Felix's Gaming Pages

It’s a boat!

When I first saw this wonderful boat building from the talented hands of Dave Andrews I thought what a clever idea.

It was in the displays at GamesDay 2006 alongside some other creations of Dave’s.

Flames of War General de Gaulle

A veteran of World War I, in the 1920s and 1930s de Gaulle came to the fore as a proponent of mobile armoured divisions, which he considered would become central in modern warfare. During World War II, he reached the temporary rank of Brigadier General, leading one of the few successful armoured counter-attacks during the 1940 Fall of France, and then briefly served in the French government as France was falling.

Charles de Gaulle is available for Flames of War and comes with a Somau S35 objective. The blister contains the metal parts and resin objective.

Death Korps of Krieg

Taken of the display cabinets of Forge World at GamesDay 2007.

Command troops from the Death Korps of Krieg.

Heavy Bolter team from the Death Korps of Krieg.

Death Korps of Krieg Team with Heavy Bolter.

Kill Bursta Chassis

Forge World’s big Ork tank mounts a huge gun ready to take on any Imperial BaneBlade or even Titan.

The first job was to wash the resin before construction. I then started to fix the wheels to the main chassis.

This is one big tank.

See the full workbench feature on the Kil Bursta.

Command Chimera

This looks like a really nice conversion of an Imperial Chimera into a command version. Alas I only managed to get a photograph from this angle.

Lost Scene – Doctor Who

Enjoyed this bit from Neil Gaiman on the “lost scene” from his recent episode of Doctor Who.

Flames of War French Char B1 bis

The Char B1 was a French heavy tank manufactured before the Second World War. It was a specialised heavy break-through vehicle, originally conceived as a self-propelled gun with a 75 mm howitzer in the hull; later a 47 mm gun in a turret was added, to allow it to function also as a Char de Bataille, a “battle tank” fighting enemy armour, equipping the armoured divisions of the Infantry Arm.

Among the most powerfully armed and armoured tanks of its day, the type was very effective in direct confrontations with German armour in 1940 during the Battle of France, but a slow speed and high fuel consumption made it ill-adapted to the war of movement then fought. After the defeat of France captured Char B1 (bis) would be used by Germany, some rebuilt as flamethrowers or mechanised artillery.

It’s as the German flamethrower variant that is sold for Flames of War that I purchased. At the time of writing battlefront have repackaged the blister as early war French version. I got two blisters of the Char B1.

Though having looked at the army lists in the Blitzkrieg book it looks like I should really have three, however there were only two in the shop when I bought them. So I ordered a third when I made a recent order for Flames of War.

Within the blister you get the resin hull and turret whilst the rest of the model is whitemetal.