Orks for the meat grinder

Posted: February 4, 2014 in 40k, Orks
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The Ork Waaagh grows and so the need for

more cannon fodder is required. Quick and easy Orks

for a mad dash to death but allowing my Ork Warboss

to sneak up on the flank and do some real bashing.

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Needed something to sit next to my panzers

and just remind everybody that Blitzkrieg was not

all lightning warfare. The vast majority of the

German army went to war on foot or was pulled

by a horse. In this case they came back by horse.

It was built from balsa wood, two Napoleonic horses

from Essex miniatures and some wire.

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Road tested this rig, the weekend just gone and

found the perfect use for it. After an hour of

play out comes the horse drawn ambulance telling

all players its time for a cup of tea and a break.

Been busy of late and finally finished these guys.

£5 off ebay plus 99p post and packaging and all still

attached to the sprue. Anyway what seemed like an easy

Terminator paint became rather slow and tedious due to

the large amount of tiny detail on these models. Well done

GW on making such high quality kit but its hell to paint.

Anyway hope you like them ?
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The basic colour is a Tamiya white base coat with a couple

of Ushabti Bone dry brushes. The red is a build up of Mephiston

Red, Evil Sunz scarlet and Wild rider red. The Green is Caliban

Green, Warpstone and then Moot.

Just in case my wave of T-26`s comes unstuck I have

added an Su-76 to cover the retreat.

This little model by Battlefront was a joy to make and

paint due to high detail found on metal models. I also find

it much easier to achieve better detail when only painting

one model as opposed to a mass batch.

Enjoy:

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I`m now tempted to build something big enough to

stop a Tiger 🙂

15mm Russian T-26`s

Posted: January 19, 2014 in 15mm, Russian, WW2, Zvezda
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The Russian solution to German armour was often not to

build something of better quality but rather to build

greater numbers. Thus my large group of T-26`s which have

the fire power of a small gnat but eventually through

numbers one will sting you.

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If your wondering these tiny tanks are Zvezda again.

Fireflys

Posted: January 8, 2014 in 15mm, Battlefront, British, Flames Of War, WW2
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With all those Panthers lurking in the hedge rows

it was time to even things up. Bring on the 17pdr`s.

These have a bit more markings, specifically they

are 11th Armoured Division, 23rd Hussars Regiment.

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I am quite pleased with the darker shade of green

as I was worried it would come out like Soviet

green.

Panthers

Posted: January 8, 2014 in 15mm, Battlefront, Flames Of War, WW2
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Back to WW2 German tanks and this time its Panthers.

I have left off any distinguishing marks so I can use

them from 1943-45.

The paint scheme was a lot better than the Tiger.

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Hardest part of these Panthers was the decals. I have small

fingers and its still murder trying to put them on.

Round about six months ago I started these 3 Blood Angels and

they have been gathering dust ever since. My recent 24hr blitz

on the scouts got me in the mood again and I finally

finished them off.
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I must take some more photos when I have a spare minute.

Also I wonder why I put so much bling on these guys when

I put them together lol.

My son got these for Christmas and decided they needed to be battle ready.

Only problem was that he decided this on Thursday just gone and wanted

them ready for Saturday just gone in time for a visiting friend.

AaaaaRRRRRRRRRRhhhhhhhhhhhh

So the five man squad got a 24hr blitz and as table top ready they

are not too bad.

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It can be done in 24hrs,but I would rather take a week.

I had to test the new Cadians out and what better

way than a last stand action at a lonely outpost

against an Ork Waaagh.

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In the end amazingly they held off 2 waves of Orks.

Unfortunately the 3rd sadistic wave I sent at them

finished them off.

Cadian honour was upheld, even if the Orks

ripped their arms off.