How to make a: pond

Greetings everyone,

Hope you are all well.

It's (once more) a tutorial post, this one, of how to make a pond for your wargaming tables, easily and most importantly, cheaply.

The Chinese used to say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and for this reason below you will see a photo of the draft sketch,

the materials used for the pond,

and the final result:

You can see the whole 'how-to' video below:

I hope you like it.

Have good Tuesday night everyone! :-)

T.

How to make: WW1 Trenches

Greetings everyone!

Hope you are all well.
In my previous post, I mentioned that I was preparing some terrain for our wargames club, based on some WW1 Scenarios we are interested to play.

I have managed to prepare some trenches, based on some photos I've collected through the web and my books and also for Sidney's blog that is full of wonderful, wonderful, wonderful models.

Below you will see (through a very basic video I had just prepared) how I begun with this:

And ended up to this:

And this is Youtube's link (It cannot be uploaded through blogger, don't ask me why...) 

I hope you like it!

Have a good Sunday night everyone!
T.

HaT Set 8260 WWI German Field Wagon

Hi everyone.

it’s been some months now, that I trying to obtain Hat’s #8261 WWI German Field Wagon. Due to various reasons, I couldn’t get my hands on this kit. Last week my local hobbystore brought it’s little cousin, Hat’s #8260 WWI German Field Wagon. In terms of accuracy, the latter wasn’t the best option, but ok, let’s be honest here: could somebody brag about historical accuracy issues for field wagons? Was there an industry behind their manufacture??? Just kidding.

In any case, I bought this kit and I used the first of its three models that are included, as a small terrain piece which can be either a road obstacle, or as a complementary piece in a rural setup.

And a small video...

I hope you like it.

Have a good Monday night everyone!

T.

Achtung minen!!!

Hi everyone!

Hope you are all well. 

Not much talking in this post, only a small video I prepared.

It's called ''Achtung Minen!!'' and it's about .....ehmm well, see it for yourselves.

I hope you liked it!

T.

German 15cm Nebelwerfer

Good afternoon everyone!

Hope you are all well.

September has arrived and I am trying to get back on track, again.

I have been quite busy these past few days, and today I am going to show you my latest work.

I have recently acquired two Nebelwerfer models (metal) - you know, the moaning ‘’minnies’’,  from Britannia Miniatures, as you see in the photos below.

The models were not expensive (3 GBP/model) and they were very easy to assemble.

A sequence of photos from start to finish follows. Gluing, basing, painting and playing (in the end of this post you’ll see what I mean by ‘playing’...).

The bases were made from vinyl tiles and the rest of the stuff around the models were from Sgt’s Mess (Small boxes and German Water cans) and from SHQ (15cm Nebelwerfer rockets - VP10).

Since the Nebelwerfers come without escorts, I used some spare figures I had from PSC Late War German Infantry Heavy Weapons kit.

My name is not Thomas by the way... :-)

Last but not least, I have prepared for you a small video, showing what this little bugger did in reality.

I hope you like them!

Have a good Tuesday night everyone.

T.