Xmas

Merry Christmas to all and when the festoves season is over have plenty of photos to upload.

Phil

Update

Evening,

Sorry for the delay in updates but my gaming room gets used as a present storage area in December as it has a lock on the door!

Hope to upload more photos soon.

Cheers

Phil

Brit Paras

Evening.

Sorry for the delay in uploads but like most imagine have been caught up in the cycle of work and getting ready for Xmas.

HAve alreay posted some photos of my first version of Brit Paras but will re-post them along with the my second version and would welcome any feedback as to which you feel is more accurate. I have since painting the second lot found I think the rigth colour-if such a thing exists for the Denision smock so may yet have a thrid version.

Anyway would welcome any feedback.

Cheers

Phil

V1

V2 which i know are not yet based but would welcome the feedback

Update

Evening

Have just about finished of the next batch of French infantry I had on the go and although the end of the bn is in sight will be entering the Guild sped build with some British Paras and will move onto a number of them next.

Plan to upload photos of my second Brit Para bn and the German 21stPanzer reinforcements for Pegasus over the next couple of days.

Regards

Phil

Pegasus Bridge

Evening

As promised here are some photos of the Ox and Bucks using the OOB as per Colin Rumford's scenario ready to go. All figures are Britannia as is the glider but cannto take any praise for painting the glider as was an ebay purchase.

Will be posting photos of a different way I have expermited with in painting Brit Paras and seeking opinons on which is perfered.

Hope to be able to post some more soon of the 21st Panzer along with the other Brit paras, again any questions more than welcome.

Cheers

Phil

Update

Hi

Have a great weekend and sorry no more photos to date as just off to centre parcs to celebrate Harry's fourth birthday. Photos of the Ox and Bucks will follow along with a poll soon.

Cheers

Phil

Update

Evening

Am hoping to upload photos of the Brit Paras who will be representing the Ox and Bucks over the next few days, but am busy celebrating my son's birthday over the weekend so please bear with me.

On the painting front have just sprayed with army painter those 15 mm French that I had finished and black underocated the next batch ready to go. Will post photos of my Napleonics after have finished my WW2 shots.

Cheers

Phil

Pegasus Bridge

Evening

Here are some photos of my German Garrison for Pegasus.

Have just started painting the pill box for the game and though I'd start with a dark blue drybrush and then build up with the greys. A good theory but on of the walls is looking a bit to blueish, but will see out it pans out.

Had the army painter strong dip out as well as finish off the first half of the next French Light Infantry bn-photos to follow.

Cheers

Phil

Update

Evening. Have just been taking photos of the German defenders and will upload them tomorrow evening.

The French light infantry on my desk are half way to completion and photos will follow.

When chatting to Jesse a Canadian wargaming pal of mine, was admiring his painted armies which were based on an unusual material, in that he was using floor tiles. These are both light weight and you know they will never warp and apparently can be easily cut. The only difficulty is that they do not appear to be available in the UK. Plan to get some photos and upload them.

Have a good week.

Cheers

Phil

Update

Evening

Hope to post some more photos of the Pegasus project tomorrow night or early next week. Have spent the day playing world in flames, which is a board game about WW2 by ADG. Have been playing the game in various editions for the last 20 years or so and still want to play it as there are so many variables to it.

Cheers

Phil

Update

Evening and thanks for stopping by. Have finished setting up the Pegasus terrain with my opponent Tony Swift who had gallantely agreed to play the Germans. Will post photos of the game which we should if kitchen passes allow begin next week. Ahead of that need to paint my pill box and will post photos of the combatants. Cheers Phil

Update

Sorry just worked out to change settings to allow comments! Feel free to ask questions. Thanks. Phil

Evening, here are a few shots of my finished terrain boards. With Major Howard giving the order to send out ham and jam above!

Am almost ready to finally play the game though have yet to paint a pill box and a position for the 50mm anti tank gun and to finish a few more German afvs for the RF scenario.

Will post some photos of the combatants shortly and happy to answer questions about the boards construvction alkthough alot of credit would have to Mark Evans for his guidance in making them.

Cheers

Phil

Wargames terrain

I have today managed to finish of my terrain boards for my Pegaus bridge project. Admittedly I have been working on them since 2005 since however I have met my wonderful wife, moved house twice, changed jobs and become Dad so all in all not to bad!

Photos to follow and hope the sword beach boards to be ready a lot quicker!

Welcome to my Gaming room and should start my saying thank you to my wonderful wife, Jane for allowing me to have such a good size room inthe house for gaming. In my single days I had a 2 bed house with second bedroom given other for gaming so hopefully has not been to much of a shock living with a wargamer!

A quick tour my gaming table is a dinning room table from Ikea that I have 2 4 by 4 foot mdf boards to go on the top off. On top of thoise go my terrain boards that are slowly being accumulated and plan to do close ups off.

My armies are on a dvd shelf unit that found via amazon which is just deep enough to get a 15mm French bn in coloumn or two Afv 20mm, and has served to help inspire the painting as aim to try and fill it with figures.

The buildings are mainly from Colin Rumford, and am hoping he will re-start painting at some point so can add some more to my collection in the mean time trawl ebay for the odd bargin.

I have a scratch built Arnhem road bridge by Keith Warren and St Elizabeths by Paul McDonagh from Paul's modelling.

the reason there are plenty of troops lieing around on the other shelfs is they have to be based and finsished before going on to the unit -again suppossedly a tactic to keep me basing!

The painting desk and paints really speak for themselves and will be doing close up's over the next few weeks as well as outlining my gaming projects.

Any questions feel free to ask.

Update

Just a quick update to say photos of my gaming room lair will be updated shortly but been busy working on some French 15mm Napleonics this evening.