tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63322954290323180682024-03-13T13:46:56.865-05:00Wargames and TechHeretichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10313280026937308765noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332295429032318068.post-17904921681532215682018-12-24T15:18:00.000-06:002018-12-24T15:20:35.910-06:00Aufklärungpanzer 38(t)Converted a Warlord plastic Panzer 38(t) into the late war recon variant.<br /><br />
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<br />Heretichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10313280026937308765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332295429032318068.post-66947937782488549532017-09-21T16:55:00.000-05:002017-09-21T16:55:08.972-05:00Why do they even play?Seriously how is this game fun for pathetic pukes like my team? Just uninstall and go play some Candy Crush Saga....<br />
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<br />Heretichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10313280026937308765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332295429032318068.post-82047477998615724932017-09-18T18:24:00.003-05:002017-09-18T18:24:39.079-05:00Coolest Dad Ever!<div style="text-align: center;">
Making an Undyne costume for my daughter from scratch.</div>
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<br />Heretichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10313280026937308765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332295429032318068.post-46096455365156025382017-01-11T13:14:00.003-06:002018-01-03T12:20:30.505-06:00KNIL Army for Adepticon - Conversion How-ToHello all.<br />
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It's been a while, and since I have been asked lately to show how I am doing my KNIL force so I thought I would show you my simple process.<br />
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Little History of <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Royal Netherlands East Indies Army</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koninklijk" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Koninklijk">Koninklijk</a> Nederlands Indisch Leger</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">; KNIL)</span><br />
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The KNIL was formed by royal decree on 10 March 1830. It was not part of the <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Royal Netherlands Army</span></span>, but a separate military arm specifically formed for service in the <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Netherlands East Indies</span></span>. Its establishment coincided with the Dutch drive to expand colonial rule from the 17th century area of control to the far larger territories comprising the Dutch East Indies seventy years later.</div>
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The KNIL was involved in many campaigns against indigenous groups in the area including the <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Padri War</span></span> (1821–1845), the <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Java War</span></span> (1825–1830), crushing the final resistance of <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Bali</span></span> inhabitants to colonial rule in 1849, and the prolonged <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Aceh War</span></span> (1873–1904). In 1894, <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Lombok</span></span> and <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Karangasem</span></span> were <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">annexed</span></span> in response to reports of the local Balinese aristocracy oppressing the native <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sasak</span></span> people. Bali was finally taken under full control with the <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dutch intervention in Bali (1906)</span></span> and the final <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dutch intervention in Bali (1908)</span></span>.</div>
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the KNIL prosecuted the conquest of the Indonesian archipelago. After 1904 the Netherlands East Indies were considered pacified, with no large-scale armed opposition to Dutch rule until <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">World War II</span></span>, and the KNIL served a mainly defensive role protecting the Dutch East Indies from the possibility of foreign invasion.</div>
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Once the archipelago was considered pacified the KNIL was mainly involved with military policing tasks. To ensure a sizeable European military segment in the KNIL and reduce costly recruitment in Europe, the colonial government introduced obligatory military service for all resident male conscripts in the European legal class in 1917. In 1922 a supplemental legal enactment introduced the creation of <span style="color: #a55858;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Home Guard</span></span> (Dutch: <i>Landstorm</i>) for European conscripts older than 32.</div>
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No large-scale armed threat to Dutch rule existed until <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">World War II</span></span>.</div>
