Monday Knights Wargaming Club

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Floppy has been playing wargames poorly for over 20 years. A founding member of the Monday Knights.

Regis Victoria Report

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The first Conquest tournament, Regis Victoria, attracted six participants due to a last-minute illness. With support primarily from Zepnix Games, the event emphasized enjoyment over strict painting requirements. ShadowMK emerged victorious with a 3-0 record. The tournament was deemed easy to manage, with plans for future events, including demos at PAX Australia.

Regis Victoria: Conquest, The Last Argument of Kings Tournament

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The Monday Knights is proud to host it’s first ever Conquest, The Last Argument of Kings Tournament. On the Kings birthday long weekend the Mondays Knights will host this tournament on the Saturday 7th of June. Conquest Last Argument of Kings World Community TournamentRounds: 3Points: 2000Painting Requirement: No, we do not require fully painted armies, … Read more

Dwarf Blood Bowl Team

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Dwarf BB Team

My first project for the year and it is my Dwarf Blood Bowl Team by Games Workshop.   It has been a long time between projects well over six months and this one was just hanging there for some time.  Part of the problem is motivation, I have not been motivated to paint anything. But I … Read more

Clan Jade Falcon – Delta Supernova Eye 2

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The last Star of mechs for the Clan Jade Falcon – Delta Supernova Eye 2 With this star I paint the final mech I have not painted before, this means that I have one of every 3050 mech in this Cluster. Mechs of the Delta Supernova Eye 2 Fenris uller puma Koshi Dasher Fenris Uller … Read more

Clan Jade Falcon – Charlie Supernova Beak 2

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Charlie Supernova Beak 2, is a mix of mainly medium mechs with a heavy thrown in.  The Blackhawk is also a 1st gen plastic mech.  It is a little lumpy but looks ok. The Mechs of Charlie Supernova Beak 2 Dasher Prime Config Black Hawk Prime config Loki Prime Config Puma Config B Ryoken Config … Read more

Clan Jade Falcon Cluster Project – Part 1

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My Clan Jade Falcon Cluster Project is my biggest Battletech undertaking.   Lets start with a how the clans are arranged.   Rank Unit Consists of Warrior N/A N/A Squad Commander Squad 5 Warriors Point Commander Point 1 ‘Mech, 2 Aerospace Fighters, 2 Combat Vehicles, 5 Elementals, or 5 squads. Star Commander Star 5 Points Nova[55] … Read more

15mm Medieval Mounted Troops Part 2

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Finally after all these years I have put paint to the 15mm Medieval Mounted troops.  This time I have two light horse with bows, two Cavalry with fire arms, 4 heavy Knights and 4 not so heavy knights. Light Horse with Bow’s The Light horse with bow are a very new purchase, I need some … Read more

Innersphere Mechs Part 2

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Continuing on from my Part 1 I have the follow up all completed and ready to go. With Battletech still waiting on the Battletech Kickstarter, I should complete the rest of the IS mechs. we have here: Jenner Mercuray Panther Trenchbuchet Centurion quickdraw Enforcer this gives me 20 Mechs in this scheme. and overall some … Read more

Innersphere Mechs Part 1

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With Battletech being still in favor, I had a look at how many Mechs I had. It turns out I have a lot of Mechs, more Clan then Innersphere I thought. That may not be the case, so here in my Innersphere Part 1 I am going to go through the first half of all … Read more

AK Interactive’s Matt Varnish

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AK Matt Varnish

AK Interactive have released their 3rd Generation Acrylics, clearly they have been doing the research and work on making new paint formula’s.   Until now I have been using the Army Painter Matt or the Testors Dull coat, however the Dull coat in the last application just was not matt and it also dulled down some … Read more

Saga Order of St John Mounted Warriors

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Mounted Warriors of St John

I have finally painted my Order of St John Mounted Warriors.  I have only had these since 2015, these are the Fireforged Games Mounted Sergeants.  Bases are old Galeforce 9 bases, and they’re going to be part of a Saga crusader warband. The real story here is not the Men-At-Arms; it is the horses. I … Read more

Battletech: 2nd Line Clan Mechs

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Late last week we had some of the Covid-19 restrictions eased, Earlier in the week somebody suggested that the maximum number of people possible gather for a game of Battletech.  Having not thrown a dice in anger in some 50+ days we jumped at it. On the Friday I was working out what mechs to … Read more

L’Art de la Guerre: The Monday Knights Get Biblical

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L’Art de la Guerre (ADLG) is an enjoyable and easily learned ancients and medieval wargame. The Monday Knights wargames club will be hosting a five round, two-day tournament. The event theme is “The Monday Knights Get Biblical“ 200-point armies should be chosen from the “Ancient” and “Classical” sections of the army lists. Allies that are from sections outside these are not permitted.

