Yom Kippour War

Friday, July 30, 2021

Paint used on Quatre Bras model. By Kathy Millat

Trying track down the from the farm house article.  This is want found. The solid colors are Vallejo  paints

- Clear Orange 70956 - Red 70947 - Black Grey Lifecolor Liquid Pigments - LPW 25 - Rail Dust - LPW 24 - Frame Dirt Any White Pigment - I used Mig but there are so many brands.  White is best because you can stain to the color you want. Any muddy coloured wash - these are solvent based to flow easily.  I used Mig Neutral wash but these are discontinued so AK Interactive or Ammo by Mig are similar brands.  You can make your own with white spirit and an enamel paint.  Basically, we're after dirty white spirit!





Thursday, July 29, 2021

Painting the 3d model of Quatre Bras. Battle of Waterloo. By Frank Becker

 

The of the articles can be found here:https://tabletopdeutschland.com/?s=Ligny+Teil+

Paintin

Wh it comes to the color scheme, I used the Stoney pictures for the most part (see my report on this: https://tabletopdeutschland.com/2020/03/30/waterloo-quatre-bras-1815-teil-4/ 


). The pictures show that the buildings were whitewashed only facing the main street and that the other sides of the building had the natural color of the brick walls. The roofs were mostly covered with slate, only small outbuildings with fired roof tiles.

Paint and technique for bricks










Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Printing Quartre Bras in 15mm scale

 Printing Quatrebras in 15mm.The files are 3d Terrain.  Jens goes into great detail on buildings. The file sometimes need to be run through netfabb to fix some problems. 

 I had decided to print the buildings in Terracotta filament to make the buildings look like clay brick. The goal was to do a washes to bring out the color of the bricks.  When use a plaster to fill in the mortar.  Well I reader of the blog contacted to purchase the set.  

The roof on the barn is finished  Next I have to remake the right farm house. It turns out a made to left side.  This will make a grand center piece for the battle of waterloo

Just started printing another set for myself.  Building are just coming out perfect.





Tuesday, July 27, 2021

The man who brought us endless adventure via D &D

 If Gary had lived he would of been 83.   He was ten years old that I.  Thanks for creating a game that had started numerous friendship.  Good time and through the bad time.  Thank you Mr Gygax.




Sunday, July 25, 2021

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

How cut building for 3d printd

 Great video, after watching this you will be able splice any part of a 3d print file.


Hello Guys !!!! the second part is in English ....click to the time code here to get there ! ;-) 00:00 - 07:19 - German Language 07:19 - 14:51 - English Language



Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Perry Brothers massive Samurai battle.

 Old dumb dumb lost his notes for sequence of the battle. But it is great eye candy. Plus some great painting reference. All photo are the Perry Brother.  Show here to promote historical games.






























Saturday, July 17, 2021

OMG Amazon... How could you ship this!

  I know the USPS has a great track record of smashing any box that is label handle with.  It will automatically get the boot stomp.  Normally amazon has always been better.  But today will this take the cake for number one loser.     The seller is 

J-P-N-PRO-Inc.

 so beware if you are planning to purchase anything from them.





Thursday, July 15, 2021

M60 upgrade

 I can't remember which company is offering this update.   New engine, new main gun and upgraded armor.  The mod is aimed at foreign countries that have M60's..



All the mod's for the M60


Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Sword point charts

 I have the rules set. The rules are similar to the Warhammer historic rules.   For you viewing enjoyment.






Saturday, July 10, 2021

I hit a 500K of views.

 






It is celebration time.   I have had over 500K of views, hits or whatever.  Just was this now...  WooHoo...


Thanks to everyone who has put up with my rants over the years.

Friday, July 9, 2021

Two Scenarios for Great War ASL

 A couple of my ASL friend just love playing GWASL.  It is brutal trench warfare.  The victor always slaughter the enemy in the trench





Saturday, July 3, 2021

Video review of Thoroughbred Miniature Ironclads

 A honest review of the Thorougbred miniatures.   The video is a better review than I can do. Grab a cold one, sit back and enjoy the video.






Thursday, July 1, 2021

1/600 scale Passaic

 This model was made by Sandy Moorman:



This model is not the Monitor! This is the USS Passaic, one of a 10 ship class that followed the Monitor. They saw a large amount of combat in a number of battles. The USS Monitor was a one-off prototype. The lessons learned from the Monitor produced the 'Passaic Class' which was larger and more heavily armed mounting 11 and 15 inch cannons ( in most of them). Other improvements were made to the ventilation system, seaworthiness- remember the USS Monitor sank in a storm within a year of her famous fight with the Virginia, and moving the pilot house from the bow to on top of the turret.


This model of the Passaic is just under 10 inches long. The waterline hull is resin and the turret, cannons, etc, are white metal. The castings of all were nearly flawless.

This was a quick assembly and then right into painting and weathering type of project. The cannons have full carriages and mount in tracks on the bottom of the turret, two figures are supplied, and the turret top is a separate piece so you can detail the inside and leave it open for dsplay


Painting

I painted it with Floquil's Grimy Black and red. A black ink wash was applied and then it was weathered with pastel chalks. Polly Scale clear flat was used a final coat.