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<span class="mw-headline">Dutch forces in the Netherlands East Indies were severely weakened by the <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">defeat and occupation of the Netherlands</span></span> itself, by <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nazi Germany</span></span>, in 1940. The KNIL was cut off from external Dutch assistance, except by Royal Netherlands Navy units. The KNIL, hastily and inadequately, attempted to transform into a modern military force able to protect the Dutch East Indies from foreign invasion. By December 1941, Dutch forces in Indonesia numbered around 85,000 personnel: regular troops comprised about 1,000 officers and 34,000 enlisted soldiers, of whom 28,000 were indigenous. The remainder were made up of locally organised militia, territorial guard units and civilian auxiliaries. The KNIL air force, <i>Militaire Luchtvaart KNIL</i> (<span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force</span></span> (<i>ML-KNIL</i>)) numbered 389 planes of all types, but was largely outclassed by superior Japanese planes. The Royal Netherlands Navy Air Service, or MLD, also had significant forces in the NEI.</span></div>
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<span class="mw-headline">During the <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dutch East Indies campaign</span></span> of 1941–42, most of the KNIL and other Allied forces were quickly defeated. Most European soldiers, which in practice included all able bodied <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Indo-European</span></span> males, were interned by the Japanese as <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">POWs</span></span>. 25% of the POWs did not survive their internment.</span></div>
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<span class="mw-headline">A handful of soldiers, mostly indigenous personnel, mounted guerilla campaigns against the Japanese. These were usually unknown to, and unassisted by, the Allies until the end of the war.</span><br />
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<span class="mw-headline">The KNIL uniform was a cotton jacket with a harness for ammo and other supplies. They wore a khaki to brown set of let wraps (Puttees) with Black boots like the photo below:</span></div>
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As well as wearing the traditional Dutch Helmet, the jungles of the East Indies made wearing the "Slouch Hate" another common site, more among the Dutch and seen much less in the Indonesian troops, who wore the helmet more often.</div>
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The KNIL used the following arms during the East Indies campaign:</div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana";">Model 1895 Mannlicher 6.5mm </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana";">rifle</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana";">. [Basically the same as the M1893 Rumanian </span><a class="vglnk" href="http://rd.bizrate.com/rd?t=http%3A%2F%2Ftracking.searchmarketing.com%2Fclick.asp%3Faid%3D730010300000948176&mid=31509&cat_id=12150125&atom=10468&prod_id=&oid=7065206539&pos=1&b_id=18&bid_type=8&bamt=c2fec4801cf73b20&cobrand=1&ppr=040954722ab22fde&rf=af1&af_assettype_id=12&af_creative_id=2973&af_id=615103&af_placement_id=1&dv=94076c8fab8d8e67e320326ad03ca880" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #003366; font-family: Verdana; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Link added by VigLink">rifle</a><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana";">] Caliber 6.5x54R Mannlicher.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana";">In 1940 quantities of .30-06 Johnson semi-autos were purchased for colonial forces in the Dutch East Indies [Indonesia] and the navy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana";">Model 1919, 1923, 1926, 1927, 1934, 1938 and 1939 all in Dutch 6.5mm Mannlicher cartridge.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana";">A few Vickers HMGs.<br /><br />AT Rifles:</span>Rifle, Anti-Tank, .55in, Boys</div>
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I picked up a box of IJA troops and bought about 9 sprues extra when Warlords had a 50% off plastic sprue sale. Now, the uniforms are very similar so it's not going to take much converting really more then a head swap and some other finishing touches.</div>
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First... the Arisaka rifle is a long rifle at 4'2" and the Mannlicher is 3'3" long...so first thing you need to do is cut this section out.</div>
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Then you glue the barrel tip back onto the rifle. It takes approximately a foot of length out of the gun.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">If you need to add special guns, http://www.companyB.biz sells weapons in their AFV Accessories section, the Boys AT rifles and the Madsen LMG.</span></div>
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When playing Bolt Action, there are many times when you have on lookers that sit and watch you play and start asking questions about the game. And like myself, you will run a Demo from time to time and let new people tryout the game. Then the inevitable question comes:<br />
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I am going to break down each army into it's national rules and the pro's and con's to each force as a reference for myself and many like yourselves, who wonder yourselves about the different factions and would like to tell people where they can go to get information on the various Nations represented in Bolt Action.<br />
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<b>The Pros and Cons listed have been collected by the men and women on Bolt Action Internation and Bolt Action Facebook Pages.</b><br />
