Time for the next platoon to get painted.

Now that my 90. Leichte Afrika Division Schützen Kompanie is done it is time to concentrate me more on my French Escadron de Reconnaissance Early War force.
The platoon that is ready to get painted is a Deep Reconnaissance platoon with 4 Panhard AMD 35.

What will follow after this platoon is a bit unclear as the weather forecast is showing that the temperature will drop below the 0 degrees Celsius. So this means I can't give new platoons a layer of primer or even get painted platoons sealed with varnish because, when it is freezing, I don't have a room with a warm enough temperature to use a spray-can and get a good result. I don't think it is wise to go and spray in the living room or kitchen. Oh well I can't do nothing more then wait and see what happens. Maybe I find a way to solve this problem.

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Confrontation Miniatures: Vargas Metatron.

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Battlefield in a Box: Italian Vineyards 2

This weekend, in the few hours of free time I had, I decided to enhance my Battlefield in a Box: Italian Vineyards. For this I choose to use the same flock and static grass basing that I use for my Early War French Escadron de Reconnaissance Compagnie. It is a mixture of GFS010 Hobby Round: Spring Undergrowth and a static grass that can be compared with GFS001 Hobby Round: Green Static Grass (both Gale Force Nine). There is one thing I am considering to do and that is to place some little magnets in the fields and vineyard rows to keep the vineyard rows in place during game-play.
How the vineyards looks now can be seen on the 2 pictures below.
And if you want to compare the pictures with how they looked before I enhanced them look here: Battlefield in a Box: Italian Vineyards

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90. Leichte Afrika Division Schützen Kompanie part 9: The Company

A slide-show of my 90. Leichte Afrika Division Schützen Kompanie.


With all options added the total of this Company is now 1530 points.
As said in an earlier post I will add trucks to the Afrika Schützen platoons and Pioneer platoon somewhere in the future. Also will I build some objectives.
Side note. Just saw that I started with this Company in March 2010. Never thought that it would take almost 2 years to complete it.

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90. Leichte Afrika Division Schützen Kompanie part 8: Light Artillery Battery

Finally a post of a new painted platoon. The DAK Light Artillery Battery.It took me weeks to get this platoon painted but now it is finally done.
The Battery contains: four 10.5cm le FH18 Howitzers, one Staff-team, one Command SMG team and two Observer Rifle teams.
With this platoon painted my 1500 points DAK Kompanie is now completed. In a later stage I will add trucks to the force. How my force looks on paper can be seen here: 90. Leichte Afrika Division Schützen Kompanie part 1: The List. Later on I will post a slide-show containing all the painted platoons.
One different thing about this platoon compared to the others is the base-edge. Where the other platoons had the base-edge painted the same colour as the whole base, for this platoon I used a different colour compared to the base itself, Vallejo Desert Yellow (977). This means that I have to repaint all the base-edges of the other platoons.
Now on to some pictures.

DAK Light Artillery Battery

Confrontation Miniatures: Centurus Clones 1 and 2.

Centurus Clone with Claws.

Centurus Clone with Voulge.

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The Ancible Issue 13

This issue of the Ancible is for a great part dedicated to the game "Uncharted Seas". With a big article about the game itself. Further an article how to build and paint the ships and an Uncharted Seas Battle report.
Then there are also articles about the Tänhauser boardgame, Talisman and Malafaux Twisting Fates.
For me personally this Issue has not much to bring although I must say that those Uncharted Seas ship look great and maybe in the future some can be a nice objects to paint.
For those who like to read more you can download the new issue here: The Ancible Issue 13

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Army file for the Poles in Itay pdf.

First things first. I like to welcome all new followers of my blog. I hope you all will enjoy my scribblings and posts.

And now for those who are interested and play FoW  and always keep an eye on my army files, on to the Poles in Italy army file. This is the newest and last army file I have built. As most of you probably may already know I decided to stop make these kind of army files and go back to were it all started; Making army files only for those forces I collect and play with.
Now about the army file of this pdf briefing. I know there is a lot of fuss about this pdf briefing on the Battlefront forum. Most about what is wrong about this briefing. As I don't play Poles myself and never faced them I can't judge about this.
This army file is made using the current Poles in Itay pdf briefing that is currently on the Battlefront website for download. I hope that I have made at least some people happy with this army file. The army file is available in XLS and ODS format. For download look here: Army Files.

