Selling all I have of my GNW, as a single package.
Some 550 painted 28mm. If you follow my blog you know what's it about. Just check my GNW tag and you'll see all of it.
It's a big force.
I'm asking £3500 plus shipping.
Selling all I have of my GNW, as a single package.
Some 550 painted 28mm. If you follow my blog you know what's it about. Just check my GNW tag and you'll see all of it.
It's a big force.
I'm asking £3500 plus shipping.
Well, it's been almost a year, (two weeks away actually) since last I did a proper full size 28mm unit, that was my British SYW grenadiers. Since then I've done some odds and ends, and these small scale skirmish things for Vietnam and WW2, and the Epic scale stuff, but they are so small they don't count.
But here I can now finally present you with a proper-sized 28mm unit.
Drumroll, please...
I still haven't found any clear concise info on just how a Spanish Tercio looked in the 1630s-1650s Most likely they were not these huge 2500-3000 man behemoths. But just how they deployed I do not know, if they still tried to use 4 sleaves on a pike block or if they more or less looked like the dutch system at this point. Just because it's called a tercio doesn't mean it actually looks like the original ones.
They were still called Tercios when they were 5 deep lines of just musketeers during the Spanish succession.
Anyway, I don't know what will show up on the blog next, maybe some more TYW, maybe some WW2. I really wanna get back to my SYW, but I don't know if I'll find the inspiration for it.
But I've finally finished something, 1 full 12-man US rifle Squad.
I'll probably field squads of 9, to simulate casualties, the 1ID had been in Normandy almost 2 months by the time of Cobra, which is the thing I'm aiming at.
Oh and I also finished a Sherman, my first 1:56 scale tank done with Airbrush.
I'm just gonna photo dump the pictures. next up will be my attempt at Panzer lehr using the Wargames Atlantic panzer lehr, it's questionable if they all used their fancy unique uniforms. But since all other german 28mm miniatures are grotesque bear-men unless I do fallschermjegers or SS. I went with these as they match Perry in style. If I ever do find regular Heer infantry that looks somewhat human I'll add them.
So I got an airbrush for my birthday, so that meant lots and lots money spent on paints, and effects, tanks, etc. So back to WW2 painting I come.
I've also taken part in a beta test for VR for a flight sim, I think it will be epic once it's finshed.
I know most of you who see the blog don't care about flight sims, but while I'm waiting for my WW2 stuff.
Here is some flying.
I jump between IL2 and DCS, and the game with the beta, sadly can't show anything from the beta yet.
But here are som IL2 and DCS vidoes.
Here's a video I'm quite happy with, a P47 giving close air support to American armor outside of Carentan.
Here I'm flying a Spitfire IX in Normandy, with my 3D printed Spitfire spade grip, throttle quadrant, and trim wheels, it's amazing flying a spitfire in VR, and holding on to the spade grip, firing off the cannons and machine guns, or using the bomb release button on the throttle.
IL2 Flying Circus has gotten WW1 bombers.
So I did a small fight trying to shoot down some Gotha bombers.
And last but not least, less than a week ago the AH-64 Apache Longbow was released in early access.
Still missing some features, but very well made.
Here's a mission I flew today, my second mission in the Apache, and it went surprisingly well given I had less than an hour in the Apache before beginning the mission.
All my videos now have commentary, so should be a bit more interesting to watch.
The 13th legere fought many a hard battle, 5 battles honours, it fought under Davout from 1805 through 1812, and just to show their awesomeness, they took La Haye Sainte at the closing parts of the battle of waterloo. My favorite French regiment and I'm happy to see it on this scale.
General d'Armee will be my go-to rules, so this brigade gets 1 extra skirmish base as half or more of the brigade is light infantry. So the next regiment the 17th line will just be 2 battalions and 12 skirmishers.
Sadly Warlord being an evil capitalist corporation has decided not to give the British spurs any skirmish figures, meaning you can't do a proper Napoleonic battle, They, for some reason decided instead of giving you skirmishers, you get close-order rifle battalions. Quite useless and I can only imagine they did this for getting as much money out of the buyer as possible.
We'll see if we will ever get line infantry skirmishers. Or I'll have to buy some small 15mm or big 12mm to use for that.
So on to the 17th line, I was getting real tired of the legere uniform, so some white trousers and red cuffs will be nice. The line will probably be harder to get good, as you got the white part in the center of the jacket, meaning it will be harder to get clean neat white cross belts.
Well, it's been almost two months since I posted last, a lot has happened since then, Christmas and New Year came and went, the whole of January went by, and Betty White and a crapload of other famous people died.
My flight sim had taken a lot of time and I just haven't had any inspiration to paint. I need more paint and the paint is getting expensive and I feel I just bought some etc
But I have finally finished a unit, I have painted some stuff here and there, but nothing finished.
But I did paint for 7 hours in the last two days, my most intensive painting sessions in months.
And this is what I came up with.
80 close order infantry.