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My Dust Tactics set has arrived and Dropzone Commander update.
My eBay purchase of the Dust Tactics revised Core Set arrived this morning. On the whole I'm pretty pleased with what I got. The maps are bigger than I expected and the walkers look great, but I'm...
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Quick Review: 'Dropzone Commander' 2-player Starter Set
I was going to post my first Dust Tactics AAR today but Thursday morning saw the postie struggle to my door with my pre-ordered 'Dropzone Commander' 2-player starter set from Firestorm Games. Woohoo! I...
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Assembling the Dropzone Commander plastic miniatures & a building fix
I commented yesterday that I was disappointed with the card buildings so I had another look at them. I noticed that the roof tabs had a white unprinted area on them and closer inspection showed that...
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Sunday Fun: Rationalisations
For a little light relief on a Sunday I thought I'd take a look at the rationalisations we use to justify not only our reasoned purchases but also our impulse buys. (And the reality)1. If I buy the...
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Dust Tactics AAR - Recon in Force
Having read through the rules it was time for my first game. I went with the first scenario, 'Recon in Force', as it is the introductory scenario and only uses a walker and a squad on each side. I only...
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'Repurposing' my eBay proceeds
Having had some good results from my recent eBay auctions I now have about £150 to 'repurpose' (definitely not spend, as that would be frivolous in these harsh economic times). There's a few things...
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Making some rubble for ruined city fights
PSC have now added a 'mini rulebook + Battlegroup: Fall of the Reich' deal to their site and that's tipped the balance for me so my orders been placed. But if I want to fight out battles in the ruins...
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More terrain for my city board
I've spent quite a while looking at 1/72 scale buildings for my proposed city board and there's a lot of nice stuff out there but there's two problems. First it can be expensive with buildings being...
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Quick Review: Pre-painted ruin from Conflix
The first terrain for my city terrain board has arrived and it's the pre-painted 'Stalingrad Ruin' from Conflix. It's made from resin, measures about 6" by 6" and seems quite sturdy so should stand up...
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Building the card terrain for my WW2 city board
My first piece of 1/72 scale model railway card terrain has arrived so it's time to make a start on assembling it. The pack was the Water Tower and Sand House from Metcalfe. I have no idea what the...
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Second card building for my WW2 city board
The card building set I bought contained two buildings a water tower and a sand house. I posted about the construction of the water tower earlier now here's the sand house.The pieces for the house come...
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First try at weathering my card buildings
I'm fairly happy with the completed my card stock buildings for my WW2 city board except for one thing, they look too clean. So I dug around a few model railway sites and picked up a few tips on...
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Another card building for my WW2 city board
Although I haven't posted for a couple of weeks I have been busy working on my terrain. So here's a look at another card building I've made for my board. This is one is the 'Market House' from...
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Progress on my WW2 terrain board continues
My terrain board is going to be 4' by 4' with one 4 x 2 section being a railway marshalling yard and the other being a part bombed out city. My latest task has been assembling another cardstock...
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Laying out the marshaling yard for my 1/72 WW2 terrain board
As most of the stuff I need for the railway marshaling yard part of my WW2 board has now arrived I thought it was time to lay it all out and see how it looks. I intend to base everything on a hardboard...
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Quick Review: 4Ground 28mm MDF fencing
I was looking for some fences for my terrain board when I came across these from 4Ground. I like 4Ground stuff and I have one of their 15mm Churches and a row of their houses and although the fences...
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4Ground fences update
Earlier today I posted about the pack of fences I bought from 4Ground being advertised as providing over 42" of fencing and actually being only 38 inches long. I mentioned that I'd emailed them about...
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New 20mm MDF buildings from PSC
Just seen this on Facebook. Plastic Soldier Company have released a range of 20mm pre-painted MDF buildings. No details on the price yet but it looks like they'll be on sale at Crisis so maybe more...
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I Hate Wargames Foundry!
Let me start off by saying that I don't actually hate Wargames Foundry. If anything I should say that I hate Neil Shuck but that's not really fair either, let me explain. When I'm painting I like to...
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Test figure for 'God of Battles'
While I'm waiting for my copy of Jake Thornton's 'God of Battles' rules to arrive I decided to dig out some Mantic stuff I bought years ago. I'd bought the now defunct 'Mhorgoth's Revenge' 2-player set...
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