Giant Frogs - Updated

I found this giant painted plastic frog in my favorite Dollar store.

Side view of frog versus 28mm hunter by Antediluvian Miniatures

Casablanca Lockheed Electra

LOCKHEED 10 ELECTRA

One of the latest miniatures / models added to my collection is the aircraft from the 1943 film Casablanca - the  Lockheed 10 Electra.  This is an old 1:53 scale Williams Brothers kit that works perfectly for heroic 28mm scale and will feature in one of my upcoming Pulp Alley games.

My new Lockheed 10 Electra kit, picture by John Clearwater

Read on to see are some more images of the aircraft including some with the characters from Casablanca and the story of the building of the kit.

Leprechaun

I have been working on this Reaper Leprechaun figure on and off for some time.

March 2018 Reaper Leprechaun

Lemuria Characters

Some of the figures I have prepared for the Lemuria Pulp Alley Campaign.

 

Test game: Battlegroup rules by PSC

Test Battle: Battlegroup (Kursk supplement)

Ted and I gave the Battlegroup rules a test today (Sunday 27 January, 2019).  These W.W.II rules are designed for 15mm to 28m scale and to represent combat anywhere from the Squad  to the Company level on a scale of 1 to 1.  A good review and more details about the rules can be found here:
 https://www.beastsofwar.com/featured/part-one-introduction-overview/

Our game was a meeting engagement set on the Eastern front in late 1942 near Stalingrad. We played on a 5' x 6' table, and each side had 500 points worth of equipment and troops.  Ted played the Soviets.

overview

Retrospective: Resurrection of Evil - the Daleks Cangames 2008

Battle Report

I am gradually posting battle reports / AAR on all my past Doctor Who Miniature games.  This was one of my very early games and the first time I had used the: 5th Doctor, the TARDIS, tanks and the Dalek troopers and the Daleks. 

 Some unusual creatures posing with the 5th Doctor and Tegan

Resurrection of Evil - the Daleks (Cangames May 2008)

Preamble:

This was the first convention game I ran using the Doctor Who Miniature Rules, and only about the fourth game I had played using the rules. Being very ambitious (or foolish) I decided to try different aliens (Daleks) for the convention as opposed to the Cyberman and Autons I had used in my earlier games.  The pressure of a deadline would of course result in my getting everything painted!   Unfortunately there was just not enough time to get all of the figures fully painted (Dalek troopers, some UNIT figures) but the "Show must go on".

Game prep, painting the TARDIS and Daleks

A Look Back: Doctor Who - Resurrection of the Daleks, July 2008

This was a game I ran in July 2008 with my friend Lee who was visiting from Ireland.  Lee was the one who got me started playing Doctor Who miniature games when he brought me a set of rules in July 2006 (see my blog on the history of my Doctor Who games).  This Scenario was entitled "The Resurrection of the Daleks" and was an updated version of "The Resurrection of Evil - the Daleks" that I ran at Cangames in May 2008..  The rules we were using were: Doctor Who the Miniatures Game (DWMG).

Lee overlooking the game board.

Attack on Santa's Workshop: 2018 Doctor Who Christmas Game

Attack on Santa's Workshop game using DWMG 2 rules.

Conflicting schedules meant we did not get to play this 2018 Doctor Who Christmas game until January 13, 2019.  But I think it was worth the wait.

This game is set near the North Pole at Santa’s Workshop which is being attacked by the forces of evil who want to wipe out Santa and Christmas.  Santa's workshop is being defended by the Heroic side that includes Santa, the Doctor, Ice Warriors and U.S. Marines with Steve Austin.  The villains (Monster side)  include the Great Intelligence, Yeti, Cybermen  plus Jack Frost and his allies.

Santa's workshop with Santa, Dougie the Christmas tree and Jack Frost.

Classic Story Book Witches 2016 updated in 2019

Bought these 4 classic 28mm Storybook Witches from West Wind's Vampire Wars range in October 2016.

Picture below is not my paint job, but it is sort of what I am aiming for.

Classic  Story Book Witches 
painted by Chal

These witches above were painted by Chal and are part of his collection.  You can see more about them on his blog Miniatures of Wrath

https://miniwrath.blogspot.com/search?q=witches
 
Thanks for the inspiration Chal, and the idea of using Payne's Grey (being a very dark bluish grey) as the base coat.  Read on to see how my witches turned out.

Planned 6mm D-Day game 6mm

For many years I have been planning to run a 6mm, 1/285 scale D-Day game featuring the Juno Beach landing.  Perhaps it was the D-Day diorama at the old Canadian War Museum (CWM) on Sussex Drive in Ottawa that first inspired me to do this as well as some Spearhead players in the UK and the U.S.   I have accumulated all the materials I require and just need to paint some additional resin defensive fortification by Leva Production and D-Day specific miniatures like DD tanks. 

D-Day beach, work in progress

Hopefully this will be the year I get it done, as 2019 is the 75th anniversary.   I have played D-day games in 15mm but I think 6mm gives me the ability to represent much more of the battle.

A List of Great War Spearhead First World War games I have played.

Great War Spearhead (GWSH) games by Shawn Taylor including an April 2017 Battle of Vimy Ridge 1/300 scale reproduction of the battlefield, by the author at the Canadian War Museum (CWM) and earlier games I ran.

GWSH in 6mm: Battle of Vimy Ridge
by Shawn Taylor at the CWM 2017

A list of some of the Second World War Micro Armor Games I have played since 2004.

  Second World War in 1/285 or 6mm scale (Micro Armor) was my primary game / genre from 1978 to 2007 originally using WRG rules and now using mainly Spearhead (SH) or Micro Armor the Game (MATG).  It was the genre for my annual Cangames game from the 1980s up to 2007.  It has now taken a back seat to some other games but is still in the mix of my top 10 games. Games below set in either North Africa, the Russian front or the Western Europe. 

Canadian advance under fire in 1944 in Normandy,  using SH 2012