KGN Weekend - The First Town - Tilly-Sur-Seulles, June 1944 - A busy table!

Almost there now!

Painting 29 figures in one go is a bit of a first for me. Plus 2 new support weapons and the clean uo of 2 more, but I want to get this lot done so I can focus on the Stugs. Clothing, faces and codes are done, just minor detailing and clean up before the first coat of varnish.

8 days to go.....

Fool me once....

KGN can give you the option (if it is in your list) to use dirty tricks. One of them is a Dummy Gun. Ruleswise you put one in your deployment area, and remove it when it is destroyed or if the enemy moves closer then 12 inch. I abhor removing casualties from play, after a heavy battle you end up with an empty battlefield. Mine is filled with dead men, craters and wrecked vehicles, and shows heavily contested areas and tells a story. In this case, if the enemy spots the gun and it is a dummy, this one is put in place.

Seems the Germans did this quite a bit, but they are not very well documented, I've had to make do with barely 6 pictures.

The gun is plasticcard, toothpicks, 2 wheels from a Sgts'MEss rubble pack and a spare muzzle from a 105 Stug I had lying around. Took me a spare hour to build and paint it, so time well spent.

壁虎 Bi Hu armoured police truck

The Bi Hu (壁虎, Gecko, or Wall Tiger) is a older 6x6 armoured truck that the PRC still produces for policing duties on lesser developed locations and colonies. It is either equipped with a water cannon (with a water tank added in the back) or a 14.7mm machinegun, depending on the situation. It is very reliable, needs little maintenance but is lightly armoured and rather cramped. The vehicle is not sold to civillians, though a few private security companies operate them and it has been seen with rebels and seperatists, though those are propably captured examples.

The model itself is a 15mm FoW model, FR320 Laffly S15TOE, just released. Comes as a resin hull with metal wheels and yurret. Flashfree, hardly any cleaning to do, it did come with double the amound of small wheels needed to make it. 1 had a small chip in the back but nothing too bad. Painted in suitable police colours it's for my PRC sci-fi army. Decals are from I-94 (numbers) and TL Decals (door shield). I'd love to have some POLICE decals in this scale, but alas. Comparison pic with a droid from The Scene, based on a 1 eurocent.

FAI Armoured Car

Just finished the FAI Artmoured Car for my Early War Russians. The model is sold by RH Models/Liberation Miniatures and comes as a resin hull and a metal turret and 4 metal wheels. In my example, the turret still had a bit of the plug attatched and next to it was a sizable hole. Easily filled, but still. Also, the front fenders seem too small to fit the wheels properly, but other then that it is easy to build and a nice representation of the FAI. My army only needs 1 anyway. The model retails for 4,99 UK Pounds, code MSR10.

Pics:

Khurasan Hercules Civillian Powered Loader

Just finished the powered loader. This should go nicely with the Gunbird dropship.

I built it with an enclosed cockpit, you get parts to do several versions, my pack included some weapons as well. I filed down the front plate flat and pianted it to look like glass. Hazard markings all the way, tarmac base. From the looks of it, people interested in 20mm sci-fi will find this useful as well. Very versatile bit of kit with plenty of extra parts, highly reccomended for your 15mm sci-fi collectors.

Order it here: Khurasan Miniatures , TTC-2010A, retails for $6.99

Size reference to 1 eurocent coin

Spinning, spinning.....Kursk windmill finished!

Took me long enough, me and the paintjob didn't agree so it took a while.

Taking the windmill made by Warwick Kinrade as an example, I made my own, as shown in a previous post back in October I think. Finished it today after some prodigious flocking, hope you like it.

Some details:

Wooden log base

Old wagonwheel

The door is slightly open....

Owlcrap:

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Removable for transport:

With the added benefit in the summer......

Flak Build - Праща

This is my entry for the Flak build.

Праща (in English: Sling) is a ad-hoc weapon system created by the Serbs in the later part of the Third Balkan War. It is made up by using the gunmount of the M-55 20mm towed AA gun, a welded, adjustable frame with what appears to be a car windshield, 2 hardpoints and 2 AA-8 Aphid short range IR missiles, as seen here:

For my version I've used the base of a RH Models ZPU, brass wire and plasticcard plus the hardpoints and missiles from a old MiG-29 kit.

Gamewise I intend to use this as a Sa-7 in Rapid Fire Moderns. Primeraly meant for Yugoslavia, it might even get some use in the Afrika Big Game later this year.