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<strong style="background-color: #f0f3f4; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.08px;">pros: Artillery is cheap thanks to free observers ect, lots of variety when it comes to elite units (gurkhas, paras, Chindits, commandos ect), </span></em></strong><br />
<strong style="background-color: #f0f3f4; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.08px;">Co</span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.08px;">ns: lack of heavy infantry firepower, (no HMG or heavy motors, PIAT only has 12" range so anti tank guns are vital), please note I havent really found many cons to Brits as my first games have been against Brits so if others want to add feel free</span></em></strong><br />
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<strong style="background-color: #f0f3f4; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.08px;">Pros : Fire support, Free Arty Observer, re-rolls on Bombardments, abundance of the D6 75mm, Cheap mobile Medium Howitzer with the Cromwell CS.<br />Infantry: good adaptability with the national characteristic rules, Commandos and Gurkhas are quit</span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.08px;">e good value for points.<br />Armour: a good range of tanks that fare well over all time periods,<br />lots of useful Armoured Cars and the only Allied Super Heavy Tank (other than the Ostfront IS3) . The only Allied Super Heavy AT Gun both on a tank and as an arty piece. Heavily armoured transports in the Kanagaroos. Churchill AVREs can be devastating (but probably not worth the points)<br />Cons: No multilauncher and pretty ordinary PIAT</span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><b>Finland</b></u><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">National Rules:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Pros: Assault rifles, early & mid war tanks are awesome, flak 88s are fun, Panzerfausts for all. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Cons: Late war tanks are very expensive points wise, too much abuse of assault rifles(!), FJ aren't all they are cracked up to be.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Pros: Lots of medium and heavy armor with big AT guns or big howitzers, Infantry machine guns benefit from an extra die roll, NCOs get the chance to stay alive when getting hit by exceptional damage ( </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1176626775&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/olidious?hc_location=ufi" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Brian Ward</a><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;"> always seems to save his), lots of assault rifles, the Sturmtiger (never actually used it myself but I've seen Brian wipe out 6 squads in 7 turns with it)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Cons: Lack of national rules is about the only con for the Germans</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Pros: Natty uniforms, fancy tanks, funny names. lots of options and nice guns. Useful LMG and MMG's.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Cons: can be perceived as bland as lacking in special rules points heavy, Elite units nothing special. bewildering array of uniforms and equipment</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Con: </span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">their infantry can be very heavily tooled up, with AR, 2 x LMG and Faust's in one section. You could even add fanatics. German players invariably load up with these nice toys which all cost. Nearly always outnumbered. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Pros: None. Maybe getting a single non-veteran German unit that is outside of the platoon selection is okay, but the lack of decent infantry outweighs that and the other national rule is completely useless.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Cons: Germans do it better rules-as-written. Missing 6-8 unit choices that existed in the real army, even simple things like their Jeep equivilent </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white;">Avanti Savoia</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Pros everyone underestimates them</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Cons lack of heavy armour and anti tank</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Pros: everyone underestimates them. Paratroopers are amazing </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Cons: with avanti savoia without the right list synergy and pre determined strategy things can go very bad for you.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">For Miniatures:<br /><a href="http://eoeorbis.com/collections/world-war-2/ww2-range_italians" target="_blank">Black Tree Design - Italians</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://us-store.warlordgames.com/collections/italy" target="_blank">Warlord Games - Italy</a></span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=76_159" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Westwind - Berlin or Bust - Italians</span></a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: #f0f3f4; line-height: 16.8px;">Death before Dishonor</span></span><br style="background-color: #f0f3f4; color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f3f4; color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Banzai Charge</span></span><br style="background-color: #f0f3f4; color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f3f4; color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ambush Tactics</span></span><br style="background-color: #f0f3f4; color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f3f4; color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Show your Loyalty</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For