Eureka Viet Minh and French Foreign Legion

Darn!

I've spent of my birthday cash and Eureka just go and unveil their new range for the French Indochina War!

Check it out at the Eureka News page.

Or go direct to ranges to see the individual figure details.

Very nice figures as always.

I believe that these figures have come out of Eureka's 300 Club (Eureka's custom model request system).  Have a look at what is in the system and register your interest with any of the concepts that take your fancy.....       .....Modern Australians.......

Peter Pig Order

My Peter Pig order of birthday goodies arrived today.


The most important part of the purchase was 3 Toyota Utilities for use as technicals.  I got one with high suspension and two with standard suspension.

I also picked up gunners for the Toyotas:

I also picked up some civilians

and looters

 

as part of the order.

Finally I hadn't been able to locate any sniper figures I was happy with, so I went with the ones from the Peter Pig Vietnam Range to try to get snipers for my Ambush Alley Games.  I think they should fit in pretty well.

Plenty more figures coming in over the next few weeks as I divest myself of my birthday money.

Stay Tuned.....

More Good Tables

Whilst on the subject of good looking tables; check out this AAR by Piers (Ambush Alley Games In-House Painter™) on the Ambush Alley Forum : http://www.ambushalleygames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1269
A great table, and a great game of Ambush Alley.

Definitely worth a look!

Amazing Vietnam Table

From a post on the Firebase Coral blog, check out this amazing vietnam table:
http://ilovewargameing.21.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=2140
and more:
http://ilovewargameing.21.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=2139

Its very image intensive. I got terrain overload pretty quickly and just skimmed most.
I've go to go back and pay more attention to the detail.
Wow!

More Painting

I'm back on the 15mm painting wagon again.
Last night I finished off the 15mm SAWs and Grenadier I need to complete my Ranger Chalk.
I've also done up some of the Peter Pig Shirtless Militia that I had from my original 15mm Ak47 project.

Now that all of the Rangers are done, I'll be focusing on my militiamen (mainly Cannon Fodder figures). So expect more pics.

There are a few figures that I'm saving up for once I'm back into the swing of painting 15s. I want to try to paint some up to represent some of the more outlandish clan militia. I'll leave that to your imagination at the moment......

6mm AK Game

Had a quick game of AK47 Republic in 6mm in January with a friend.
It wasn't the best of games - particularly as an introduction.
He was defending and only managed to roll for his group of technicals to come on to the table.

I had almost all of my force as the attacker. I figured it was going to be pretty one-sided.

It was! Unfortunately these were my last good rolls and his last poor rolls in the game.
The 4 technicals (reduced to 3 in the game) wiped out:

• A Regular Tank
• A professional force with APCs
• One of two towed guns
• Most of a militia force with trucks

Devastating......

2009 - Year of 15mm

Last year saw a lot of focus on the 6mm space here at TMM.
Given that Ambush Alley are launching their Force on Force soon, and I've just ordered a whole heap of 15mm stuff from Peter Pig, I thought I'd declare it;

2009 - The Year of 15mm!

My big focus for this year is going to be pulling together and painting everything for Day of the Ranger scenarios. Painted figures, civilians, technicals, HMMWVs, buildings, arms caches, etc. A really nice looking table hopefully?

I'm also keen on doing some stuff for Under a Black Flag; in particular I'd like to do a scenario around the storming of an ocean-going vessel. One section of Keith Fennell's Warrior Brothers describes an SAS patrol embedded with the Navy patrolling Australian waters and the storming of an illegal fishing vessel.
The boat is going to be a difficult terrain piece.
Damn! Looks like Shawn has beaten me to it over at the AA forums....

Back Again

I'm back, baby!
The work on the house hasn't progressed as quickly as i hoped; work has been interfering and i've just started a new job this week. But I can't stay away from gaming forever, so we're back on again.

I've done a little bit of painting over the last week or so, so there will be some pics coming soon.

Also I had my birthday late last month, and I received some cash (the gift that keeps giving!) from family and friends. So my first port of call was to race out and get myself an Ambush Alley Special Operators Group membership.

I've also dropped some cash on some Peter Pig figures, most importantly Toyota Hiluxes for use as Technicals and some civilians for use in the game as well. Really looking forward to getting those in the mail.

The other BIG piece of Ambush Alley news is that Force-on-Force (the non-asymetric force rules) are going to be available later this month. Special Operators get first access and a discount, so get in quick! The rules will encompass WW2 through to the current day with modern and WW2 scenarios in the book.

Break

I've got to focus on some work around the house for the next few weeks which is going to prevent any further work on miniatures or blog updates during that time.
Once everything is done, however, we hope to have the "hobby room" set up, which should mean more painting and modelling!

Cannon Fodder Afghans

I recently purchased some more Cannon Fodder Africans and Afghans.
I've previously used the CF Africans, but I never had any of the Afghans.
Here area a couple of pictures with different light trying to pick out the detail.

The figures are quite nice.
My intention is to use them for Operation Enduring Freedom scenarios, and also for the earlier Russian occupation.
I have some QRF Russian Naval Infantry and BTRs (60, 70, 80) that I've wanted to use for a while.