Sunday 3 March 2024

Carneval

I have thought about this game , Carneval from TT combat for a very long time and my Grandkids bought it me for my Birthday recently. The Game is a skirmish game set in a Venice which has fallen victim to a rent in the sky which has brought all types of Monsters and villains to the Carneval world of Venice , the game only requires afew figures per side and lots of scenery to climb on ,jump from and swim or sail on . I was bought the 2 player box set which comes with 2 lots of figures the Guild and the Rasher all in Resin plus a resin Gondoler and card stock buildings and floor tiles plus of course the rule book and all counters and templates . The rule book is not the latest version but thats not an issue as there are not many chnages and tehe latest version is a free down load form the fantastic game supporting web page . I have painted all the figures and of course bought loads of extra figures , TT combat do a fantastic range of figures to expand the 2 gangs in the starter and also other groups of Vampires , insane doctors and many others . I have read the book and I am sure Its going to be great fun , my wargaming time starts next week and this is one of the games I will be taking with me . Below are the Guild and Rashaar figures plus the resin Gondoler

Wednesday 10 January 2024

Badger 3D

Ordered 3 items from a companyi had not dealt with before Badger 3D ,I placed the order between Christmas and new Year and the items arrived today 10th of January so witht the holidays it was pretty quick turn around . The 3 items were all packed very well and were really clean .lovely models that will need very little clean up before painting the pictures below is how they came out of the box, all 28mm models of a Namer IVF ,a Merkava Mkiv and a Scorpion . Highly reccomended 10/10

Wednesday 27 December 2023

Christmas goodies

As usual I have been spoilt with lots if great presents and a lot of them are scenery and paints etc but as usual Elaine has managed ti get me loads of bookd for my latest projects mainly covering the Arab -Israeli conflicts but also one adding to my gothic horror ,victorin crime library ,hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wishing you all agreat new year .

Sunday 17 December 2023

1/600th Egyptian Aircraft

DID A FEW QUICK PAINT JOBS TO GET ME IN THE MOOD Aircraft by Tumbling Dice , decals by Flightdeck and stands by me .

Wednesday 13 December 2023

Arab-Israeli air wars -progress so far

I had every thing I need to start my project except bases so looking at various types and unable to find what i wanted,I decided to have a go my self so a few hex bases and dice frames from Pendraken and some nails from the local DIY store plus some rare earth magnets from my bits box and Im happy . The pics show the under coated bases and some under coated Egyption Mig 21 and IL 28 from tumbling dice

Wednesday 29 November 2023

Arab -Israeli Air Wars

Getting things together for my next project the Arab Israeli air wars covering the six day war up to the Yom Kippur war . I have my aircraft amazing service from Tumbling Dice ,I placed the order on Monday Morning and the stuff arrived Tuesday the 1/600th kit is really nice Now to choose the rules ,I have 3 sets to choose from Airwar C21 ,I have played these using them for a Uk V Soviet what if campaign .They are quick play ,do not use a hex mat and list all the aircraft stats I will need ,on the down size they are only suitable for a few aircraft per side and everything is assumed to be flying at the same level but they are good fun . Bag the Hun ,there a few free down loads to bring the rules up to the jet age and a dedicated Arab/Israeli supplement . I have played these for the normal ww2 period and enjoyed them but haing the rules spread over a few suplements might cause issues and these need a hex mat. Check you6 Jet Age , not played these yet but they seem ok , they need hexmat and some way of showing speed and altitude but they do a campaaign book covering the years I am covering . Will prbably have ago with eaach and then make my mind up before we start the campaign .

Friday 24 November 2023

updates and new things

I have not posted much lately ,work ,illness and other stuff have kept me busy. I have managed to get afew games in recently , Zona Alfa, Cold War Commander seem to have taked my gamoing time up . My Korean War project is finshed although I do have acouple of bits to paint ,I originally started the project to use Cold War commander as the rukle set but changed to Blitzkreig Commander whenthey realeased the Korean war Supplement ,which then spurred me onto to getting a 10mm ww2 British army as well . For Cold war commander I have started a 15mm Israeli army covering from the 70;s through to the 1980's My 10mm ACW project is coming along nicely using 10mm pendraken with the Alter of Freedom rule set Even with my painting table creaking under the wieght of unpainted lead and resin I am planning another project and attempting to do it properly trying to plan it in detail . It will cover thge middle east air wars covering the 6day war ,War of attrition and Yom ~Kippur as astart but going back to the war of independance and lebanon as well , I willuse tumbling dice 1.600 aircraft and I have 3 rule sets toi try out ,airwar 21 ,Bag The Hun and check your 6 jet age ,I have played the first 2 but not CY6 jet age . Santa will be bringing me lots of reference books so hopefully start this in the new year .

Tuesday 24 October 2023

Zona Alfa

Played a game of Zona Alfa just using the original rules ,playing military v bandits , a great game really quick and fought to a fine win for Johns Bandits . the game was so good I forgot to take any pictures other than the starting line ups and the initial table lay out . All the figures are Patrick Miniatures painted in army painter speed paints

Saturday 23 September 2023

zona Alfa - new figures

After my recent games I wanted some figures that better represented the bandits and civilian characters in the game ,plus wanted a suitable dog to represent Laika for the Scattered Readings scenario ,so I went straight to Patrick Miniatures and got what I wanted ,the figures are well detailed need very little if any cleaning and take paint really well plus the service is excellent All the new figures are shown below and are painted with Speed Paints
https://patrickminiatures.de