tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32444036048359637842024-02-06T22:29:02.268-08:00Santa Cruz Warhammer HistoricalSC Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15258905153733166390noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-54430647224021809872015-04-30T08:52:00.004-07:002015-04-30T12:39:05.103-07:00Bolt Action for WW1? That would be sweet..<br />
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Last week my buddy Christian gave me a tank to paint for his new project: Flames of War, WW1, a supplement that allows FOW to take their game back from WW2 to the Great War. There are a modest amount of models available and I got to paint one of them, the British Whippet medium tank, a kind of armoured tractor that was used from 1917 on as an anti-infantry weapon.<br />
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The model looks great for such a small kit and it was a lot of fun painting. I finished it in about an hour and started looking up stuff about this vehicle, to learn a bit more about it's history. While browsing, I encountered so many interesting images, vehicles and uniforms, I immediately was fantasizing about a Bolt Action version that plays in 14-18. I think the Great War lends itself uniquely to wargaming, since during that war the strategies were really a mix between old and new styles of warfare. It would allow for some really great modeling options:<br />
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Of course there are already plenty of companies that create WW1 kits and recently I worked with <a href="http://trenchworx.com/">Trenchworx</a>, a small US company that creates excellent tanks for wargaming in 28mm. They ran a kickstarter a while back with WW1 vehicles and have done a nice job with them, like this Rolls Royce:<br />
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or this St. Chamond:<br />
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I recently watched this video of the Perry twins creating 54 mm WW1 models for director Peter Jackson<a href="http://anzacdiorama.blogspot.com/"> for a massive battle display in New Zealand</a>, check out this great little news item <a href="http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/sir-peter-jackson-developing-multi-million-dollar-wwi-exhibition-video-6288901">here</a>. You can see that the 54mm models are ready to go, they just have to be shrunk a bit...<br />
So there is a lot of attention now on this period and it would be nice if larger players like Warlord, Perry Miniatures (or even Games Workshop!) would really commit themselves to creating a complete WW1 game for 28 mm. Any thoughts?<br />
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<i><span style="color: lime;">SC Mike </span></i><br />
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SC Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15258905153733166390noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-59135082689628973502015-04-24T22:25:00.002-07:002015-04-24T22:26:11.509-07:00Bolt Action! Trenchworx Tank review part 3: T-28<br />
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This beast of a tank is the T-28, a great looking Russian tank that perfectly fits the look of a in-between-worldwars-tank, lots of guns, very large, but also slow. Read this review, if you play Bolt Action - it works great in our beloved game!</div>
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The Soviet T-28 medium tank was used from 1933-41 in the invasion of Poland, the Winter War vs the Finns and during the German invasion of Russia with 411 seeing action vs the Germans in June and July 1941 and a few even as late as the Winter 1941 defense of Leningrad and Moscow.</div>
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Designed as an infantry support tank it had a small main gun and 4 machine guns. </div>
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The review today is of the T28 from the small, independent company<a href="http://www.trenchworx.com/"> Trenchworx</a>, who specializes in hard-to-get, interesting 28mm tanks for Bolt Action. Inside the box I found a simple, well detailed kit with only a few parts, instructions and even some magnets.</div>
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When I heard the masters were 3d printed I have to say I was a little worried to find plotting lines on the parts, while there were some, they were not as bad as I had expected and I imagine I could have sanded the parts a bit to remove some of it but I decided to just build the model as is and see how noticeable it was after paint.</div>
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The castings were very nice and crisp with very little flash and only minimal air bubbles or casting imperfections. I did find a small air bubble on the front idler wheel,this is very common on high detail resin molds and an easy fix but I decided to build the kit out of the box with no additional filling.</div>
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The turret bottoms have some extra flow or vent material on the bottoms which was easy to remove.</div>
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Assembly was very straight forward with only one little issue, as you can see the locating tabs for the tracks did not quite match to the hull.</div>
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After mentioning it to Trenchworx, they have identified the problem and fixed it, their response was really positive and forthcoming and they immediately shipped out new castings, after the problem was fixed, and they fit perfectly.</div>
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The model goes together in a few minutes, mine came with some magnets for the turrets, 2 gun options and some extra machine gun bits in case of breakage. I thought it was weird that the two little turrets are the same offset to the side but that is how they were.</div>
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Drybrushing may have picked up some of the plotting lines, but overall it was not much of an issue and I was happy with the model with no serious prepwork and just some simple paint.<br />
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Overall I was very happy with the model. This would be a great model to add to your early war Soviet force. With 4 Machine guns this tank has lots of pinning possibilities for Bolt Action.<br />
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By using newer technology, Trenchworxs is able to supply the gamer with some of the more obscure models by using 3D printing to keep the overhead costs down on production and then resin to ramp up production.<br />
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Right now Trenchworx is running a kickstarter, that has already been funded, but is still running for a while - check it out <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/610277926/tanks-in-manchuria-1932-45-in-28mm-by-trenchworx?ref=email">here.</a><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><i>John</i></b></span>SC Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15258905153733166390noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-10967198255796406312015-04-19T18:48:00.002-07:002015-04-24T22:24:51.857-07:00Bolt Action! Trenchworx review, Part 2: BT-7<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a review for the <a href="http://trenchworx.com/product/bt-7a/">Trenchworx Soviet BT-7A</a> 1/56th scale resin tank. Trenchworx creates scale models for table top gaming, with the intent to manufacture in 3d printing, and eventually cast in resin. The BT-7A kit comes with the resin tank kit, instructions, magnets (for the turret), and some extra machine gun pieces (all contents pictured below).<br />
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Overall I found the casting quality to be excellent, the details were sharp, and there was obviously a lot of love given to accurately modeling the tank and its features. The inclusion of extra machine guns proved to be a good idea as well, as it didn't take long to snap the barrel off of one while trying to assemble it into the tank's turret.<br />
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There were a few surfaces that had some remnants of the striations that you get with 3d printing; but for the most part they did not warrant repair, or had been sanded away prior to the master mould being created. The only other problem I encountered was that the plugs that formed the forward and aft turret machine guns were too thick to slot into the turret and required me carving them down to make them fit (my initial efforts to push it in without significantly widening the port resulted in the break I mentioned before).</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The assembled BT-7A, an excellent reproduction.</span></i><br />
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Aside from those minor complaints the kit is high quality and came together easily, cleaning the flash and heating the thin parts (such as the tracks) to make them fit is to be expected for a resin kit such as this one. From what I've seen of the three kits we received, the quality has been consistently good.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">The BT-7 is an interesting design, I found this cut away image that explains the locations of a lot of the tank's features.</span></div>
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It's often mentioned, but bears repeating; every unit, vehicle, and piece of equipment from WWII has a rich history waiting to be explored. The history of these conflicts eclipses the most fanciful fiction writing. I won't post the entirety of what I learned about this tank here, but let's take a quick look at how the BT-7A came to be:</div>
