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 .

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 .

Airwar c21

Last night at the club we played Airways c21 ,a very nice simple air combat game originally designed to use at conventions.Definatley not for those of you that want to simulate how many g's you pull in a dive or how much shrapnel a sindwinder would cause at xxx feet but a really quick fun game with just enough realism for a club game,we had 2 lightnings against 2 mig 21's and the game took about an hour to play to a outcome , nice shiny silver aeroplanes shooting past each other firing very ineffective missiles .Will play again with all the optional rules .

chaos as all our special manouvers went wrong ??

1/600 Air Wars

Just painted up some Tumbling Dice 1/600 1970's era R.A.F Aircraft to use with the Airwars C21 rules .The aircraft are nice for such tiny things and were easy to piaint up , I have put tiny earth magnets on them so I can take them off the stands for easy transportation.The Decals are from Doms decals and were surprisingly easy to apply . I have a few more Brits and some Ruskies to do . By the way Tumbling Dice are one of our new sponsers in this years Raffle more news soon .

43 Squadron Phantoms

a PR Canberra

111 Squadron Lightnings