Birthday present.

A few day's ago it was my birthday. As I don't celebrate my birthday I don't get much presents (even no presents from my parents but that is an agreement we made). Only a little money from my aunts.
But there is a friend of mine who always give me a present.
This year he gave me the Frostgrave rulebook which I am currently reading.

At a first glance the book looks pretty good. At the moment I can't say much about the rules because I haven't read them all and didn't play a game.
I hope that I can use my large collection of Confrontation miniatures with this ruleset. Only problem I may face is that I don't have enough and apropriate scenery.

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Confrontation Miniatures: The Crow.

A new painted miniature. The Crow.
I painted it very dark. Used colours are dark grey,black and very little light grey. For the sword metal colours are used. Because of the used colours it took me awhile to get the right pictures that showed how the miniature really looks. And like all the other Confrontation miniatures this one can also greatly be used with the Open Combat game.

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Confrontation Minatures: The Dominators.

Updated with more and new photo's.

The Dominators

Cypher Lukhan 2nd Incarnation

Kerratis Warriors with 2 swords

Kerratis Warriors with sword and shield

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Confrontation Miniatures: Tigers of Dirz.

The red tiger was painted years ago but I changed the base a little. The other two are new. The miniatures can again be used with Open Combat.

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Confrontation Miniatures: Sasia Samaris 1st Incarnation.

This miniature had some balance problems. With the mini attached to the base it kept falling forward. I solved this problem by glueing pieces of lead under the base.
Not the best painted mini and pictures.

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Confrontation Miniatures: Darkness Elemental.

After 8 years it was time to paint something different then army green.
The confrontation game is dead for years now but I found a complete new game named Open Combat. My old Confrontation miniatures can be used with these game rules.

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Battlegroup: British Reconnaissance teams.

These miniatures were given to me (thanks MW) so my British troops would have some better Reconnaissance teams. There are 2 Staghounds, 2 Daimler I and 2 Daimler Dingo. All Battlefront miniatures and all to be used with Battlegroup Overlord and Battlegroup fall of the Reich.
After a close look I noticed that a few miniatures were standing unstable. I quickly saw that the wheels weren't glued in a straight position. So first thing was to solve that problem. Next was placing an AAMG on a Staghound, it was broken of and missing, and glue on bits and pieces that came loose. Then painting. Because not all pieces were painted and I wanted them to match with the rest of my British (Canadian) army I repainted them all. I did this without stripping of the old paint. The result is pretty good if I may say so.

British Reconnaissance teams.

Daimler I teams.

Dailer Dingo teams.

Staghound teams.

Also I finally got my next Battlegroup book. Battlegroup Bitzkrieg. The book concentrate on the invasion of Poland and French by the German army. It contains several army-lists for the Polish and German army for the invasion of Poland and several French, Belgian, BEF and German army-lists for the invasion of France. Further it contains background info, a few extra rules,scenarios and painting guides. After Overlord and Fall of the Reich this is my third book in the Battlegroup collection and as with the other books the book looks great. In combination with this book I'm going to use my Early war French Battlefront miniatures, that I collected for FoW. Later on I will see if I need to expand my French miniature collection.

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More troops to paint for Battlegroup.

A new post. As most of you already must have noticed I don't post much new posts in my blog. This has several reasons. First and the most important one is that I don't do much painting anymore. Hope this will change in the future. Another thing is that English ain't my mother language and lately I'm getting more problems concentrating on writing and reading english and thus make more and more mistakes. Also spent a lot of time reading books.
But now my 3 weeks vacation is getting close (2 more weeks to wait), I am bored and I want to have something to do in the evening (there isn't much to watch on TV) I bought some new stuff to paint. Box with the M26 Pershing platoon, the D7 Bulldozer blister and the M4A3 (105) Sherman blister. Ofcource these can also be used for FoW but the chance that will happen is zero.

From left to right M4A3(105) Sherman, M26 Pershing platoon, D7 Bulldozer.

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Battlegroup: M4A3E8 Easy Eight (Uparmoured).

Finally a new painted miniature for my US army out the Battlegroup Fall of the Reich book.
It took so long because when opening the blister I noticed that the gun-barrel was missing. After several emails towards Battlefront and a lot of promises from Battlefront that they would sent me a new gun they finally, after 3 months, sent me a new blister. This after I got angry in my last email sent to BF that it took so long.

For now this will be the last painted miniature for Battle group. Next I will buy the Battlegroup Blitzkrieg book.
Maybe I will need some extra miniatures for my French army.

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Irregular Magazine Issue 1 Volume 2.

The free quarterly magazine Irregular Magazine is back. After the magazine was closed down in 2013 it now made a restart.
I always enjoyed this magazine so I hope it will stay.

This issue includes:
-Editor's Challenge: Army on the Cheap
-Strange Aeons - A Short Story
-Salute to Marc Miller
-Star Destroyer Scratch Build
-DnD 5th: Rise of Tiamat
-Creating Alien Landscapes

To download this issue go here: Irregular Magazine

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Battlegroup: M36B1 Jackson.

Battlegroup Fall of the Reich has no stats for the M36B1 Jackson only for the standard M36 Jackson. This means that I will use this model with the stats of the standard Jackson. Or I can use the stats as given at the forum, in agreement with my opponent of-course, after asking a question about this. An other option is that I take the turret of the M36B1 Jackson and the hull of one of the M10 Wolverine I have to make a standard M36 Jackson (see last pictures).

M36B1 Jackson (M4A3 hull).

M36 Jackson (M10 hull).

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Battlegroup: M4A3E2 Jumbo (two turrets 75mm or 76mm gun option).

Next painted model for Battlegroup Fall of the Reich. This time it is the M4A3E2 Jumbo. It has the option to take the 75mm gun option or 76mm gun option.
All things that look like mistakes, like the decals, are on purpose.

The M4A3E2 Jumbo with 75mm gun.

The M4A3E2 Jumbo with 76mm gun.

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