Miniatures:<br /><a href="http://us-store.warlordgames.com/collections/japan" target="_blank">Warlord Games - IJA</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><b style="background-color: white;">Netherlands</b></u></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.08px;">For Miniatures: I would recommend WW1 Austro-Hungarians in field caps<br /><a href="http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/WW1--Austria_c_183.html" target="_blank">Brigade Games</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.08px;"><i style="background-color: white;">No Hope, No Retreat</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.08px;"><i style="background-color: white;">Elite Officer Class</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Pros: can have huge squads (mine are 10 man...but 11,12 would work well. Cav...just bad ass kraut on a stick machines...I field 2 squads of 10 one vet other regular. 20mm TKS nice against both a/c's and infantry. I also have a med </span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">howitzer for them...it makes up a little for the </span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Cons </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Cons: no real anti tank...and not surprising late war krauts w/ assault rifles tend to kill them fast...but as I said not surprising there.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="background-color: white;">For Miniatures:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.gorgon-studios.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=18_20" target="_blank">Gorgon Studios - 10th Cavalry</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://us-store.warlordgames.com/collections/poland" target="_blank">Warlord Games</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><b>Romania</b></u><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">National Rules:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white;">Axis Support</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white;">French Artillery Doctrine</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.08px;"><u><b style="background-color: white;">Soviet Union</b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px;">The Great Patriotic War </span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Quantity has a Quality all its own</span></span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Not One Step Back</span></span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Massed Batteries</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Pros: Cheap Cheap Cheap, lots of dice and lots of troops. Need to be played aggressively. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Cons: To get the above, they have to be inexperienced.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: #f0f3f4; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></em></strong>
<strong style="background-color: #f0f3f4; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.08px;">Pros: A lot of their AT guns and tanks can be pretty versatile against vehicles and infantry, the free 12 man inexperienced squad with the green rule, lots of AT, body armor</span><br style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.08px;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.08px;">Cons: playing as Russians the only con I've really found is that i love to run airborne squads which use up to many points lol</span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.08px;">Pros: lots of options for any type of unit. Flexibility and flavour. Free 12 man unit.</span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.08px;"><br />Cons: can't think of anything tbh because of the flexibility of the choices you can take.</span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">For Miniatures:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://us-store.warlordgames.com/collections/soviet-union" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Warlord Games</span></a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><b style="background-color: white;">United States</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">National Rules:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fire and Maneuver</span></span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gyro-Stabilizers</span></span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Air Superiority</span></span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Modern Communications</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Pros: when played aggressively they are almost historical if the dice cooperate. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">Pros: National rules, most of their tanks get the HE D6 rule and gyro stabilizers, Marines are packed full of firepower, BARs, US snipers can be equipped with SMGs should someone come to close</span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;"><br /><br />Cons: Besides the Veteran Infantry squad getting tough fighters the American infantry units don't benefit from any special rules like stubborn or fanatics or anything</span><br />
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Hello Folks! Long time since the last update. I was on facebook and I read that something that the company 1stCorp were at a tourney and had a squad of British Airborne stolen from them. (Sorry guys) I went to look at their miniatures and saw they sold a 12 man unit of SMG armed soviets. Now my soviet army is very lacking in various units, mainly SMG equipped guys and Armor. So 1stCorps crappy advertising, via a stolen blister, lead me to buy a pack of guys from them to augment my soviets. Now the pack of guys came in a padded envelope and at first glance I thought there were not 12 guys in the bag, and when I counted them, I thought they were more on the 25mm scale and not as tall as the 28mm miniatures. Boy was I wrong, they are a lot chunkier and thicker almost like Crusader miniatures lines of models. Anyways, on to the speed painting.</div>