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In the 1920's the soviets looking to modernize their tanks, held a competition looking to develop a new tank that focused on speed, while still carrying comparable armor and armaments to other tanks of the era. Enter an American (J. Walter Christie), an inventor who had developed a new suspension system utilizing torsion bars that provided superior handling at high speeds for a new "Christie" tank the M1931. Christie who had attempted to sell his tank to the US army without success, saw his opportunity and smuggled two prototypes (sans turret and weapons) into Russia with falsified papers claiming that they were farming tractors and not tanks. The Russians liked what they saw in the trials and they began to reengineer the tank as the BT: "Bystrochodnij Tankov" or 'fast tank'.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">However the tank was never intended to fight against medium or heavy tanks, and the new german tanks of 1941 with thicker armor rendered the BT tanks useless for anything except for fast recon. </span><br />
The remaining BT-7's that were not destroyed in battle fell out of service due to logistics.<br />
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There is one last notable thing about the BT-7, and that is there seems to be an inordinate amount of imagery involving flying BT-7's on any image search I did. The 'fast tank' 7 was light, weighing in at under 13.5 tons and had a V12 diesel engine outputting 450hp allowing it to reach speeds of over 35mph, and while I couldn't confirm the event pictured in the below photo on my quick research, let's just say that I really, *really* want it to be true. </div>
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The BT-7A retails for $29.00, visit <a href="http://trenchworx.com/">Trenchworx</a> to see the <a href="http://trenchworx.com/product/bt-7a/">BT-7A</a> and their other offerings.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">If you're interested in Trenchworx and their tanks, there's a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">K</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">ickstarter running now: </span><a data-mce-href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/610277926/tanks-in-manchuria-1932-45-in-28mm-by-trenchworx?ref=email" href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/610277926/tanks-in-manchuria-1932-45-in-28mm-by-trenchworx?ref=email" style="background-color: white; color: #f05a28; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Kickstarter link">The tanks in Manchuria Kickstarter</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">. You have a chance to get the BT-7A and other tanks that served in that theater at a reduced price, the Kickstarter runs until May 14th, is already funded, and it's their second successful Kickstarter.</span></span><br />
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SC Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15258905153733166390noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-72713541059593818422015-04-14T07:23:00.000-07:002015-04-14T07:23:25.574-07:00Bolt Action! Trenchworx tank review part 1<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Nom3Y08YrjC25DvQ6N-1Z9kA_JW9l5uBR4VQPEHVaXd2hTv-hmeJ2JE_Eq46sS-EM75SJlfmUu4kYvlhyphenhyphenpuJBax9FIuZWBi7Yry1OJCMaWl8wTPmGD6LXY8dkA9utORHAx-fHZUQ8ig/s1600/bt42_creditsaviarmornet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Nom3Y08YrjC25DvQ6N-1Z9kA_JW9l5uBR4VQPEHVaXd2hTv-hmeJ2JE_Eq46sS-EM75SJlfmUu4kYvlhyphenhyphenpuJBax9FIuZWBi7Yry1OJCMaWl8wTPmGD6LXY8dkA9utORHAx-fHZUQ8ig/s1600/bt42_creditsaviarmornet.jpg" height="272" width="400" /></a><br />
I recently received three 1/56 scale resin tanks from Trenchworx, a relatively new company that has recently started producing WW2 tanks that are great to use in Bolt Action. The WW2 offerings at their <a href="http://trenchworx.com/">website </a> focus on the more obscure tanks, like the Russian BT-7, the Russian T-28 and the Finnish Anti Tank Gun BT-42 that I am reviewing here today.<br />
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First a shot of a BT-42 in action during the Finnish-Russian War. The vehicle saw action for the first time in 1943 but it didn't have a good trackrecord, and it stood no realistic chance against Russian armor.<br />
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The vehicle was actually a 'kitbash' between captured Russian BT-7 light tanks and British 4.5 inch Howitzers that the Finnish got donated in 1918. Only eighteen of these vehicles were ever made and ten saw action! I think that the romantification of the Finnish effort in WW2 lead Warlord and other companies to not forget this obscure and poorly made vehicle and added it to the Finnish army book. If I were playing a Finnish army, I would certainly field one these cool little vehicles!<br />
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OK on to the Trenchworx model. The designers create their models on the computer and print it with a 3D printer. After that the models are cast in resin. Since 2014 TW has been posting updates on the facebook page Bolt Action and finally this year went ahead and started offering their models to the greater public.<br />
The model comes in a little box with nicely designed label. Inside are the parts and a guide on how to put the model together, which I think is great.<br />
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The main body is solid resin and it has good detail. The wheels and tracks have excellent detail and the engine grill looks great as well.<br />
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Straight out of the box there is flash to clean up but it's not out of the ordinary:<br />
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Onto the build. The track assembly is has little pegs sticking out that fit snugly into receiving holes on the body:<br />
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The front axel had a minor fitting problem on one side, so i had to expand the fitting spot a bit, on the other side it fit perfectly.<br />
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Here's the finished tank! The design is strong and crisp and even unpainted, the model really shows off its quality, plenty of detail to work with.<br />
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Nice details on the back of the turret with crisp lines and sharp edges. I love details like hinges for little back doors in the turret and very crisp tracks, it all helps once you start the paintjob!<br />
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I opted for the Finnish tricolor camo pattern: grey/brown/green and I tried to keep the paintjob natural, without too much drybrushing.<br />
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and the finished model:<br />
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A really cool detail: Trenchworx supplies two rare earth magnets with precast slots for them so you can easily magnetize turret and body:<br />
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After a really enjoyable build I have some advice for Trenchworx:<br />
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1. provide a sheet with decals. Painting a finnish swastika was hard! Also, the numbers you see on the front bottom were actually from a 1/72 scale american plane and I had to muddy them up to make it believable.<br />
2. if you can add worksheet with the how-to, maybe add a sheet with the color patterns that were used during the war, in this case a fully green model or a tri-color one. That would really fin(n)ish off an excellent kit.<br />
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The kit retails for 29 bucks and you can find it<a href="http://trenchworx.com/product/bt-42/"> here</a>. Trenchworx did an excellent job making an obscure (=FUN) tank for our beloved Bolt Action game that show great detail, looks realistic and is easy to play with. The model really shows off the love the designers have for making detailed WW2 tanks. I love a small, independent company who creates models they love and are uncommon.<br />
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Warlord also sells a BT-42, made to order, that one is three dollars more and has metal and resin parts. I did not have one of those on hand to do a comparison.<br />
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This is part one of a three part review series on Trenchworx tanks for Bolt Action. Next week Cornumortem will review a Russian BT-7!<br />
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<i><span style="color: lime;">SC Mike</span></i>SC Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15258905153733166390noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-132537049254044502015-04-04T10:28:00.003-07:002015-04-04T10:41:57.633-07:00Creating Winter Germans for Bolt Action<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6NGAcQ8_h6rEJylfax1rDYnwRW_86qfYHQ_kcZ2QJGdqmGkXB-4FMzyUBT02YDoHy_BOZQKN6opKuDmPcnGPXTCmI4qfyURQrP90kPScqQuu5BGX4Is-8DvJJMO1piIKcvqK0pXAiSFGQ/s1600/German-soldiers-at-stalingrad.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6NGAcQ8_h6rEJylfax1rDYnwRW_86qfYHQ_kcZ2QJGdqmGkXB-4FMzyUBT02YDoHy_BOZQKN6opKuDmPcnGPXTCmI4qfyURQrP90kPScqQuu5BGX4Is-8DvJJMO1piIKcvqK0pXAiSFGQ/s1600/German-soldiers-at-stalingrad.jpeg" height="295" width="400" /></a><br />
