A Year in Review.

Now that the year 2012 has come to an end it is time for a look back.
It was a year with lots of ups and downs. The effects on my condition from the brain-surgery I had almost 2 years ago have worn almost completely of halfway the year and in June the MRI check up scan was very positive. On the downside I still have to take a lot of pills against my epilepsy. This has starting to taking its toll on my condition. It is making me feel tired. This plus the work I do makes that I am too tired to do much other things the rest of the day. It also have an influence on the time I spent on my blog and painting.

This year I also made the decision to no-longer set a minimum post number that I have to achieve on my blog in a week or moth or year. I only post something if I have something (important) to tell or to let my followers know when I have painted something new or maybe made a new army-file. If I have no desire to post something I simply don't post anything. Must say it takes some stress away. ;-)

About painting. I can't say that I did much painting in 2012. I painted 1 platoon for my Mid War DAK Kompanie. And I painted 6 platoons for my Escadron de Reconnaissance Compagnie. Besides that maybe 1 or 2 other models. As you can see it ain't much.

2012 was also the year that I had to rebuild all the army-files I made to the new Flames of War V3 rules. Some were pretty easy to rebuilt others weren't and took a lot of time from me but I felt it was my duty to rebuilt them so all who make use of these army-files could still use them with the new V3 rules.
If I remember correctly I also made 3 new army-files even after that I already stopped making army-files a long time ago.

My blog now have 130 followers, it has been visited almost 25500 times whith 47000 pageloads. Maybe I don't have as much followers as others have or maybe it isn't visited as much as other blogs, these numbers still makes proud.
I like to thank all my followers and readers of my blog for being here and staying here and, hopefully, enjoying all my writing and sharing of pictures of my painted models.

I like to wish everybody a great New Years eve!
Hope to see you all back in 2013.

Thanks for reading.

Merry Christmas!

Have a great time with the family and loved ones. And don't eat too much.

Complete Escadron de Reconnaissance Compagnie

This is the complete Escadron de Reconnaissance Compagnie I painted. I only have to add a pair of objectives and maybe later I will also add trucks to those platoons who can take them.
It is a 1500 points company list and the company is built up using the following platoons:

Headquarters
1 Panhard AMD-35

Combat Platoons
Deep Reconnaissance Platoon 4 Panhard AMD-35
Deep Reconnaissance Platoon 4 Panhard AMD-35
Reconnaissance Platoon 3 Renault AMR-35 (7.5mm MG), 2 Renault AMR-35 (13.2mm MG)

Weapons Platoons
Fusiliers Machine-gun Platoon
Fusiliers Mortar Platoon

Divisional Support Platoons
Medium Combat Platoon 5 Somua S-35
Fusiliers-Voltigeurs Platoon (Colonial)
All-terrain Towed 105mm Artillery Battery

Air Support
Sporadic Fighter Intercept Moraine Saulnier MS.406

Escadron de Reconnaissance Compagnie

Headquarters
1 Panhard AMD-35

Combat Platoon #1
Deep Reconnaissance Platoon 4 Panhard AMD-35

Combat Platoon #2
Deep Reconnaissance Platoon 4 Panhard AMD-35

My 2011 / 2012 FoW project 12: 2nd Panhard AMD-35 Combat Platoon.

Finally part 12 and the last part of this project. This project should have been finished more the 6 months ago but because of al kinds of trouble, like none available miniatures, it took a lot longer. At least I got them all painted in time, before the end of the year.

This is the 2nd Panhard AMD-35 Deep Reconnaissance combat platoon.
The colours used to paint this platoon are 895 Gunship Green, 983 Flat Earth, and black for the wheels.All Panhards have a thin black wash. Lastly I used 873 US Field Drab to give them a muddy look.
The difference between this Panhard AMD-35 Combat Platoon and the 1st Panhard AMD-35 Combat Platoon are the roundels on the side of the hull. On the 2nd platoon they are gone and replaced by the Unit symbols.
The Unit symbols that are placed more to the front just below the turret on the 1st platoon are gone on the 2nd platoon. I did this because I read somewhere that some units did replaced the roundel with the Unit symbol. This also became handy for me because I can now keep the 2 platoons apart.

