New White metal 1:72 shop

Hoi Folks!

Today Uwe from History in 1/72 announced he's opening his very own web-shop. Uwe has been supporting the hobby behind the scenes for many years now both by constructing huge group diorama's in 1:72 as well as getting moulds for some of the more obscure or neglected armies in our hobby. Now he finally has a way  of sharing said figures with the public at large. I wholeheartedly recommend his products!

You can find it at: fritz figures

All the luck to you my friend,

Cheers Sander

Some advertising

Hoi,

From time to time I've been known to do some advertising for a company I like. Jason from Hinterland Miniatures has kindly put one of my pictures up in his gallery on the Hinterland site. For this he get's this week's prime time ad ;-) I also added a banner to his site on the blog's front page.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Ixnay on the Hombre" by Offspring

Bring out your dead!

Hoi,

A small update today brings you some casualty markers I put together of late. I ordered some dials from the Dialdude a long time ago. The order was promptly paid for and I waited and waited, in all I waited for about 3 months before the lot showed up. I actually had given up on the stuff since my repeated e-mails did not get any reply. So while I am glad with the result, I wil not be ordering any more...

The figures are white metals from Irregular or New Line Design given to me by a dear friend from Germany.

So here are some of the Frenchies, Allies are in the making.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Icky Thumb" by The White Stripes

More Nappies!

Hoi,

The second Nappie update is another conversion of sorts. I needed some Prussian Artillery for my late war army. Now I am usually a big HäT fan but their late war Prussian Artillery just isn't up to par with their latest output. Therefore I took some Zvezda Russian Guard Heavy Artillery gave them  heads from the HäT Prussian Infantry Action set and hey presto!

Now I know I missed some parts on the gun of one of the stands but this has been rectified as we speak but I was too lazy to take new pictures...

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Presidents of the USA" by Presidents of the USA

Trench Raiders

Hoi,

And now for something all together different! While Koen and myself use 1:72 plastics to play The Great War games, Koen switched to 28mm metals for the Trench Raids mini games featured in the Over The Top supplement. Since I guess I am going to play some of these with him, I thought it wise to get me a small team of 28's as well. When looking for cool mini's my eye fell on the great site of Hinterland Miniatures and some of these great mini's were ordered.

I have now painted them up excepting the leader of the bunch whose still waiting on the workbench. These are great mini's and not just because they are all dashing galls, but because they have loads of detail. The only nag I have is that the shape of the Pickelhaube is not entirely correct other then that I highly recommend them.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Glory to the Brave" by Hammerfall

Finally some Nappies!

Hoi,

Real life caught up with me lately, school holidays are over and work is really asking a lot of time right now. But I managed to get something done and will post the first update.

First update is my second regiment of Fusilier-Grenadiers for the Middle Guard. My first regiment is made up of the corresponding HäT set. This second battalion is made up of the much nicer figures of the HäT French Light Infantry Command set. I used the figures standing at attention and swivelled their heads to a front facing position.

The command figures had to be standing at attention as well, so I used white metal Art Miniaturen figures. 

This goes a way to show how versatile these figures are...

Cheers Sander

Listening to: Deep Purple Machinehead

20 Questions to answer!

Hoi,

Today, upon checking my bloglist, I stumbled along the posts put up by Ray and Fran from the Rejects and found it would be a good idea to answer the questions, on games and other things they put up on their blogs. So here we go:

1.        Favourite Wargaming period and why?

 

Damn, the first question is a hard one right away! Well if you put a gun against my head I'd say Napoleonics, Peninsular War mainly. (Now if I were allowed to make a top 3 I'd be: 1 Napoleonics, 2 WW1, 3 7YW).   

 

2.       Next period, money no object?

 

Well the "money no object" is the key word here! I once saw an add for Front Rank mini's in the WI and immediately wanted to have one of their armies. Their gallery shows all kinds of excellent eye-candy. I would probably go for either a British Peninsular Army or a British 7YW army from them. I think it's the way they present their armies and the level of painting.

 

3.       Favourite 5 films?

 

Like everybody else I could make an endless list of decent films but let's do what the Old Guys have asked and list only 5:

- The Empire Strikes Back! (Hoth Battle Rules!)

- Tron Legagcy; brilliant sequal to the original Tron and what a great soundtrack (which I'll put on right now as a matter of fact!) 

- Lock, Stock  and Two Smoking Barrels, another great soundtrack...

- Waterloo

- Transformers 1, yeah I know loads of you hate it but I like it, lots of really funny puns and references to the old series!

 

4.       Favourite 5 TV series?

 

Ah another hard one...

- ANZACS the series, great for getting to understand the Great War as far as possible from TV.

- Blackadder!

