Year: 2020

A bigger river

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Above you see the river I build for my gaming table a wile ago. Now that there will be brown water navy boats available in the near future, at least after the Corona lockdown is lifted, I thought that I would need a wider river to accommodate 28mm boats. I have a modular gaming table layout with extruded polystyrene squares for variety. The approach to the new waterway is a different one. I have a gaming mat permanently beneath the styrene squares which is used for naval wargaming. I thought about just building “shore” tiles and use the gaming mat as the river surface. In that way i can have the river as big as I like or I could even build a shoreline for amphibious landing games. Here is the result:

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The half wide “squares” are the new tiles I build.

What do you think?

Another Prick 25 radio man

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Here is another radio operator . This time i put some more foliage on the base to differentiate the figures a bit more.

Gunny Sergeant Frank Thomas

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This US Marine figure is Gunny Sergeant Frank Thomas who carried the Stars and Stripes in Hue and is seen getting it from inside his flak jacket. I painted the figure a bit different. The flag he is getting out of his flack jacket is painted to represent a map so the figure could be used in different settings ,too.

A Vietnamese soldier in classic green

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Here is another Vietnamese NVA soldier painted with a red party scarf.

Attached war reporter

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I painted up a special figure the other day. Dale Dye who became famous for his work in Hollywood epics such as Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers and Last of the Mohicans etc. See the camera and the attached film boxes round his neck and the cigarette in his left hand. Figure by Empress Miniatures Sculpted by Paul Hicks.

Water buffalo

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Vietnam landscape without water buffalo ? As these animals can be found almost everywhere in Vietnam I needed some for my Vietnam war gaming table. The standing ones are from Empress miniatures the resting ones are 3D printed as is the chicken.

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There will be more animals in the future dogs, pigs etc.

take aim!

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Another NVA jungle fighter. I painted the backpack in a unusual light grey. As always taken the color from the excellent reference book by E. Emering.

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M79 Blooper gunner

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Good Morning.  So the Salute weekend is gone by without Salute… more time for painting though. I painted up this blooper gunner from Empress. Very nice sculpt by Paul Hicks.

It was a joy to paint.

More to come…

Salute 2020

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IMG_9651 There will be no Salute 2020 report like you were used to for Salute 19, Salute 18, Salute 17etc. Because there is no Salute this year due to Covid 19 / Corona. So what else can I do? I will show you pictures of the last years Salutes instead . I know it is no real substitute, as there is no such thing as a substitute for the show the South London Warlords bring on for us each year.

Hopefully we will have a new Salute in 2021 and will be able to meet old and new friends again.

So here are a few pictures of last years Salute. You can find many more pictures here:

Salute 19, Salute 18, Salute 16,

 

So missing the show, my friends and London in general this year…. Roll on 2021 hopefully without a pandemic like we have this year. Let us remember the friends and wargamers, figure collectors, painters, terrain modelers who we lost to COVID 19 may they rest in peace. We will never forget them!