Some technical details about the Panhard AMD-35:
Type: Armoured car
Place of origin: France
Service history
In service: April 1937 - 1964
Used by: France, Nazi Germany, Italy, Syria
Wars: World War II
Production history
Designer: Panhard
Designed: 1933-1937
Manufacturer: Panhard
Produced: February 1937 - ~October 1940
Number built: 729 "A" versions, 414 B version
Variants: Panhard 178B
Specifications
Weight: 8.2 metric tonnes
Length: 4.79 m with gun
Width: 2.01 m
Height: 2.31 m
Crew: 4
Armor: 20 mm
Main armament: 25 mm SA 35 cannon
Secondary armament: 7.5 mm Reibel machine gun
Engine: Panhard SK 105 hp
Suspension: leaf spring
Ground clearance: 0.35 m
Operational
range: 300 km
Speed: 72 km/h

Panhard AMD-35

Panhard AMD-35 Deep Reconnaissance platoon front view

Panhard AMD-35 Deep Reconnaissance platoon right side view

Liebster Award!!!

Several day's ago I was nominated for the Liebster award. It completly slipped my mind because of the hard work in this last month of the year. I must say that I am a proud that John at Stumpy Heaven nominated me for this award.

The rules of the Liebster award are fairly simple:

1 Copy and paste the award on to your blog linking it to the blogger who has given it to you.
2 Pass the award on to your top 5 favourite blogs with less than 200 followers by leaving a comment on one of their posts to notify them that they have won the award and listing them on your own blog.
3 Sit back and bask in the warm fuzzy feeling that comes with knowing you have made someone’s day!
4 There is no obligation to pass this onto someone else, but it’s nice if you take the time to do so.

Now for me the big task is to find 5 other blogs to nominated. This was not so easy as it looked. A lot already received this award, most blogs have more then 200 followers and then there are blogs that haven't post anything in more then 6 months or longer.
But after long searching in my list of blogs I found found 4 who deserve the award.

In no particular order.
Moed beleid en trouw.
Not a blogger who post much but what he post looks, in my opinion, great.

Crac des Chevaliers
Again a blogger who seldom post on his blog but when he post something of his painted miniatures they look amazing.

Scary Biscuits Studios
A blog by Mike Haught. Simple said a great blog. Posts with nice painted miniatures, background information and more.

Paint-In
He deserves it and I almost forget about this blog.

Thanks for reading.

New 'Old Posts' added.

Well it ain't exactly new posts but posts that I have imported from my other blog (Metal, Plastic and Paint!). After some thinking I have decided that I will delete the other blog (around the new year). This for the simple reason that I hardly post on that blog anymore. Because I don't want the posts on that blog get lost I imported them in this blog. These imported posts contain pictures of painted Confrontation models (Dirz and Daikinee) and painted old Games Workshop Dark Eldar models.
This blog (AV's Corner) is and always will be focused on Flames of War but now also sometimes, but not to many, will have a post not FoW or WWII related.
In the future I will slowly replace the pictures of the imported posts with new and better pictures. The pictures that are now placed on these posts are too horrible to look at.
The imported post are incorporated into this blog on the same date they were placed on the other blog. This means you won't find them as a new blog post. Later on I will place a link in the header which will contain all links to the appropriate posts.

Thank you for reading.

Kensei - Miniature Wargame

Kensei is a new wargame developed by a Spanish company named Zenit Minatures. I have been following them by twitter for several months now and the first thing that captured me was how nice the 28mm models look.
The Spanish rules were released in September but today the English version of the rules are released. And the nice thing is that you can download them for free: Kensei
 
As I said I really like the look of their models. Take a look yourself here: Kensei - Zenit Miniatures

You have the option to choose from three factions.
-Kuge clan
-Buke clan
-Sohei clan

(Pictures from Zenit Miniatures website)

As I downloaded the rules PDF today I can not tell much about the rules. I first have to read all 88 pages of the PDF (172 book pages) the next few day's (or maybe weeks depends on how much free time I have). After that I will make up my mind if I really like the game or not.
For now I will copy and past a snipped of info from the PDF.

Kensei is a wargame for two or more players. We humbly hope that you enjoy it as much as we have enjoyed its creation. What you have in your hands is only a summary of what is going to be a larger game. Since the very beginning, it has been an exciting adventure of investigation and development, and we hope this is to your liking. There is still a long way to go, and this is just the first step in a game we hope to develop thanks to your opinions and collaboration; to that end we have at your disposal a forum at the Kensei web (http://www.kensei.zenitminiatures.es)

Characters, stories and miniatures in Kensei "War at Hymukai" are inspired by the history and mythology of Feudal Japan. This is expected to be the first set of rules of a greater world of oriental fantasy, the frontiers of which are still to be defined.

In this game you will be able to develop from small skirmishes to huge battles with a great number of miniatures, thus representing the armies of the most powerful clans. It solely depends on you and your friends and what you decide to bring to the Dragon's Islands, and ask the Kami to bless your acts.

Thanks for reading.