| 14th Brooklyn | 04 May 2014 2:02 p.m. PST |
Just posted a AAR of our latest game of Battlegroup Overlord (500pts. Wehrmacht vs. US armored Infantry) on my blog: link Enjoy, Burkhard And a little pre-view (many more clickable photos on the blog):
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| Bill Slavin | 04 May 2014 3:13 p.m. PST |
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| Weasel | 04 May 2014 3:20 p.m. PST |
Very nice set up and terrain :) Loved the idea of the burning wreck blocking passage. It's a nice little touch that tends to get ignored often. |
| War Panda | 04 May 2014 5:20 p.m. PST |
Yes beautiful table with some really great details…love your river too. Thanks for posting |
| Ron W DuBray | 04 May 2014 6:03 p.m. PST |
I assume they are 28mm from the basing who made the jeep? very nice looking game thanks for posting it. |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 04 May 2014 7:04 p.m. PST |
I assume they are 28mm from the basing who made the jeep? Yup, it is indeed 28mm. Figs are Victory Force. The 1/50 Panther Ausf A's a nicely repainted and camouflaged Corgi model. I can tell from the taut (non-sagging) tracks. The 1/48 jeep is a modded up version of this one from Hobby Master: link Looks like it's repainted and the flimsy .30-cal MG was replaced with the sturdy one from VF. The driver, passenger and gunner are all VF figs. I like the snorkel he added to it. The terrain set-up is very impressive. I'd like to know where that stone bridge came from. |
| Lion in the Stars | 04 May 2014 7:44 p.m. PST |
9th Tactical Luftwaffe making an appearance! Beautiful setup! |
| Ashenduke | 04 May 2014 7:50 p.m. PST |
Great looking game always enjoy seeing your gaming endeavors. |
| 14th Brooklyn | 04 May 2014 11:03 p.m. PST |
Wow, I go to sleep and when I wake up, I find such a wave of nice comments! Thanks a million guys! @Weasel: We never ignore these things, although on the day I wish we had (or that I had had a Dozer Sherman along)! @Ron W DuBray: Yes, they are 28mm. 28mm Fanatik is almost right, in that the Jeep was enhanced with parts and a crew by Victory Force Miniatures. The Jeep itself is by a German company called Schuco, but it is virtually identical to the Hobby Masters one (or Corgi or the ones by the DiAgostini weekly magazine) so the set fits them all. Here are some more details: link @28mm Fanatik: The Panther is indeed a Corgi repaint. I usually make their tracks sag by pulling them down with floral wire. I remember this being my first repaint, so I must have forgotten!  .
The bridge was actually scratchbuild from pink foam a couple of weeks ago. My first attempt at this, so I am very pleased with the results! Again, thank you all, even if I did not directly reply to your comments! |
bracken  | 05 May 2014 11:14 a.m. PST |
Superb work as always, you really do have a cool collection. Thanks for sharing more stunning pictures |
| 14th Brooklyn | 06 May 2014 12:04 a.m. PST |
Thanks Bracken. I guess in due time I need to do a few posts that sum up said collection (and refurbish a few of them)! |
| PiersBrand | 06 May 2014 2:05 a.m. PST |
I just wanna know when I get my invite to come and play! Superb stuff as always dude… |
| Ron W DuBray | 06 May 2014 5:44 a.m. PST |
Thank you 14th Brooklyn I just order 3 from "the motor pool" |
| 14th Brooklyn | 06 May 2014 9:42 a.m. PST |
Piers… Any time you are in my neck of the woods!  Ron, glad you were able to get some! I looked at the The Motor Pool website and they are sold out now, so you probably got the last samples they had! |
| archiduque | 07 May 2014 6:57 a.m. PST |
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| 14th Brooklyn | 07 May 2014 10:08 a.m. PST |
Thank you both! @ Tim: I am most likely not the best person to give any advise since this is the first time I have worked with pink styrofoam (except for boards), but this is the way I did it. I cut the styrofoam to the general shape (cutting away the raises and arches). Afterwards I sanded all sides to roughen it up (to take the paint better) slightly rounding off the top and facings. Up next I cut the lines for the bricks for the arches, the horizontal lines and vertical lines with for the rows of bricks with a scalpel always making sure that I did not cut deeper than a millimetre or two. The facings and top were a bit tricky since It wanted them to join in a realistic manner.
Once all this was done I took a number of bamboo skewers where I had cut the ends to different shapes and punched each corner of the bricks. When that was done I pulled some of the skewers through the precursor lines.
All that being done I pressed a couple of rocks with a nice texture into the foam to give it a stone look.
The. I gave it all a wash with watered down black acrylic paint. After all the work I did not want any pink to show through. Then I glued it all together (the actual "floor" of the bridge sandwiched between the outer walls was cut from a separate piece of foam, the top being covered by wallpaper that looks like cobbles). Painted it dark grey, two consecutive lighter drybrushes and some olive green drybrushing in strategic places. Fitted it into the river board, plastered up any gaps between the bridge and the banks, painted the banks and glued some static grass into some crags. That is it. I know this sounds all too easy, but my estimate would be that the cutting of the stones alone took me about six to seven hours, so it is great to get the appreciation!!! |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 07 May 2014 10:25 a.m. PST |
I commend you for your terrain modeling skills. On a different topic, I'm also thinking about using BGO for 28mm gaming. Do the rules have tables for 28mm? If not, do you double the ranges for 28mm or just play the rules as written for 20mm? |
| 14th Brooklyn | 07 May 2014 11:35 a.m. PST |
Thank you! So far we have used the rules as they are since they do not contain 28mm ranges. Rifles and small arms are OK range wise, only the machine guns and main guns seem a bit short for my taste. But I not change more than multiplying ranges by 1,5 at most. All that being said… compared to Bolt Action you actually have long far longer ranges anyway.  |
paints piebald and skewbald horses.