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Here we have the Automotive gray primer on the Squad NCO.</div>
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I painted on a couple thin coats of Middlestone on the whole model.</div>
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Heavy wash with Agrax Earthshade, left to dry in front of my table fan.</div>
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On these, I wet brushed (like drybrushing but a big brush that is noticably still wet) vertically on the miniature to leave the dark in the recesses. ONLY VERTICAL brush strokes here.</div>
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Here is the back of the wet brushing. </div>
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Not I painted the wood bits with brown, the straps and packs with the same brown. The gun barrel with a mix of black and gun metal. The skin tone I use a color from walmart called light mocha. Boots I panted black and highlighted the edges with a dark grey.</div>
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Rhieklander flesh wash on the flesh parts and agrax earthshade wash over the wood stock and the packs.</div>
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All twelve models batch painted this way and done all the way to sanding the bases in a little over 2 hours.</div>
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Heretichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10313280026937308765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332295429032318068.post-78125215598721051682015-09-01T12:06:00.002-05:002015-09-01T12:07:01.925-05:00New Army Blog #1I am starting a new ALLIED army for once. Thought I would do a step by step on how I create, assemble, paint and play a new force from scratch.<br />
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Today we will be doing Greeks.<br />
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Greeks you say? They were only in the war for like a 3 weeks!!! I know I know, but I like the idea of taking a seemingly under powered army in Bolt Action and try to win with them on the table.....and have fun doing it.<br />
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So here goes.. playing around with <a href="http://boltaction.easyarmy.com/" target="_blank">http://boltaction.easyarmy.com/</a> I have come up with this two platoon mirrored list consisting of:<br />
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1 2nd Lt with a SMG (borrowed from the Italians of course)<br />
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8 x Reg Infantry all rifles and Tough Fighters (representing mountain troops)<br />
8 x Reg Infantry all rifles<br />
8 x Reg Infantry all rifles<br />
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1 x Reg Medium Mortar<br />
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1 x Reg Light AT gun<br />
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1 x Reg L3/35 Tankette with Dual MMGs<br />
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1 x Veteran FT-17 with Turret MMG<br />
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1000pts even, 16 activations<br />
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So using this resource from my buddy C-Bax of the WWPD pages, I used his articles on HIS <a href="http://www.boltaction.net/2014/11/oxi-greek-army-project-part-1-infantry.html" target="_blank">Greeks</a> and used it as a base start.<br />
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My package has arrived in the mail, from Black Tree Design, I picked up 48 Italian Riflemen, and a pack of 4 Italians with SMG. These will fill in as my Greek infantry.<br />
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Games, I made a suggestion on the Facebook Pages about converting one up to an
Sd.Kfz 251/21 Drilling. I was contacted
by Warlord Games PR Monkeys asking if I would do the conversion myself. I have never done any “fabrication”
conversions before, but the staff at Warlords threw down the gauntlet, so I
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Let’s go into the history of the
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developed with the purpose of halving the number of angled body plates,
simplifying the design and thus speeding up the production. D models can be
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Schützenpanzerwagen (Drilling MG151s)</i></span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. Anti-aircraft variant equipped with a
triple-mount ("Drilling" in German means "triple") of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG151" title="MG151"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">MG151</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">autocannon;
early version being MG151/15 mm cannon, later being MG151/20 mm
Luftwaffe cannon. This was a stop gap
measure to help with the overwhelming allied air superiority. The Drilling cannon were adopted and put on a
number of vehicles ranging from Opel Blitz trucks, to Horsch Field Cars, and
even some Panzer III chassis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Cost: 116pts
(inexperienced), 145pts (regular), 174pts (Veteran)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Weapons: Three Turret
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First out of the box, I assembled the Ausf.
