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Showing posts with label 20mm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 20mm. Show all posts
Wednesday, 20 May 2026

Post Partisan Research - Early War Miniatures: The Raid (WW2 Isle of Wight Kommando Attack)

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As part of my post Partisan debrief, I took a look at Early War Miniatures' web-site ostensibly to look at their 20mm Italian Early War ...
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Tuesday, 1 July 2025

WW2 US Infantry Painting Guides from around the Internet (20mm)

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The crazy "Project" a 1:1, US, WWII, ETO (Normandy/Germany), Infantry Company (minus the 60mm Mortar supports - that is a small fo...
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Tuesday, 28 May 2024

Never be bored as there is always basing to be done ..

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My collection will never be finished, I know that, particularly the WWII one. However I do get a buzz from getting various bits to different...
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Wednesday, 27 December 2023

Another go at "Ghosts of the Jungle"

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In the interests of diverse game play I introduced my D&D group to Ghosts of the Jungle to see how these lads (RPG'ers, aka none mai...
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Saturday, 25 November 2023

Platoon 20 - NVA Figures

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Inspired by the recent series of "Ghosts of the Jungle" games I visited my silver pile of shame in the loft for Vietnam figures an...
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Monday, 20 November 2023

"Ghosts of the Jungle" Playtest - Charlie fights, er Charlie!

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I hit the critical mass (or Minimal Viable Product [MVP]) for the cast of characters, fully painted and ready for "The Ghosts of the Ju...
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Friday, 10 November 2023

Ghosts of the Jungle .. More Nam Figures .. (1/72, 20mm, 1/76)

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When you are preparing for a game like "Ghosts of the Jungle" (allegedly a player cooperative play game, which also means you can ...
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Wednesday, 1 November 2023

ClearFix Tip - When It Goes Yellow Get a New Bottle!

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ClearFix is obviously a bit like snow - when it goes yellow beware what you can use it for! To be fair you typically use so little of it at ...
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Tuesday, 26 September 2023

Big "Near" - Small "Far Away"

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To honour a genius of British TV comedy, the sit-com Father Ted, I present wargaming terrain in perspective (see below, "near" is ...
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Monday, 25 September 2023

US Artillery and AT Guns WWII (Part 1)

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I was recently looking at my old favuorite Command Decision and the WWII US Infantry (1944) OoB, circa the Battle of the Bulge, to see what ...
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Saturday, 5 August 2023

Australian SAS in Vietnam - Painting Information: Notes To Self

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As part of the gaming material needed for my "Follow the Bush Tucker Trail" at CoW 2023 I decided that I really had to paint some ...
Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Airfix 1/72 Airborne and Willy's Jeeps

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It goes without saying that you can never have too many jeeps in a WW2 Western US or British Allied army. Hence the unmade box of plastics s...
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Monday, 6 March 2023

Airfix Lee/Grant scrapped together from a Donation and bits from the Scrap Box.

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The different coloured pieces of plastic tells the sorry tale in itself. This "baby" Grant Tank on the right comes from multiple p...
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Monday, 20 February 2023

German Recon 20mm Airfix Classic (Vintage) Set

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Another Airfix classic, this time a muddled box of confused spares and complete sprues with had two Kubelwagans and two 222 armoured cars. Y...
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Friday, 17 February 2023

My "Last" Airfix Churchills

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There are Airfix "Vintage" kits and then there is the Airfix Churchill, more challenge than nostalgic joy, but satisfying neverthe...
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Tuesday, 10 January 2023

Can anybody answer this strange Troop Type/OrBat Question from Command Decision?

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I have recently been 'reinvigorating' my interest in my loft bound 20mm WWII collection, dwelling on the shame of knowing that I hav...
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Monday, 19 December 2022

(1/72-1/76-20mm) Homage to the LRDP and SAS

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These were my originals, salvaged from the loft, in a "North Africa Box" - I think they had been lying there for over a decade. Th...
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Sunday, 5 June 2022

Painting US Vietnam Infantry - My Platoon 20 Collection (PART 1) Notes to Self

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Background: Sometimes I acquire a "collection of figures" over time rather than for a project, knowing that at a point in the dist...
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Sunday, 15 May 2022

1/72 Scale Airfix Sheridan - Vietnam Era

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I have been quiet on the blog posting front but I have been pottering along quietly in the background, with of all things the "Vietnam ...
Sunday, 1 May 2022

Vietnam 20mm ACav M113 [JB Models]

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I seem (understatement) to have been somewhat distracted last month(or months) with the Ukrainian-Russian War being constantly on the news a...
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