"An Eastern Front Op.....preparing the troops...." Topic

Eastern Front Fans -

My gamin' cohort Dave here in St. Lou, hit me up with a series of connected scenarios he wants to put on at our local con in June, using my 3mm WWII minis. I thought his proposed series sounded real cool -

"First scenario: A Soviet T-34 Tank Battalion (1944) with supports attacking the German infantry with anti-tank support in the cauldron.

Second scenario: A breakthrough mission with a German Panther or Panzer IV Tank Company and Panzer grenadier Company with supports breaking through Soviet lines. A Soviet Inf Battalion with anti-tank support would be appropriate in this case.

Finally, the third scenario will be a rearguard mission with a German Tiger Tank Company supported by Panzer grenadier platoons withdrawing under the pressure of numerous Soviet T-34 Tank and Motor Rifle companies.

What do you think Dave? Is this something your 3mm Eastern front kit can handle?"

Oh yeah it can! :)

So needing to upgrade my basing on some of his unit wants for these games, and finished mounting up a Tiger Company this morning – can you feel the steppes rumble……if only in a small way?! ;)

Those "Big Cats" look good!

Jim

Jim, after your post here, I think these little fellas just puffed out their chests and grew three figure scales! :)

I agree, great looking unit.

I like the hex basing system, where did you get them and what are they made of?

Thank you StoneMtnMinis!

The hexes are acrylic ones bought off of ebay (I can give a link if interested – think the source is out of Texas).

My 'production-compliant' method of making these pre-textured bases is shown below in the TMP thread – I can make tons of these at a time, and I get consistent results.

The "hard-core" acrylic hex is the sandwiched material as shown in the demo picture linked (seen as the left-side method), and it also serves as the hard cutting guide -

TMP link

Of the hobby methods I've come up with, this is one of my best I think!

Btw, the hex-mounting also has rules-based functionality.

yes, if you have the link handy I am interested in them.

I went to your thread you linked, but couldn't get any of the photos to load. I will keep trying.

Darn, I'll see if I can repost/host the how-to pic here.

Here's the acrylic supplier's company website for – "ZLazr" (I get an anti-virus program warning, but it's legit) -

zlazr.com

(under Shop Now>Acrylic SHAPES – Squares, Hearts. Ovals, Etc.)

Vendor site on Ebay -

auction

Easy texture basing pic…. XX – fingers crossed. ;)

The photos came through, thanks for reposting.

BTW, I always find your posts interesting and, in many cases, helpful.

Thanks again
Dave

Thanks Dave!

If you give this a go, there's some excellent Fiskars scissors out now that help keep adhesive-backed materials from sticking to the scissor blades -

Fiskars 154130-1008 NON-STICK TITANIUM 8" Scissors

(they have something like a Teflon coating on them, that works great for cutting this type of stuff)

From one Dave to another.

Those are great looking Tigers, FlyXwire!