The day after.

Today is the day after yesterday's tournament.
First let start with the bad, sad news. I completely forgot to take pictures of the battles I played. Maybe I have 2 or 3 pictures. I know that is stupid. So now I hope that other people have taken pictures and that they allow me to use them on my blog. I do have pictures of all the tables (these will be posted later).
On the other hand I have a lot of pictures of the museum it self. These will also be posted later.
The tourney it self was a blast. Had lot's of fun. I played 3 games. First was a 6-1 loose, second was a 2-2 draw and the last was 4-3 win. If I find more pictures I will write a After Action Report later.

Here are 2 pictures of the hall plus tables the tourney was held.

There was a gamestore with a stand that was selling Flames of War stuff and of-course you always spend more money on your addiction then you had planned.
I bought 2 blisters with Land Mattress Rocket Launchers for my Canadian army, a box with Hedgerows, the direct order only Bocage (Straights) and the direct order only Bocage (Extra's). All the terrain pieces are from Battlefield in a Box and is looking great, as usual with the terrain pieces from Battlefield in a Box. (Pictures taken from the Battlefront forum)

Land Mattress Rocket Launchers

Box with Hedgerows

Direct order only Bocage (Straights)

Direct order only Bocage (Extra's)

More to follow soon.

Thanks for reading.

Happy New Year

For 2013 I have no specific plans made or goals set. I just take it as it comes. There will be no New Year's Resolutions. But as usual that doesn't mean that there is always something that must be done before a certain date. And this certain date is getting closer rapidly.

On the above picture we see a Hellcat, a Scout Car and an US Glider Field Artillery Battery. As I have a great tourney on the 23 February, more about this later this year, and there is big possibility that I need this platoon and models, these models must be painted before that date. This is the first must of the year.
On the background there is a Stuka D for my 90. Leichte Afrika Division gladly this one can be painted later on in the year.

Next we have a blister containing Easy Company. There is a possibility that a few teams are needed from this blister for the tourney but it looks that I can paint all models in this blister sometime this year without any pressure on me that it must be painted soon.

Home made Barbedwire and Minefields. I made these about 31/2 years ago but because of bad handling it is time to repair and improve these. Probably going to make complete new barbedwire. This is also a must do because I need these for the tourney. I already know for sure that I will take 1 platoon with a supply vehicle.

For the rest I will just see what this year will bring me. One thing is certain I am going to enjoy it as much as possible because life is too beautiful to just let go by.

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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

Thanks for looking!

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

My try to make a pond two

Because I didn't like the color of the water and reading the comments on some forums on my try to make a pond I decided to repaint it.
I think it looks much better now. It now has a nice dark color. I also like it better how I painted the gloss varnish on it. It gives a bit of a water look to it.
Take a look at the pictures to see the result.



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My try to make a Pond.

The last few days I tried to be creative and made a piece of terrain for FoW. It is a pond or swamp and completely made out of  scrap material.
I am not totally happy how the water looks but for this time it has to do. I know what I did wrong so the next time I know what to change. If there will be a next time that I make a Pond :-).
The pictures are not to best. They look shining because of the light-fall on the Gloss varnish and too bright. But I think you get the idea how it looks.

Now some pictures.




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Fortifications part 2

Minefields.
After the barbed wire i made 2 sections of minefields. Just a try and see how it works out. Must say that the result could be better but it is good enough for now. When i am going to make the next few i now know what i need to improve and do different. However that is for the future. Now i first go back and do some painting. I have some stuff to finish for the next tourney in August.

Fortifications part 1.

Barbed wire.
After playing some games in which my opponent used troops that could bring some fortifications on the table, but each time we had to place some pieces of white paper to represent it, i decided to make some of my own. I started with some barbed wire sections. Just simple made nothing fancy.

My first built terrain for FoW.

I made a piece of terrain for FoW. Never build many terrain only some trees glued to flocked cardboard. So this, although looking simple, was a challenge for me.