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The M3 Scout Car (known as the White Scout Car in British service) was an American-produced armored car. The original M3 Scout Car was produced in limited numbers, while the improved M3A1 Scout Car saw wide service during World War II and after.
This M3A1 Scout Car was on display at Bovington having been restored from a wreck.
Named for the ‘Great Beast’ of Ancient Terran myth, the immense Typhon Heavy Siege Tank was developed by the Mechanicum alongside the Spartan, with which it shares a basic chassis design.
The Typhon’s primary armament is the massive Dreadhammer cannon, and was created in response to a request from the Primarch Peturabo, master of the Iron Warriors. He demanded a Legiones Astartes war engine that could rival the great batteries of the Imperial Crusade Army in firepower, but manoeuvre and deploy at the speed of a Space Marine force.
This Cerastus Knight-Castigatorwas on display at Warhammer World.
Armed with the fearsome Castigator pattern bolt cannon, the Cerastus Knight-Castigator is favoured by those households faced with hordes of lesser foes that might otherwise overwhelm even a mighty Knight through sheer numbers. Capable of obliterating infantry formations in a thunderous rain of mass-reactive explosions and whirling power blade, or carving apart light vehicles with ease, the Castigator is a formidable opponent.
I really quite like the design of this Imperial Knight and the paint scheme is very impressive.
This Somua S35 was on display at the Bovington Tank Museum.
The Somua S35 was a French cavalry tank of the Second World War. Built from 1936 until 1940 to equip the armoured divisions of the Cavalry, it was for its time a relatively agile medium-weight tank, superior in armour and armament to both its French and foreign competitors, such as the contemporary versions of the German Panzerkampfwagen III. It was constructed from well-sloped, mainly cast, armour sections, that however made it expensive to produce and time-consuming to maintain. During the German invasion of May 1940, the Somua S35 proved itself to be a tactically effective type, but this was negated by strategic mistakes in deploying its units.
I have a few of these in 15mm scale including a Flames of War Objective.
Yes we have a little extra Teaser for Picard.
All kicks off on January 23rd 2020 on CBS in the US and Amazon Prime in the UK.
This Warhammer 40K Diorama was one of the displays at Warhammer World.
In one of the displays at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford is a “Tiger” tank hiding in the ruins of a building.
I say “Tiger” as this is no Tiger Tank, this is a fake Tiger Tank.
It’s one of two tanks made for the film, Saving Private Ryan. They are based on the chassis of the T-34 with a new superstructure and a new turret. The wheel arrangements are obviously not like a real Tiger tank, but as they have hidden it in a building, you could be mistaken…
Beautifully painted Legio Custodes Pallas Grav-attack on display at Warhammer World.
Designed as a high manoeuvrability hunter-killer, the Pallas Grav-attack is a rapid strike vehicle utilising advanced repulsor-lift technology. Filling a similar battlefield role to the various patterns of Land Speeder and Attack Speeder of the Legiones Astartes, the Pallas has superior agility, improved armour, inbuilt shielding technology, and more powerful weaponry in the form of its twin-linked Arachnus blaze cannon – an expertly engineered weapon that can successfully eliminate both infantry and armoured targets.
In 2019 I went at writing and posting much more and this year I published 143 blog posts. Compare that to 2018 when I wrote just 21 blog posts.
Here are my top ten blog posts in reverse order. As is typical most posts are from previous years.
Tenth most popular was the start of a workbench feature on the Forge World Ork Big Trakk.
Ninth post was photographs from Dwarf City under attack. This was of my favourite display game at GamesDay 2008, it was the Dwarf City that was under attack by a sea borne Orc and Goblin army.
I have added a new gallery of this display game on the site with higher resolution photographs.
Post at number eight was this one on the then new(ish) miniature on display at the Forge World Open Day of the Nurgle Daemon Prince.
Post number seven was on the then new Forge World conversion kits for the plastic Baneblade model.
Sixth most popular post was from 2019 and was a little bit of a rant about the Warhammer 40K version of Monopoly!
At number five was another Dwarf City under attack post.
The number four post was from this year, it was about the availability of PDFs of GZG’s Dirtside Rules.
At number three was a post about the upgrade sprue for the Ork Battlewagon from 2009.
My second most popular post was a photograph of a Beautiful Dystopian Wars game.
My top post in 2019 was this post about that Dwarf City under attack.
Followers of the blog will have realised I am now adding new pages to the site as I migrate the old site to this new one. Taking advantage to add higher resolution photographs and update links and images.
This Marmon-Herrington Mark VI Armoured Car was on display at Bovington Tank Museum.
The Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car was a series of armoured vehicles that were produced in South Africa and adopted by the British Army during the Second World War. RAF Armoured Car companies possessed them, but seem never to have used them in action.
The Mark VI was a return to the 8-wheeled design. Powered by two Mercury V8 engines with an eight-wheel drive steered on the front and rear wheels. Two prototypes were built, one with a 2 pounder and other with a 6 pounder gun in an open-topped three-man turret with electric powered traverse and protected by 10 to 30 mm of sloped armour. Additional armament consisted of 2 or 3 machine guns. The two-pounder equipped version was sent to the UK for assessment, the transmission proved unreliable suffering several axle failures. The 2-pdr is now in the Bovington Tank Museum, the other in South Africa.