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About 6 weeks ago I read a post by Andy Singleton, a great Bolt Action modeler and painter, about his Winter Germans kitbashes. His <a href="http://volleyfirepainting.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/warlord-winter-russians-review-not-quite.html">original blogpost is here</a> and I really recommend it. I was instantly swayed to do something like that myself and asked him some questions on how to go about it. He was great and didn't feel bad about me copying him, which I really respect. Warlord, for which Andy paints regularly, published some notes on Andy's painting on this <a href="http://www.warlordgames.com/hobby-painting-ostfront-germans-by-andy-singleton/">Warlord page on how to paint Ostfront Germans</a>, but Andy didn't delve into how he built the models in the first place and I figured I could give that a shot.<br />
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Warlord, the company that created Bolt Action, currently does NOT have a plastic range of Winter Germans in it's assortment. <a href="http://www.warlordgames.com/new-german-ostfront-command/">They recently released a few older, metal sculpts,</a> and there are other companies that also have a handful of sculpts available, like <a href="http://www.artizandesigns.com/prod.php?prod=1327">Artizan</a>. But despite the fact that there is a new army book about the Ostfront out, and they recently released a plastic set of Winter Russians, the plastic Germans are missed sorely.<br />
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So following Andy Singleton's idea, I created a bunch of Winter Germans, using the Late War Germans and the Winter Russians. Here's a groupshot of a finished squad. The silver model is an Artizan model, a machine gun loader, that I could not create myself.<br />
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The first job, when starting this project, is to choose heads for the soldiers. There should be a mixture of helmets, fur flap hats, caps and random headgear, like show in the first picture of the post.</div>
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For the helmeted heads, I cut off the helmet of a German and the face of a Russian, like this:</div>
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It's challenging and I messed up a few heads before I got it right. For the Russian head, this is a good one to use:</div>
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There is plenty of historical evidence about Germans wearing Russian flap hats, and so some of my models have a straight Russian head, but make sure to cut off the little star on the front. </div>
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The soldier below has a Russian face with a German Wool field cap, using the same method as show above and giving the squad a bit of visual variety.</div>
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Once you have resolved the head modeling, move on to the bodies. Some of the German soldiers in Russia wore greatcoats, like you can see on the cover of this Osprey book:</div>
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My goal is to create Germans in snowy conditions, so greatcoats really look the part. The Winter Russian kit comes with great looking coats, using these Russian coats with the German helmets and kits for the late war German box set, it really works well together. </div>
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Of course the pouches don't match in shape and amount; German soldiers wore three, squarish ones in a row, not two, but some of that can be fixed by modeling the arms in front of the belt and hiding that.</div>
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A lot of soldiers wore a white canvas over their greatcoat. To recreate that, use some of the 'quilted' winter Russians. and use green stuff to cover the whole body. Of course I had to cut of all the pouches and the sling.</div>
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and the final model:</div>
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Although we associate the great coats with the winter armies of the Germans and they are fun to model with, most of the German soldiers had and preferred the reversible white/camo outfit, sometimes quilted for warmth. Here's an example, a spring parka from the middle-late war period.</div>
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It's easy to see that keeping the jacket white was not easy!</div>
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Here's my take on creating one of those:</div>
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I used a quilted Russian and shaved off all the lines from the quilts, like you can see in the left image of the composite about making the white canvas.</div>
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Then I used some epoxy to bring the pants down and creat a hood. I used the Late War German arms, a bit thin, but it will have to do.</div>
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Below is a model with the great coat arms, and I shaved off the cuff, so it looks thicker. I sculpted the pant bottoms on this one as well.</div>
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All the models were based on a rubble/brick base, imagining a battle in the outskirts of Stalingrad.</div>
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This squad has two artizan models in it</div>
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Here are some of the models I spend some more time on:</div>
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What I love about Bolt Action is the journey of modeling and learning about history. What I love about all the blogs around, like Andy Singleton's, is the inspiration I get from it. I hope that this post will inspire others as well!</div>
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Although flyer models don't really play a role in Bolt Action, I love to use them in our games to enhance the cinematic experience. They are really easy to incorporate into a game, using a 1/72 scale kit, a bamboo skewer and a Games Workshop 60 mm base. Once you have played with actual plane models, you don't want to go back!!</div>
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Recently I put together a Messerschmitt BF-109 for the Afrika Korps. My friend John put together a little Afrika Korps army and I thought he could use this plane to go with his troops.</div>
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I got the idea of the paint scheme in my Finescale Modeler from last month - it had a detailed build of the flyer of Hans Joachim Marseille, who's airplane is featured in a lot of 1.32 scale kits. </div>
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My model was not correct, since the 1.72 scale kit came from a Revell Battle of Britain set, from 1940, so the airplane doesn't match (wingtips). But for our beloved game, it would do just fine. Here's a quick build story:</div>
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1. After building, I preshaded the panel lines across the entire plane. Notice also i built a little tropen filter above the engine exhaust. </div>
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2. Priming with Tamiya desert yellow, you can see pre-shading does work well to create natural looking panel lines. </div>
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3. The Messerschmitt has a gnarly cockpit with lots of panels; I asked my wife to create masks for them and put them on, her eyes are perfect for that job. The cockpit needed two coats of primer. </div>
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4. Decals took forever, and the 1/72 kits are filled with them, and the small size makes it pretty challenging. The yellow numbers are actually from a Tamiya M8 Grehound kit in 1/48 scale; it's pays off to keep all your unused decals from previous builds. The kit didn't come with a swastika for the tail, I decided it would be too expensive to buy a whole decal sheet for this purpose</div>
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And here is the plane on it's base:</div>
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I really recommend building some nice looking flyers and use them in your games. The models are cheap, the history is fun and your games will get better! </div>
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I have built two other airplanes for Bolt Action, below are the links:</div>
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1. <a href="http://scwhhistorical.blogspot.com/search/label/spitfire">Spitfire, desert camo</a></div>
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If you caught <a href="http://santacruzwarhammer.blogspot.com/2014/10/bolt-action-inexpensive-alternatives.html">the first installment of this series,</a> you will remember the low cost Revel Pnz IV kits.<br />
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I decided to pick up five of them after finding an ebay seller that gave me a good combined shipping<br />
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These kits are decent but not perfect, so I decide to make a couple simple changes to make them a bit more realistic.<br />
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First detail that was missing was the round vent on the top of the turret. Adding a simple detail like this really goes a long way and brakes up the empty space, also this one detail is one of the Pnz IVs iconic identifying features.<br />
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I used a hole punch and some plastic card and a smaller punch to make a smaller disc that is under it to raise it up a tiny bit.<br />
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The second change I made was to trim the rear lower skirt to a taper as it should be, when flipped over to the correct height the corner that is cut off becomes the bottom rear. Check out the difference between the first two images in the post.<br />
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After that a quick scuff over the graphics some primer and base paint,<br />
