16 August 2012

Painting up my German 1/72 Army, (with some new acquisitions) as a late-war army. 

Falschirmjaegers getting the treatment at present:
Painting them as the 3rd Division (Ardennes) in Autumn Camo, more yellow than in this picture. 
The wash will probably tone it down some. I have also chosen the blue luftwaffe trousers. Given them some Krad (Motorcycle and sidecar combo's as well as a Kettenrad) 


Have just finished my Tommies and some supporting armour and artillery - still have to complete their bases.

Links to other wargamers: Scott's Wargaming Blogspot

14 August 2012

Intro

All right, here we go...

Got bitten by the blogger thing, along with my obsession with plastic soldiers and wargaming (amongst other things obsessive) and my compulsion to paint and build models. Relatively benign as most OCD traits go, methinks.

I have just recently rediscovered my 1/72 WW2 Armies, and suitable opponents at the Kapiti Wargames Club.
Things have changes quite a bit since Donald Featherstone and Lionel Tarr's rules we played in the late 70s and early 80s. We've been using the free skirmish rules based on 5th Ed 40K available online at a yahoo forum as " Warhammer WW2".

 I have been into Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy Battles for the last 5-6 years, but have found the constantly changing landscape, rules, constant "arms race" with regards to the latest model and monster is just becoming a tad tedious and expensive.