My order of PFC C-in-C miniatures arrived today. Since there aren’t many pictures of their 1/2400 naval miniatures, I’ll share the ones I received.
You can also look through all of the pictures I uploaded:
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Moved whenimaginationfails.org and bywillalone.org
I finally moved the whenimaginationfails.org and bywillalone.org domains over to this blog.
Soviet vs. West German Playtest
Many months ago I ran a game with my son to test Fistful of TOWs 3. The game was of a Soviet T80 tank regiment assault on two companies of West German Leopard 1A4s. My son played the Soviets and I played the West Germans.
The Soviets attempted to flank the Germans from both sides and ended up destroying the German defenders, though at a loss of nearly half the regiment. In retrospect, the center battalion should have held off its attack until North and South battalions commenced their attack. Amazingly, the last stand of the center tank battalion managed to survive its morale check. I put up a slide show of the game.
In addition to this game, I ran another game that I will post about later. I haven't had much time to game, though I painted my LeClercs and YPR-765s.
Links 6/25/2012
- Jail For File-Sharing Not Enough, Labels Want ISP-Level Spying Regime – News from Japan where they are establishing an Internet censorship system and criminalizing sharing
- Richard O’Dwyer and the new internet war – Richard O’Dwyer is being extradited to the US for the non-crime of having a search engine that linked to videos that did and did not infringe on copyrights. The only reason Google, Microsoft & Yahoo aren’t being sued is because they employ people in the US and have more money
- Military contractor claims it can read fingerprints from 6m – “you can’t change your fingerprints, so once they’ve leaked onto the net, you’re hosed for life. So, basically, as soon as this technology is popular, it will be obsolete.”
- PayPal Bans BitTorrent Friendly VPN Provider – Any VPN could be used for downloading, torrents. Just saying.
- A Business Model Failure Is Not A Moral Issue & David Lowery Wants A Pony – In only the way he can, Mike Masnick takes on David Lowery’s rant against Emily White and the free culture movement
- Clive Thompson on 3-D Printing’s Legal Morass – Games Workshop & potentially all US manufacturing companies are trying to prevent the 3-D Printing revolution
Latest miniatures painted
Over the last month I have found a bit of time to paint a set of miniature German & Soviet Eastern Front tanks. You can see a slide show of some of them.
For fathers day, I also received the following PFC-CinC miniature tanks:
- 3 Tiger I
- 3 Panzer IIf
- 9 SDKFZ 251 / 1D
- 3 SDKFZ 251 / 9-75L24
- 3 SU 85
- 3 T70 A
I have some Dutch YPR-765s to paint first though.
Posted draft rule sets
I posted two of the miniature game rule sets I been working on over the last many years. Both are not complete, but it is better that they are available for comment than that they sit alone and unloved (except by me) on my computer. They are posted on the side bar, but you can also find them here:
- By Will Alone – Nonviolent Action Rules
- Star Bright – Star Ship Combat Rules
Star Bright: Star Ship Rules
Dissatisfied with the rules out there for large star ship fleet actions, I started work on my own set. While I have run a few games with them, they aren’t done, but you are welcome to use them as you wish:
Send comments to me via jokeefe at jamesokeefe dot org or voice/txt to (617) 863-0385.
That will have to do until I get around to updating them.
Making a Paper Building
I made a bunch of GHQ paper buildings and some more of IanH’s paper buildings recently.
I put together this photo set of step by instructions for how I built them. Hope you find them helpful.
Building IanH’s 6mm Cognac paper houses
I finally photographed the two IanH's 6mm Cognac paper houses I built awhile ago.
I printed the house, cut out reinforcements for the walls using thin styrene sheets, then glued the paper to the styrene sheets using rubber cement. After I put it together, I used styrene square tubes in each corner to reinforce it. See the next picture.
For the roof, I reinforced it using two really thin styrene sheets on either side of the roof, then glued it to the tabs I left from the paper around the walls. I am not satisfied with how the roof went on and need to glue them better in the future.
Looking at one of the houses from the bottom. You can see the thin styrene sheets I used to reinforce the walls and roof. After I put it together, I reinforce it by gluing styrene square tubes to the styrene sheet walls in each corner with Krazy Glue. The tubes were a pain to cut with a scissors, so next time I plan to use an L brace instead.
IanH's paper models are free and fantastic. The only complaint I had was with the model on the left. It looks to me like the sides were swapped and if you built it by cutting out in one piece, then the ivy on one wall wouldn't match the next one around the corner. To get it to look right, I had to cut each wall separately and then glue them together in the order I thought they should be in.
On the first day of Christmas
For Christmas, my wife was kind enough to get me a set of C-in-C miniatures, including my first World War 2 miniatures:
- 10 Soviet T-34D tanks
- 3 Soviet KV-1 tanks
- 5 German Panzer 3m tanks
- 5 German Panzer 4g tanks
- 3 German Stug IIIg self-propelled gun
- 4 Dutch Lynx Recon vehicles
- 4 German Leopard 2A5 (Improved) tanks
As always, the quality and detail of them was astounding. They proved to be quite clean and had little flashing. After cleaning them, I primed them with a gray spray primer. For the Soviet vehicles, I then sprayed them with Tamiya Olive Drab (TS-5). I fear that they are too dark and the fact that it was 43 degrees out today probably didn't help. A bit of dry brushing with a lighter olive drab will hopefully help.
I look forward to trying them with Fistful of TOWs 3 or Kampfgruppe Commander at some point.