2020 – A new decade

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It is 2020 and it is a new decade. with the passing of the last decade we have done a lot in the world of gaming. Gone are days of people maintaining their own blog, doing painting in a rush to get content done. So we as a group have grown and started to share that work load.  After all life is getting in the way far too often for do everything our selves.

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The 2010’s as I look back them, I got much war gaming done, however towards the end last year it is easy to say I lost motivation. Life in a way had been stopping me from painting, as is evident on how many posts I made on the subject over the last year.

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Ogre Bloodbowl Team

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Games Workshop released a new team in December, the Ogre Bloodbowl team.  I just happen to have on gifted to me for Christmas.  So very happy.  Another one of our members has also picked up the same team and painted it up already you can find that article here. Shadow did a brilliant job on these minis.  I am here to review the mini’s  and put my spin on the paint Job. Ogre Bloodbowl Team 134

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Vanguard First Contact

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The First contact I had with Kings of War: Vanguard was interesting to say the least. The books and miniatures arrived, and we jumped right in.  When we started playing games it was with small 100 point forces to get used to the mechanics. I learnt the hard way, didn’t use the rules correctly, had to learn … Read more

Launching our new Blog.

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The plan is for those of us who have blogs that we don’t wish to maintain, is to slowly migrate them over to here.   Any sort of planing here will most likely go out the window and it will be on big hit.  Who is going to be writing, these are possibly the things we … Read more

Romans

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Romans, yep, Romans….

I have finally gotten paint on the Romans that I purchased back on 2007. I bought the army for Field of Glory, after looking at DBM back in the day and well.. hating the type player that played it, FoG was a real change of pace.

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We all love a Roman army right?

then I might have gone overboard….

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Alban Miniatures v Warlord Miniatures 95th Rifles

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Alban Miniatures recently went back to being a private collection again after being on the general market for some time, they made a whole range Napoleonic figures in 1/56th scale (28mm). So the only thing to do is look at the Alban Miniatures beside the Warlord Miniatures for the same unit.   So I choose the 95th Rifles as the miniatures that I will look at.

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Both Warlord Games and Alban Miniatures make figures for the 95th rifles, and I do enjoy the 95th rifles, it had to be done.

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Riverboats

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Who new a US Civil War game about the navys of the time could become a cult classic, well ok it became a Monday Knight Classic, mainly because of the hours of pleasure that we have had picking on this game, but that is Riverboats.

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That said a game of Hammerin’ Iron finally happened and I was there to witness what can only be called Riverboats!.

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Lighting and Photography

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While I lived in the US and started this blog, I have been slowly working on my photography skills, part of that is the lighting I use to take photo’s for this blog.  I was lucky enough early on to get some pointers from Dave Talyor who at that time and most likely still does was taking photo’s for War Games Illustrated (Along with everything else he does).  While at a Battle Front hosted Flames of War GT, I got to get some tips, stuff to get me going.  So very handy and I have slowly been progressing in my ability’s. But I was finding that unless I go into photoshop all my images were just a little too dark, this is where the lighting comes in.

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Rubicon Models Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer Review

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Firstly a big thanks to Tyler for the series on Muskets and Tomahawks, it was a big help as I went through surgery and gives all of us a chance to read well constructed articles that don’t ramble on like mine tend too, about one of the most colourful and fun periods to game in.  I do wounder if Tyler would like to do a series on Bolt Action at some point, as Tyler dips his toe in to 28mm WW2.  I am back now and we are off to a running start, while recovering I had a chance to catch up on some new and old projects.  So here is the first.

Rubicon Models released their Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer, well I had to have one, not only because it is a cool model, but because I really wanted to do a force for Bolt Action with Hetzers in it.

