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I bought these ruins quite a few years ago. These ruins are in fact 1/200th scale ruins, though they seem to work well with 15mm Flames of War.
I had painted these with a black undercoat and then drybrushed them. I also glued some name signs onto them, though I have partly removed them, not very well mind you. As a result I have decided to paint them again.
I bought this box set as it was available at Hobbycraft for a much cheaper price than the list price last year.
Panther is the common name of a medium tank fielded by Nazi Germany in World War II that served from mid-1943 to the end of the European war in 1945. It was intended as a counter to the T-34, and to replace the Panzer III and Panzer IV; while never replacing the latter, it served alongside it as well as the heavier Tiger tanks until the end of the war. The Panther’s excellent combination of firepower, mobility, and protection served as a benchmark for other nations’ late war and immediate post-war tank designs, and it is frequently regarded as one of the best tank designs of World War II.
Having cleaned the castings, I then started the construction process, first by gluing the tracks onto the hull. Then adding the extra components of which there is a fair few.
One of the Panthers is going to be my command vehicle and so I have modelled it with the tank commander in the cupola. I will also be leaving the “skirts” off, in the assumption that they have been lost in combat and have not yet been replaced. This will also differentiate the tank from the others in the platoon.
I will also be leaving the “skirts” off, in the assumption that they have been lost in combat and have not yet been replaced. This will also differentiate the tank from the others in the platoon.
Imperial Guard Chimera from the display cabinets at GamesDay 2007.
So there I was looking through the Airfix preview for 2012 when I saw that they are going to release a new model, the German King Tiger from World War Two.
Goes with the Cromwell that they have just released, and they will be releasing a doubles box with both the King Tiger and the Cromwell within it.
So there I was looking through the Airfix preview for 2012 when I saw two models of desert buildings and immediately thought they would make for really nice scenery for Warhammer 40K.
As they are 1/48th scale they would fit very well with the 25/28mm size of models for Warhammer 40K.
Of course with some ramshackle additions they would make for some really nice Ork buildings, though I think they would also work as Tallarn style desert buildings.
Knowing Airfix, we probably won’t see these in the flesh until the latter part of 2012, but they do have potential.
Some time ago I got a blister of French Fusiliers Platoon .
Not done much with them since…
Within the blister you get a Command Rifle Team, one Tromblon VB grenade launcher team and six Rifle Teams.
I am hoping that I can paint mine to a similar standard to this.
So there I was looking through the Airfix preview for 2012 when I saw two models and immediately thought they would work for Flames of War.
They are two bridge models.
They are 1/76th scale and therefore designed for 20mm high miniatures. However I am sure that it would also work for Flames of War miniatures which are 1/100th with 15mm high figures.
Knowing Airfix, we probably won’t see these in the flesh until the latter part of 2012, but they do have potential. They will be resin and unpainted.
So there I was looking through the Airfix preview for 2012 when I saw two models and immediately thought they would make for really nice Imperial Guard armoured vehicles.
They were the Supacat HMT600 Coyote.
And the Supacar HMT400 Jackal.
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.
Knowing Airfix, we probably won’t see these in the flesh until the latter part of 2012, but they do have potential.
A Spring 2012 release from West Wind Games looks very interesting for fans of both Victorian Science Fiction and Gothic Horror.
Empire of the Dead is a skirmish game set in a darkly gothic Victorian Empire with heroic gentlemen fighting evil fiends. Looks interesting.
The Automitrailleuse de Reconnaissance Renault Modèle 35 Type ZT (AMR 35 or Renault ZT) was a French light tank developed during the Interbellum and used in the Second World War. It was not intended to reconnoitre and report as its name suggests but was a light armoured combat vehicle, mostly without a radio and used as a support tank for the mechanised infantry.
During the Battle of France the AMR 35s were part of armoured and motorised divisions, the vast majority being lost during the first weeks of the fighting.
This purchase was a bit of a mistake, I thought I was buying the Renault R-35… however in the end I decided to keep them.
