Scans of the SDKFZ251 conversion kit

Here are some scans of the New Conversion kit for the SdKfz 251 made by the Plastic Soldier Company.  From the parts of the kit you can make the following:

4 x 251/2 81mm mortar carrier
4 x 251/9 75mm Stummel
4 x 251/10 Pak 37 for the command vehicle.
4 x 251/16 flame thrower carrier.

 Front view

Rear view.

The only bad thing is the large sink hole on the 75mm gun. But that is cause flow of plastic to fill the part.  This is no big deal and just a quick splash of putty will fix.  Can wait to put these on my Half-track.  This will be a big hit for PSC.

I give a must buy 4 1/2 stars out of 5.. 

P.S. they do take paypal and I had ordered these directly from PSC.  It took a 7 days to get the kit to Michigan in the U.S.

Few Panzer F2 models

Hope you like the Pz IV's.  They are  part of my GD division for Kursk.

Stug III conversion finished

Here is some picture of my Stug III F conversion that I started months ago.  The Stug is painted like one used by the Grossdeutschland division in Russia.  I have an Stug III D somewhere on my work bench that just needs to be finished.

PSC 15mm Shermans

Figured I need to post some pictures.  It has been a while.  PSC Sherman's are easy to build. Now with all the different version one can do a little mixing and match of parts. 

The Sherman where paints with a mix of Tamiya Olive drab(XF-61) and Tamiya dark yellow

(XF-60) at a ratio of 60:40.  This give a pretty good match to the original Olive used on the American Sherman during WW2.    Used this as a base coat which after I added some white to make for the high lights.  The area under the stars where coated with future floor. After the stars dried over night I put another coat over the complete tank. I found this will help cut down on the wear from handling the tank.  Next I put a pin wash over the tank in black.  Follow by weather will mud coat.  The final coat was testors dullcoat.

The above  M4A1 76mm Sherman's are done in the black and olive drab by the 2nd and 3rd armor division for operation cobra. Paint using the same process as discussed early. 

On my work bench are some firefly, M4A3's and some conversion to Mid production with some depot rebuild Sherman.  Hope to have those posted soon..

Amazing stuff with blue broad

My friend Anton has been making all kinds of terrain and vehicles out of blue broad.  I found this blog to with another blogger using blue broad for trenches and bunkers.  See the link below. Looks like blue broard is the gamers best friend today.

http://sidneyroundwood.blogspot.com/

My friend Doug Dearth has started to sell his prints on Esty.  He has some really kool sketches of WW1 soldiers at Verdun.  Their are in cartoon form.


http://dearthco.net/ 

The link about goes to his site.  Check it out. Doug also will do commission work.

Here is the link to his Esty site.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/DearthCo

We Bleedz Green Campaign

Today was the kick off of the Campaign at Anton's place.  But life has its twists and turns. Prior to go to the game had to do some shopping with the wife.  Time to get grocer's for the us.  Things where going fine until my wife mentioned the tire pressure low light had came on. Well there was a reason for it. As I pulled in the driveway, there sat her car with a very flat tire. Had to get the tire fixed so the today's game had to be put aside.

Had big digging through my 40K stuff which I started collect almost 20 years.  Found the perfect figures I had painted long ago.  The mob was ready to roll.  Found one Wartrack, 3 bikes on Ebay. Now have the vehicles for the mob.  Last week I found a Da Roolz on of all place Amazon.  This rule book showed up today in the mail.  Last night on ebay again I won both books for a low price of $9.00.   It was a little disappointing to miss the first day of the campaign. Check out the link to We Bleedz green.. 

My Blank Dice have arrived.

Back in April I had ordered dice from the Blank Dice company in England.  The dice had not arrived other a period of 25 days or so.  I posted on "The Miniature Page" if anyone had ordered from the Blank dice company.  Everyone said they had excellent service from the company.  Angel Barracks sent me an email via my TMP account.  After explaining the problem of not getting any return emails for the company Micheal of Angel Barracks, he would look into.  In space of several hour Micheal email Wayne about the problem.   Wayne was to email me right way.  A day goes by and no email.  Turns out Wayne had a image attached to the emails.  My spam filter detected the image as spam or a virus.  This caused an auto deleted. Luck would have an email was sent to a yahoo account. There is how I discovered the problem.

Wayne sent me a replace on the 14th of May. The package arrived today.  The original is lost in the postal system somewhere between England and the US.  5 stars to Wayne of the Blank Dice company..  I'm making is a habit of checking my spam filter box.

 Now where did I put the stickers for the dice..  Saga in one step closer...

Muskets & Tomahawk has arrived in the mail.

Just as I feared...  These rules look awesome.  With the rules are a deck of action cards similar to the IASM rules.   The rules cover French and Indians war through to the AWI.  Plus the rule have stats for Hessian's...  In the rules they are Mercenaries.  My mind spins with the thoughts of Rogers Ranger, Last of Mohican's and The Patriot.  The simple battle last for 90 minutes.  No scenario planning is need. The game starts with a terrain generator and the type of scenario..  On I have too many irons in the fire...

I recommend Musket and Tomahawk as buy..