 

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As soon as I got my hands on one I had to review the kit, and here are, my Rubicon Models Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer Review.

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Bolt Action Army Verdict

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My Bolt Action Army played well in the VBAL last weekend, it however could of been better, I did sink a lot of points in to two anti-tank guns that could have been better used.  The season 3 dot net changes also meant that some weapons are not as effective as they once were.

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Above is the best painted army of the day, The Fins have come to play.

 

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Post Cancon Report

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My Post Cancon Report. Cancon is over for another year, was good to get back to an Aussie con,  unfortunately this year, I didn’t get any time to go around and talk to anybody, or take photo’s or really do anything fun. As it turned out Blood bowl took a lot longer than I had … Read more

Richard Sharpe my Crystal Dragon Entry

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Richard Sharpe is a fictional character by Bernard Cornwell, for the Sharpe series set within the Napoleonic Wars, all the way from India to after the wars in 1820. This series span off a TV series staring Sean Bean, named Sharpe.Richard Sharpe my Crystal Dragon Entry 151

I have here an Andrea Miniature in 54mm scale of Sharpe, this is my first entry in to the big model format, and I hope to do this model justice and be able to enter this into painting comps.

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A Year in Review

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A Year in Review, and what a year it has been, I get to look back at the year and see what we have done, and where we are going.   Firstly it has been a long year, much has happened.  At the start of the year we didn’t really know where we would be by June, then along came Bane of War which was fantastic, I am sad that I will miss this next year. Adepticon which I will miss next year again I am pretty sad to miss this, it is a great Con and you have to go to it.  Then we moved back to Aus in May, and I traveled down to Hobart for a Flames comp, that was a load of fun.

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Cancon is Coming

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Cancon is coming on rapidly, only 48 more days until I land in Canberra for the festivities to begin.   But not all is going well games are not filling up like they used to.

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Now it is almost time to get serious about painting and getting ready, signing up or is it?

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More Terrain

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More Terrain, yep I have been flat out building and painting terrain, why cause I really couldn’t be stuffed with painting minis for the moment.  So while I lack the motivation for Mini’s I have worked on some terrain.  This is more a dump of everything I have not done in a full post.  So there are a few pieces in here that over all look great and I want to see how they look on the table.

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MK1881 Ares Blood bowl Team

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MK1881 did a kick starter for the Ares Blood bowl team, I want to say around a year ago, I recently dipped the toe back in to commission painting.  One of the members of the Melbourne Blood Bowl League had this team and really wants to play with it, however it was not painted.   Being a fantastic looking team I took the commission.

 

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Full Team

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Blood Bowl Chaos Team

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Blood Bowl was one of those easy to get into games, it is good fun, however Games Workshop have dumped the game, along with all other non core games, what we are left with is a Living Rule book, and unlike some of the other specialist games that change alot over a short period of time, Blood Bowl is quite stable, the Teams don’t change much, and everybody plays with the same teams as everybody else, no country has it’s own teams.  Because it is being played in leagues around the work the development of teams is tested by alot of people in different ways, it makes for a community that works together.  But really it is the mini’s that are great now, there are a long list of kickstarters out there that have produced teams, and if you are lucky or have enough “spare part” you might just have some old Chaos players made by Games Workshop…

 

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SAGA

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SAGA, a game set in the dark ages. Vikings raiding the world etc.  what is there not to love.   I have two very unfinished war bands for Saga, the Jomsvikings and Scot’s.  I have only had them since the game came out, a very long time ago, of course what is embarrassing is that I have never played a game either.  Well with the latest addition to the rules out, Crescent and Cross, moving the battle’s to the middle east, I finally find something to bring me back to painting knights.

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Battletech

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Battletech gets rolled out a couple times a year, it is one of those games that is good to play every so often. The biggest problem being that it takes along time to play the game.

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Hill’s

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Hill’s are an interesting thing in wargaming, we use them in so many different games, but most are small round and flat on top. So in part two of my Terrain making I am going to show my take on hills.

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4Ground Ruined House

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4Ground Ruined House is the start of some World War II 28mm Terrain, I picked the kit up at the LFGS  when I was in there to get some paints, yep impulse buy is there nothing better.

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Back2Base-ix Paint Rack’s

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Back2Base-ix Paint Rack’s came in I set to putting them together, I again choose the perspex versions of their racks as they look a lot better.

