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Showing posts with label Panzer Grenadier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Panzer Grenadier. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 February 2019

20mm BTR-80 Repair Job

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"I tried not to scream" but this thing (BTR-80) fell from a very great height. I was getting from my the loft space a BTR-80 for a...
Tuesday, 21 August 2018

Stalingrad Campaign Reflections (1)

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Captain Dorki spat in the direction of the Maxim MMG team as they headed back towards Company Head Quarters. "To hell with them, they s...
Wednesday, 26 October 2016

Airfix Battles Play Test: Scenario Two - "Save Colonel Parker" (Part 1 of 2)

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Gaining the initiative the German player opened up with his Veterans spraying the large American Squad causing two casualties (see photograp...
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Monday, 24 October 2016

Airfix Battles Play Test: Scenario Two - "Save Colonel Parker" (Part 1 of 2)

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Airfix Battles has been languishing at the bottom of my "to play in the near future" draw for some time now, so I naturally leapt ...
Friday, 3 June 2016

Chain of Command: Normandy (Part III)

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The British responded with their most effective countermeasure, smoke. The little two inch mortar churned out smoke like nobody's busine...
Thursday, 2 June 2016

Chain of Command: Normandy (Part II)

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The German Panzer Grenadiers, despite hindered by 2" British mortar smoke, pour a merciless level of fire into "Polygon Wood"...
Friday, 27 May 2016

Chain of Command: Normandy (Part I)

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A training scenario: A platoon of British infantry advance supported by armour (aka Winnie the Churchill Tank) meeting a platoon of German P...
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Tuesday, 3 November 2015

October Project: Day 30 "Paint Review"

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Project review and wrap-up. First of all these are the paints I used in Project (see below, as much for my memory as for posterity): An...
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Monday, 2 November 2015

October Project: Day 29 "Panzer Grenadier Parade Ground with 251 Transport"

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The final force composition for a Chain of Command German Panzer Grenadier Platoon (Normandy): Four Hanomag 251 Half-Tracks: Hanomag 251...
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Sunday, 1 November 2015

October Project: Day 28 "The Joy of Flocking"

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Once again the watered down PVA comes out. This time the figures are dropped into the "flock box" which still after five years of ...
Saturday, 31 October 2015

October Project: Day 27 "Basing (III) Shade to Highlighting the Earth"

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Painting the base proper! Note to self: Now you do have to let this bit dry thoroughly out or you court disaster if you press too hard on...
Friday, 30 October 2015

October Project: Day 26 "Basing (II) Brown and Black Earth"

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Once the sand has dried, or in the case of impatient and impetus people like myself, is "almost dry" (say 80% there) slosh togethe...
Thursday, 29 October 2015

October Project: Day 25 "Basing (I) - PVA and Sand"

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Time to temporarily put down the paintbrush and pickup a bottle of PVA and "tub of wargaming sand". Watering down the PVA to a sem...
Wednesday, 28 October 2015

October Project: Day 24 "Boot Grey Day - Final Highlight"

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The project has progressed to its final slot of painting the figures before 'basing' is addressed. This really is a final touch up j...
Tuesday, 27 October 2015

October Project: Day 23 "Woodstock"

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Next up is the little finishing touch highlights I want to apply to the wooden surfaces, which in the case of the Panzer Grenadiers is 95% r...
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Monday, 26 October 2015

October Project: Day 22 "Gas Mask and Helmet Highlight" Part (II)

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Once I had painted the "new" Panzer Grenadier figures I took a look back at the 2009 completed set and saw that I had to apply a s...
Sunday, 25 October 2015

October Project: Day 21 "Gas Mask and Helmet Highlight" Part (I)

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The raised surfaces of the "helmet and gas mask containers" need special attention, courtesy of Tamiya (XF-61) Dark Green mixed wi...