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I decided not to paint the track sections, they come black and I just brushed on the yellow to the hull side and wheel centers.<br />
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Then it was off to the airbrush for a Normandy style three color camouflage pattern.<br />
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As you can see I masked some of the skirt panels to keep the camo off them to represent replaced sections as they were lost or damaged frequently, I may even cut one or two off at some point and have them missing a few.<br />
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after that, painting in the tracks, muffler and tools, painting the tank numbers (these were painted by hand by the crew) and a tan drybrush to pick up some highlights and blend it all together.<br />
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Now I have a finished German Pnz IV zug for Bolt Action Tank War for under $50. They are not perfect, but it will get me on the table for some games and didn't have to rack up the credit card.<br />
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SC Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15258905153733166390noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-7370069320912154342014-10-09T07:14:00.002-07:002014-10-09T07:32:34.839-07:00Bolt Action: Cheap alternatives to tanks!With the release of the new Tank War supplement for the Bolt Action WWII system, many of us find ourselves dreaming of lots of tanks rolling over the tables in our upcoming games.<br />
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Warlord has a few new releases and some plastic kits , but most ring in at $30-50 for an oddly underscale lump of resin and lead. (don't get me started on those tiny jeeps)<br />
Most of us have gone the way of using some of the high quality plastic kits in 1/48 scale or even some nice die cast stuff that is already built, but even these options hammer away on the wallet still around $20-50.<br />
How about some super cheap kits that you can buy truckloads of you say?<br />
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How about $8 Shermans and Panzer IVs? Two of the most prolific tanks for the two big armies are available in 1/48 scale for the price of a Mclunch.<br />
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Revell has rereleased a couple of 70's snap together WWII tanks that you might consider for your gaming needs. The Combat Crushers kits are definitely targeted to kids but I ordered a couple to see if these toys can be used as a decent low cost option to bolster your armor to the sizes needed for the new Tank War games.<br />
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These kits are blister packed and prepainted in crazy graphics to grab the attention of kids , but I figured with a little work and some paint they might be useable.<br />
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You can find them searching for Quake and After Shock with Revell on Ebay.<br />
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Unboxing reveals how simple these kits are and they go together in a few minutes. The horrible graphics are tampo printed and need to be knocked down a bit with some sanding before you paint over them to avoid seeing the designs under the paint.<br />
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The Sherman is an odd kit with the late war HVSS type chassis with what looks like a 105 turret and a early 75 gun. Purists out there may not want to deal with this, but on the good side, it looks like a sherman tank if you dont look too close and its scale is pretty good.<br />
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Here are some pics with a Tamiya Sherman based Firefly, as you can see the height length and width all compare pretty well.<br />
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A little paint goes a long way and this odd kit can look pretty presentable with a simple quick paint job. The .50 cal machine gun looks pretty silly so drilled out the grips and added a bit of rod to make the barrel look better<br />
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The Panzer IV kit fares a bit better, once you flip the side skirts over where they should be, it looks pretty good. You could even make an earlier version by ditching the skirts and turret shields, and even chop the barrel and do a little plastic card work to make the F1, sure the details are molded on and not too amazing but it's really pretty decent on the table with a paint job. A nice airbrush camo job will really make this thing a contender.<br />
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Here is mine waiting for some camo. I drilled out the barrel but that's about it.<br />
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One other problem is that these kits don't have decals. 1/48 decals are available out there, and if you have been using plastic kits, odds are that you have some extra sitting around and if you are planning to make a fleet of these you can find a sheet with lots of 1/48 decals reasonably,<br />
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So is it worth it? I think the average player would say yes, if you love building superdetailed models, not so much. A Tamiya kit can be found on Ebay for around 30 bucks and is a wonderful kit to build, and that's cheaper than a rhino, but you can buy 3 of these Panzer IVs for that and they look pretty good on the table...so I guess it's up to you.<br />
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I think I will be buying a few more of the Panzers and a decal sheet set for my Germans, add some weathering and some stowage and see how they look.<br />
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If you do go after these snap kits, be careful of the shipping fees and find a seller that will combine at a reasonable fee, most of the 8 buck kits seem to have that much in shipping fees, and that kind of kills the great deal, so make sure you get a good combined rate.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><i>John</i></b></span>SC Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15258905153733166390noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-25633722801389522632014-03-31T08:28:00.000-07:002014-03-31T08:28:19.029-07:00Scratch built Bolt Action gameboard Part 2: the finished village!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBIGZJFqP0W0uUt_pi7m1GYrvXUFqSPsBJMlwTqriMRBhOft-M-JfhmHDvhUvcE_m8z1NLSRHGH3o0nip9SMPhQiMlK3S5zW3ZUidDWMnAEpWzK4mbmZ9-dbQS1huGm4FVWhaBVGrU0zX2/s1600/IMG_0039.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBIGZJFqP0W0uUt_pi7m1GYrvXUFqSPsBJMlwTqriMRBhOft-M-JfhmHDvhUvcE_m8z1NLSRHGH3o0nip9SMPhQiMlK3S5zW3ZUidDWMnAEpWzK4mbmZ9-dbQS1huGm4FVWhaBVGrU0zX2/s1600/IMG_0039.JPG" height="255" width="400" /></a><br />
I finished up the build of a gameboard representing the footprint of a village for my Bolt Action games. The finished board, which measures 40 x 24 and has two equal parts, isn't big enough to cover a side of a a 6x4 foot table, but it was really designed to add some realism to the village part of our table. I always felt that putting building on a green mat didn't look cinematic enough.<br />
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Here's the second half being built. Here's the link to the build of the first half, it explains how to stamp cobbles as well: <a href="http://scwhhistorical.blogspot.com/2014/03/scratch-built-bolt-action-game-board.html">HERE</a><br />
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Here's the finished table<br />
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You can see I haven't painted the edge of the new half. Because of that you can also see that despite using tough composite board, there is still warping going on. The right half warped quite badly, the new part a bit less, because I changed the order of the build of the board, starting with the composite board and working my way up. </div>
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You can see I added some ornamentation in the stone work, with crosswalks and a circle in the square area.</div>
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I haven't finalized what should be on the right top, where the tree is now. I feel it needs a fountain or garden to emphasize the importance of the tower. I also painted the side walk around the tower different, to make that area stand out. </div>
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Once you start going to eyelevel with the camera, the board and models really come to life. Enjoy some of these action shots!</div>
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Below you can see the warping showing, right behind the Sherman. I am not bummed about it, but if I make another board, I will make sure this doesn't happen again. </div>
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The hedges around the middle part of the board were made of Scotchbrite steel scrubbers. I cut it into strips, glued it to styrene and painted it. They look fun! </div>
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SC Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15258905153733166390noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-40905095271643001532014-03-23T17:27:00.001-07:002014-03-23T17:28:37.295-07:00Scratch built Bolt Action Game Board, Part 1In one week I built one side of a village board for Bolt Action, using composite board, foamboard, beach sand, glue and some dedication. Here is the first part, 20x24 inches, from start to finish<br />
