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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Product Review: Battlefronts new Plastic Stugs

5:00 PM 15mm, Flames of War, Review, Tank, WW2 1 comment

I jumped at the chance to get my hands on these since I sold my old Stugs but these new plastic ones are just so much better and for $45.00USD (much better than the old $62.50) you get a lot more options include five plastic StuG III G sprues (with 7.5cm & 10.5cm gun options), one plastic Tank Commander sprue & one StuG III decal sheet.

It's a very well made unit and with the correct use of really little rare each magnets you could have a quick change out between hulls and guns. I've also burrowed some of the sexy new plastic tank commanders for my Panthers I'm currently working on.

Some generic decals which are great because you don't want to limit yourself to one company or army

Sprue close ups so,so pretty

If you're thinking about picking up some Stug G's for your Mid war or Late war lists they are worth it. They're cheaper than the old ones and twice as many options.

Product Review: Battlefield in a box Large Craters and Ruined House

7:23 PM 15mm, Flames of War, Review, Terrain, WW1, WW2 1 comment

I recently picked up a bit more terrain for my WW2 collection it may be designed with WW1 in mind but a crater is a crater and I'd imagine European architecture didn't change much from 1914 - 1945 so the ruined building fits in really well.

So what does your $29 USD get you? Two craters and a ruined house and two baggies with flock and grass (I never use these I have about 50 or so little baggies around the house) and all pre-painted and it's done pretty nicely. The ruined building fits in well with the building that came with the old Jagdpanther box.

Overall it's cheap and ready to go straight away and as WW1 is played on a smaller table this is a good value product for WW2 I'd suggest picking up 3 or 4 of them if only for the ruined buildings.

God Wills it PART 2

11:14 PM 28mm, Painting, Saga 1 comment

So over the course of threeish weeks I've completed my 6 point Saga Warband. I hand painted the Crossbowmen and Foot Warriors and Hearthguard on foot but after painting that much white you hit a wall. So the knights and hearthguard on horse were all done with my airbrush and it saved soooo much time.

My List is made from the Crusaders list in the Saga book Crescent and Cross which also has the Saga rules within it too it makes it a very cost effective book and it tidies up some of the issues in the previous rule books.

My list consists of:

Warlord

4 Knights on Foot

8 Warriors on Foot

8 Warriors on Foot w/ Crossbows

4 Knights on Horse

8 Warriors on Horse

You may have also noticed a theme throughout the list :P there's a few small things that need finishing like varnishing and big flag for the Warrior horse guy.

All the mini's were from Fireforge Games http://www.fireforge-games.com/ but purchased from Wayland games for cheap this whole list came out of 2 boxes and one old Warhammer figure.

GOD WILLS IT!

2:01 PM 28mm, Miniatures, Painting, Saga 4 comments

So as previously, sort of, not really thought about I've decided after one demo game to start Saga and as usual I'm not contents with smelly Norse folk or the sheep loving Welsh I've chosen Crusaders from the new supplement Crescent and the Cross.

I didn't 100% know what was contained within the book so I headed off to Fireforge miniatures for some of their sweet Templars but once again not content with tradition I though hells why not give my Warlord and his knights a more Holy Grail theme.....

It's Just a Scratch!

Busy guy

11:46 PM 15mm, Flames of War, Tank, Tournaments, WW2 No comments

Hello everyone, and apologies for now blogging in a long time. Now during my absence I have been up to a whole bunch of things. I went to Panzershrek in Palmerston North it was a 6 hour drive (it took 8 hours due to a navigational error) My team came dead last but we were commended for our painting.

Cuddles for the little Tank

The road trip was fun both there and back and all our opponents were great folks it was a great weekend and thanks to Bob for putting us up for the weekend.