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Now we can see the full Red Dawn trailer.
I have to admit I enjoyed the original Red Dawn
The remake has been in the works for a fair few years now, same basic storyline as the 1984 movie, but this time no Russians or Cubans, now we have Chinese, sorry now it’s North Korean, invaders. They were going to be Chinese, but the movie makers realised that if they did that then they would be unable to show it in the China market and that’s a lot of potential tickets and money.
In the process of sorting some old gaming stuff out I found a bundle of old SDD models. These are 15mm metal castings that I bought back in the 1990s. It makes me think that the other metal models that I have been painting are also SDD.
This box was mainly late war stuff and included a King Tiger.
The model consists of four parts: a pair of tracks, the hull and a turret. This is a very nice clean casting, but is quite a heavy model as a result.
BBC have a new teaser trailer for Doctor Who out.
These UN vehicles on patrol in an undefined African country.
Moving slowly, hoping that their highly identifiable white paintwork will protect them as much as camouflage would.
These photographs are from a demonstration game from a show in the 1990s.
This rather splendid 25mm Star Wars Jawa Sandcrawler was from a demonstration game at a show I can’t remember…
This is one of the original plastic Epic Warlord Titans that were originally made for Adeptus Titanicus. It has the Chaos head and red eyes, though in the main I used it as an Imperial Titan when playing games of Epic.
Here is a band of Epic Ork Warbikes.
I was never a real fan of the plastic models, as they lacked depth and character. I did convert a model attaching an Ork Nob in Mega-Armour to one of the bikes to create an Ork Warboss on a warbike.
Pity that Epic has been sidelined as I would love to see some new Forge World epic miniatures. Or even new miniatures in Finecast.
Airfix preview video for A06302 Supacat Coyote A05301 Supacat Jackal.
You may recall from a previous blog post that I thought they would make for really nice Imperial Guard armoured vehicles. As they are 1/48th scale they would fit very well with the 25/28mm size of the Imperial Guard. Of course with some ramshackle additions they would also make for some really nice Ork vehicles too.
So here’s a little picture quiz for you. Here are some photographs of tanks at Bovington, can you guess what they are?
Tank #1
Tank #2
Tank #3
This photograph is from a demonstration game from a games show in the 1990s. I remember at the time thinking what great scenery and models, however I don’t recall the actual show… could have been Fisticuffs?