in no particular order

PENDRAKEN                         -A ARMY PACK OF 1809 NAPOLEONIC FRENCH
TUMBLING DICE              -A 1/600TH AIRWARS STARTER SET
ELHEIM                              - A £25.00 VOUCHER TO SPEND ON ELHEIM PRODUCTS 
S&S                - A £20 VOUCHER TO SPEND ON S&S PRODUCTS (NOT DIECASTS ETC )
UNDERFIRE
THE DICE BAG LADY
TROLL TRADER       - A SELECTION OF TT COMBAT MDF BUILDINGS AND PAINT RACKS
RH/LIBERATION    - A SELECTION OF 20MM MODERNS
WESTWIND             A SELECTION OF 15MM & 28MM BLISTERS 
FLAGS OF WAR      A £20.00 VOUCHER
OSPREY                        THEY COME UNSEEN  BORD GAME
STUDIO MINIATURES    AFGHAN WAR MINIATURES 
EMPORERTOADSEMPORIUM      £20. VOUCHER FOR TERRAIN 
ADLER MINIATURES
AW MINIATURES                               £30 VOUCHER

Ainsty Castings

KR multicase

Brigade Models

TIM GOW

WARLORD GAMES

PLUS MUCH MORE

Raffle Update

The first Prize donations are in for this years wargamers raffle to raise funds for the Royal British Legion . Both of the first donations come from first time sponsors ,Tumbling Dice and Pendraken Miniatures .Tumbling dice have kindly donated their "A Mighty Fortress " starter set which contains the rules and 3xB17's 4x P51's and 4x Me 262 all you need to portray the air war over the Reich in 1944-45, Pendraken have given us a 1809 french army pack from their stunning 10mm ranges .

UPDATE   : Elhiem have donated a £25.00 voucher

UPDATE    : S&S have again joined our galant supporters

Raffle prize update

A bit behind with stuff I was rushed into hospital last monday and got out yesterday , Although not up to doing a lot thought I would update some of the prizes I have received so far.

The latest saga book from Gripping Beast , a box set from PSC and a bag of figures from Empress

Brigade Models 1914 Belgians

Donated by Tim Gow

From Warlord

Assorted figures from Rogue Miniatures

3 Prizes fromRH 2009SAS ,Spanish Civil War and insurgents





Add to these a £20. voucher from Elheim and a £15. voucher from Diplomatist books and the stunning witch finder General starter from Dashing Dice and we have some fantastic prizes with more promised. 

Raffle update 4 -UPDATED

Ok,the tickets are now on sale price 50pence each. You can get them by visiting the War Games Emporium in Sheffield ,I will also be selling them on line and I will put instructions up later on how to do this.

Prize donations promised or already recieved so far from these amazing People :
Dashing Dice Games
Empress Miniatures
Dipolomatist Books
Elheim
S&S
Northstar
Underfire
Ambush Alley
Brigade Models
Warlord Games
RH modles
Gripping Beast
Plastic Soldier Company
Rapier .
Tim Gow
Sheffield War Games Society
Rogue Miniatures

and hopefully more soon:
I have some of the prizes already and will go into more detail later .
Every Penny raised goes to the Royal British Legion.
War Games Emporium have as usual agreed to the use of their Sheffield Shop to be used as the venue for the prize draw and they will sell tickets through the Sheffield Branch .

Raffle update 3

Trying not to do to many updates but a lot of people are offering prizes so just a quick post to mention another new sponsor  Diplomatist Books and some of are long standing sponsors have yet again stepped forward ,Brigade Models ,Warlord Games ,Northstar and Ambush Alley Games along with Underfire miniatures ,Elhiem and S&S models have all kindly offered prizes . I will update more towards the weekend along with details on when the tickets go on sale and how to get them on line .

B.A.O.R forward HQ

HQ sets up as a recce force moves forward

 A few pics from a test game of Force on Force -cold war gone hot  .

the recce units move away from the farm 

A infantry platoon begins to take up position

HQ vehicles outside the barn

The Ferret moves out 

A patrol in full NBC gear 

Guards in position

Tanks move up in support

Chieftans 

Vehicles are mainly S&S but a couple of RH/Liberation and a Airfix one are in there as well the VW,s are oxford die casts and the  figures a mix of Brittanis Rh and Elheim buildings are the 4Ground ones for PSC which are now discontinued and rules by Ambush Alley

20mm figure comparison

20mm figures side by side ,in the 1st photo the SHQ figure is bent forward I didn't realise until after so added another pic at the end with the fault put right .All of them are on English 1pence coins and are in varying states of readiness just grabbed from my workbench . The two cp figures show the first with the integral base and the other with a slotta type base with the tag removed as per their

 instructions .

PSC-CP-CP-SHQ

Eleim-Zvesda-Brittania-RH

RH-Elheim -Airfix-Underfire

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PCS-CP-and the SHQ bent to correct position . 

All nice figures in their own way my favourite one in this lot is the SAS guy from RH .

B.A.O.R ,zombies ,survivors and other things finished in March

PSC Pz1V box set 3 models for £13.99 .

March has been a productive month for me , besides finishing my stags and modern police (see earlier post) for the guild painting competition ,I managed to complete 3 Pz 1V's  .some Zombie's and survivors and some B.A.O.R bits and even started my cold war Russians.

start of a Zombie Hoard

Various Manufacturers 

err...ok couldn't resist these 

St Trinians v Zombies ?

Scimitar 

S&S Recce Landies  lovely kits

F.O  and sniper

ZSU 23/4 S&S again  

Over all I am chuffed that I have done so much the PSC stuff is really good I am starting on their Late war german infantry now ,the S&S cold war vehicles are great ,I have had these since September and only just realised some of the crews arms and heads were missing so cut bits of other unused figures .The Zombies are Zombicide and Studio Miniatures for 7ombie TV rules and the Girls are the ones from Crooked Dice.The Scimitar is the Airfix one I mentioned earlier .