Crossfire WW2 German Heavy Weapons...

...supporting [what will eventually be] a Fallschirmjager company - hence the Fallschirmjager FOs and CC.

Good afternoon,

Again,

I have just finished painting and basing my first WW2 Germans. Its no wonder they lost the war, these camouflage patterns take a lot longer to paint than the Kiwis!


First up we have the said Fallschirmjager stands. Company commander and Forward Observers.




I know the blue is a bit bright, but I was tying to match the Revel painting guide for their German Paratroopers.


Next, the HaT German Mortar teams that the FOs are observing for.




Nice wee vignettes, straight out of the box.

And then, the tripodded MG42s.





I tied to follow the Flames of War guide to painting Fallschirmjagers...with varying degrees of success. And varying mixes of paint.

Ah well,

Nick

Sarmatians WIP

Good afternoon,

12 years ago, I started to build a Sarmatian army (miss-spellings and all) out of some Revel Praetorians and Italeri Mongol horses.


As with my EIRs, pulled them together, then pulled most of the elements and figures apart (in some cases literally) and rebuilt them to more my liking (most notably with the addition of some Evolution Sarmatians and the application of tissue paper cloaks to most of them), I have finally started painting...some of them.




I was hoping to get these two elements worth completed before having to go back to school this week, but, in preparation of a Crossfire game I'm hoping to have tomorrow, I have been concentrating on some WW2 German heavy weapons, FOs and a Fallschirmjager CC.

Still, for what they're worth...

Nick

Poppy

Happy Birthday to Me...

Good afternoon,

Just picked up some goodies of late to celebrate my birthday.


First up, a P-47 Thunderbolt to aid my Kiwis in Italy.



A very simple model that I've made more difficult for myself by cutting out the one piece wheel well doors into three parts, and then gluing them back together so's one can see the three parts of the closed doors. I temporarily lost the point that this is a wargame model, not one for display.

This is the first aircraft model I have made in a long, long, long while.

Next up, a box of Caesar Fallschirmjager all split up as a Crossfire company (three Platoons with Platoon leaders, a Company Commander (and lackie) plus some grunts to act as Forward Observers) to compliment my Kiwis. They need someone to fight after all. First in Crete, and then again in Italy.

I heard somewhere that they had a grudge against the New Zealanders during the Italian campaign. Possibly something about the fact that the Kiwis shot them while they were still hanging helpless in their parachutes while they were on their way down to Crete. War's an ugly, ugly business.






I found a very good guide on how to paint them here.

The support weapons are for them, funnily enough.



Next, my last box of Skellies so that I can finally finish my Skellie Warmaster project. This'll give me my final four elements of Horde (making a total of 12 - four WM units), another two elements of Shooters (making one WM unit), and one element of LH (finishing one WM unit of Skellie horse).

Sweet!

Finally, we have the HaT Late Imperial Roman Light Horse box, which I'll split between four LIR LH elements (two for the West (Javelins), two for the East (Bows)), two Sub Roman British Cavalry elements, and five horses to be used in amongst the HaT Late Imperial Roman Medium Cavalry, if and when they come out. Some barding on these Medium Cav is fine. All barding, not quite what I'm after. So this box of LH gives me more than enough options to mix and match as I see fit.


Now all I need is a couple of Panzer IV Ausf G or Hs (did you know that Armourfast don't make any?! Most prolific German tank of the war it was...) and perhaps a Stuka or ME 110...

So many projects, so little time!

Nick

Lost New Hope Footage

Good, well, morning now.

Things have been busy at school and such, but it's the Term 1 break now, and, since having just spent the last day and a bit in bed with a migraine, I can't sleep! So, I was spending some time on You Tube, and I found this...


Brilliant! Ties in with Biggs and Luke meeting up again on Yavin 4. Very cool stuff.

Cheers,

Nick

Mr Grant Shaves For A Cure

Good evening,

It's all a bit self explanatory, really.


And for those for whom this You Tube clip is blocked...