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After mapping out the road and side I started making the cobble stone road. Using a brush without the hair and shaped like a brick, I started punching in the design. I had to take the top paper off the foam board to expose the soft foam that really takes the indentation well. Here are images of that technique from a previous project:<br />
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Here is the road and sidewalks. For those sidewalks I used a larger stone (different brush) and made them look more distressed looking by picking at the foam a bit. I didn't count how many times I had to punch, but it took me three sessions; after a while your eyes and hands go nuts!<br />
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Here's the design, sanded as well. Realize that you can't spray the foam, so I had to paint the whole thing by hand.</div>
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And now the fun part; the finished board images! And again, Bolt Action is so cinematic, it's great to work on armies and terrain.</div>
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Part two will be the other side of the board, it will feature<a href="http://scwhhistorical.blogspot.com/2014/02/more-scratchbuilt-terrain-for-ww2.html"> this building </a>and a village square type scene.</div>
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The above image proves it: a decent piece of terrain with our beloved models look great, cinematic and overall it makes me want to play Bolt Action again and again. Maybe that's why I have been on a terrain building spree. Here's the latest, finished building:</div>
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I wanted it to look like a North Italian type building, with the slanted roof and the light colored stonework.It's not a realistic piece, but it is functional and it looks the WW2 part. The stairs coming down are big enough for a model on each step, so they stay in coherence when moving through.</div>
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Below is the back with a similar set of stairs. You can also see the city shield of Como, a town in Northern Italy.</div>
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View from the top. You can see the Warhammer pieces on the side of the wall look fine, especially once I added a few roof tiles.</div>
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Once you start taking close ups, the terrain really comes to life:</div>
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The walk ways are 1.5 inch, so models have enough space</div>
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As mentioned in previous posts, this piece is built up in 3 parts. If you don't want to use the wall and stairs, you can just use the tower and base...</div>
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Or make the base into a little square and put the tower on by itself. The walls could be made into a field headquarters or some storage area for objective purposes.</div>
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The floor of the tower is made to look very old with broken flagstones and lots of rubble, although still flat enough to put models on.</div>
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I am now pondering more stuff, like a town square and roads. I have been looking online for inspiration, and my first impressions are that the battlefields we create for our games are way to clean looking. It's astounding to see the destruction of urban warfare in WW2, like the shot below. </div>
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It would be hard to design something for Bolt Action that looks like that. The image below might be more feasible. Interesting to see that the road looks like dirt, although it probably isn't. But the rubble and dust create a cover over it, which would be easier to model then the cobble or flagstone I was thinking of before..</div>
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This was the final part of this 3 part series. Below are the other two parts:</div>
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<a href="http://scwhhistorical.blogspot.com/2014/02/more-scratchbuilt-terrain-for-ww2-games.html">part one: building the tower and stairs</a></div>
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<a href="http://scwhhistorical.blogspot.com/2014/02/more-scratchbuilt-terrain-for-ww2-games_18.html">part two: making the cobblestone square</a></div>
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If you click on the label Terrain on the side of this blog, you can find all the terrain I have built over the last 4 months. Hope this inspires!</div>
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SC Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15258905153733166390noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-56385453094513821142014-02-18T20:58:00.001-08:002014-02-18T20:58:35.586-08:00More scratchbuilt terrain for WW2 games Part 2: making cobblestone streets the hard way..Here's is the image where I left off in my previous post:<br />
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You can see the scratchbuilt tower, standing on a little cobblestone square, a small plaza of sorts. It looks old, worn, like it has been walked on for hundreds of years. Here's a close up of square which measures about 8x8 inches.You can see the cobblestones have nice irregularity to them and with a bit of sand (which respresent debris from the damage to the building) it looks pretty cool.</div>
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Here is how I did that.</div>
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Step 1. on your piece of foam board, tear off the top layer of paper to reveal the softer middle part:</div>
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That is not that easy and in the future I will have to look for a different board, the paper is really stuck on there! After a minute here's the result. I just did a small side for the sample:</div>
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You can tell that using your nails to get underneath the paper, creates little craters and dents. That actually helps it make it more realistic, as you will see.</div>
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Step 2: remove hair from an old brush and shape the metal part into a stone of your liking</div>
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Step 3. Using a ruler (or not), start punching the brush end into the foam in a pattern you like.</div>
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After 10 seconds you have something like this:</div>
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Now the paper that we couldn't get off, we can use to our advantage. In the square base for the tower, that's where I added the sand, but in the example below, the paper parts that didn't want to come off, you make into stucco parts of an old wall. I painted up a little piece in two different looks, for you all to see. I also made another cobble brush, with more round stones. Of course the painting can be done a lot better, this is just for example. </div>
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Step 4: OK, here's the final step: paint it up! I painted my cobblestone square in grays and browns and highlighted a bit with lighter sand colors. Here's the result: </div>
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It has a wonderfully old look to it, very medieval and so perfect for Bolt Action in Northern Italy where many of these streets and squares were still in existence. </div>
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You can do different patterns, like circles AND if you paint stones individually, you can make a great red brick house with gray mortar </div>
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Part 3 will be the final post of this building, which was started <a href="http://scwhhistorical.blogspot.com/2014/02/more-scratchbuilt-terrain-for-ww2-games.html">HERE in part one</a></div>
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There are some amazing modelers out there that do this technique infinitely better than myself, please research it a bit online. There are different boards and foams available that will make it easier. I myself just kind of solve problems at hand with the stuff I have, which is part of the journey!<br />
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<i><span style="color: lime;">SC Mike</span></i>SC Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15258905153733166390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-20261611053162461272014-02-16T08:00:00.000-08:002014-02-16T08:11:45.753-08:00More scratchbuilt terrain for WW2 games Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After finishing up a bunch of buildings for our Bolt Action games here in the Bay Area (Santa Cruz, CA), I figured I would go back to tanks and little guys. But somehow I kept thinking about building a bigger building, with stairs, and with some height. Since my American army is based on the 92nd African American division in Northern Italy in 1944-45, I went and looked for a design that would fit that.</div>
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This building is in Florence, a big chapel, with the big doors and the shallow shanted roof, much less steep then steeples in North West Europe. Of course I wansn't going to build that thing, which besides being impossible for a mediocre builder like me, it also is not very practical. I like my buildings to be playable first and realistic second. </div>
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You can see two things: lots of destruction in the urban/village environment (this would make a cool diorama) and the difference in height, which makes our games more visually appealing.</div>
