Napoleonic Russians

Another thing I finished in the past weeks were my 20mm Russians. I now have two regiments. 

1st Regiment Line. You can tell the regiment by the color of the shoulder straps, while the balls on top of the hats tell the battalion. (White for 1st Battalion and Red for the 3rd Battalion).

The 2nd Line Regiment with the white shoulder straps.

The two regiments in line (each one short a stand)

I'll need another 2 regiments to make a whole division. I'll then maybe add same Grenadiers and Cavalry. 

 

INJ TAMA part 5

 Been a while since I posted anything due to computer problems. A few weeks ago I finally finished my Japanese light cruiser model. Here's the picture. 

I got some other stuff done too and I hope to post again tonight. 

Now I'm Printing with Resin!

 A couple of months ago I got a new resin 3-D printer. I decided to go with a resin printer because their better suited for small miniatures. 

My Anycubic printer with the wash station next to it, well worth the money. 

After a few small projects I went ahead printed my first full unit. Some Russians to take on Christian's French.

These STLs were by Earsling on Thingiverse. They're a little simplistic but the STLs were the right price free. The image above was actually from the first print run, which was unsuccessful. There were too many supports and they were two thick. I broke the miniatures while trying to remove the supports. The second batch below was much better. 

The Troops fresh off the printer.

From this angle you can see the lighter supports.

The troops with the supports removed and cured. Just have to do a little fine trimming and they'll be ready for paint. 

My first Regiment. Just need 3 or 4 others, some cavalry, artillery, and Generals and I'll be coming for ya Christian. 

IJN TIMA Part 4

 I'm back everyone. Had a little sign in trouble with the Blog post. But now, I've got it working again. If some of you remember a couple of years back I started on this model.

I made some good progress on it but then other projects started taking priority and I never got back to it. Well in the past few weeks I decided to go ahead and finish it. Here she is almost done. 

Now I just have to do some touch-ups and maybe some weathering and a diorama base. On the wargaming front, I've got some new mini's on the way and some surprises. I hoping to do some Megablitz soon, as well as tryout some new rules this summer. 

Megablitz: First Batch of Russians

     Got the first batch of Russians done. This batch consist most of the combat regiments for a tank division. 

Haven't gotten a chance to label them yet.

Now I'm waiting for all the ash and trash to arrive. 

New Modern Megablitz Unit

   What a crap year. I've been working on a schedule that hasn't allowed me to do much of anything, gaming related. Mostly I've been trying to rebuild my database on computer, as I can take my laptop to work. However things are starting to look up and I've finally manage to get some new painting done. I've start on some units for a modern version of Megablitz. To this end, I decided to go with 3mm, as this will allow me to try some new things. So here's my first unit, the Canadian 4th Mechanized Brigade

I went with some different base sizes, from my WWII units. The stands are wider at the front to better fit putting 2 vehicles on. As usual the smaller bases are company sized formations.

  I decided to base my modern forces around 1985, the era I grew up in. In the front row are the main combat units; the recon company, 3rd Royal Canadian Regiment, 1st/22nd Infantry Regiment, and the Royal Canadian Dragoons Armor regiment. The next row has the Combat Support units; the brigade HQ, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Regiment, and 4th Combat Engineer "Regiment" (Actually a company size formation). Finally in the back we have the Combat Service Support units, a supply column and medical unit. 

  I'll be using this 3mm scale to try out new some ideas for Megablitz. I've got some Russians on the way so hopefully I'll get those done soon. My goal is to have a small game ready by the end of the year. 

Rapier 2020

I know I've been off for a while. My Laptop went tits up back in December, and it taken me a while to get a replacement. Not only did I lose the computer but all the data in it. House rules, planned scenarios, data list for various games, my collection of TOEs and OOBs. Its going to take while to replace all that. Anyway, on to funnier things. This weekend I managed to go to Rapier down in Jacksonville for at least part of Saturday. Like idiot I didn't get any pictures of the other games that were going on there and there were some pretty nice ones. I did manage to get pictures of the one game I was able to get in on.

It was a modern wargame using Lock and Loads World at War: 85 rules. I was controlling an infantry company and cavalry troop, as well as an AH-1 cobra. There was another player controlling another infantry company as well as several German units.  We were facing three reinforced battalions, two East German and one Soviet.

My Infantry defending a small town.

 

The very nice game table. All the woods and towns were removable to make for easy unit placement. 

Russian Hinds hiding behind a hill. They didn't do much early on but became a real pain the ass later. 

The Soviet T-80 Battalion. This unit took heavy casualties on its approach for an A-10 and a particularly deadly MLRS strike. 

 

The East German Tank Battalion entering the table

The East German Motorized Infantry Battalion, backed up by a company of T-55s. This the unit I was most engaged with.

My Cavalry Troop trying to get set up. Unfortunately the enemy was able to score first-blood taking out my TOW jeeps

The East German T-55s trying to force there way though a gap between two hills. My units however, were to inflect several casualties. 

Unfortunately my infantry quickly ran out of missile ammo so I started pulling them back to secondary positions.

My Cavalry troops pulling back to secondary positions   

I couldn't stay for the whole game, but I felt good when I pulled out. We had inflected casualties on all three of the Pact units. Only the East German T-72 battalion still had most of it's movers and we still had two fully intact units to face them. Finally I was able to get a little loot.

I pretty interesting model kit for $10, dirt cheap for a high end 1/35 scale kit. A board game that might make an interesting Megablitz scenario, and a Cruel Seas starter kit.