Homemade Terrain - Center Pieces

While the guys over in Richmond are big on buying their scenery, I am the other side of the fence, I enjoy making my own scenery and would rather sit and make my own terrain regardless of time spent.

With wargames like Warhammer 40k and other sci-fi and fantasy games sourcing terrain is easy, any bottle, tube, broken toy and scraps can be turned into a piece of interesting scenery. With a historical game like Flames of War this isn't so easy, but with a careful selection of parts and a bit of imagination its possible to make some pretty convincing scenery.


CBaxter Already showed us how to make some pretty awesome looking roads (a technique I used below)

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AAR: Irish Guards vs. Wiking

Luke and I got together for a Flames of War game to test out my new Irish Guards list from the new Market-Garden books.  Luke's has really taken a liking to the Panthers, so he made up a Wiking list.  We decided to just run a simple Free-For-All mission to get right into things.

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Product Review: Battlefront T-54s

T54's rolling into West Germany, circa 1985

Well for anyone who has been living under a rock, Battlefront has recently released one of the most iconic Soviet Cold War tank, the T-54 (aka North Vietnamese K-2)  As a Canadian, I may not have as much interest in the Vietnam conflict, however this is a kit that can be used for a variety of eras, not just Vietnam.   But lets look at the models themselves first shall we?

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Product Review: Plastic Soldier Company Russian T70 Tank

I was fortunate enough to be asked to review the Plastic Soldier Company's version of the T70.  This is a 15mm plastic model that fits in nicely with Battlefront's Flames of War World War II historical miniatures game.

These are the first PSC models that I have fully assembled and painted and I was dying to know how they would fit in an army that had Battlefront models.  So, as part of this review, I also purchased, built and painted a Battlefront T70 for comparison.

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M48A3 Pattons (VUSAB05)

To be honest, I originally didn't have much interest in doing any armor in Vietnam.  But, everytime I took a look at the M48A3 Patton box set, some small nagging part of my brain said "You know you want to paint that!".  And, I finally gave in.

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Review: Armament in Miniatures AC-47 Spooky

Even though Battlefront left aircraft out of Tour of Duty, I couldn't keep my wallet closed when I found this AC-47 Spooky from Armament in Miniatures (AiM).  I learned about AiM from Anatoli of Anatoli's Game Room.  Anatoli found some great Polish aircraft for his September Campaign, an all this Polish Campaign for Early War Flames of War.  In addition to learning about AiM from Anatoli, Mike over at Scary Biscuits scratch built a AC-47 several months ago.  Mike is a much better modeler than me, but when I found the Spooky on the AiM website I placed the order.

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PAVN Recoilless Guns

After playing a few games of 'Nam, it became clear that the PAVN need some heavy weaponry.  Fortunately, combining pieces from the Battalion HQ box and Weapons box, you can make a full unit of Recoilless Guns 6 strong.

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Announcing our next Campaign: Overlord!

It's with great excitement that I introduce our next Massively Multiplayer Table Top Campaign!  Operation Overlord will start on June 16th and run for 6 weeks.  As with our Operation Sea Lion campaign it is available to people all over the world!  It's quite simple to participate, just head over to http://overlord.wwpd.net and sign up!  More info will be available here soon and on our forum, but we've been working closely with Battlefront to ensure this campaign has awesome support!  Now's your chance to refight one of the most iconic campaigns of WWII on the tabletop!

Yes, the video says "May 16th", but you can sign up now.  We didn't want to make people wait 2 days after the announcement.  So do it!
Go Sign Up! 

*Please note: Your address information will be kept confidential, and not shared with anyone other than WWPD and Battlefront Miniatures so that you may receive potential promotional material surrounding the campaign.  All address data will be deleted at the conclusion of the campaign.  You do not have to share your address information (you can just put "N/A" in the fields), but not doing so makes you ineligible for any promotional material.  More information on promotional material will be made available shortly.

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Even more Choppers for 'nam!

Not much to say here other than I've done 2 more choppers!  One more Slick (completing my Aviation platoon of 4 Slicks) and a Heavy Hog (with the grenade launcher upgrade making it a "Frog").  This brings me to 6 total choppers.  My planned list is 10 choppers- 6 slicks, 2 Frogs, and 2 Hogs.  But of course, I can't resist painting up some Cobras as well!  Anyhow, enjoy these pictures.  I dare you not to hum Ride of the Valkyries.  

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Partner Picks

Once again a pick of some of the best articles from our WWPD Partners.

Anatolis Game Room

First up is Anatoli and his many fantastic articles of By Fire and Sword - I honestly think the publishers of this game should hire him to be the PR guy, as he's done an outstanding job pushing the game and made it appealing even to me, who has no interest in the era.

Aurelius Legion - Basing tutorial
I loved this tutorial so much I'll be giving it a go myself.

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