Nick

Shave for a Cure

Good evening,

Well, since I'm loosing it anyway, I've decided to go for broke - I'm joining Shave For A Cure to raise money for the Leukaemia & Blood Foundation. But I need your help. Well, your money actually! Please check out my page...

http://www.shaveforacure.co.nz/view_event_profile/4586

...to donate to the cause. If we can raise $500.00, I'll go to school on Friday bald. (Well, balder than usual...)

Tracy'll chop [what's left of] my locks with a razer using a number zero comb. $750, and I'll think of getting rid of the goatee as well...

In the meantime, back to the Sarmatians.

Cheers,

Nick

Zombie Dogs 'N Stuff

Good evening,

Here are my latest (and last - until I get another box of Skellies!) elements for my Undead HOTT/WMA/WM armies.

One unit/three elements of Zombie dogs, from the excellent board/tile game Zombies!!! Robin got a bag of these when he was over the ditch, and generously donated some to me, both for wargaming, and for, well, Zombies!!!ing. Thanks Robin.





They'll be HOTT Beasts or WM [Death? Hell? Zombie?] Hounds.

I tried painting the exposed bone a bony colour, with some blood atop that, with a liberal dash of watered down limeish green to really highlight the corruption of the rotting flesh. I'm pretty happy with them.

Next we have a Warmaster unit/three HOTT elements of...ummm...elite undead fighters? Three vampires flanked by scythe wielding, cloak wearing skeletons. Deaths? Cool looking minis anyway.




In HOTT terms they'll be classed as Blades. In WMA some elite type/hard hitting unit. What, with those vampires screaming round at super human speeds and all that.

And last, but by no means least, we have a HOTT flying element comprised of a couple of pieces from the Age of Mythology board game, said pieces having been purchased by Stan, and these two donated to me. Thanks Stan.

Unfortunately, the batteries refused to charge the flash, so...for what they're worth...




I may get round to retaking these pictures with full batteries at another time.

I'm really pleased with these guys, not for the least reason being that they've been sitting around for ages!

Nick

Early Imperial Roman Carroballista

Good evening,

I have finished a couple more wheeled elements, this time some Early Imperial Roman Carroballista[s? - not sure of the plural when writing Latin...]


The horse and cart combination were made for me ages back by Mark Ottley, who also fashioned some really great little bolt shooters (out of GW Elven bow bits and card), however I kinda thought that they were a little heavy duty for the light mobile artillery that scooted around with the legions when in the field. So I just swapped out Mark's ones for some HaT [Punic] ones.






I also toyed around with a couple of darker skin tones, meaning to crew them with some North Africans...they've turned out a little more dark pink than I was expecting. Oh well.

Nick

Early Imperial Roman Carroballista

Good evening,

I have finished a couple more wheeled elements, this time some Early Imperial Roman Carroballista[s? - not sure of the plural when writing Latin...]


The horse and cart combination were made for me ages back by Mark Ottley, who also fashioned some really great little bolt shooters (out of GW Elven bow bits and card), however I kinda thought that they were a little heavy duty for the light mobile artillery that scooted around with the legions when in the field. So I just swapped out Mark's ones for some HaT [Punic] ones.






I also toyed around with a couple of darker skin tones, meaning to crew them with some North Africans...they've turned out a little more dark pink than I was expecting. Oh well.

Nick

Re-Crewed Airfix AB Chariots

Good afternoon,

In between digging out silt (oh my, but there is a lot of it - on the other side of the city, mind...), I've been pottering along with some old Airfix chariots that I've been meaning to re-crew for ages.

A good number of years ago my sister, who was in the UK at the time, got me a 20mm Newline AB chariot. The chariot didn't really fit in with the rest of my [re-wheeled (with Freikorp 15mm artillery wheels)] Airfix chariots, but it came with two different sets of crew, and I thought "I can use those". And finally I have.





I think they work quite well.

The other two are much like one I did earlier. Re-crewed with Italeri Gallic command figures, with an Esci driver (and a comparatively boring Airfix one).



Trouble is, now I've got more chariots than I know what to do with!

Nick