Trojan Wars Saga Variant

Found this Saga variant of the Saga Laboratory section for the forum. My good friend Anton is a huge fan of the Heroic age.  Above is one of the battle broads the is from this Blog:

Rough War (of the Ring)

Just follow the blog. Jamie has include all the status for the warriors in his blog.  Wonder Jamie has include a stat for the Trojan Horse..  Again all comments are welcome.

Saga Units cards

Over on the Saga Forum one of the members has created units cards. These are great help for quick reference during a heated battle.  Below are the links to the units. To get the cards just click on the names.

Norman

Anglo-Dane

Vikings

Welsh

Enjoy..   Still waiting for my dice to come from England.  Can play saga without the dice..

French and Indians for Musket & Tomhawks.

Thanks for MarkG for the heads up on Conquest Miniature.  They have the perfect miniature for be used for the French and Indian war.  Conquest covers the British, French, Colonists and all the Indian nations. See link below. 

http://conquestminiatures.com/

It worth the time to check out the link.  I believe I see some purchases in the near future.

Muskets and Tomhawks

Yesterday while trolling E-Bay to find more Saxons for my Saga army. My favorite seller in England had "Muskets and Tomahawks".   In a flash before I knew it I hit the purchase button.  Now I had to find figures for this new game period.  The good new is I am employed again. Thank God for paypal... Married guys will know what I mean :0) 

In the mail yesterday I received my decals for Dom's Decals. Right now I have one Panzer finished and decaled.  Not really to happy with the finish. Hope to get some pictures take today.  As for the Panther I am stilling waiting for the PSC decals to come for the warstore. No decals have slowed my small production line of Armor to a stop. 

Anyone know who makes nice figures for the French and Indian Wars...?

Panther D early version

Okay I have been slow on this one.  The priority for me is to find a job. Well I did in a week I will starting working for GM.  The position is a CAD designer.

Now for the Panther. The old pistol ports had been removed and replaced with smaller ones. As for the other I will make these ports still smaller.  The goal is too make a unit for the Grossdeutschland Division.  Presently I am waiting for Dom's Decals to come in the mail. The Panther needs to be weathers and dirtied up a bit.  More later.

Normans or Bretons that is the question!

Finally got off my butt to take photos.  The paint job on these guys aren't the best. Painted them about 10 years ago. These poor guys have been hidden away in the darkest of basement. Originally I was going to use them for Warhammer fantasy troops.   As I was digging through the mountain of lead miniatures these little guys waved to me.  Hey use us they shouted at me.  Off the shelve of doom they came. 

First thing was to remount them for Saga.  Having bought the base from Architect of war for some Saxon's that are in work.   I removed them from the old square bases.  First was to super glue them down on the new Renedra 25mm base.   Next I super glued some 1 inch fender washes I found at Lowe's Home improvement store.  Okay you are wondering why I did this.  You will see later in the photo's I lined the bottom of the tray with a magnetic sheet. Now the troops won't bounce around.  Now on to the photo's.

One point of Thegns to start my Norman/Bretons unit for Saga.   Next some Hearthguards.

Next Some Crossbow men.  These are all Old glory figures.

Last photos are with the fender washes and the storage tray.

Northern Fury

Yesterday my copy of Northern Fury arrived in the mail from Architects of War.  The book follows the same format as the Saga Rule book.  In the rules four new groups have been added.  Ouch these guys are going to be a tough fight.. The Jomsvikings are to me the new tanks on the battlefield.  Next come the Bretons they look like Norman on steroids.  Followed by the Scot let say they don't look like the folks you want to mess with. Last are the Anglo-Saxons again these warriors have some new surprises. 

The only disappointment was that there no stickers for the new Scots.  The dice symbols are unique.   On the Saga broad there is a note that later in the week these will be available for download.   As for the dice we all know it has been a nightmare to get them. The only choice is to make your own.  As luck will have it a Swedish blogger name Daluppror has created a nice set that can be printed on self adhesive paper. 

Now as for the indented dice the best place to get them in from a company in Great Britain. The price is reasonable but shipping is the killer.  But for 25.00 your get 48 dice in your color mix and match so to speak.  Better than the 19.00 dollars a set of 8 from Gripping beast.

Here is the link for the dice:
http://www.blankdice.co.uk/


Hope to post some pictures later of my Norman and Anglo-Saxon.  

Tiger I running after 70 years

Found this in the news.   Tiger 131 is running again after a 2 year rebuild.  Thought I would post a link to the new article. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123736/Back-70-years-mighty-Tiger-tank-Only-surviving-example-works-restored-wartime-specification.html?ITO=1490

The saga addiction continues

After digging through my mountain of completed and unpainted figures.  I discovered I had a Norman warband. The Kite shields are not the best.  May have to order some from Gripping Beast.  Hope to get a some pictures up soon.

The other projects are moving a long. The Panther "D" is painted, just needs to be weathered. Completed some Panzers IV F2's painted in a Gray and Tan for the Russia Front.  The early Stug III F is ready to be primed.  These have been on the back burner so to speak. I was waiting for the decal order from Dom Skelton.  They arrived today in the mail.  Need to post them. If you want some outstanding decals for 15mm Dom is the place to get them.