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So this is what I put together:</div>
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The tower/chapel is finished, but bottom part is still getting some weathering and sand. You can see the impact of a shell on the roof, which always looks the part. You can also spot a (grey) Warhammer piece, I removed all the skulls and added the rooftiles, it will look nice. </div>
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The building is simple and very accessible, which means we will really use it, for objectives, cover and maneuvring. </div>
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The elevated base has two stairs and a little stone area around the tower. There is room for plenty of models and all the walkways are at least 1.5 inches. You can see on the back another Warhammer piece, I removed the skull and will paint a city shield on it, like this one <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Como-Stemma.png">from the city of Como</a></div>
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I built the whole thing in pieces, that can be taken apart for easy travel, but also for multi use. Here's the tower by itself, with a little cobblestone square around it. The square cobblestone base is loose from the tower.</div>
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Here's that base, with the cobblestone bottom put on the ground. Here, after painting, it could be come a command post or a spot for a Heavy AT gun. You can see the support I glued halfways down the side that keep the tower up when the cobbestones lay up top.</div>
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Let's start with a set of low walls<br />
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The walls have a base of Warhammer Fantasy movement tray, built up with balsa wood piece which was then covered with the styrene cobble stone sheets. </div>
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In order to make good transitions between the different wall pieces, I made some pillars, which frame the corners nicely. I made a total of 5 pieces plus three little pillars, which could make a good size yard or so.</div>
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On to the ruin. Again, the same size as all the houses in this set, but this time very functional and open and with a upper level. As you can see, adding sand to the edges of the ruined walls really adds realism later on.</div>
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Here's the painted version:</div>
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and with a squad in it. Good looking cover!</div>
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I made an open garage/barn like structure, which again is open and very accessible.</div>
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With roof tiles to make it look snazzy</div>
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Wednesday night I will use this stuff for the first time. Report will follow!</div>
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I finished this larger terrain piece over the last week or so; but in my excitement I completely forgot to take any production pictures, and so the finished terrain piece is all I can offer you.<br />
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With the images above you can see both viewpoints in the front. With the same grey paint scheme as described in <a href="http://scwhhistorical.blogspot.com/2014/02/scratch-built-terrian-part-1-house.html">Part ONE of this series</a>, and similar burn damage around the areas that have taken a big hit. The piece is about 12 inches long and the three houses individually are the same size as the single one from part one.</div>
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I added broken glass to the windows, using old blister packaging. It really adds a nice touch and is very simple, as you can see below, there is glass in all three windows.<br />
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In contrast to the monochramatic front, I decided to paint the back more colorful. Also, I imagined it to be three separate houses, so they would all have different interior colors.</div>
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Some models for scale. All the doorways are large enough for models to walk through. I find it looks better cinematically during the game if the models can actually move through the terrain in a realistic manner</div>
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The left top of the piece has a little ledge that could hide a lonely sniper...</div>
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but the piece is also big enough for a good size squad!</div>
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It's fun to photograph the models inside this model...</div>
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this one looks awesome!</div>
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Hope this inspires! And anyone in the Bay Area that wants to play Bolt Action, we are playing this coming wednesday evening at <a href="http://gomythic.com/">Mythic Games in Santa Cruz</a> which has just added the Bolt Action line to its product offerings!</div>
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Over the last 4 weeks I have been swept up in a surge of productivity, building terrain for our local Bolt Action Games. This is the first part of a three part series, have a look and see if any of it inspires you to make some buildings yourself- it's easy!</div>
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This was the first thing I made. Like with all terrain I make, it has to be funtional in the game, not just an ornament. The damaged walls have been opened enough to let a squad move in and hide. There are enough windows to give all models views to all sides. </div>
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The windows are at perfect height to give most models a realistic looking view out of the window. I built the corner low enough so a sniper or a machine gun team can also look out - it's important to make it funtional for lots of models.</div>
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Here's the paint job, on the darker side. Note the black soot around the damaged walls and roof tiles, it makes it look a bit more realistic. The paint scheme was straight forward: black primer, fortress grey drybrush, brown wash, mid grey drybrush, light grey drybrush, brown staining with very dry brush.</div>
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The roof: dark brown, brown wash, red drybrush</div>
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The back, with door, so units can move in and out</div>
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Here's a scale comparison with a Tamiya 1/48 scale sherman. Its looks well.</div>
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styrene roof tiles: <a href="http://www.artistsupplysource.com/product/195370/arts-and-crafts/architectural-and-model-building-material/wee-scapes-architectural-model-styrene-sheets-spanish-tile-brick/">wee scapes</a></div>
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styrene field stone work: <a href="http://www.artistsupplysource.com/product/195373/arts-and-crafts/architectural-and-model-building-material/wee-scapes-architectural-model-styrene-sheets-field-stone/">wee scapes</a></div>
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sandwork: beach sand. Make sure to also add the sand on the sides of the broken walls, it looks much better that way<a href="http://www.artistsupplysource.com/product/195373/arts-and-crafts/architectural-and-model-building-material/wee-scapes-architectural-model-styrene-sheets-field-stone/"> </a></div>
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Part 2 coming up this week.</div>
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If you live in the greater Bay Area and you play Bolt Action or would love to try it out, check out our facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/588257911255581/">Bolt Action Bay Area.</a><br />
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I have been playing this game now for about 8 months and I am totally in love with it. It is in a lot of ways similar to warhammer and 40K, but in a lot of ways it's very different. One thing that is eyecatching: it's much less complicated. And that is part of why I like it. My buddies and I can truly enjoy the flow of the game, the models on the table and basically hanging out with eachother, chatting about work, family or whatever without stressing (or arguing) about the rules.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">grandpa (on the left)</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i>Part of me starting Bolt Action, was the fact that my wife's grandma was WW2 veteran in the 10th mountain division and received two purple hearts and a bronze star for his service in Northern Italy in 1944-45. It led me to model my first army, the 92nd all black regiment that fought in Northern Italy.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>1000 point army, enough for plenty of fun games!</i></span><br />
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which matches the real one:<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">British eighth army Crusader</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i>Maybe it's my middle age man syndrome, but I am kind of totally over Games Workshop. I feel angry about the companies strategies over the last 4 years or so and I am convinced they have destroyed the playfullness and creativity of the game to make as much profit as possible. The pricing of new models is astounding.<br />
