Germans and americans in perfect harmony.

 Wellcome to Normandy American mongrles!!

 Done some germans, Im still not happy with the grey, it's ok, but it lacks the green tint.

 I did give these a slightly greener grey, but I feel it's to light, not the grey but the green is to light, if you get what I mean?

 I like this table, sadly it only takes up about 2x2 feet. of my 6x4 feet table, the rest is either full of junk or spaceships and space mat.

 I bought the Assault on normady box from BA, so I got some ruins, and the rules book.

 Crazy BAR gunner, exposing him selv(not in the good way) just to get a better vantage point to rain down 30-06 on the enemy.

 So another 5 done, this is my veterans.

 If you look at alot of fotage of ww2 or pictures, you see the US troops often dumping gear, often to the bare minimum. So I got varied versions of gear completeness

 This sergant, perfers to go light, only carring ammo, even dumping his helment if he dosn't expect artillery.

 I have one in full gear, with cartridge belt, packpack, sigar and 5 o'clock shadow. I also got one that has dumped all his gear, just carring his Garand and bandoleres of ammo, not even using is cartridge belt.

 And I have one in cartridge belt, with E-Tool, but no backpack.

The BAR gunner is packed full, he is a big mofo and likes to carry it all. he probebly got his backpack full of spare ammo for his BAR.

Attempt one billion

 So there are 3 big periods I really want to get into, but never seem to be able to, ACW, AWI and WW2.
So this is attempt one billion at getting into WW2.

 These figures, are Bolt action plastics, I think I have started to get the hang of putting them togeather, I have worked with the germans and british packs to, and I never got them total right. but these are starting to look good.

 I'm quite happy with these, the faces are nice, I think I finnaly got the hand of the color of the jackets(after some trouble) the rifles look good.

My only problem is the brown trousers, I seem to be missing medium brown. I have like a dozen diffrent browns, but non the fit the job, I got a darkish brown, that works for shade, and a light one for highlight but not a medium to use inbetween.

Ship ahoy

 So I've been a busy little bee. My forces have grown, the total number is now 68 ships.
The ships are mostly from 3 sources, two of the sources are home made stuff from talented garage producers. the last source is ebay micro machines.

I's kinda fun hunting star trek ships on ebay, first you go to memory alpha or other star trek source, find the dimention of the class of ship you want, they give the figure in actual meters, so a bird og prey is 140 meters ect. you then devide it by 7000 and multiply by a 100 and you get the size of a 1:7000 scale version of the ship in cm. you then go online and try and find a ship model that fit this size as close as possible. The nebula and excelsior class ships are slighlty off, the excelsiour is to big, while the nebula is to small. but my vorcha are just right.

My klingon fleet is now 25 ships, 1 negh'var, 4 vor'cha and 20 birds of prey.

 My federation fleet isn't really a fleet yet, but might be call a task force.

 The klingons do look good on masse don't they?

 I really like the nebula class ship, it has the scaucar section of a galaxy, but much smaller star drive section. But I really like the look of it.

Now I have to learn the rules, as I have more then enough ships to play now, but the rules I've choosen are alot of numbers and so my brain melts.

More Trek

 So it's stange, normaly I buy dozens or even hundreds of figures at a time, and naturaly they take along time to paint, even 6 15mm takes hours to paint, and a full 36 figure battalion takes days to finish.
But these ships take much shorter time, many of them are so small it's limited how detailed you can get them, even the biggers one are limited based how they look on the show

This is the Dominions ships, 13 attack ships(still got 7 left) 3 cruisers and 1 attack cruiser.

 The federation ships, I got these of ebay, later I learned they were from a re caster, he steals other peoples models and just recasts them sell them on ebay, I even learned who he has stolen them from, naturaly I feel bad, and won't do any moe buisness with this "gentlemen" One intrepid, one miranda, the defiant is from the same man that makes the dominion ships, so that was is clean. but the two others are tanited.

 Close up of the dominion ships

 The dominion, are hard to paint, you never get really a good look, one episode they look purple, another they look more metal, so I did a mix of purple and metal, and metal purple.

Negh'Var Biggest of the big Klingon ships.











All the ships I got, I ran out of flight stands, so waiting for the next shippment for them.

To boldly go were no one has gone before.

 So I'm a life long trekkie, it started as a small kid when one of the norwegian stations showed TNG, it was before I could understand english and before I could read the subtiltes on norwegian, but I knew I liked it. And to this day TNG is still my favorite of the trek series, I now got all the movies and series on dvd or bluray. I usualy start on TOS, then go on to TNG, ds9 and voyager, I usualy skip enterprise because well I hate it. But TOS-voy is some 600 episodes and 10 movies, it takes quite some times go go through it, but they are on my continues playlist, along with SG1, Babylon 5, Atlantis.

I'm now on the last few episodes of DS9, and naturaly anybody doing star trek wargaming, DS9 is the holy grail, I still think the space battles in season 6-7 of DS9 is the best space ship battles of any series or movie ever made, better then B5, Stargate ect.

So now it's finnaly time to do star trek wargaming, it did take quite a while sorting out were to get what.

These are from the same guy, not really sure if I should say were I got them or not for legal reasons.

Most trekkies should see what these are, unless I did a horrible paint job.

 My plan is 3 rather lagre fleets, klingon, dominion/cardassians and federation.
The federation ships are the hardest to get a hold of.

 The klingons do love their birds of prey, small powerfull and fast, but can't take much of a punishment, but that only means you go to stovakor faster. I do have some of the bigger hitters for the klingons on the way. The dominions are kinda like the klingons, they have those small attack ships, but also som bigger stuff.

The federation kinda likes to keep their troops alive, so they generaly have bigger ships and more defences. One on one the federation ships will win almost all the time aginst a dominion ship, but the dominion have the numbers on their side.

If  i get a hold of them I'll add breen and romulans to later.

Long time no see

Well this has been a long time, last Napoleonics I've posted here was in September last year, and my last 15mm Napoleonics in MAY!!! last year, so it's almost a year since I've painted 15mm Napoleonics.

I've had these Blue moon figres laying around since then, done alot since then, and I almost didn't paint anyting the last 6 months of last year.
As you see these are 1805 period french, the figures are good, but I've noticed something, they do not photograph well, in real life, they look good, because they have extravant features that make them look right in your hands even on close inspection, but the high pixel camera just picks up every bump in the figures, and they look disformed and ugly. so I had to scale down the pictures, at the full 1600x1200, they were but ugly, which was a shock as they looked really good in my hands, espeacly the face.

I have decided to up the lightness of the blue slightly, they still look like french blue coats, but you get a bit more pop to the color.

It was fun painting 15mm Napoleonics agian, it was my first love in wargaming, and I do have sevral hundred of them, and I only need a few more and I can actualy game with them.