GOOD MORNING......

You can fill in the rest of the sentence in the title, and if you can't you'll probably not be impressed by this next post ;-)

I recently dug up some of my old ESCI US troops for the war in Vietnam. Most of those I gave to a friend who's playing a 20mm Nam campaign but I kept a few for myself and here they are.

Cheers Sander

Listening to "Tour of Duty 4" a cd released while the TV series "Tour of Duty still ran on the tube. Loads of old school music.

Brains, BRAAAAAIIIIIIIINS....

Hoi,

A while ago I got infected with the zombie-virus (thanks JW) and so I have been painting up some figures and vehicles to start shooting dead-'uns. The rule set I'm gonna use is from the game All Things Zombie (also know as "better dead then Zed").

First up are some old Airfix civilians http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=366 I haven't had a use for earlier:

Next are a couple of Revell Humvee's, Yes the windows are very VERY blue, but I made these with gaming in mind so left all the fiddly stuff and omitted an interior so I had to paint the windows...

These 4 chaps are from two separate sets I have lying around the first two are from another old Airfix set: USAF personnel http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=47 the right two chaps are from an ESCI set: Modern US soldiers http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=524 I painted the latter as a SWAT team, I am going to do 2 more since I intend to make 4 man teams for the players. The civvies and USAF chaps are Non Player objectives. This means that they need to be rescued by the players.

Last up is one of my zombies, I call him Zed 01. He's from Zombies!!! The boardgame http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2471/zombies They do separate bags with miniatures, I have currently got a bag o' zombies and a bag o' dogs and a bag o' babes on backorder.

The zombie isn't much bigger then the 20mm figures but his base is rather thick so he towers above the other mini's but this rather adds to the fright they are going to cause the players... I hope ;-)

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "21st century breakdown" by Green Day (not their best stuff...)

Sci-Fi madness II

Hoi,

After yesterday's post I got some questions which prompted me to make some additional pictures of the 40K vehicle project and so here they are.

First up some pictures showing the Old Crow Halftrack and Slingshot Multipurpose AFV converted to some Chimera-esk 40K APC. On the Halftrack I used some IG parts and specially a multi-laser for the original Old Crow turrett. For the Slingshot I hoped to have a chimera turret in my bit's box but this turned out to be a leman russ turret... erm so I downgraded that one with a multilaser and here you are...

                                                
                                                                         Front view

                                                                 Side view

                                                                  Rear view

It might be worthwhile to show you all how these vehicles compare to regular 40K vehicles so here we have some pictures taken with one of my Dark Angel Razorbacks and my customized Chimera

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Tron Legacy Soundtrack" by Daft Punk, brilliant stuff

Sci-Fi madness

Hoi,

In my immediate vicinity there's a profound lack of historical wargamers and therefore I depend on Sci-Fi and Fantasy wargamers for most of my games. This has prompted me to strip my old Warhammer 40K metal Imperial Guards and set up a new regiment. Because I do not want to buy too much new GW stuff, and since I will not enter a tournament anyway, I decided to get some cheap resin Old Crow http://www.oldcrowmodels.co.uk/25vehicles.htm   vehicles as chimera's and other stand ins.

Here's the first example of a brilliant Old Crow halftrack.

I will add some GW bits to make it look more like a 40K vehicle.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Best of the Throggs" by the Throggs.

Blog update!

Hoi!

I'd like to tell you all there's an important update on the other blog:


http://salamanca1812.blogspot.com/2011/03/diorama-base-here-we-come.html

Cheers Sander

Zulu's ahead!

Hoi,

For some time a bunch of Zulu War figures has been clogging up my work-bench. The figures concerned are some testshots from HäT's new Natal Native Contingent:

And some white metal zulu warriors of which I suspect some are high ranking chaps due to their garments but I really are totally clueless as regards Zulu warrior dress-code.

To be honest; I'm glad they are done and off my bench because they are not my cup of tea. I am rubbish with skin-tones! The NNC are very detailed and while Zulu war enthusiasts will like them a lot, for my this was a pain since I knew I wasn't gonna do them well at all...

Okay nuff said,

Cheers Sander

Listening to: nothing really just enjoying a moment of peace and quiet.

Who do you think you are kidding mister zombie?

Hoi,

Last Saturday Jan Willem hosted a game of "All Things Zombie" http://www.allthingszombie.com/games.php Since this game was hosted at the DUCOSIM games convention all visitors could play along in this great participation game. All buildings were cardboard and build by JW, as was the rest of the terrain. Mini's were a lot of different manufacturers, Hasslefree, GW, Wargames Factory and a lot of other stuff. I used 4 of my Dad's Army characters, Cpat Mainwaring (using a Big Ass Pistol), Corporal Jones (Bolt Action Rifle with bayonet), Private Pike (Tommygun SMG) and Private Godfrey with a medic-kit. Since they were all rather elderly JW decided I would move just as fast as the other...erm as the zombies.

Setting of the game: it's just after the Apocryphal outbreak of the zombie-virus and pockets of survivors are holding out against the tide of the un-dead. Armed forces strike groups are being send out to rescue them. Captain Mainwaring has decided to lend them a helping hand. From the south of the town two groups of marines and Dad's Army are entering the town in search of the survivors. 
    
                                            A view of the table

                                        
                                             The game in progress

                                       
                                             The Marines on their way,

                                             Dad's Army confront the zombies, they kick some dead butts at it!

                                            Jan Willem directing the game with sheer good humour.

                                             Themarines get bogged down...

                                        Two zombies were in the way of Dad's Army and the gunshop in which a teacher and some kiddies were hiding. Corporal Jones and Pike foolishly opened up with their guns on the zombies and about 12 more came at them. Jones went down after bravely killing 2 zombies himself and the zombies started eating him (that took them 5 turns) and the rest set off to the target.

                                         A hefty traffic jam going on...

 One of the fire teams of marines have reached their target (an old millionaire  in wheelchair and his nurse) in the manor, but the chopper they called in for evac drew crowds of zombies to them. The marines got eaten and the millionaire fled back into his house.

The zombies all went for the chopper and so Dad's Army could go silently for the gun-shop. While Pike went on overwatch, the captain started up an ambulance and Godfrey went to get the children via the back-door.

After everybody boarded, the ambulance rambled on and away. And so I won the game.

Hope you liked the report!

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Insomniac"by Green Day