Product Review: Rubicon 28mm 1/56th Scale Tiger 1E

So a friend wanted a Tiger for his Bolt Action force, don't ask just..nevermind, so he arranged for a Tiger to be ordered now I intercepted it before he could get it so I set about looking at it an putting it together.

Now what you get for your $40ish dollars is a really nicely detailed kit with options for and Early Tiger, A Desert Tiger with Air filters or a late war Tiger a set of decals and some very easy to follow instructions. This vehicle is non Zimmerit.

This isn't mine I didn't take WIP pics I was too excited

The track wheels and running gear are a dream to assemble coming as part of the track itself no fiddly semi rubber track here once this is on the rest of the tank takes about 20 minutes to assemble. The vehicle itself doesn't have a commander but that's okay.

I spent a couple of hours painting and weathering this beast and it's come up tops surprisingly I'm finding this 28mm stuff good fun to paint I hope you enjoyed this short review. For any painting queries or commission requests please email kingdan82@gmail.com.  

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My Bolt Action Marines All Done!

So after a couple of weeks of casual painting I completed my 750 point USMC List for the Auckland Open although I didn't win I got 2 draws and one loss also a new found respect for Artillery after learning about it's ability to fire over open sights much nastyness.

Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures during the event because I felt ridiculously sick and forgot my camera and I didn't want to subject you to my phone camera. I also need to make another photobooth!

Below are the glorious 750 points of Marines 

The Whole Force

My Veteran Assault Squad with Shotguns, Pistols and SMG's

My Regular Squad with a BAR

The Boss (1st LT) and his assistant

My favourite The Medic (didn't save anyone)

Regular Sniper good for making NCO's go pop!

Regular MMG 

Regular Bazooka team 

The inexperienced Mortar team

My Regular M4 Sherman 

3 40mm Objectives

I hope you enjoyed this adventure in the Pacific for any painting queries or commission requests please email kingdan82@gmail.com

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Bolt Action is a GO!!!

Recently I gave Bolt Action a go and tell you what it's what I've been looking for in 28mm at first I was hesitant to get into another WW2 game, what with the thousands of dollars of un-assembled Flames of war Miniatures, however I had a demo game and I fell in love...

If you still like 28mm but are sick of 40K this is a very good replacement it's play is pretty balanced and because there's no I go, you go system just dice pulled from a bag determining who goes next and an easy to understand rules system makes this a whole lot of fun and while you're having this fun you'll also note it's very tactical.

Now what army to choose at first I was going to do Commandos or regular British but I though hrrrmm I've got all those in 15mm and I'd feel bad for starting over in 28mm, it's weird I know, then I had a eureka moment and came to the decision to use US Marines and 750 points later I haven't looked back I've even painted something for it...

Semper Fi ladies and gentlemen see you on the Battlefield and thanks to the folks over at Warlord Games and the strong New Zealand Bolt action scene.

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