D, except I didn’t glue the top of the chassis down. Here is the Ausf D on the left with an
earlier war model of the 251 from my collection. They are nearly the same size, the slanting
rear area making it seem longer, but it does have more open area on the
top. I did not put the rear seats in at
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Step 1: I shaved off the ridge in front where the front MG42
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Step 2: Using
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Step 3: Using Brass rods (I
actually used 3 of the Polish Lancer Lances from Warlord Games) I made, what
looks like something inappropriate for the internet, but alas, I was just
making the conical gun housing and the bulk of the MG151 using green epoxy.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Step 4: Using a
plastic tube as the base, I wrapped the pedestal with green epoxy and pressed
in three sections of leftover sprue from the Ausf D kit. At the top, I placed a magnet. Now the actual gun mounting attached directly
with the gun, but for the purposes of this conversion, I put a base platform
below the guns with a magnet on top so the turret would be a little more robust
for gaming purposes. Using a piece of paperclip
and some plasticard, I added an attached gunner seat to the turret platform.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Step 5: trimmed down
the gun flanges, and filed the bottom of the guns flat and mount them until
they were all flush and in line with each other. I test fit the turret for sizing purposes and
cut the gun barrels with a side cutter to the appropriate lengths. I cut the stock seats in half and installed
them in the back of the ausf D interior.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Step 6: Using
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MG151s. I cut small strips of card and
added to the top of the gun to add some “details” to this small gun trio. Once again the paperclip was used as a brace
at the back of the turret, and lastly I added the small angled section to the
back of the turret as in the pictures of the Drilling. While not completely accurate, the effect of
the turret is pulled off effectively. (
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Step 7: Primed and
painted the chassis (still not glued together) with Middlestone with my
Airbrush. The MG151s were now painted in
black and the front of the guns were painted in matching Middlestone, as per my
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wheels and tracks a flat black, then I hit the entire model with a flat
varnish. After it dried, I used a Burnt
Sienna oil wash over the entire model.
At this point I also glued the top of the chassis to the base of the
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Step 9: After the oil
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powders (of my own creation) to add some dust and grime. I sealed it once again, and my 251/21
Drilling was completed. The turret is
magnetic and freely spins around the model, even with the attached seat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Heretichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10313280026937308765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332295429032318068.post-19666048553335096012015-08-25T09:29:00.002-05:002015-08-25T09:29:33.954-05:00WC51 - Dodge Weapon Carriers - Westwind Berlin of BustI recently got my hands on a pair of Dodge 3/4 ton trucks from Westwind Miniatures Berlin or Bust range.<br />
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Out of the package, they look like this:<br />
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While looking intimidating, the truck went together without glue like this:<br />
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The truck included the driver, a ring mount for a .50cal, and wooden fence/railing on the back. I decided that I wanted to use these trucks for a winter force, so I decided to take some paperclips and make the ribs of a canopy on it.<br />
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I sprayed these with grey automotive primer and them some olive green paint. for the base colors. Here is a shot of the WC51 in it's base green and put next to a BTD german and a Warlord Games Hanomag, for scale.<br />
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I cut some napkins to size and applied it as a canopy for the trucks, leaving the front for later as I needed to paint the cab and driver before I finished.</div>
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Next I put the cabs together and added the rest of the canopy. Next I applied paint to the canvas and the truck, and modulated it a little with a lighter green and lighter canvas color.</div>
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Finishing the trucks, I used some pigment and dirtied the trucks up a little. I am awaiting decals for the hood and it should be finished. Here is the results:</div>
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First you start out with the German NCO with MP40 primed Black<br />
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I paint the cloth parts of the uniform with Citadel's Mechanicus Standard Grey, the skin with lite Mocha. The gun, boots,and straps on the uniform are black. The Gaiters are khaki.</div>
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The entire model sans the gun and skin is not hit with Athonian Camoshade wash. and the skin is hit with Rhieklander Fleshshade.</div>
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Using a light Green color, I hit the raised areas and the parts of the model that will get hit by light. The Gaiters I re-hit with spots of highlighted Khaki, and the boots with a lighter grey color.</div>
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The rest of the model, I hit the gun with steel color and wash with full strength Nuln Oil. The "T" on the hat and the shoulders are painted white. After this dries, put a stripe of black down the middle of the white on the shoulders. The shovel on the back was painted with a brown handle, the food bag is green with black wash. The water bottle, brown on the left and right and the blanket a light brown with black straps and washed with a Brown Wash.</div>
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So after assembling the Americans, we prime them Black (or grey, red, white, whatever color primer you use)<br />
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The next step is base coat the model in colors you want to use. Here I used Khaki for the putees and jacket, a color called Territorial Beige for the pants, lite mocha for the skin, English Ivy Green for the helmet, nutmeg brown for the boots. Also painted the gun black.<br />
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I hit the entire model except skin and helmet with Agrax Earhtshade from Citadel Paint line. The Skin gets a Rhiekland Fleshtone (from Citadel) and the helmet gets a Athonian Camoshade wash (again Citadel.)<br />
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The helmet was hit again with a 50/50 mix of athonian camoshade and water to darken the recesses. The gun wood parts hit with the same brown as the shoes, and the gun painted with a mix of iron breaker and black.<br />
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Model is finished.Heretichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10313280026937308765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332295429032318068.post-46382390233014487982015-03-04T08:36:00.004-06:002015-03-04T08:36:55.966-06:00RSO Project<div class="MsoNormal">
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Bolt Action International Facebook page.
