Felix, Author at Felix's Gaming Pages

Grot Cutta Undercoated

Any colour you like as long it is black…

I have undercoated my Cutta.

Tallarn Missile Launcher

A Tallarn Missile Launcher team from the Forge World display cabinets at GamesDay 2007.

Tallarn Autocannon Team. From the Forgeworld displays at GamesDay 2007.

Flames of War British Daimler Dingo

The Daimler Scout Car, known in service as the “Dingo” (after the Australian wild dog), was a British light fast 4WD reconnaissance vehicle also used in the liaison role during the Second World War. In 1938 the British War Office issued a specification for a scouting vehicle. Out of three designs submitted by Alvis, BSA and Morris, the one by BSA was selected. The actual production was passed to Daimler, which was a vehicle manufacturer in the BSA group of companies. The vehicle was officially designated Daimler Scout Car, but became widely known as Dingo, which was the name of the competing Alvis prototype.

The Flames of War blister comes with three of them.

These are very nice models. I will probably use them with my Late War British, though they have the potential to be used for Early War too.

These are resin models with metal wheels and crew.

See the full workbench feature on the British Daimler Dingo.

Designing the Land Raider Proteus and Deimos Rhino

The original Rogue Trader plastic Land Raider boxed set is a true classic, treasured by many veteran gamers, and the process of updating it to create the Proteus Land Raiders has been a suitably reverent one. To give you an insight into how we designed the various ‘old style’ Space Marine kits we’ve been working on recently, Tony Cottrell, Phil Stutcinskas and Daren Parrwood have recorded a video looking into the development of the Land Raider Proteus model.

I like how the video shows you the different sizes of the different Land Raider models now available.

I did buy the original plastic Rhino and thought (at the time) what a clever plastic model kit it was. No idea where they are now, probably languishing in the bottom of a box somewhere in the garage.

Mordheim Turf

I was in my local GW store buying some flesh coloured paint (for my Old West cowboys) when I noticed they had the turf packs in stock. I looked at both the Mordheim Turf and the Middlenland Tufts, but in the end decided I liked the look of the Mordheim Turf better and bought a pack.

Mordheim Turf is a pallid yellow colour, and when your Warhammer armies march across it, a few choice tufts on their bases will really help to set the scene. Each sheet is 210 x 148 mm in size (or 8.3 x 5.8 inches if you prefer Imperial measurements), and holds 200 individual grass tufts of varying sizes, ranging from large patches of foliage to small clumps. They’ve also been specifically designed to stand up straight, adding a little extra height to the bases of your models. Once you’ve finished painting your miniatures, simply peel off the tufts you want to use and stick them to your bases using a dab of Citadel PVA Glue.

I have seen similar products before and in the olden days I use to cut tufts of sisal (string) for tufts of grass. These tufts however appear to be much finer and less coarse than sisal is. I am intending to use them mainly with my Flames of War bases and possibly my Old West miniatures rather than my Orks.

They’re not cheap at £8.00 per pack but compared to the Army Painter range seem to be of similar value. Will be interesting to see the results.

Tallarn Autocannon

A Tallarn Autocannon team from the Forge World display cabinets at GamesDay 2007.

Vampire Counts Teaser

Flames of War German Panther A Platoon

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.

The resin and metal certainly fills the box.

There are five Panthers in the box and the hulls and turrets are in resin.

These are clean castings and the detail is very good, the Panthers for example have the Zimmeritt paste and you can see how the where it has “chipped off” has been modelled onto the hull.