Normandy feels a little closer.

I've been working on my Sci-fi home rules mostly of late but have found some time for my little Normandy village. Any way here is the progress:

The Manor

The village, Manor and three varius country style houses.

The houses were purchased at my local flee market and are from some sort of ''Village houses of France ' thing. Well France beeing rather eclectic climate and history wise meens that the houses range from roman style tiled roofs to tall Norman slate roofs and various other thatched roofs. I tried to greenstuff some slate onto the roman tile but it looked just rong and was extreemly fidly. The hole point of bying the houses was to make my life easer so I'm just going to repaint them and hopfully the colour scheem will hide the architectural differences.

I'll be posting progress soon.

Ollie

Stuff got done...

Well I never seem to get done what I want but at least it's progress.
Of late, I've been working on a paint scheme for one of my sci-fi factions. Looking for a alien planet slash urban look and I'm quite happy with the outcome.

The Old Crow models are great and I love them! I have modified them slightly to look a little more like what you see in a modern army (support turret, side armor). I find the Ground Zero Games APCs rather small to be quite honest, especially compared to Old Crow models that seem to be more what one expects the size to be. There size seems to be more on par with a Bren carrier style vehicle, so that is probably what they will end up being, some sort of armored reconnaissance vehicle. So I will be ordering some APC's from Old Crow to replace them.

I even added on some side panel armor like on a Panzer_IV or the griding on Striker,Worrior, Leclerc... and a support weapon looking for that Black hawk down feel.

Here's another shot.

And here are the Ground Zero Games APCs.

I'll be posting about some FOW scenery soon...


Ollie

FOW finished ! (for now)

Well I finaly got my small army finished. I don't like painting much so it was a real drag...
Here are some pics:

The 'Big picture'... Typhoons, Medium and heavy artillary, three rifle platoons, three crocodiles (or normal Chirchills) and three snipers. I allso have in boxes waiting to be assembled, two special anti-aircraft/anti-tank canons and Bofors unit.

Lirking sniper...

Random closup.

I shall be posting some pictures of a battle soon I hope.

Ollie

More stuff

Hi,

I don't seem to be getting a lot done at the moment but I think that is going to change as the days get brighter and longer. But I have managed to paint my FOW bases, QuickDip my remaining models and shall soon be flocking and detailing. I'm getting a bit borred with this project so I'm hopping to get some realy good games under my hat when i've finished.

Plus I have received a couple of 15mm orders from OldCrow and GZG, so I thort I'd share my thorts and plans.Here is a general view.

Ok, so basically on the left you have OldCrow and on the right GZG. First impressions of OldCrow is that there are great models and are very light ! Well I supose that's resin for you, and for me that is a definate plus. And GZG are great quality models, with great poses and bisicly what you expect from them.

A little mix here to show you that OldCrow munition boxes fit the hover mule from GZG and I might get a few to use as objectives. On a more random note the spider drones are not only very cool but would make great 28mm robot hand/claws (TombSpider allternative?). And on the left you can see two turret bases I will be using as artillery for my home rules game.

I'm pretty chuffed with the 'Romel' hover tank model and nicely detailed hover bike from GZG. But being new in 15mm models and this being the first time I've seen one close too, I have to take my hat of to the OldCrow Goana model that has a satisfyingly solid/chunky sci-fi feel to it.

And lastly the OldCrow dropship...

It's a simple model but a very nice one at that. It's a lot bigger than I thort as you can see on the group photo. The general body is pretty solid and has large surfases for glue to adear to but however the wings are another issue. I don't think I will be trying to pin them or add bridge pieces but I will make my own wings like the the ones on my 2 second moke up below (sorry for my shadow being in the pic...).

Yours sincerly,


Ollie

Still in the race...

Not much to show. I've got some stuff done this week, mainly painting my British FOW army.I'll be posting some pictures soon...
On a side note, I made some simple terrain from barnicles found on the beach. The general idea is to paint them purple-ish. It's a little difficult to make out the size, the largest is roughly 25x12cm. I must remember to put a coin or figure for the size !

Thats all folks!

Ollie

Better late than never

Well I have been busy but I just haven't got round to posting...

So last week I got a little play testing done with my friend. Again I want to change the rules quite a bit to make it more fluid and tactical. When I've got it closer to the finished product I'll post the rules in English. What would be great is for someone else to test the rules 'cold' to get a better Idea.

I allso found time to finish my mamoth.

I'll try to get an army picture at some time in the future, but don't hold your breath.

I've allso started some sci-fi scenary that I shall be sharing shortly. So untill then !


Ollie

Less haste more speed

Well I've got the big guy painted but am quite unhappy with him.Over all, he looks too brown and red so I'm going to add some details were I can and maybe vary the colour scheem a little. I'll be posting some pictures of him soon.  I am allso planing on some home grown rules for him as he is uturly useless on papper as I have allready mentioned.

I do however have a couple of quik shots from the game test from last week. Please realise that this is only early days and none of my forces are wet painted.

As you can see the idea of the game is to use small forces (6 man teams), some special units and vehicles. I'm having difficulty still, in balancing vehicles versus infantry. I shall take some more picks during the next game and explain some basic macaniks soon.


Ollie.