I was asked by Warlords to show sort of a “Beginners guide” to working
with resin and metal vehicles for people that might be new to the gaming
world. This guide will include nothing
but simple tools that everyone should use as well as simple painting techniques
that can be used to get vehicles ready for the tabletop. All the following are hand painted with a
brush and acrylic paints straight out of the bottle and with brushes that you
could buy in a craft department of a local mega store. There are some advanced shading that was done
with the use of washes that were applied only to the driver of this vehicle,
but that is for another time.<br />
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As for the vehicle in question. I
received a Raupenschlepper, Ost from Warlords.
A brief history of the vehicle can be found with a simple search of the
internet via Wikipedia or others, but for the sake saving time, the OST was
developed with experiences of the Wermacht on the Eastern front with muddy,
dirt roads and the inability of wheeled vehicles to ferry supplies and/or men
across the great plains of the Soviet Union in these miserable conditions. The RSO was deemed a great vehicle and 23,000
of them were made before the wars end.<o:p></o:p></div>
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project. From the top down. A cheap $1USD travel toothbrush from the
dollar store. A file that ranges from
very coarse to fine on both sides. A
hobby, known as an X-Acto, knife here in the states and a set of side
cutters. I use the side cutters mainly
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this kit, but felt I should include them for the sake of showing every tool I
used in the project. I use the toothbrush to remove all the thin resin flash on the model by
roughly brushing the model all over, especially the tracks to remove anything
before and after cleaning with the hobby knife.
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empty paint bottle with his bottom stuck to some blu-tack. I painted him in the feldgrau colors
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before gluing so that you know it’s going to fit correctly when you are
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a good fit. If you are an experienced
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with a dark brown to begin with, then I dry brushed the same brown adding a few
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grey to white and painted the canvas, then dry brushed again the canvas with a
slightly lighter shade of the 50/50 by adding a few drops of white to the
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the bed, and the tracks onto the side.
At this point I painted the exhaust on the RSO in very much the same
technique as the tracks, added some Balkenkruz decals to the doors of the RSO
and I finished this wonderful kit. I
hope this guide helps you novices and maybe even you experienced modelers, get
easy, attractive models on the battlefield.
Painting and modeling in a tabletop war game never should be stressful,
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<br />Heretichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10313280026937308765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332295429032318068.post-20455065735345362272014-05-08T11:44:00.002-05:002014-05-08T11:54:15.099-05:00Gaming on a Budget - Part 2I opened the Minwax then stuck the minis on the end of my custom drill bit, consisting of blu-tack and washers. I dipped the Miniatures fully in the minwax and spun then out in a box to get the excess off.<br />
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Here is what they look like straight out of the Minwax. I put a base colored model next to them to show you that the Minwax will change the color slightly of whatever you are putting in it.<br />
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So now I have all 4 AT rifles and the scout squad painted and dipped and they are dry and ready for basing.<br />
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Using sand that I found in the alley behind my house from all the washouts and rain, I collected it and put it in a container.<br />
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Applying white glue to the bases, I stuck bits of the sprues on the base and I took an old CAT5E cable and used the sheathing to make broken pipe looking debris and took the wire and added it to the bases.</div>
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