Warlord, maker of Bolt Action, is an upstart compared to GW, and they display a more youthful exuberance about their product. The models are not cheap, but much cheaper then GW's models. Also, you don't need as many models in Bolt Action to have a good game.<br />
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If you interested in WW2 history and love to model creatively, play some mellow games and believe in the cinematic feel of this game, give it a try. AND if you live in the Bay Area, check out our new Bolt Action Bay Area page. The goal is to promote this game in our neck of the woods, get together and maybe organize a tournament or so.<br />
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We also have a blog: <a href="http://scwhhistorical.blogspot.com/">Santa Cruz Warhammer Historical,</a> where we mix history with modeling. Become a follower!<br />
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<i><span style="color: lime;">SC Mike</span></i></div>
SC Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15258905153733166390noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-77363807329917145042014-01-05T06:05:00.002-08:002014-01-05T06:05:38.367-08:00P51 Mustang for Bolt Action<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2MieYAbiXUdp7UARqq0FY4GpCWm0iJjyoXHEk1NkWYjnvpcqeE9Gillg1qLTBIfzZ-AnTAXHyBG69hHaXXD9SulzkJFML5kN19r8bOqdtuTgKgjPokCmaNJ7CWQw_f3wvoVCaXpFSZ4MA/s1600/goehausen+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2MieYAbiXUdp7UARqq0FY4GpCWm0iJjyoXHEk1NkWYjnvpcqeE9Gillg1qLTBIfzZ-AnTAXHyBG69hHaXXD9SulzkJFML5kN19r8bOqdtuTgKgjPokCmaNJ7CWQw_f3wvoVCaXpFSZ4MA/s400/goehausen+001.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
One of my favorite things about Bolt Action, besides the modeling, is learning about history. I have been running this blog now for about 8 months or so and in that time have learned so much about WW2 history, all because of the models and units built. I make an effort to do some research whenever I build a model and find great historical images. And it's the same with the most understated unit in Bolt Action, the airplane.<br />
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In the game the airplane doesn't really have a 'model' space, its more comparable to an orbital bombardment, it's just there, it happens. But having the airplanes actually there makes it much more cinematic and real, I really recommend it. <br />
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I bought this set for about 30 bucks, it has three planes in it, all in the 1/72 scale, which is perfect for Bolt Action, as long as you use a nice long basing stick. <a href="http://scwhhistorical.blogspot.com/search/label/spitfire">Here's the first one I did, the spitfire for the British Eighth Desert Army</a> and it was time to set my sights on the P51 Mustang. The kit comes with a version from the Battle of Britain, early war, but my US army is based on the late war North Italian campaign, so I had to choose a different unit. While browsing I spotted this picture:<br />
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and I quickly found out that these crazily painted planes were from the illustrious 31st Fighter Group. You can read more about this illustrious fighter regiment right <a href="http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/31st/31st.html">here</a>, but for now I can tell you they were among the most decorated fighter units in WW2 AND they were instrumental in the late war in Northern Italy! I found a great image of one of the few still active birds....</div>
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...and chose that as my guide. Here's the finished model. Note that the plane above DOES NOT have customary camo green anti reflecting coat, instead it's black. In all other, authentic images, it's green and I am not sure why they painted it black when they restored it.</div>
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Here's a quick play-by-play of the build:</div>
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mistakes...i painted the red lines reversed....</div>
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after I redid that, I gave the plane a salt bath</div>
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then washed it with black and let it dry, then weathered the decals</div>
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The salt ate away at the paint a bit which gave it a nice weathered look</div>
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I was not able to find out why the numbers on the back fin were painted over, but that is really how it was</div>
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Here's my model, with the weathered decals</div>
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and here it is on it's stand. There is a little guy on the bottom to show the length. The stand is a bamboo skewer, about 12 inches tall.</div>
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When the British arrived in Northern Africa and fought the Germans, their cruiser tanks were seriously outgunned by their adversaries. The British valued speed over armour and the cruiser tanks, like the Crusader, was faster then any other tank. But the guns were too small and the armour too light.<br />
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Here's a great image of a bunch of Crusaders MKII with the lighter guns.<br />
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It;s an amazing shot of life in the desert for a tank crew!<br />
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Here's the upgrade the British introduced soon after, the Crusader MKIII. It had upgraded armour AND a 6 pounder cannon, that would put up a much better fight against the German tanks.<br />
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You can see the turret had to be changed to facilitate the larger gun and it took away a crew member. The commander was also the loader, which didn't improve productivtiy...<br />
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Here's a crew cleaning a gun, you can see it's much bigger then the MKII<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Here's the Tamiya 1/48 scale kit that I built. Tamiya gives two color schemes as options, a green one (later desert war) and the earlier yellow/black one. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMI9R6VnIrr6E3rRYZsLMEjyaFFsmRg50NIOKpZqEzNF4DzhicqOAet2p3r0Lj7A_fmlOkndqxEMJztyt5vAHWJVDeIBDlrLAZF3MTCn9RIQW1c-2ZgydL7_Czxv-xPjJefJlertVbrig6/s1600/crusader_mkiii.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMI9R6VnIrr6E3rRYZsLMEjyaFFsmRg50NIOKpZqEzNF4DzhicqOAet2p3r0Lj7A_fmlOkndqxEMJztyt5vAHWJVDeIBDlrLAZF3MTCn9RIQW1c-2ZgydL7_Czxv-xPjJefJlertVbrig6/s400/crusader_mkiii.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"> I chose the latter, since I have painted enough green armour for a while after finishing my US 92nd army. Tamiya based their yellow black camo scheme on this tank: </span><br />
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Now a bit of a gripe with scale in Bolt Action. It really bugs me that the Bolt Action vehicles are so small. it just doesn't look good and after spending dollars and countless hours on a model, I want it to look great in my army. Even 1/48 scale is a bit small, but certainly much more realistic then the 1/56 scale that Warlord produces. I really wish they would switch to 1/48 scale. There are not many vehicles in the game anyway, so it really doesn't have a big foot print on the game table.</div>
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Here's the Nesbit Purple Heart Happy End!</div>
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The Nesbit Purple Heart made it home to his daughter for Christmas, hit <a href="http://fox59.com/2013/12/26/purple-heart-returned-to-daughter-who-never-met-father/#SDpQf9fMlefaqavd.01">this link for the local news story</a> and video. You can see a glimpse of Santa Cruz Warhammer...<br />
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Merry Christmas everyone.SC Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15258905153733166390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-72713684010544211262013-12-25T10:47:00.001-08:002013-12-25T10:47:13.600-08:00Christmas Morning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A while back my friend SC John gave me a box of the much discussed Perry Miniatures "Desert Rats'. He bought some Afrika Korps Germans from the same range and we decided to put together a desert themed battlefield, with 2 nice looking armies.<br />
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Just to make sure, here's the box set that I got:<br />
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Upon opening, I noticed one thing right away: these models have absolutely great detail. The sculpts are crisp with plenty of detail, including tiny shirt buttons. To be honest, i realized I am not a good enough painter to honor these little guys. Here's the radio man, which will become my forward observer for my Spitfire.<br />
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You can see the nicely detailed torso, with plenty of detail to work with - far superior to Warlord. it's not really strange, keep in mind the Perry twins have been in this game for a long time and have sculpted plenty of model classics. The only complaint I have about the set, is that there are no shirt sleeve decals. I had to paint mine on, which looks fine from afar but poor upclose.<br />
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Here's the painted squad:<br />
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All the models are on Games Workshop bases with Litko magnetic adhesive for easy transportation. I kept the ground on the base minimalistic, the way desert looks where there is a lot of foot traffic.<br />