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While I get to putting I was thinking about the organisation of my desk, I really need a clear space to work on and with the new racks I finally have nearly enough space for all my paint.  Well at least the paints that I keep on my desk. There is also a lot of airbrush paints out by the airbrush.

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Flames of War Tournament Wrapup

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We just had two tournaments in two weeks, while at the same time there was also a tournament in Sydney, which none of us went to.

We will start of in Tassie, with the Kingston Kup in the middle of a Tasmanian winter, and finish with Badgercon, where the lads from Bendigo held a series of tournaments for their clubs open day.

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Kingston Kup

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I missed last weeks post, living in a hotel is not conducive to getting stuff to write about, but we have found a house and not it is back on the important stuff, gaming…

Kingston Kup is a Flames of war comp held down in Tasmania, they boys down in Hobart put on a comp each year and the Monday Knights normally send down a group to catch up with friends, and play some games against people we normally don’t get a chance too. This year is no different, and this year I am making the time to go down and play as well.

For the most part I was going to play an easy transport army, but the comp this year requires many different lists.

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Warlord v’s Rubicon T-34/85

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Warlord v’s Rubicon T-34/85

I had the chance to get models from both company’s, so I am racing them in my first ever 1 v 1 test.

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Having started the Russians I couldn’t say no to T-34/85’s so here we go as we test both kits to see which one win’s out on the first ever Floppy’s Model Kit Challenge.

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Wargames Factory WW2 Russians

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Wargames Factory WW2 Russians, were part of the Kickstarter package for WW2 Assault I looked at last week.  It has been a long time since I looked at the Wargames factory products as the last time they were very very bad.

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I am happy to say that I am very impressed with this product. It is a really nice surprise to see what has changed over the years.

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Adepticon 2015 part 2

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Adepticon 2015 part 2, I played in two comps  Epic Armageddon, and Bolt Action Tank Wars.   Both were a lot of fun, I have known the Epic Community here in the US for a long time, but until now I had never made the time to play with them.

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As for Bolt Action well this was my first event, my first game and it was a load of fun.

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Adepticon 2015 part 1

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Adepticon 2015 part 1, I finally have time to sit down and write about my experiences. I finally got to be a con attendee and just spend time walking around talking to people who allow us to experience events like this.

 

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I did a lot over the four days of the con so this is going to be broken up in to two or three articles, there was way too much to do for me to fit it all in one article.

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Adepticon Preview

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Adepticon Preview

Adepticon is just a week out, I have almost finished all my painting.  Or at least I would have if everything had arrived.

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I missed last year so this year I am really looking forward to Adepticon again.

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DAK Transports are finally finished.

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DAK Transports are finally finished. I had been holding off sending or posting photos of some of these because I needed time to finish them all, this competes what I need for Adpeticon Bolt Action Tank wars. It all looks good so I am pretty happy.

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Paint Problems

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Paint Problems, we have all had them.  I get them often enough that I thought I might do a post about them.  In this case my problems came up while painting the Bolt Action transports.

 

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Flock Box

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Flock Box is a great tool, those people out there that do Scale Rail modeling will have seen similar products by Noch etc.  essentially we charge “Static Grass” and put a opersite charge on the miniature and base.  This causes the grass to “Jump” on to the base, where we have hopefully applied glue.

 

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Warlord’s German Halftrack

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Warlord’s German Halftrack the SD.KFZ 251/1 Ausf C has just landed on my desk and I get to put to it together and do a review, paint it up and make it all pretty and stuff

 

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The Amazing Deadpool

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The Amazing Deadpool, was an episode of season 2, the Amazing Spiderman.   This Amazing deadpool however is by Knight Models.   While Deadpool is from the Marvel Universe, Knight Models first game was for Batman.  There may well be some rules coming for Marvel universe characters.

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If you can get the rules for free from the above website.

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Adepticon

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Adepticon 2015 is coming, rapidly, just weeks to go.  March 19th – 22nd.

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Adepticon is huge, the first time I went, I was blown away with the size of it. This year it has moved to a bigger and better venue, I am keen to see it all again and get some games in.