Here is a link to the saga forum. Amazing the amount of homebrew battle broads.  These broads cover the Samurai, Crusader, the Trojan Wars and more.  Check out the Broad.

http://studiotomahawk.freeforums.org/the-laboratory-f13.html

Stug III internet site

 Haven't been working on my stug's as of late.  The search for employment has put some of my modeling on the back page so to speak.  Here is a great site on Stug's the site is called "Sturmgeschutze vor".  Great info on Stug, units and tips on painting them.  Take a look.

http://www.stugiii.com/whatsnew.html

The Saga battle I played at Pro or Con

Check out the link below.  Anton took great photos of the epic battle.  I was the Viking Warlord in this skirmish. His explanation of the battle is perfect.

http://antonswargame.blogspot.com/2012/03/battlefields-saga-demo-games.html#links

Enjoy, my 1st point of saxon are being painted now.

Saga .. I"m hooked.

Today I attended the Pro  and Con gaming convention in Dearborn Michigan.  The one game I wanted to play was Saga.  Late last year I purchased the rules.  After reading them I want to play them but as life goes no time to play.  Well today I played Saga.  Yes, the game is exciting, fast and bloody.   Playing the Vikings (me) vs the Saxons I thought for sure I would be the victor..   The gods turned their backs on me. The dice where cold as ice.  While the Saxon player could not round any but 5 & 6.   The Saxon had bloody me badly.  I lost!!  It was fun and I enjoy the game.   As soon as I got home I primed my saxons. They are ready for paint. As soon as I get some painted I will post photos.

 The Panthers are in the process of being painted.  At the con I bought more decals from I-94. Those decals scan will be posted.  Dave from I-94 is making some new decal in 15mm. They will be for the Italians.  Plus he has reprint the red with white outline number for the Germans.  Those should be ready for sale by the end of the week. 

Off to surf the internet for more Saxons to buy.  Saga has got me hooked.  Oh Anton took photos the battle.  Keep an eye on his blog.

Found this site for Paper Models

Interesting Blog, there are so many free paper models.  Buildings, vehicle and more. If you have a chance check the site out.  There could be a paper model you could use.

http://papermau.blogspot.com/

some Panzer III

Plastic Soldiers Company's Panzer III are great models.  I have build Zevzda Panzer III late last year.  PSC Pzr III is a far better model.  These are base of a magazine I bought several years ago.  Had planed to make a 1/48 scale.  The scheme is sometime in 1942. 

The article from the magazine showed that on the top of the turret was cross or a swastika in a white circle.   All I need to find is red numbers with an white outline. 

Check out Anton's Blue trench

Talk about some amazing work.  Anton has created some great trenches for his up coming WWI campaign.

http://antonswargame.blogspot.com/2012/03/to-blue-foam-beyaond-part-iic-enough.html

Making a Panther D model.

The plastic soldier company Panther is a great kit.   The only problem is it doesn't make a correct early D model.  The turret needs a little work. 

The using the drawing above as a guide.   The following has to be done. A two pistol ports, two ports for removing the shell case. This is the large round port on the side. and one on the rear of the turret opposite the escape hatch.

Looks like I need to redo the pistol ports.  They are a little oversize.  Also I the top view you will need to remove the grenade launcher to the right side of the turret hatch.  This is an easy way to back the D model.   Again comments are welcome.

STUG III F continued

Added some photos of the STUG III F that are finished.   Found some FOW Jerry cans to add to the STUG.  Most of the pictures I have or found on line show the rear deck covered with all kinds of supplies and Jerry cans. 

I added some MIG dirt on the side of the hull by the tracks.  Did this to make the STUG a little more realistic.  The decals are are from I-94 which is listed on the side bar.

The picture about are the Early STUG III F with the later STUG III F/8. The early model was based on the Panzer G.  Plus the engine cover laid out is different.  In the lower picture is the early vision slot with the two round  periscope openings.  Again this was take from the spare parts on the Panzer III kit.  After centering the vision slot.  I had to add some styrene on the end.   The machine opening was filled with Super glue.  This is the gap filling type.

Hope you like the post.  All comments are welcome.   Next will be any early Panther..

Stug III surprise

My friend Anton had challanged me to make a Stug IIIE.  Well here it is..

Used the rear deck of the Panzer III. The short 75mm

gun is from the Panzer IV set.

Front view.

 What I did is simliar to the Early STUG IIIF.  But for making the E model the upper structure had to changed.  I may make a mold to make some more upper hull.  Think next ones I make I will use the Panzer III kit. This way I won't have to modifiy the lower hull. As one can see it is an easy conversion.

Napoleonic Wargamer

Hope to have some picture up soon on my Stug III.  The Stug III E with the short 75mm gun is almost finished.  Need to make the vision slot in front.  Plus I have a mystery stug also. 

Found this sight a while back.  In the vast pile of  wargamer stuff are some French Hussar (Perry Brothers plastic).  Looks like a found away to Sabretache and saddle rolls.

http://miniaturewargames.blogspot.com/2011/10/battle-flags-perry-hussar-sabretache.html