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Much has been said about the Desert Rats' size, which is slightly smaller then the Bolt Action models. I have even read people saying they wouldn't model or play them, since the size difference bothered them so much....well here is a comparison, with a Victoria Miniatures (traitor)guardsmen included. The medic is metal, and the metals are actually a bit bulkier then the new plastics from Warlord.<br />
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Now you can't tell me the Perry minis are SO far off, you won't play with them?<br />
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<i><span style="color: lime;">SC Mike </span></i>SC Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15258905153733166390noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-48478106146707302372013-12-05T20:26:00.000-08:002013-12-05T20:28:22.080-08:00(UPDATED!)Help Us Make a Holiday Miracle Come True<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Many of the long time readers of this blog will remember our past fund raising projects. We took on some huge projects, with great teams and brought a bunch of great people together from our hobby world to work together and give back as a group. This year I have decided to kick it down a notch. No raffles, no weekly updates from teams of blog hobby superstars. This time I am simply going to ask our readers and friends to help us do something that we feel needs to be done.</div>
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This year I am asking for your help to make a holiday miracle happen.</div>
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This is Jackie Nesbit, he was a member of the 17th Airborne 466th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, he was killed in combat during Operation Varsity on March 24 1945 </div>
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This is a photo of Jackie and his wife Elizabeth Nesbit just before he was deployed to Europe. Jackie and Elizabeth had a daughter Patricia, she was born after Jackie left for the war, they never got to meet each other, she was one month old when he was killed in combat </div>
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Patricia as a young girl </div>
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This is Patricia now.</div>
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After the war Elizabeth remarried, and the family moved around a bit, sometime during that period, the Purple Heart Medal that was sent home after Jackie's death was lost.</div>
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I came across some messages online from Patricia's son in law, in which he was searching for the Purple Heart to return to Jackie Nesbit's daughter Patricia. He is ex Army, and so am I, we both understood the importance of returning this medal to his child, so I offered to help him.</div>
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The original named medal has been found in a private collection, and the owner has agreed to sell it for the amount he has invested in it.</div>
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Unfortunately these things are very collectible and command a high price. If it was 20 bucks I would just buy it and send it off to the family, who wouldn't. That's when I got to thinking, whats a few bucks to do the right thing? I know a bunch of people that would help pitch in a few bucks to make this right. I bet they all know a few friends too. </div>
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This year I am asking all of you to pitch in and help return Jackie Nesbit's Purple Heart to his daughter and her family. </div>
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You aren't going to win anything, I'm not going to grow a mustache, but maybe we can get together and make a holiday miracle happen for a little girl that never met her father and see to it that her family has something to remember him with. </div>
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Jackie Nesbit's remains were recovered from Holland and buried with honors at Arlington National Cemetery </div>
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If you would like to help us with this project, <a href="http://santacruzwarhammer.blogspot.com/2013/12/help-us-make-holiday-miracle-come-true.html">please link to and share this page.</a></div>
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SC Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028391865314109394noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-4189206153340076102013-12-01T20:00:00.001-08:002013-12-01T20:05:47.682-08:00British 8th Army start: Supermarine Spitfire for Bolt Action<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After finishing my US 1000 point army for Bolt Action, my friend John got a hold of some new Perry miniatures, the British 8 army box. He also bought some Perry Germans and we decided to build and paint two armies, based in Northern Africa in the early forties.<br />
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I decided on the British and I have been working on my first squad of ten troopers, and they are almost done. In the meantime I built and painted a Spitfire for the army, basically a fancy phantom model that doesn't really have a role in Bolt Action, but looks cool. We use the plane with the forward observer so we can get some fire come down on the enemy's heads.<br />
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I picked up this box set from Airfix: 1:72 aifrcaft of the aces.<br />
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It comes with three planes: a Messerschmitt BF109, a P51 Mustang and the Supermarine Spitfire in an early rendition, the MK1a. It cost me about 30 bucks and came with paints, surprisingly good quality actually and with good colors and with a few brushes.<br />
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Anyway, for my desert army I painted the Spitfire up in desert camo. Here's the camo (but not color) pattern I copied:<br />
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Of course the Airfix kit doesn't have the correct decals for the Northern Africa campaign and since the model will not really play a role in the game and is more for good looks, I decided not to follow through and purchase correct decals. Interesting to note is that in a lot of WW2 images, the Spits in the desert didn't have letter markings on the bodies, like above and below:</div>
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Here's a desert pattern from Eduard, that does include letters, but blue ones, outlined with white. </div>
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You can see that the color scheme in the original color picture and the one above is more yellow, but the one below has more muted colors and that is what I went for in my model, since that fits better with the troops.</div>
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I based the model on a long, 14 inch bamboo skewer, with a resin 60mm base. It's very stable and it's height makes it look great with 28mm models. Warlord has also advised to use 1/72 models for the game.<br />
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The airfix kit comes with the blue paint needed for the bottom and in my collection of Games Workshop paints, I could not find the right one; i was glad for the little mini cup of blueish paint!</div>
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And here are my palettes, just like everyone elses I presume! Trying to find the right colors takes some time.</div>
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<br />SC Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15258905153733166390noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244403604835963784.post-84095262226537751882013-11-05T08:46:00.000-08:002013-11-05T08:48:25.556-08:00Authentic WW2 GI uniform PLUS a FOW Sherman!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6t9Flhcdw5ahTBSUVx8L5n4Z3V7i3vqAYqCzpfDBy8i_GrObxKHtyt2xvhnGbiNv_T2kOdQID-Pd4rCnZzGyvmV4pXNPuXFqjcIeT5OJ6oVhaizZ7PGMMy9O3n9wjhXIFqLXY4xKvmB7q/s1600/IMG_1941.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6t9Flhcdw5ahTBSUVx8L5n4Z3V7i3vqAYqCzpfDBy8i_GrObxKHtyt2xvhnGbiNv_T2kOdQID-Pd4rCnZzGyvmV4pXNPuXFqjcIeT5OJ6oVhaizZ7PGMMy9O3n9wjhXIFqLXY4xKvmB7q/s400/IMG_1941.JPG" width="266" /></a><br />
I guess I will start off showing off the vintage WW2 uniform that I wore last week for Halloween. I borrowed it from my friend John, who has a large collection of original WW2 uniforms. This one is early-mid war with all the wool and no cotton. It was hot but great fun and plenty of people were pleased with the show of respect for the greatest generation. I work at a busy store and the uniform brought people to tell stories about their family members and the experiences during wartime.<br />
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Here's another model for Flames of War, a cast hull Sherman. I don't play FOW but John had some models laying around and I said I would paint them up for him. The box came with some stowage so I added some. It's hard to make it look good, since it is so small!<br />
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Behind it is the Sherman I painted for my own Bolt Action army.<br />
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I magnetized the turret, which was not easy, since the resin is so dense. But in the end it was well worth it.<br />
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I saw a picture from 1944 where you can a Sherman that has all the soldiers' packs hanging of the back, so I figured I will do that on this one.<br />
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