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Building Sarissa 20mm terrace houses
I wanted to be able to create a typical French street of terraced houses and shops, but I didn't necessarily want to buy one of Sarissa Precision's terrace blocks. I liked the idea of a versatile mix...
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20mm French War Memorial
There is hardly a village in France without a memorial to the fallen of the First World War and while scanning through pictures of the Normandy campaign looking for inspiration for building projects it...
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Westwind Königsberg 1945 Scenario 3 Gardening in Metgethen
The Germans continue Operation Westwind, their attempt to break out from the encirclement of Konigsberg. They were held up longer than expected on the outskirts of the East Prussian town of Metgethen...
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Westwind Konigsberg 1945 Scenario 3 Metgethen - the counter attack
The Germans were successful in ejecting the Russians from the town of Metgethen in the previous scenario. However it came at a price, as the loss of an entire support squad of Volkssturm had a negative...
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Westwind Königsberg 1945 Scenario 4 The Signal Box at Seerappen
We reach Scenario 4 in the Chain of Command Westwind Konigsberg 1945 campaign. Both the Germans and Russian platoons have suffered casualties, but as the Russians I don't want to call on any...
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A simple set of railway signals
With a forthcoming game in the Westwind Konigsberg campaign Scenario 4 The Signal Box at Seerappen featuring a Railway signal box that I had made earlier, I thought it would be great to add a set of...
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Building a 1940s French garage
I bought the Charlie Foxtrot Models 1/72 Workshop a few years ago and added little extra detail to it other than to texture the exterior before painting. It had come in useful as either a rural farm...
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Westwind Konigsberg 1945 Scenario 5 Outposts at Linderau
The campaign reaches the fifth map as the Germans continue to push their way through the Russian ring around Konigsberg. The previous game The Signal Box at Seerappen was fairly brutal and the toll of...
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Westwind Königsberg 1945 Scenario 6 Finish Line Powayen
The Russians limp into the final map of the Westwind Konigsberg campaign with a platoon worn down to five men, two Sergeants and the Leytenant. It's been a tough struggle trying to contain the German...
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Ammunition markers for Chain of Command
Chain of Command is a rule set that requires very little record keeping but sometimes it's handy to keep track of specialist ammunition. For example, the British 2" mortar has only three rounds of HE...
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Saga Age of Crusades - Game report and review
This is our first attempt to play through a Dark Age skirmish game using the Saga rule set from Studio Tomahawk. As such I hope it will serve as much as a review of the rules as a game report and give...
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Wound markers for leaders in Chain of Command
I've been trying to work out a practical way to record wounds to leaders for my Chain of Command games and I think I've settled on a solution.A few years ago I went to some effort to create actual...
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Americans, British, Russian and German AB out of the lead pile!
I'm having one of those periodic moments of great productivity focussed on painting what I already own, rather than what I've just bought. I've wanted to finish off my Americans for Chain of Command...
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AWI Sharp Practice 'Escort Duty'
After a long gap between games this is our second attempt at Sharp Practice and once again it is set during the American War of Independence. We've selected the Escort Duty scenario where a force of...
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Lion Rampant first game and thoughts
Having tried Saga (Age of Crusades) we thought it would be good to try Lion Rampant, Osprey's popular medieval skirmish rules written by Daniel Mersey. I have been slowly putting together an English...
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Painting, doing lots of painting
A busy month clearing out a back log of uncompleted projects. For some reason I'm finding I can paint faster than I used to, I think this has more to do with having settled on a style of painting and...
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Gembloux Gap Scenario 1 Palm-off at Perbais
Up until now our Chain of Command campaigns for World War II have been set during the mid to late war period, but ever since my regular opponent Dave painted up early war platoons for both the French...
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1/72 Cromwell with camouflage netting
I wanted to trial an idea for making camouflage or hessian netting for my British tanks using medical gauze bandage as the basis for the netting. What started off as an experiment using an inexpensive...
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Sherman Firefly with hessian camouflage
For those of you that followed the post on my experiments with camouflage netting on a 1/72 Armourfast Cromwell you will know what started off as a simple trial ended up being a full build and paint...
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Gembloux Gap Scenario 1 Palm-off at Perbais (round two)
We return to the scene of the first game of the Gembloux Gap campaign, the village of Perbais, where my German platoon made a first attempt to eject the French and were unsuccessful. The French have...
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