Desert buildings

We have returned from a very pleasant and relaxing  5 week holiday in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Switzerland. When I got home I had a number of Christmas gifts waiting and books, amounts to these gifts was some 15mm/20mm hovels desert dwellings which are very nice but a little small to go with my existing middle eastern buildings. I still painted them as it was a easy thing to do when I sat down at my desk.

Cheers
Matt

Australian War Memorial Open Day

I have been meaning to post these pictures from the Australian War Memorial open day back in April, I concentrated on the displays outside as I always manage to drop in at least once a month for a look through the galleries inside the memorial.

Australian Light Horse Display
from left to right
1920 -  1935 NSW Lancers uniform, 1914-19 Light Horse uniform, NSW Mounted Rifles 1899-1902 (Boer War) uniform

1920 -  1935 NSW Lancers uniform, 1914-19 Light Horse uniform, NSW Mounted Rifles 1899-1902 (Boer War) uniform

Bushmaster

Vietnam Era SWB Landrover with 105mm recoilless (the bright green seat covers are wrong.....)

WW1 era Ambulance

Japanese Ha-Go light tank, captured at Milne bay, September 1942

Soviet ZPU-2 captured in Afganistan

Cheers

Matt

Bundeswehr Infantry Kampfgruppe

The other part of my Task 1 for the Guild wargamers year long group build, I bought these second hand thinking they would be suitable  for my cold war project, the figs are more suited to late 90s and early 2000s, so I painted them in desert flecktarn, I am still not happy with the result though.

cheers
matt

A Fatwa on you and your mother! FOF batrep

At Cancon myself and Matt C (Wartime Minis) decided to hold a FOF participation game using Wartime minis and some terrain I made especially for the game and for Matt's collection.

We only conducted games on the Sunday and we had eighteen people play and a number also watching. The pics are from the first and last games of the day!

I wanted a basic and fast scenario for the participation game.

 Basically the Afghan Mufti Mujaheddin leader had  to save his wife from three fire teams of Russian conscripts, 1 heavy weapon fire team and two rifle fire teams with grenade launchers. The  Mujaheddin  had 6 fire teams Morale D10 while ever their leader was alive but only fired on D6, I also made them elusive while in cover, the mufti had to collect his wife in person. Of the 8 games played he was captured in three of the games, killed once, badly wounded three times and only once was the feat achieved to get his wife out :twisted: the Russian conscripts were regulars on D8s all round, they put up a good fight and only really failed once, when all three fire teams failed a morale rolls in the same turn and bugged out!

I also had a flock of sheep who moved randomly  to interrupt fire if they were caught in any crossfire!

Cheers
Matt

More Wartime 20mm Taliban

Additions to my Taliban. Mat at Wartime has added some more weapon packs and a few radio's to his 20mm range of Taliban, so nice additions to his range

Cheers 

Matt

Wartime Taliban and civilians

I have been quite busy lately finishing some long overdue projects here are a sample of some of the stuff finnished in the last two months, some wartime 20mm Civilans and Taliban (who could be used for any eastern insurgents) a lovely range and easy to paint.

Cheers
Matt