"New articles on making burning markers and 6mm wagons" Topic

Hi all

I've added two new articles to my 6mm wargaming site covering some helpful info for the discerning gamer. :-)

The first article covers how to make burning markers of vehicles and aircraft to improve the look of your games. It is aimed at the 6mm gamer but can be scaled up (or down!) I guess. The direct link is 6mm.wargaming.info/page505.shtml

The second article is a review of 6mm Wagons and carts available to buy. While not complete it give you a good idea of the offerings from the main manufacturers. Hopefully I will finish painting these soon and I will add some painted pictures. The direct link is 6mm.wargaming.info/page505.shtml

Cheers
Kieran
6mm.wargaming.info

Nice.

DM

kmahony111: Nice looking job! I'm doing something a bit like this for my 10mm stuff too, but I use lead discs about 1/2' diameter by 1/8' thick. I'll flock the bottoms so they dont scratch the miniatures, and paint red.
I like the way the clumps "billow".

Glad you enjoyed it too my friends.

Amicalement
Armand

Wow! Bit by the TMP edit bug again! No, Armand does not post under my name. I put together a nice long commentary appreciating Kieran's web articles, and included 3 pics of my own WW2 wagons. All is gone, and someone else's post is in it's place. Ouch!

Kieran:

Second attempt at posting this. So in short … great stuff! Thanks for all the information you post on your website, it is a real service to the wargaming community.

If you are interested, you are welcome to use my pics of painted H&R WW2 German supply wagons. I have done the teamsters in Khaki to be more neutral, so that I can use them across several of my armies.

Also, if you ever expand the article, you might consider horse-drawn artillery figures. These are in terribly scarce supply for the WW2 6mm wargamer. H&R makes a reasonable horse-drawn 75mm Field Gun set:

GHQ also has a horse-drawn French 75mm Field Gun in their Polish forces (not in the French), and a German horse-drawn 105mm howitzer. I don't have either of those, but they look nice from the pics on the GHQ website.

Other than that I don't know of much that's available. Which is a shame, as other than the US and Brits most Artillery (and a fair bit of the AT guns) in WW2 were horse-drawn. Would love to see if and what else is out there.

Anyway, thanks for the great info. Well appreciated!

-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)

Thanks all guys.

Mk1, nice paint job on the wagons. I was planning to paint half yellow for late war and half dark grey for early war. I remember I have that GHQ 75mm set somewhere so i will update the article!