Friday, 11 April 2025

Artic Warfare

The new supplement for Rogue Warrior arrived recently ,Ice Base Zero introduces arctic Warfare and all the problems that go with it ,hyperthermia , thin ice etc and some things you normally wouldnt meet such as Zombies and Monsters ,this book also introduces Drone Warfare . So anyway new book new figures is my motto so ordered the Future Commando Force Royal Marine Arctic Warfare figures from Design for Battle,These are amazing figures full of detail with loads of equipment and great action poses they come in 2 sets the first has 5 figures 3 of them are moving forward armed with Colt C8 rifles ,one is kneeling firing his C8 with a javelin slung across his back the final one in this set is a FAC who comes with a type 163 lazer designator . The second pack has 4 figures 2 on skis ,1 firing a firestreak Missile and one firing a HMG ,the ski figures are especially nice , and a figure of a Royal Maring taking out a Russian Para with his fairburn Sykes Knife was a nice surprise in the box as well . The Rogue Warrior campaign Book looks as good as the others in the series and the Design for Battle Figures are top quality and delivered very quickly .

Sunday, 6 April 2025

Operation Nimrod -30th April -5th May 1980

This Month see the 45th Anniversary of the SAS rescue of hostages in the Iranian Embassy in London ,I remeber watching a film on TV when it cut to the live assault by Men in Black wearing respirators and swinging on ropes and explosions going off , this was my first knowledge of the world Famous regiment . Below is a shot of 2 books by Rusty Firmin who took part in the raid and the Film 6 days based upon his Book GO Go Go also on show are 2 acrylic ornaments one showing the famous winged dagger (actually Excalibur ) and the famous balcony shot from the siege ,both made to celebrate the anniversary and both signed by Rusty Firmin.

Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Dawn of Iron Ships

Bought Dawn of Iron rules for ACW naval warfare quite a while ago so thought I would pick a battle that would give me a nice mix of ships , I chose 1/1200 scale so i could play on a 3x3 table . So I went for the battle of Hampton Roads which gave me a mix of iron clads steam and sailing ships ,with being new to this scale and this type of warfare I ordered ships from 2 manufacuters Big Jims Prints and Langton miniatures . Both orders arrived really quickly and both are nice quality I think Langtons win out on quality and also their ships come in little packs with all items in seperate packs inside the main pack included is a small card with the ships name and what parts should included ,they come in either resin or white metal and masts and saiks are in metal . The Big Jims ones are all 3D printed resin they come in zip bags with no I.D of which vessel is which and the masts are still attached to the printing supports so in such a small scale finding out which ship is which and seperating the masts will be difficult for me so even though Big Jim is cheaper on most models I think any more purchases for me will be Langton . I will most more pictures as I progress the Pics below show an example from each company as they come out of the bags .

Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Rogue Warrior Evolution

managed a game if Evolution my space rangers v Johns Space Teddy Bears ( i know but he is my friend ) turned out to be a close run thing thise teddy besrs were tougher than they look but i managed to save embarresment and knocked the stuffing out of them ....sorry

Sunday, 16 March 2025

Dr Who

got a game of Dr Who Miniature Game played this week .The 4th Doctor trying to talk peace while the sea devils and silurians attack UNIT head quarters , although the Dr did manage it a lot of UNIT troopers and a few Sea Devils paid the price.

Saturday, 8 March 2025

Old Skool Daleks

a few Daleks from the original TV series , love the black and silver Saucer commander all twistedpinnacle resin colour schemes from the Dalek fan site

Friday, 7 March 2025

Summer Project

decided that while we are away during the summer months to relax with a bit of model making , a couple for wargaming purposes but mainly just display models . I started by thinking of a theme for the display kits which was RAF jet fighters as you can see from the picture that soon disapered

Wednesday, 5 March 2025

Oshkosh JLTV

The Oshkosh Joint Light Tactical vehicle is the latest light ,heavily armed vehicle that is in service with a number
of Nations including The USA ,Israel Brazil and Belgium amongst others ,this model is a resin kit from Spectre Miniatures , the Figures are Israeli Sayerat Matkal Reconnaissance unit metal figures from Warfighter Miniatures.

Wednesday, 26 February 2025

Sea Devils & U.N.I.T

More figures done for Doctor Who this time some Sea Devils and UNIT troopers , the Sea Devils are from the short lived Warlord range and teh UNIT are resin from Twisted Pinnacle .lots og DWMG action coming up this summer

Sunday, 23 February 2025

Hellboy

I ordered a Hellboy resin figure from Solarmodelsnprops on Etsy and there was a mix up with my delivery which was quickly sorted out and the owner put in a free Hellboy Bust as a thank you for waiting . I have not done the item I ordered as yet but I have done the free Bust ,I can only compliment the quality of the products and the customer service from Solarmodelsnprops .

Friday, 21 February 2025

Israeli Aircraft for Check your 6 Jet Age

Finally finished my Israeli AirForce models ,all 1/600 from tumbling dice with Flight Deck decals . I based my purchses on the available scenarios in the main rule book ,the Star and Pyramid campaign book and the scenarios availble on the face book group plus afew extras due to numbers in the packs I purchased how ever after reading the rules I will probably only flying afew models at atime some of the scenarios would take a long time to play due to the large number of air craft . These cover the mid sixties to the mid Eighties ,I will probably eventually cover the earlier war of independence at some point as well . I haev almost completed the Egyption stuff and then will get some Iraqi , Iranian ,Jordanian and Syrian ones as well . Pictures of the Israeli Air Craft sat in the magnatised box hopefully get some of them in action soon .Some of the Egytion stuff sneaked in there as well

Thursday, 20 February 2025

The Silurian's

Some new scenario PDF's have come for the Dr Who Miniature Game which was my favourite rules for games involving the Dr and luckily I still have the orignal printed copy of the rules . After recieving the new scenarios I dug out my unpainted stuff and the first batch are these Silurians ,nice resin 3d prints painted up niceley and easily next batch will be their allies the Sea Devils .

Thursday, 30 January 2025

Arab - Israeli Air Wars research

Wargaming has many different aspects not just the gaming but the collecting ,painting basing and one of the best bits researching . I always end up with a mini library and this period has proved no different a nice collection of new and second hand books of varying use but you cant beat holding and reading a real book put my knide;laway a number of years ago . Most of these were useful but if I ahd to reccomend one it would be the Sword of David this cost me £8.but have seen it for between £20 & £40 so you need to get those search engines working

Sunday, 19 January 2025

More airplanes for the Arab -Israeli wars

Another batch of aircraft finished all israeli this time 4 x Super Mystere known as Sa'ar (storm) to the IDF also I needed a piper Cub for one of the scenarios but I coudnt find one in 1/600 scale so used a Cessna as a stand in .All Tumbling Dice miniatures with Flight Deck Decals .