Review: Offensive Miniatures

 

Heyhey, it's been a while since the last review, right? So here's a quick one about Offensive Miniatures' WW2 Waffen SS range.

Review: Battlefield Accessories

 

Heyhey, yet another review of yet another Warlord (well..) kit - it's the Bolt Action Battlefield Accessories!

Showcase: 15mm Goldfinger Models Normandy Terrain

 

Heyhey, today I'd like to show you some terran pieces I've had lying around for a few years, but I just recently got them into play-able shape - resin buildings for Northern France 1944 in 15mm.

Review: Bolt Action Opel Blitz /Maultier

 

Wahey, it's time for yet another WW2 vehicle review. Why not. There's plenty around. So let's talk about Warlord Games' Opel Blitz / Maultier combo kit.

Review: Rubicon Models T34/76 & SU-85 AND SU-122

 

Heyhey, time for a model kit review! This one's a double feature too, due to the similarities between the kits. Technically it's a triple feature (or threat, if you prefer) even.

Showcase: British Airborne

Heyhey, I'm back with some nice 28mm figures!

These are British Paras from WW2; minis from various manufacturers, and I hope that you like them.

Review: Rubicon Models Panzer III

 

 It's back to 28mm WW2! Today I would like to present you with my thoughts and impressions of one of Rubicon Models' initial releases: Their German Panzer III kit.

Showcase: 15mm WW2 Scenery/Jump-Off Points

Some more scenery by Baueda Wargames. 

Showcase: 15mm WW2 Germans for Normandy, Pt.6

After I showed the pictures of the finished force to my friend he said he was ready as well. Which sounded ominous. Then I remembered the allied air force, remembered that the Luftwaffe probably wouldn't show up for the games and decided to add some camouflage to the vehicles.

Showcase: 15mm WW2 Germans for Normandy, Pt.5

Time to roll out the big guns! The particular scenarios we're going to play take place without any proper armoured support, so instead only makeshift solutions with German guns bolted onto leftover French vehicles are available.

Showcase: 15mm WW2 Germans for Normandy, Pt.4

More support for my German platoon! From left to right: Panzerschreck team, MG42 on tripod team (the leader is from a PSC kit. He's a bit weedy, but above all his helmet covers pretty much all his face weirdly. Maybe I should have painted on holes to look out of) and a flamethrower team. Flamethrowers are nasty and scary. They clear buildings and they do it well.

Showcase: 15mm WW2 Germans for Normandy, Pt.3

Well, I had to get support choices done quickly and efficiently...

Showcase: 15mm WW2 Germans for Normandy Pt.2

Now for the core force of my Panzergrenadiers platoon. 

Showcase: 15mm WW2 Germans for Normandy

These actually are minis I painted for one of my own projects - the Kampfgruppe von Luck pint-sized campaign for Too Fat Lardies' Chain of Command (the link leads to a rules review written by me) rules.

Showcase:15mm WW2 Field Fortifications

Here are some nice WW2 field fortifications with a slight urban theme by Baueda Wargames. I painted these straight out of the box (well, I cleaned them). These are all one-piece resin casts. Three large ones (which can be paired up for larger all-around ruins and one smaller one. These are sized to fit Flames of War bases (of course), but they work equally well for single-based 15mm figures. I can't help but think that the sandbags look a tad large, but that's no real issue.

I tried to go for realistic looking mortar between the bricks for the first time using white putty. Painting those actually was rather fast, and was equally fun playing around with weathering, all kindsa of dust looks and so on.

For a very short review: These are good and Baueda got a pretty nice variety on fortifications and such. Well worth checking out.

P.S.: This is the preview of a whole bunch of posts about a WW2 Normandy 1944 project, so stay tuned!

Show Report: VIVAT 2016

Saturday, October the 1st saw the annual return of VIVAT, Austria's dedicated wargames event for historical miniatures games.

Review: Rubicon Models M8 Greyhound

Heyhey, it's me again, with a review of another very recent release by Rubicon Models - it's the M8 'Greyhound' armoured car kit from which you can also build a M20 Utility Car. Originally designed to be a tank hunter, it became the US army's main recon AFV during World War 2.

Review: Rubicon Models Opel Blitz

For my first Rubicon Models review I would like to have a look at one of the most important vehicles of the German army in World War 2. As so very often with important things, it is also entirely unglamorous. And yet they put a snazzy name on it. Of course I am talking about the work horse of the motorized German war machine, the Opel Blitz truck.

Review: 15mm Panzer IV by Plastic Soldier Company

Heyhey, today I would like to have a look at Plastic Soldier Company's 15mm  Panzer IV set. Five plastic tanks, four different marks to put together, pretty much an essential to anybody playing  WW2 Germans post-1942. Before we dive into this fine piece of cardboard though...

Review: 15mm Panthers by Plastic Soldier Company

Today I'll have a closer look at PSC's 15mm Panther tank kit. I meant to post this one last year, but it got a bit delayed, so bear with me on the '2015's on some of the pictures.