New Warlord Games Commandos... I'm buying these for sure!
https://warlord-community.warlordgames.com/incoming-british-inter-allied-commandos/
New Warlord Games Commandos... I'm buying these for sure!
https://warlord-community.warlordgames.com/incoming-british-inter-allied-commandos/
I'm building a French town square for my French village for 28mm Bolt action. So far I have a blank space with a nice cobbled base courtesy of a texture roller from OTP terrain. Its a good first step I have also 3D printed some tables and chairs and a fountain as a start of the scatter terrain. Looking forward to painting.
Dans Back! And he shows us what he's been up to. Featuring Warlord Games' Battlefield Debris set, Luftwaffe Field Div and more finished stuff..(Incl. British Airborne of course!). Plus he shows off some loot he received from May '40 Miniatures Fallshirmjager kickstarter. Thanks for watching!
I had a great game of Bolt Action WWII goodness with wargame buddies Ian and Ian last week. The Soviets faced a worthy enemy Australians, hard combat and armed with Two 25 pounders. Little Kate did well and some very brave moves were made but I was beaten pretty well by Ian's Ozzies.
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New issues with scale. Lets say "a guy" already has scale phobia. Then "that guy" buys a 3D printer and has unlimited flexibility on how big he print things. Imagine how that will mess with "that guys" head... lucky I'm not like "that guy".
However, for this project at least, looks OK?
I had great fun, got motivated I hope you do to.
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'O' Group battalion level WWII rules written by Dave Brown and published/distributed by Too Fat Lardies are now available here, the web site blurb goes like this:
'O' Group is a set of WWII battalion level rules designed for a player to command a battalion sized force plus supports, or a multiplayer game where each player can command a battalion as part of a larger battlegroup. The rules introduce some exciting command mechanisms that encourages the players to think about allocation of reserves as well as commanding their force in action. The rules include army lists covering the UK, USA, Germany and Soviet Union for the later war period but the rules can be used with historical unit structures to game the entire conflict.
I have purchased a copy and might be dusting off all the 15mm WWII stuff that's collecting dust in my garage.
This episode is an interview with Paul from WOW Buildings. Paul is a prolific 3D model designer and his legendary Kickstarters are *full* to the brim with great looking models and include almost all genres, but especially for valhallagames *many* of the kickstarters are WWII specific. Paul and I have a great chat about terrain, scales, the creative process and inspiration.
WOW Buildings 3d printable files web site is located here: https://wowbuildings.net/
The current massive American civil war Kickstarter is funded 10x already with 7 days to run is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wowbuildings/wow-does-american-civil-war-the-alamo-terrain-scenery
I also get the scoop on what's coming next for all of us WWII wargamers, no negative waves there baby!
Enjoy...
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Its time for an update on everything that I got done over the Christmas break. Hopefully this motivates you to do more wargame hobby. There are a few tips and tricks here where I reveal my secret methods of doing things.
Let us know in the comments what you think and if you learned anything new or were motivated to start a new project.
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Join Rex and Dan as they discuss Rex's turn at going to a Bolt Action event, Boots on the Ground - Band of Brothers 2020 near Newcastle, Australia.
Catch up on all our hobby news as well. A little shorter podcast this time round as we prepare for the end of year review.
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OTP terrain, West Australian 3D terrain and miniature printers, are running a 3D printed "Wet Palette Paint Station" Kickstarter its funded pretty quickly and there is still 14 days as of the writing of this post.
I haven't managed to get a review unit but I have backed it so I will do a quick video review when I receive mine hopefully in July 2021. There are some reviews on YouTube if you want to see moving pictures, otherwise I have included some screenshots below with captions that should give you an idea of what its like.
The Kickstarter ends December 31 2020 3:00 AM AEDT (Australian eastern time)
Link here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/otpwetpalette/otp-wet-palette-paint-station
Continue after the break...
Join Dan as he shares his workbench update going into December, and decide for yourself if the quantity and quality of work puts him on either the "naughty" or "nice" list this Christmas!
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Boots on the ground 2020 event table setups click on the link below to go to the gallery page:
See other posts under this "tag" for more images.
Join Dan as he dives deep on the Stalingrad box set from Warlord Games, bringing you better pics and info on the product as well as analysing the pricing and recommendations for Warlord for the future.
Note that the video incorrectly shows dollars rather then pounds in the value summary screen. The correct screen is below:
VALHALLA15%
https://www.otpterrain.com/
The voucher is valid until 31 October 2020.
Finlay finished the first half of my winter German's. I really love these models from Warlord Games they are dynamic and characterful. I will add some more photos soon but honesty I couldn't wait to share this. Not only is this the best army I have ever painted it could be the best mini photo I have ever taken. That coalesces perfectly with our recent podcast on miniature photography here. If anyone is interested I will put up the paint recipe soon, subscribe to the blog or comment on this post to be notified.
Click on the image below to open the *huge* full sized image and then click or pinch to zoom in on that image to see the detail.
Hope this inspires you to paint and hobby more.
The best paint conversion charts I have found are located here: https://redgrimm.github.io/paint-conversion/index.html
Example showing in the screen shot below using the example Yriel Yellow by Citidel:
Thanks to whoever put them up there they are great!, i hope they never disappear!
Soviet Peoples Militia squad box from Warlord Games is up for pre-order, this one appears in the Stalingrad book and hopefully also on my table soon...
Order here: https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/pre-orders/products/soviet-peoples-militia-squad
Join Rex and Dan in this episode of the Valhallagames podcast where we talk miniature photography (a LOT of miniature photography!). Note the show times below if you want to skip over parts that aren't relevant to you or your camera type.
In our usual segments we also talk hobby, plastic and metal lust and what we are reading and looking forward to playing.
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EP 13 "freeze-frame"
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:57 Break
00:03:40 Hobby catch up
(including Rex's rail yard project, Dan's battle for Berlin force and British Airborne paint & learn)
00:18:18 Break
00:19:40 Main topic "freeze-frame" - Part 0
Miniature photography introduction and background
00:21:33 Why do we take photos
Making sure you satisfy your end purpose
00:27:17 Photo composition, setting the scene
What makes a great photo, arrangement, just the miniature or in its environment. Improving the miniature environmental scene, lighting, backgrounds
00:58:21 Photo tech for ALL camera types, basic camera, DSLR & mirrorless)
"Exposing" your photos correctly (dark/light), "depth of field" how much is in focus
1:12:30 Big boys/girls cameras
Utilizing cameras where all the aspects of the shot are customizable (DSLR\Mirrorless)
1:30:16 Bonus content: Editing/developing, shooting [in the] RAW
1:35:52 Bonus content: Photography backups
1:38:02 Photography sum up
1:39:38 Break
1:41:04 "What are you reading" segment
Rex: https://amzn.to/2QDtPaz Dan: https://amzn.to/2QSeGlT & https://amzn.to/31IhYhB
1:54:10 Things that we are lusting after and things that we have bought lately
https://store.warlordgames.com/products/stalingrad-battle-set
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaHpBBEumFA& (https://www.otpterrain.com/)
https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/new-releases/products/bolt-action-battlefield-debris
https://store.warlordgames.com/products/carro-armato-semovente
Stay classy!
Following are some example of our images, enjoy! :-)