One of the better kits from Ace this one, it went together quite well and didn't have a lot of parts.
This armoured car dates from the early 1930s but was still in service for the invasions of Poland and France.
I added a couple of crew figures from the Revell field artillery set.
This counts as a weak AFV in CD3 as it has an open top and is wheeled. I chose markings from 1940 so you might see it in use against the BEF at Calais this weekend.
Caesar's reasonably new 150mm Infantry Gun.
Quite a detailed kit, you get eight multi-part figures with it, although the poses are still fixed.
Also included are several items of weapons and kit, not really the sort of gear gunners are primarily concerned with, but a nice addition nonetheless.
Crew selection, for CD each gun would would have a single crew stand.
I painted the gun and most of the crew with my early war collection in mind. This is a really well detailed kit and you get quite a lot for your money - less than USD$8.
Spent some time finishing this over the last few days, early war Russian fighter bomber.
I still have some minor paint-work to touch up around the under carriage.
Several nations used this aircraft, including Nationalist Chinese and much later North Koreans, so I tried to paint it to reflect this. Made a pilot out of an old motorcycle rider to give it a little bit more detail.
Not the greatest figures ever produced but not too bad either, in places. As you can see, the first couple are LMGs.
MMG
Officers.
NCO and rifleman.
SMGs.
LMGs
SMGs
Detail
Riflemen
Officers
Double pose arrangements
Detail
Esci, Revell, Plastic Soldier.
57 figures including officers and LMGs; nothing heavy.
The plastic is of an extremely good quality, neither too hard or too soft, and glues very well indeed.
The sculpting is first rate, all of the figures are well animated with realistic poses; several have facial details equal to if not better than the one above.
Several figures require assembly, although there is only one or possibly two variations you can achieve. These figures are equal to the best currently available from anything that I have seen. They may not mix that well with others but time will tell. I would recommend this set to any collector without reservation.
Apology accepted! At a quick glance these look superb, perhaps in the same style as Revell, however these are of a far superior quality, easily the best on the market. Will post a few pictures tomorrow in better light.
We need a couple of bastions for our Calais game, so I'm experimenting with some options.
Multi-level and reasonable big, there should be no problems housing a company sized garrison. A bit more playing around with them should yield better results.
Certainly not something I'd normally bother with, however, some civilians have their uses. Each stand represents a group of 5-10 people, and are for the Norway raid scenario I have been planning - guest starring Paul as the Germans. Each turn they move a random distance in a random direction, and if they come within an inch of a military stand during this time then they take casualties until they are eliminated. The side that delivered the damage gives the other one victory point. Small CD scenarios often have special rules or details to fit with the historical requirements, just something a bit different.
Made a few bits and pieces for jungle warfare over the weekend. They are mostly bits from old fish tank supplies, which is strange as I have never owned a fish tank. Anyway, they still need a little more paint-work to take of the gloss of the plastic, but getting there.
Plan to make some more huts as well for the jungle collection, but always need lots of trees first; spent some time working is this sort of environment, very taxing on the body it is too, must have been worse in the days before Gortex, etc.
This is a good war games model, cheap and quick to build. Despite some issues with the body work it turned out okay.
I added a figure to the turret but nothing else. There were four choices of markings, Soviet, Polish and North Korean, I chose the latter but only a true rivet counter would know.
This vehicle saw service with quite a few nations from 1942 into the 1960s, as it will with my collection. In CD this is counted as a weak AFV because it can be eliminated by small-arms fire, albeit with a substantial modifier to hit
Started this recently. Like the other earlier vintage (BA20) this kit had some serious design flaws.
Both sides of the armoured frame had to be quite heavily filled as there were two rather noticeable cavities. I like the variety and price of the Ace range of kits but this is the second one that has come with less than desirable engineering results.
Because of the small numbers involved all units will begin the game on cards which will be moved on the board until it is spotted, then replaced by its miniature. This is because each player gets a few dummy cards to move as well. There needs to be special rules to restrict the movement of German reinforcements until the raiders have been spotted, air cover, AFVs, etc. Historical games benefit from accurate map to table translations, so I have made a number of notes and the next layout should theoretically be much better.
I seem to have a lot of support units for my German collection but very few for anyone else. So recently I started putting together a few of these, the first being a radio platoon for the British.
In CD, radio or telephone platoons allow an extra order to be issued as long as they remain stationary. They are usually found way down the back of the board on a hill top. I use them mostly for directing air support or off table artillery.
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