AfrikaKorps

I've been working on these for some months on and off, mainly testing different colours to see what I felt looked best for a faded tropical uniform. I'm happy with the results and have quite a few more painted ready for basing.
 The desert war, research wise was new for me and the first model I bought was the 251. Which turned out to be a bit of a school boy error as apparently it seems none were used in North Africa..
My initial idea for this project is to do a platoon of DAK, followed by Brits and Italians for North Africa, then maybe move to Crete or Italy. The rules I will be using are Chain of Command by TFLs. Which have been sold to me by my friend Pat as the best rules he's ever played. I think this is because even if you roll low on the command dice it can be useful for you ;)
 You can see some of his lovely stuff on his BLOG

the figures are plastic Perry Miniatures, a bargain at £20 for 38 multi pose figures.

The over enthusiastically bought 251 is a plastic warlord games kit.

at the very nice price of £17

If you are interested in trying Chain of Command you'll be happy to know TFL are having a sale this September, with a whopping 20% off.
Lots of quality world war II products for great prices these days.

Now all I need to do is make myself a desert terrain board and buy a bunch of tanks!! 

on the workbench

Just a couple of pics to show what I am working on at the moment.

 First up is an American infantry platoon from Artizan designs for big Mike. This is designed to go with the excellent "rules of engagement" rules from Great escape games. First 8 are finished bar the varnish and basing. Just another 26 to go!

Secondly is my converted Rune priest based on the Torquemada Coteaz figure. I bought this years ago when he first appeared as I loved the pose. I never got round to using him until now. He has had a lot of inquisitor detail filed off and replaced by space wolf iconography. He also has a big axe instead of his daemon hammer. Looking forward to finishing this one. But it will have to wait until I finish the above.

WW2 pics

paras move in to the town

Germans take position

the enemies close

looking for targets

flame on

  

Pats paras prepare to rush the defences

whats left of Pats paras......

sniper team in action

A few more pics of the Rules of engagement game from Daves a few weeks back. The higlight for me had to be Pats paras, after getting the worse of the firefight decide a headlong rush across the street is the answer. trouble is it in front of dug in Gemrans with MG42s.
As you can tell in the second from last picture, it ended in tears....

I PLAYED A GAME!!!!

As the title says I actually managed to game this week!!
We played a game of "rules of engagement" WW2 skirmish rules by great escape games.
This was a new game for everybody and a few of the chaps who played were new to me to.
A good day was had by all, the rules seemed to work well, although slowed down by being newbies. I think after a couple of games the rules would flow well and there is lots of period chrome. HMGs are great and you wouldn't want to stand in front of them, so pretty realistic really ;o)

Fallschirmjager platoon

Here are a few shots of my Fallschirmjager platoon I recently finished. I am intending to use these with the rules of engagement rules by great escape games.

Once I finished taking these shots I realised I had my camera on the wrong setting so the close ups arnt very sharp. I have a dozen more troops to paint up to give me more options, when these are finished I will take better shots and if I have time maybe write a tutorial on the colours I have used for the camo.

What happened?

Sorry for lack of updates to all those following my blogs.

I have a few excuses the main one not having a PC for a few months whilst my laptop went off for repairs, but now is just spares....

So I have had to buy another new laptop and have advised the wife not to leave the new laptop open on the floor under a glass of water clinging precariously to the edge of the bedside cabinet.

Well atleast it makes a change from having a hot iron dropped on the one before or my little angel Isabella dropping it off her lap cracking the charge port.

Yes I/we get through our laptops.

COLD STEEL 2011

sadly I never made it, due to poorly little one my youngest Grace. Talking to Darren of GB it sounds like I missed a fun day.

I have painted enough Vikings finished for 1500 points but my Arthurian army has fallen behind.

In fact whilst I think about it, one of my little cherubs has been taken ill the last 3 times I have planned a wargaming adventure. I did manage to pop and play a WW2 games on a massive 30'x 10' table which was a fantastic sight.

Sadly once the rounds started flying I neglected to take any pictures of the action.

When I got back from the game I was enthused to paint myself another platoon, especially as the British infantry platoon I took with me was going to stay permantly down south.

So I started cracking on with my Fallschirmjagers. photos to follow soon.