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Confrontation Miniatures: Dasyatis Clone 2.

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Irregular Magazine issue 11 / Winter 2012

Today I downloaded the latest issue of Irregular Magazine. While looking at the index there were 2 articles that caught my eye almost instantly.
First there is this article about the battle of Stalingrad 1942. Although it is a short article but for me, being a WWII freak and FoW player, it was a nice read. The other article is the one on how to make snow-bases. I haven't read this article completely yet, mostly what I did was quick scan, but it looks like a great tutorial.
The other articles look promising. Although I don't play the games mentioned in the magazine I always find it interesting to read. There is always something in the issues which maybe can come in handy on a later date. For the complete contents and to download the issue go here: Irregular Magazine Issue 11

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Battlefield in a Box: Italian Vineyards

Arrived, at my doorstep all the way from England, has the Battlefield in a Box: Italian Vineyards box.
This box contains 8 Vineyard rows, 2 Vineyard Fields and 1 little bag with static gras.

The stuff looks great. Specially the Vineyard rows. The only thing left for me to do is to Enhance the Terrain with static grass.
One thing that is wrong is that 1 of the Vineyard Fields has less to no structure on it. Compare the 2 pictures below and you will see what i mean. I am not entirely sure if it has to be this way or if it is a defect. Don't know what I will do, or keep the field and give it a muddy look or send an email to Battlefront and ask for a replacement, if that is possible.

Field with structure

Field without structure

Confrontation Miniatures: Aberration.

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The strange behavior of 'Comments' 2.

OK I have enough of it. It is getting frustrating that each time I post a comment it disappears and is placed in the spam filter of the persons blog I posted a comment. I tried all kind of things but nothing seems to work.
The other way around, when people give a comment on one of my posts, everything works fine.
So if you want to know if I posted any comments please check you spam filter. It is probably the place where you can find my comments. There you can also mark that my comments aren't spam.
I am out of solutions.

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The strange behavior of 'Comments'.

This is something I only found out yesterday and today. Each time I place a comment on someone's post on a blog page I follow, the moment I post the comment, it disappears. It seems that this problem is acting up longer then a few weeks and seems to be a problem with blogger.
The strange thing is that it don't happen on all blog pages.
For example some of the blogs of which the comments disappears are:

-15mm paint shack

-BLMA (BigLee's Miniature Adventures)

-WWPD

-The Angry Lurker

But there are many more.

A few blog pages which don't have this problem are:

-Wargame News and Terrain

-Don't throw a one

So don't be mad at me if you think I am not giving any comment on any blog post. It is something I can't do nothing about. I never removed one of my comments. I will keep posting comments maybe one day it will all work again and you can read them.

Other thing is how many people, that are following my blog, have posted a comment that I never read because the same thing happened to them. Thus if I didn't respond on any of your comments I can't help it simply because your comments were never published.

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2012 A look forward.

Let me start by wishing everyone a great and healthy 2012. With lot's of painting, gaming and spending time with your loved ones.

What are some of my New-Years Resolutions.
I have decided that I won't start a new FoW army. I first going to finish my Early War French army and I will buy, once in a while, some new blisters to expend my already existing armies. I will concentrate more on new book(s) like the new rulebook.
This leaves me with some more money to spend on other things I like besides gaming.
An other resolution is to paint more. Nothing more to say here.
What a big failure was last year, making my own terrain, is now something I certainly going to spent more time on.
Having different armies is nice of-course but if you don't do anything with it, it is a waste. So I have decided that this year it is time to play more games.
I am going try post more messages on my blog for you all to enjoy and I am even going to try to improve the quality of my posts. In writing and pictures. Last part will probably the hardest thing to do for me but I can always try. :-)
I am going to try to do more those things I really like and enjoy to do and spent less time behind the television or my computer. Time to stop with social media?????? Hmmm already don't spend much time on that.
I have some more New-Years Resolutions but these are private and not for everybody's ears.

Well this is my first post in 2012 let's hope many will follow.

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