100 Followers

A week after announced that my blog had reached the 15.000 hits I can now proudly announce that I have reached an other milestone. There are now 100 people crazy enough to follow this blog. Still haven't figured out what goes on in those peoples mind that made them decide to even follow my blog.
Anyway a great welcome to all new followers hopefully you will enjoy the ride. And a thank you to all the old followers for staying.

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Update for the 11th Armoured Division During Market Garden army file

Some errors were found by 1stBN (from the FoW forum) and me in the Motor Company of this army file. I have now solved these errors and problems.
Next, the links that send you forward to the different sheets in the file are, if I am correct, now also working in the Excel file.
A new excel and odf file (Version v1.1) is up for download.
Army Files.

What you can expect soon:
Because I have no FoW to paint at the moment I am working on 2 new piece's of Dutch WWII history. Hopefully I can have the first one up soon.
My next painting project will be for my MW DAK company.

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Hit 15,000 times.

Today I reached the total of 15,000 visits on my blog. These 15,000 blog visits are good for a total of  28,705 page views. Where it took me 2 years to reach the 10,000 visits it only took 6 months to have 5,000 more visits to reach the 15,000.
As always the most visitors are from the US followed, although at a great distance, by the UK . The rest follows on an even greater distance.
The most popular posts and page are the ones about the home made army files.
I only need 7 more followers to reach the 100, but at the moment it seems that I am stuck at 93.
A great thanks to all followers and readers of my blog, I hope that you all still enjoy and will keep enjoying my blog.

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Irregular Magazine - Latest Issue

Just released, well yesterday to be exact, Irregular Magazine Issue #10 Autumn ‘11; Visions of the Apocalypse.
Filled with nice story's, painting tutorial of a space ship from the Firestorm Armada range, and lot's more. Most breathtaking is the nice cover of this issue.
You can download a copy here: Irregular Magazine.

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My 2011 / 2012 FoW project 6: Fusiliers-Voltigeurs Platoon (Colonial) painted.

First Sorry for the long wait but there is finally an update for this blog. I had some trouble at work that had to be solved first. Next I like to welcome all new followers of this blog.
What we have is a painted Fusiliers-Voltigeurs Platoon (Colonial) for my France Early War Escadron de Reconnaissance army. Just like the Fusiliers Machine-gun Platoon this platoon is not from Battlefront but from Forced in Battle.
The colors I used are all Vallejo.
Uniform and great coat: Green Brown (879)
Helmet: Olive Green (888)
Pack: German Camo Orange Ochre (824)
Blanket: Flat Earth (983)
Boots: Chocalate Brown (872)
Webbing, Canteen: German Camo Beige (821)
Gun stocks: Beige Brown (875)
Gun metal and tin-can on back: first German Grey (995) then drybrushed with Gunmetal (863)
When all the basecoats where done they all did get a wash of Game Color smoke with a few drops of the basecoat color added to this wash thinned down with water. After that a little drybrush is done using the basecoat color.
Base: Is painted using US Field Drap (873). Then after this has dried I used a mixture of GaleForce nine Spring Undergrowth (GFS010) + some cheap flock Fibres Medium Green, to flock my base. Also some real small pebbles are added. All this together gave a sort of rough terrain look.
With this platoon painted I now have 2 completed platoons.

Fusiliers-Voltigeurs Platoon front

Fusiliers-Voltigeurs Platoon back

Fusiliers-Voltigeurs Platoon Command team

Fusiliers-Voltigeurs Platoon VB team

Fusiliers-Voltigeurs Platoon Rifle/MG team

Fusiliers-Voltigeurs Platoon Rifle/MG team

Thanks for looking.