- Battle Star Galactica, the old series  

- Allo'Allo and Ain't Half That Hot Mum: I just love the characters! 

- Nikita, the new series

 

5.       Favourite book and author?

 

Bit of a dilemma this one: the best book ever written is obviously "The Lord of the Rings" but the Best Author alive is, and I agree fully with Fran here, Terry Pratchett!

 

6.       Greatest General? Can’t count yourself!!

 

No-brainer: The Iron Duke Rules!

 

7.       Favourite Wargames rules?

 

Another poser this one: I am torn between the latest version of Battletech and Black Powder; for versatility's sake I will go with the latter: Black Powder!

 

8.       Favourite Sport and team?

 

I really do not give a toss about any kind of sport or team! REALLY NONE! I played squash/ racket ball a lot but not competitively, rather to keep moving and in shape. Now since I have arthritis I am not allowed to do impact sports any more, which leaves swimming and cycling... both I'd rather not do as a sport but for fun. 

 

9.       If you had a only use once time machine, when and where would you go?

 

Los Arapiles 22nd July 1812

 

10.   Last meal on Death Row?

 

"The Chef's Secret" a surprise 2 person dish from our local Greek Restaurant, you can wake me up in the middle of the night for it any time.

 

11.    Fantasy relationship and why?

 

The wife isn't reading this blog right? Oh well, it's a fantasy anyway so, I think I'd go for... oh feck how am I  supposed to choose?

 

12.   If your life were a movie, who would play you?

 

Well let's see, I am not athletic nor good with any guns, so action-films or War Films are off! Oh for the hell of it: Mister Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, hey I have a really large place and get the girl in the end without dying a horrible senseless death!

 

13.   Favourite Comic  Superhero?

 

Ah, here in the Netherlands there's not that big a "superhero-thingamabop" as else in the Anglo-Saxon world, we have comics but they are more or less like Asterix and Obelix, Tintin or  Spike and Suzy. at least we had when I was young. That said; I always loved the really old Batman series, with the BANG and POW and KAZAMMM's and Robin going "jeepers-creepers-Batman" all over the place. So Batman it is.

 

14.   Favourite Military quote?

 

"Nuts!" says it all right?

 

15.   Historical destination to visit?

 

 Los Arapiles near Salamanca, Spain

 

16.   Biggest Wargaming regret?

 

Living a country apart from Albert-Martijn who introduced me to proper wargaming and who I now see far too little! So here's to you mate; cheers!

 

17.   Favourite Fantasy job?

 

You know I really think I have that already...

 

18.   Favourite Song, Top 5?

 

1) Pay the Man by the Offspring 

2) smells like teen spirit by Nirvana

3) Aerials by System of a Down

4) Have you ever seen the rain by CCR

5) Arrival to Earth by Steve Jablonsky

All conjectural, it may change by tomorrow...

 

19.   Favourite Wargaming Moment?

 

In one of the first Black Powder games I played there came a moment I realised that I was actually able to fight according to my pre-battle plan and was winning. I have never ever  had that experience before so it was great!

There also was a moment in a 40K game way back when my Imperial Guard hat shot about everything it had at a Tyranid Carnifex and failed to take it's final wound. All that I had left was one Guardsman armed with...a lasgun. So I rolled the die, it came up a hit, I needed a 6 to wound, it came up a six, the Carnifex needed a 2+ to save the wound, it rolled a 1... "Tyranid Claws are Flimsey!" I still lost the game but was in a happy-state all through the massacre anyway.

 

20.   The miserable Git question, what upsets you?

 

Oh heaps of things:

- people chewing their cutlery: it's the FOOD you wanna chew! 

- people putting their MP3-players on LOUD in the train or bus so I can hear what they're listening over my own music

And so on, you know I won't go there let's keep this more or less positive,
answer the questions for yourself here they are:

1.        Favourite Wargaming period and why?

2.       Next period, money no object?

3.       Favourite 5 films?

4.       Favourite 5 TV series?

5.       Favourite book and author?

6.       Greatest General? Can’t count yourself!!

7.       Favourite Wargames rules?

8.       Favourite Sport and team?

9.       If you had a only use once time machine, when and where would you go?

10.   Last meal on Death Row?

11.    Fantasy relationship and why?

12.   If your life were a movie, who would play you?

13.   Favourite Comic  Superhero?

14.   Favourite Military quote?

15.   Historical destination to visit?

16.   Biggest Wargaming regret?

17.   Favourite Fantasy job?

18.   Favourite Song, Top 5?

19.   Favourite Wargaming Moment?

20.   The miserable Git question, what upsets you?

 

Cheers Sander

 

 

Listening to: "Tron Legacy Soundtrack" by Daft Punk