Dispatches volume 1

Just a quick one for today. Warwick Kinrade, Piers Brand and a couple of other contributors have produced the first Webzine for the Battlegroup game series, highlights include - A couple of small partisan based lists that prove that not all games have to be huge tank battles, expansions for Kursk in the form of T-70 Company and SU-85 and more, grab a free PDF copy from Iron Fist Publishing and enjoy.

Battlegroup Dispatches 1

That's all for now

Mike

Dip Disaster and another stage in Infantry painting.

I have spent a frustrating night re-highlighting one hundred and thirty Infantry after a near disaster with Army Painter Strong Tone Dip,
I have always painted my infantry by base coating, brushing on Dip then Matt varnishing. But today with haste to get a load of infantry ready for picture taking this blog post (Well you have to get photos in good light don't you?) I neglected to leave the Dip layer to harden properly before brushing on Vallejo Matt varnish. to my horror as the varnish dried small scaly areas began to appear before my eyes in prominent areas of every miniature.
I had  to come up with a plan and luckily the first plan worked - I let the Matt varnish dry completely, then brushed on Army Painter Soft Tone Ink which hid my earlier blunder and to my extreme happiness none of the scales showed through, but each miniature was far too dark for my tastes and the day light had started dulling so I knew that there would be no photo taking today.
I knew what I had to do, so I grabbed my smallest brush and began to highlight the minis all over with the base colours, by the time I had done all 130 it was 2:30 in the morning,
So......I'm off to bed, I'll post pictures of today's (or is it yesterday's) efforts tomorrow (or today) but at least I have a full Russian Infantry Company painted for Kursk.

Happy Painting

Mike

Same day, Different post

I just thought that I'd post an image of a side project I'm working on, Weird World War 2, Here is a test sculpt of some Russian Zombies

A bit poor at the moment, but they should turn out OK, German Zombies are available from Elhiem and CP Miniatures but no other nations.
They are sculpted on a base of Zvezda Russian Infantry because I had a large number of prone figures left over after building three boxes, I mixed and matched the legs to give a shambolic gait and worked from there, the heads of the donor minis have found their way onto PSC bodies as the PSC heads are way too big for my tastes so I had to sculpt new heads on the Zombies, a daunting task when a head is only 3mm from chin to crown.

Mike

Blogging Day 2 - Stal Stal Stal!

And so the call went fourth for some Armoured Support.

I have just cleared my painting desk to start work on assembling some Mid War Soviet Armour. So to build and paint at the moment 16 Plastic Soldier Company T-34/76 1943, 2 Armourfast T34/76 1940, 3 plastic Soldier Company T-70, 2 Pegasus Hobbies KV-1e, 4 Pegasus Hobbies KV1s and finally a couple of SU-122 kit-bashed from Armourfast SU-85.
As for the SU-122, I have tried the Frontline Wargaming ones before and they don't scale well with PSC T-34s, and as finding the Unimodel kit is like trying to find a sober person on a Friday night I'll have to "Make do and Mend" and it should be sufficient for my needs.

So please forgive the lack of photos but I have Staples to straighten and re-bend for grab rails...so many grab rails.

An Introduction

Hello, and welcome to my blog 1:72 WW2, this is my second attempt at a blog - The first expired long ago and I have since had time to reflect on what went wrong.
So, on that downer....................Here we are.

It all began in October 2011 when I took the decision to sell, bin and depose of all of my Warhammer and other GW products to focus on other projects, I dabbled in 28mm Napoleonics and ACW, then my greedy beady eyes fell upon Flames of War and 15mm WW2. I intended to begin collecting and playing that until after reading many reviews and hearing opinions of other players I decided that it was too competitive for me.
It was around this time that Warhammer Historical began to flounder and through the publicity this brought I became aware of KGN, Warwick Kinrade and subsequently Battlegroup Kursk (BGK). Now A game where you had to take constant radio checks, keep your supply vehicles close by and also field Infantry and Tank Companies is not for everyone, but it was for ME.

So without further ado some teaser pics, now if you are a visitor to The Guild Forum you'll have seen these and more before, if not here are some minis.

Thanks for looking, and I hope to see you here again soon.

Mike