M577 Command Vehicle for Vietnam
/Originally posted 20th April 2014
More loot from the Battlefront 40% sale painted up. This time it's the M577 Command Vehicle.
TFL Painting Challenge: Update
/Originally posted 20th April 2014
It's the same few regulars updating their scores, including Kev, who seems to have gone crazy at the painting. So come on the rest of you: get busy!
Achievements today from Benito, Kev, Jon.
Today's photo is more SYW Russian infantry from Kev: he's just churning them out!
TFL Painting Challenge: Latest
/Originally posted 19th April 2014
People have obviously taken advantage of the Easter weekend to get some painting in. Achievements today from Benito, Kev, and Chris Stoesen.
AAR: Keren at Salute
/Originally posted 19th April 2014
Those of you got to Salute this year would hopefully have seen the wonderful 28mm IABSM demo game: The Battle of Keren.
There are plenty of individual blog posts about the game, and I have collected five of them together here. Enjoy!
A Russian Orthodox Church
/Originally posted 16th April 2014
Those of you who encountered me in the latter part of the Salute Day will be aware that I was looking for a 15mm WW2 Russian Orthodox church to serve as a terrain piece for playtesting my late war Eastern Front scenario pack, Bashnya or Bust!
Well I found one!
A Polish company called Wargamer Company were at Salute promoting and selling their game called By Fire & Sword. This game apparently (and I'm quoting their website here) recreates the 17th century wars fought by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against Turkey, Muscovy, Sweden, Crimean Khanate and Cossacks.
Well Bashnya or Bust! is set in Lithuania, and they had a Wooden Orthodox Church model, so I bought it immediately, and have painted it up ready for Saturday's playtest of scenario 2A.
Cracking terrain piece, really easy to paint, and looks very good. Here are a couple of 'model' shots; more to follow in the AAR that will doubtless follow Saturday's game.
TFL Painting Challenge
/Originally posted 16th April 2014
A most welcome resurgence in the number of entries!
Today's achievements are from Alexandros, Kev, Manuel, Jon Y, Matt Slade and Mr Humm.
Here's a second shot of some of Alexandros' Afrika Korps for CoC:
AAR: Bathtub Primosole Bridge
/Originally posted 14th April 2014
Sometimes I take a note of an AAR and then forget to upload it. Here is one such: Brian Cantwell's Bathtub Primosole Bridge.
This is a very nice report that follows on nicely from the action in the Sicilian Weekend scenario pack.
BTR-50 PK APCs for Vietnam
/Originally posted 14th April 2014
More models that I picked up as part of Battlefront's 40%-off Vietnam sale: a platoon of five BTR-50 PK armoured personnel carriers.
This is a cracking example of buying stuff that I cannot think that I am ever going to use! Well they were 40% off: bargain!
Actually, they will do for some general purpose sci-fi APCs for Quadrant 13: and will actually fit in with my Aphids very nicely.
TFL Painting Challenge: Slow!
/Originally posted 14th April 2014
Today's entries are from Mark Luther and Jon Yuengling.
Very slow in the run up to Salute. Come on chaps: brushes out!
Libyans for North Africa
/Originally posted 11th April 2014
I have had a packet of Battlefront's Libyan/Italian colonial infantry hanging around in the lead mountain forever, but waiting for various orders to arrive from far, far away moved them slowly to the front of the queue until I really had no choice but to paint them.
These are nice models: the officers and NCOs in particular. I don't think I've quite got the skin colour right, but I do think they will look good on the tabletop. Time to dust off the Operation Compass scenario pack again!
M42 A1 Duster
/Originally posted 11th April 2014
One of the models I picked up as part of Battlefront's 40%-off Vietnam sale was the M42A1 "Duster". This is a lovely model that paints up really well.
TFL Painting Challenge
/Originally posted 11th April 2014
Today's entries are from Treadhead, Kev and Jason Ralls.
It's been a quiet week: doubtless everyone savings themselves for Salute this weekend. I'll be there, hovering close to the TFL stand, so do come and say hello.
AAR: Gallabat
/Originally posted 5th April 2014
Superb IABSM AAR featuring a warm-up game for one of the demo games at Salute that will be featuring TFL rules. Beautiful terrain, gorgeous figures: brilliant!
TFL Painting Challenge: Update
/Originally posted 5th April 2014
The first update of the new quarter, and loads of achievements to report. The thought of adding to the lead mountain at Salute has obviously galvanised people into action!
Today's entries are from Dick Bax; Mark Luther; Jon Yuengling; Leif Erikson; WillieB; Fat Wally; Jason Ralls; and the Mad Padre.
Today's pictures are from Kev and WillieB.
Here are Kev's 15mm Seven Year War Russian Grenadiers
Some of WillieB's fifty 28mm newly-painted Marines de la Garde Imperiale:
AAR: Near Osen
/Originally posted 30th March 2014
I am currently about halfway through the Bashnya or Bust! late war eastern front scenario pack for IABSM, with fifteen out of the thirty-one scenarios completed i.e. stages one to four in the pyramid.
This AAR is a report on the playtest game for the first scenario: #01: Near Osen. You'll be pleased to hear that all went well, and the only change needed was a minor adjustment to the number of Blinds each side can bring on to the table at any one time.
TFL Painting Challenge: End of Q1
/Originally posted 30th March 2014
As it's the end of the first quarter, I'm going to set up a new list of Achievements i.e. where the details and the photographs are displayed.
This is both to encourage those who might be put off by the long lists of everyone else's achievements, and to ease the loading of the Achievements page, which has grown into a bit of a monster!
The Scorecard page remains the same and will total everyone's scores for the whole year, it's just the Achievements that will be split by quarter.
The final list of achievements for Q1 2014 come from: the Mad Padre; Jason Ralls; Chris Stoesen; Dave Bailey; Jim Weir; and Craig Ambler-Gambler.
Today's picture from Jim Weir: lots of 20mm WW1 Germans. Only the French to do now, Jim!
AAR: The Battle of Kerens
/Originally posted 23rd March 2014
A warm-up game for Salute from Tom.
TFL Painting Challenge: Egg's Italians
/Originally posted 23rd March 2014
Plenty of achievements listed in the last few days, but nearly all from the usual suspects. Those of you who haven't painted much this year (and you know who you are) need to get those brushes out!
Today's achievements are from: Vidal Bairos; Jason Ralls; Leif; Mr Luther; and Egg. Here are Egg's Italian tanks:
Plastic Soldier Company Churchills: 19 of them!
/Originally posted 18th March 2014
I have finally finished my squadron of Churchill tanks: all nineteen of them!
These are really nice models from the Plastic Solider Company finished off with decals from the equally excellent Dom's Decals.
Battlefront Vietnam Sale
/Originally posted 18th March 2014
The large box from Battlefront has arrived!
All the vehicles I need to fill in the gaps in my Vietnam US forces and at a 40% discount. I'm generally no fan of Battlefront, even though I buy their models quite a lot but, in this case, they have excelled themselves.
The 40% Vietnam sale is still on until 31st March.
