Nice Terrain

Check out the Afghan game boards that Allen from Gamecraft Miniatures has been working on:
http://gamecraftminiatures.com/tac2game/microarmor/blog/?p=246
These look magnificent!
Definite ambush country.....

Roll a D6

I'm a bit late to the party on this one.
Just heard about out on the D6G podcast.
Hilarious!

15mm Cthulhu-esque action

You need to check out the fantastic Octopus Cultist and their eldritch Octopus-God overlord coming soon from Khurasan:
http://tinysolitarysoldiers.blogspot.com/2011/02/khurasan-eldritch-horror-minis.html
I'm seriously considering getting rid of my 15mm and making a move completely to 6mm for cost and space reasons, but these have really made me pause.

Old School Buildings

I love this post over at Lead Gardens about "Old School" building construction!
http://littlejohnslead.blogspot.com/2011/01/classic-wargames-building-tutorial.html

6mm Napoleonic Skirmish - Awesome!

Check out this fantastic 6mm game of Songs of Drums and Shakos!
http://tacticalminiaturesgaming.blogspot.com/2010/10/song-of-drums-shakos-bridge.html
Tiny but looks great!
tempting.....very tempting......

15mm Sci-Fi Force

Do yourself a favour and get over to the Ambush Alley Forum to check out more fantastic work by member mwda:
http://www.ambushalleygames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=37738#37738

That should get you in the Tomorrow's War mood....

No Update

Sick.
Working.
No Camera.
Check out this inspirational stuff on the AA forum : http://www.ambushalleygames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4095

Plus check out the new 15mm scifi from Blue Moon Manufacturing:
http://www.bluemoonmanufacturing.com/index.php?cat_id=32

Off to die quietly under my desk....

Inspirational 15mm

If you want to see some amazing 15mm, go check out this blog:
http://15mmfun.blogspot.com/
Compare his QRF humvees here.
To mine here.

I mean, they're pretty close... right?...Right?

Man........

Some great ideas there I need to borrow / steal!

Inspirational Terrain Blog

I came across this a few days ago:
Take the High Ground
If you've never been there, you should definitely check it out.

This amazing flying boat station has me all fired up about terrain (although I'm sure that the burning will subside before I find time to do anything).

It looks incredible, but he makes it look so easy! I read the descriptions and it all seems so straight forward and simple. Why didn't I think of that? It's all so easy!

I'm sure that when I attempt some of this, things will not go so smoothly......

15mm Sahadeen from Rebel

Mike at Dropship Horizon has another great preview of upcoming figures from Rebel Minis.

Check them out!

These really look great and would be suitable for any post-apocalyptic scenarios you may want to play. They also would be great for gaming a certain desert planet inhabited by large worms....

Rebel are really turning out a lot of good work.
I think that a lot of my cash will be ending up in their pockets over the next few years!

Painting Temperate DPM Roundup

In order to get a handle on this DPM painting situation I find myself in, I had a quick scout around.
The key resources seem to be:

• Painting British & Pakistani Camouflage by: David Blacke
• Painting British DPM by: Keith Forsyth
• Painting Guide - NATO British: by Mongrel Miniatures

The thing I find most amusing about all of this is that they each start with a different base colour.

I'm actually going to follow Tim's Guide, which appears to be similar to the David Blacke method.

I already have the sand base colour done on all of the figures after my disasterous false start.

Note: Check out the David Blacke article as it also covers Pakistani camouflage!

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.......

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!

6mm Weird War

I've just learnt about a new range being planned for release this year from MAJIC Miniatures.

They're releasing a Pulp World War II range.

More details at the site.

I'm quite excited about this.

In related news, my wonderful wife bought me a company of British Paratroops and a village and farm in 6mm for Christmas!  More news (and photos) soon.

Happy New Year!

Tin Pot Little Country

I'm starting a new blog for "in-character"information about the two forces for my 6mm AK47 games:

•  The Workers Intervention for the Nation of Ztumre (WINZ) and,
• The existing colonial power in Zumsia; the Loyalist Officers of Zumsia (LOOZ).  

The intent will be to document information about the fictional country of Zumsia and the conflict, including geography and history, orders of battle and "frontline reporting" (game after action reports).  

I hope to have a bit of fun with it!

Tiny Metal Men is going to remain the miniatures blog and I'm hoping to keep regular updates going for both.

AK47 Force Names - It's half the fun!

Part of the fun of AK47 is rolling for the force names and coming up with wacky interpretations of the words that you roll.
I had originally named my forces, but I've been looking at them again and I think I can do better.

At the moment my PPF Force is Ztumre National Workers Intervention, which is just the words themselves, and roughly in the order they were rolled. This abbreviates to ZNWI. Boring! So I've looked at the letters and come up with WINZ - The Workers Intervention for the Nation of Ztumre. Better I think.

Likewise the Colonials are currently ZISR - Zumsia Intervention Sword of Resistance. Not too bad - it's a difficult collection of words. Looking at the letters I came up with :

SIRZ Sword Intervention Resistance Zumsia
RISZ Resistance Intervention Sword Zumsia
RIZS Resistance Intervention Zumsia Sword
ZIRS Zumsia Intervention Resistance Sword

I think SIRZ is pretty good for an abbreviation for a Colonial army, but I'm stuggling with exactly how to string the words together in a meanigful way. From that perspective, ZIRS is the best option from my view. The Intervention Resistance bit suggests that it's countering the Workers Intervention, and Sword could be an organisational thing (like a batttlegroup?). Maybe I'm overthinking?

Let me know what you think.

And for more AK47 Republic naming fun, check out the excellent Ztum Setum site. I'm pretty sure they didn't roll those up, but what's the point of rules if you can't tweak them?

Also, note that I've enabled reactions at the bottom of the posts now. Tick a box to let me know what you think of any of my posts.

sixtwentyeight

If you do nothing else today, get yourself along to sixtwentyeight.
If you've been wondering about whether 6mm looks any good (and if all you ever see is my work, I'd imagine you would!); all will be answered.
The blog features some great painting and a lot of examples on how to "lift" your basing to the next level.
Check out the WW2 urban Russians! And how about these Marders?
Definitely one to bookmark....

Camouflage Patterns

I came across this site a few weeks ago : http://www.kamouflage.net/
It's an excellent resource for moderns gamers that details an incredible number of camouflage patterns from around the world.
Plus it's an Australian site!

Note that some of the pages appear to feature "scantily clad" ladies in various camouflage uniforms. Nothing I've seen is very racy, but if your workplace is concerned about that sort of thing; it's safest to check it out at home.