Battlegroup Tobruk -more vehicles .

Another 3 trucks finished ,this time Tillys from any scale models and another Dingo from early war miniatures ,the transports will be for my heavy weapons teams and the Dingo will be my recon officer . I have ordered some more tanks from EWM and I'm still waiting for a order from SHQ (not happy with the service from SHQ this time) and then I should have every thing I need just need to get them built and painted along with my PSC 25pdrs and that'll be Tobruk finished .

Naval Thunder ,second game

Played our 2nd game of Naval thunder last night at the club ,this time we tried the rules for Battleships .We did a fictional encounter between the Royal Navies warspite and Valiant against Vichy France's Dunkerque and Bretagne . The Fench ships displayed some fantastic long range gunnery and while the British gunfire was terrible they did manage to knock 2 secondary turrets off the Bretagne and started a fire on the Dunkerque but the French damage control teams were just as good as their gunners and put the fire out before it did any real damage . The 2 British battle wagons had to (very slowly) leave the table only just managing to stay afloat . A great game the rules are fast play but are realistic and we are looking forward to trying out the aircraft and sub rules and bigger fleets before we begin our campaign .sadly i forgot to take any pictures but the Topside minis stole the show with the club members showing a lot of interest in them .

Naval Expansion -my new Topside Minis for Naval Thunder

Just recieved some more top side Minis for my proposed navl campaign ,these are just fantastic I did a game Sheffield War-games Society a few weeks ago and another club member was hooked so we split the P&P and Import duties . Another game tomorrow of Naval Thunder will post a AAR soon.

Royal Navy 

Merchants

More French

More Italians

Axis Merchants

all sorts of Air power

Battlegroup Tobruk -British

Forward HQ -SHQ figures anyscale staff car

Managed to get my Brits up to fighting strength ,altough far from finished I still have a lot of kit to paint but at least I can have a small game .

Dispatch Rider-Early War Miniatures,nice to but rider way out of scale 

Platoon HQ and 2" mortar -SHQ figures and Anyscale lorry

the 3 sections of the platoon each includes a bren -SHQ with PSC lorries

My infantry Tanks -Airfix

Forward Observer-Early war miniatures

Recce foot patrol -SHQ

Tomahawk -Oxford die cast

Hurricane -Easy model -(yes wrong mark)

Spitfire against the African sky(sheffield actually and yes wrong MK again but the 3 came as a set form amazon for a tenner 

Flames of War Desert Terrain

Not being very good at it or having the time to build it ,I do buy lots of ready made terrain ,on my recent trip into the War-games emporium I thought I would buy some of the flames of war desert stuff to use with my Battlegroup Tobruk game ,the stuff is made for 15mm and I game in20mm but hey what scale is a hill? .First box is the escarpment set ,I like these ad they fit well with the 20mm toys ,if the sand had been the colour on the box it would have been perfect for my basing but I will have to dry brush them a little . The second box is the palm tree set ,this is not so good the base boards dont sit level they are warped ,the tree bases don't accept the plugs on the trees so I am going to have to drill the bases or cut the plugs and glue them down it would have been good if they plugged in to make transport easier and again the very dark sand finish.Not at all happy with this set. I think they retail about £25 each I got a SWGS club discount and bought a lot of other bits so not too sure.Both sets are ok for 20mm scale .

Escarpments 8 out of 10

palms 5 out of 10