This year I am avoiding Flames of War, I am a little over that game, even though I had a great time at the last event, I am over it.  I also have not had a chance to play everybody that is online in different forums, that play other games, so this year I am playing in Epic Armageddon and Bolt Action Tank Wars.

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Bane of War V

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Bane of War V has been and gone, and it was a fantastic weekend of gaming for all.

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I really enjoyed Bane of War, it was a great event, Red on Blue where ever possible, it was well run, and having the comp inside the Texas Military Forces Museum is a bonus.

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Dropzone Commander Resistance

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Dropzone Commander Resistance was a force for Drop Zone Commander I had to get, clearly designed as an insurgency force, but it had choppers, and it was shiny so I couldn’t resist.

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I didn’t buy the starter box like I should have but rather I started collecting by getting what ever blisters the local store had.  Which was not much but it was a start.  This was meant to be a slow build not something that I felt i had to have completed in a week or two.

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Year of Painting

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My Year of painting has been pretty disrupted, a Trip back to Australia in March that ended up being 6 weeks, took pretty much all the wind out of my sails.  I really didn’t get painting again until I started this blog.   I was lacking some motivation, and really this blog provided me with goals that I should keep to.  I find deadlines always help me get stuff finished.

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The Blog it’s self is a really good tool for me to get my work out there, I enjoy painting, and so I can show off to a wider community, I hope that I am producing some good work for people to look at.  If there is anything people want me to explain more drop me a message, I know my writing is not the best I am also working on that, It is good to get back in to working on some weakness that I have.

So on too what I have completed, what misses, what hit’s and what I am looking forward to

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DAK Infantry Squads

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The DAK Infantry Squads are finally complete.  I needed a lot of motivation to finish these two but they are done. It is not like they were not nice to paint, they are Perry Mini’s it is just I really lacked the want to finish them.

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1/600th Ultramodern Marines

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I am very lucky to know some amazing former US Marines, some of which server on Sea Kings and later on V-22 Osprey’s.  So in an Ode to them I have painted up an ultra Modern Marine force for Hind Commander.  I have completed the air part of the task force, the ground part of the task force is next.

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Painting the Rubicon Models Panzer III

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Painting the Rubicon Models Panzer III, has been pretty easy, the model it’s self was a pleasure to put together and painting is no different.

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I am going to go through the process I use to paint tanks and some other larger models, I do use a Modulation Style to begin with.  Then I will get into the details.

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Rubicon Models Panzer III

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Rubicon Models Panzer III arrived on my desk a short while ago.  I have been keen to see how these go together, for my DAK force some Panzer III’s are always welcome.   There is a lot of very happy people out in the community raving about these models. Now that I have received my order I can get to and put it together.

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Land of the Free

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Land of the Free wars from 1754 until 1815 in North America, I have looked forward to Land of the Free since I got told about this rule set coming out a while ago.  I have a soft spot for all things colonial.  Back home I would love a decent set of ideas for the Eureka Stockade (1854).  So the  wars between France and England in North America leading into the War of 1812,  even the war against Mexico hold a lot of interest for me, the Rule set of Land of the Free does cover the period from 1754 until 1815 in North America.

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28mm WW2 Painting Round Up

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My 28mm WW2 Painting, has been going along at a rapid rate.  This Blog has kept me motivated for the short term, I hope it will do the same for the long term.  Of course because I only post here every 3-4 days, I am finishing stuff well before they get posted. So to catch up here is a round up of finished pieces.

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Bane of War

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This year I had a chance to get to Bane of War in Austin Texas. It was my first trip to Texas and was keen to get there and have look at the local scene and get a bit of wargaming in.

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DBA 3.0 :- Review

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DBA was my first entry into Ancients, I had not played any ancients before and was keen to give them ago, with out wanting to jump in the deep end and get going WRG or DBM at the time a whole group of us looked at BDA.

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Warlord Games Panzer IIc

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What I have finished.

I have been working on a Warlord Games Panzer IIc for Bolt Action.

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The Warlord Games Panzer IIc I have is a resin model with left and right Track,  Hull, and Turret. with metal Barrels for the MG and 2cm main-gun.

Overall the quality is fantastic.  I wish I had of started this blog back when I was first cleaning and assembling it, for photos.   Like with all resin models I get I clean with warm soapy water to remove any mold release and other residue from casting, then dry fit everything before I start with paint.

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