wargaming

First off, for anyone that is curious, is a photo the the set up I use to photograph my mini's. The camera I use is a Canon 400d with a 50mm lens and the lamp is a daylight hobby lamp from Hobbycraft. First up is a repaint of some figures that have appeared on the blog before. I was never one hundred percent happy with the way these Russians looked before and after playing a bit of the somewhat disappointing Battlefield 3 I decided to go for a more modern, grungy/partizan/pea pattern look. The colour is too light to be realistic but the aim was to create the feel of the camo, not an exact copy and so for that I am happy with it. 20mm ultra modern Russians from Liberation miniatures. Britannia and Platoon 20 cold war Brits with a Liberation miniatures Ferret AC. BAOR, Britannia and Platoon 20 Brits with an Airfix centurion. Platoon 20 NVA fallschirmjäger with a sniper in a gorka. Platoon 20 NVA fallschirmjäger with a sniper in a gorka. I wa...

Unfortunately I didn't have my camera for our last game and I was only able to grab a grainy shot of the objective once we had stopped playing. So I decided, today being nicer weather, I would take some photos of my new mini's . Liberation (RH Models) Rhodesian infantry in shorts with a bren gunner, a paint conversion from a South African infantryman. The same group but with the Bren gunner close up to show the uniform. 2 Infantry sticks, the figures in helmets are Combat Miniatures (now sold by stonewall miniatures) Israeli infantry for the Yom Kippur war. They have weapons and equipment very similar to that used in Rhodesia, so work well together. I have seen pictures of Rhodesian soldiers wearing Israeli/British style para helmets, I'm not sure if this means they were paratroopers or not. This fellow comes from the mixed Berets and bareheaded pack, again Liberation Miniatures. I have read somewhere that the only soldiers wh...

Just had a game with my stalwart opponent Matt. We were trying out the free rules Fireforce and the scenario was based on one I saw on the warseer forum . Basically a small force of regional police investigating a nearby village where there are reports of "terrorist" activity. Matt had a command stick of 4 men, two 5 man sticks (each with a FN Mag) all listed as Trained. Waiting off table was an Alouette 3 containing a 4 man stick of Veteran infantry. I had 3 squads of rebels, one 6 man with AK's and G3's, one 4 man with 1 RPG and one 4 man with an old russian LMG. I also had the local force commander acting on his own. The rebels all started of hidden with 8 counters on the table, 4 representing the rebels, 2 dummies and 2 represented groups of fleeing civilians. I hadn't told Matt there were any civilians in the scenario so it was fun to see him move in to engage a group that were running up the edge of the table, trying to escape. However sound use of overwatch...

A mixture of Britannia and Liberation modern Brits. Some Britannia PMCs And finally a BMP, but who's side is it on?

I saw some of these at Salute when I had spent my money so I ordered them at the end of the month. NVA with a local force VC spotter CIDG mercenaries, I actually bought these years and years ago but never painted them ARVN, after some lengthy and helpful discussion with the guys at the Vietgaming yahoo group I decided to ignore their advice and paint them up in duckhunter. It's not strictly accurate but I think it looks way cooler.

These are the Britannia and Platoon 20 vietnam era Aussies I bought at Salute 2010. I'll be using them as generic British and commonwealth troops for my post colonial campaigns in the future. Here they are humping through the thick jungle regions of Libatia accompanied by an Alvis Saracen APC.

Another guerilla leader, a sniper and some more Government troops converted from Valiant US army.

Some Evil Zionists to fight against the brave liberators. Or is that some brave liberators to fight against the evil oppressors?? I lost the tracks to this guy so I used some leftovers and sunk the wheels into a mixture of PVA & sand.

A few Syrian commandos. The first 2 pics are combat miniatures, from Stonewall and the last is a paint conversion of an Orion modern Russian. I look forward to getting these guys in a jam...

Just some more images I found on my hard drive of my Republic Sprska Infantry and paramilitaries. Check out http://www.saunalahti.fi/ejuhola/7.62/welcometohell/index.html this is the AAR that got me into the Yugoslav wars.

Have posted the first battle of the Libatia campaign on my other blog. http://libatiawars.blogspot.com/

Some point in the last year I got swept up the the cold-wargaming movement. It might have been something to do with the 1984 game at Salute '08 or maybe the new Army of the Rhine figures from Britannia, I'm not sure exactly. Either way, the ESCI warsaw pact troops and Orion modern Russians that were bought to be painted up as middle eastern militaries ended up being painted as warsaw pact and modern russians and the Revel Modern British for the Gulf War ended up in woodland DPM. Not that it's a bad thing. So I'd better put up some pics I guess. First off my Revel Modern British, which I painted up as IFOR troops for my Yugoslav wars range. ESCI Spetsnaz. These I bought painted from Ebay, I touched them up, added some detail and gave them a "wash". My Spetsnaz Hero, again a paint conversion from the infinitely useful Orion chechen rebels set. ESCI and Orion painted up a Soviet Motor Rifles. I'm pleased with the paint jobs (especially the jackets) but not so...

I thought I might need some US agents to be going deep cover in my imaginary African conflict zone, Libatia. So I painted up this Ceaser US desert infantry sniper. It was my first real attempt at painting ACU camo (my first attempt was 3 years ago when my painting wasn't all that great). All in all I'm rather pleased, the colours are all about right and in the flesh, on the table it really looks rather realistic.

As promised here are some of the modern africa figures that I have painted. The Army troops I painted about 18 months ago but the militia only about 2 months ago. They are all liberation miniatures except the militia leader who is a paint conversion of an Orion Chechen rebel. If I remember the government troops are painted up to be Nigerian Army. I was inspired to get into modern Africa after playing the fantastic Farcry 2.