CBT game!

Hoi There,

Yesterday I fought two great games of Classic Battletech. For these games I used my First Aragon Borderers, Federated Suns regiment for the first time and did really well. While the first game technically ended in a draw I was left in possession of the field. The second game was a protraction of the first two games, we played in 2 against 2 teams first games were 1 on 1 and then the second and final game was in pairs. This end-game resulted in Albert-Martijn and me winning the battle by rescuing the governor and keeping the enemy (The Draconis Combine) from capturing a bridge.

Some photos:

Cheers Sander

Some advertising!

Hoi,

Ages ago I bought a couple of Reaper carrier cases for transporting my armies. They have served me dutifully for the last 7 years but some time ago the foam trays they came with started to show signs of ageing. Glue came un-glued, compartments got loose from the tray-base, all in all time to be replaced.

At the Crisis of 2008 I obtained some trays from http://wwww.krmulticase.co.uk/ which replaced my most damaged old ones. These trays were designed to take single figures based on regular GW single 20mm figure bases, be it round or square. Then this year most of the other old ones died on me and I needed more replacement. this time suited for my system of 4 troops put together on a 40mm x 40mm base. So I perused the KR website and thought I'd found the right size and ordered 8 trays from them on-line to be picked up at this year's Crisis. When I arrived to pick them up at the KR stall, Daryl from KR presented me with an humongous cardboard box containing my order. While I had taken o good look at the size of the compartments I had forgotten to check the size of the trays themselves!

Heavily doubting whether their excellent large trays would fit my Reaperbags, I stood and tried to work out what to do. Daryl came to the rescue by selling me just one big tray to check whether it'd fit the bag and if so I'd always be able to order more. So that is what I did, I checked when at home and I needed half size trays for the bags. I mailed Daryl the specifications and low and behold I could get 6 trays with dice and a new ruler (I don't NEED any of the latter persé but you gamers know how it goes: we're like magpies when in proximity to nice shiny dice) for a very reasonable price!

The picture below shows 4 of the trays, the ruler and dice. Two trays are made ready for use, 4 more I need to still work on. 

The material is first rate and far sturdier then any other stuff I know. Daryl and Co. can also make you trays after your own specifications but if you check their site you'll find more different sorts of trays then you can think up yourself. Also if you play FoW they offer trays for that game as well.

So a very big thank you to Daryl and the guys at KR!




Cheers Sander!

Listening to: "Beyond Hell, above Heaven" by Volbeat

Misc. Updates

Hoi!

Recently I have been trying to clear my desk of some loose ends (mainly CBT stuff) and have alo finished the French Late War (WW1) Cavalry form HäT. More pictures of the latter will be up in the HäT ETS pages shortly.

First up are two Swiftwind scoutcars for my First Aragon Borderers. I have more of these which I will paint up in several other faction paint schemes

Next in line are some Fuel trucks which can be used as targets or scenery. Hence the general army green paintjob.

One of the lovely new HäT French WW1 Cavalry troopers.

Cheers Sander

Listening to "Over the Hills and Far Away, soundtrack of the Sharpe Series" by various.

Newest testshots

Hoi,

Some days ago the latest HäT testsprues came in and I was elated to see they were of the 3 great new WW1 cavalry sets, Turks, Brits and French. Well the British cavalry are finished and here's the first picture. More will be featured at the HäT site.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Best if SOAD" by System of a Down

Farewell to you Spanish Ladies...

Hoi,

As promised here's a picture of the next 1:72 metal figure of a 18th century lady in dress gown. I like to think of her as a Spanish lady attending a ball.
The picture doesn't really bring out the quality of the figure itself, mainly due to the fact I had to use a flash and am not a very good photographer...

The second picture for this update is of my version of Art Miniaturen's Scottish Highlanders, the Black Watch. First I did a tartan very similar to the 42nds but since it was a simplification it didn't look the part. Therefore I added a small blue square to the pattern (which is not historically accurate) but that did make the scheme more believable.

Cheers Sander

Listening to "Icky Thumb" by White STripes

A Lady in the Cold

As winter is almost upon us I thought this figure would be appropriate.

I am not at all happy with all the flesh-parts, will try to improve on those. The base, which is not very visible in this picture, was made by putting some brick-card onto a GW base and adding some snow-looking stuff.

Cheers Sander

Listening to "The Idle Prentice" by Gin Lane

Inaugural Battles

Hoi Folks!

Last holiday I played some lovely games with my buddy Koen on the new gaming table. The first was a nice The Great War game using Russians against Germans in 1914. The Russians had to evacuate their guns and the Germans had to destroy them. The Russians managed to haul off the guns but their army was destroyed utterly while doing this so we finished on a draw.

Next we played a Black Powder Napoleonic game which was also nice, but I forgot to take pictures until the last turn in which all was over but the mopping up. Set in the days just before Waterloo the Allies needed to withdraw from the French Avant Garde. I played the French needless to say: the Allies won.

Greetings Sander

Listening to: "Beyond Hell, above Heaven"  from Volbeat