New 28mm Budget building kits.

Many gamers prefer to use most of their hobby budget on figures and paints rather than terrain. With this in mind i thought it was time to start a range of budget priced unpainted kits. First in this range are a couple of timber frame houses suitable for fantasy and historical games alike.

The first is a single 2 storey house. 3 of 4 of these would form a nice terrace.

80mm x 8o mm x 150mm

This model will be the largest of the timber frame models and features an elaborate design to the front of the building similar to those found accross Europe.

240mm x 120mm x 240mm

As you can probably guess it's a good idea to paint the walls your preferred colour before glueing the timber frame card to the model.

28mm Calpe Prussian infantry are shown for scale.

I will be adding several new kits to this range over the next couple of weeks.

Unpainted budget buildings

New 28mm European buildings

These buildings can be used across Europe and are also good for use with our Normandy range.

They are supplied as prepainted kits and can be used to form a terrace or as stand alone buildings. A range of coloured frontages will be made available for most of them to replicate the fashion for colourful exteriors found in many towns and cities.

15cm x 12 x 26

An example of a building with the coloured front and back added.

The same building without the coloured card.

15cm x 12 x 22

This model is based on a picture of a building  in Essling at the end of the 19th century'

18cm x 12 x 14

15cm x 12 x14

An Austrian column marches through town.

All rooks come off and the floors come out.

Available on the website 28mm European

More in this range soon.

Mick

Fences and Casualty Markers

We have added some fence sets to the website, the first is a plank fence sold as a set of 10. Each fence is 15cm(6 inches approx)

They can be left 'dirty'

or wiped clean of the laser burn marks.

Picket fence 15cm sold in packs of 10

Fence piece for picket fence.

Fences

Selection of our new ready to use casualty markers  sold as shown. 

Round ones 1-10 and the rectangular 1-20. 

For best effects these can be textured to match figure bases with foliage, battlefield debris or casualty figures.

Casualty markers

Cheers

Mick

Club day today

Our club tries to do a couple of all day game sessions on Saturdays each month in addition to our regular Wednesday evening meetings. 

I did a WW2 game using Panzer Grenadier 2 with the germans trying to capture the town from the British

The Panthers were sent down a tight road with some infantry to their front.

A quick jump to the Pike and Shot game on the next table.

I think these figures are quite old but they look terriffic on the table.

Back to WW2. The Germans bottom left advanced down the road only to be ambushed by the British behind the fence in the corn field forcing them to head for cover.

The Panthers continue to head for the centre of the village.

The British 6lbr having taken a pot shot at a Panther is hit by return fire from German mortars forcing the crew and bren carrier to abandon the position.

The Sherman is knocked out by the lead Panther.

Things rapidly go downhill for the Germans as a hidden 17lbr destroys the first Panther.

British infantry, meanwhile, have crept up to the hedge line and fired 2 Piat A/T weapons at point blank range and destroys 2 more Panthers.

To the right of all of this carnage German infantry have occupied the building just visible behind the trees.

Next turn the Piat crew crept between the destroyed tans to take out the final Panther. As the Germans had lost all of their armour and only held half of the village a British victory was declared. On reading the historical background to this scenario it turns out that this is pretty much what happened in real life, the Panthers being taken out one by one in the narrow lane and the infantry on the other road being held up by the British troops behind the hedge.

The sceario was taken from PG3.

Some pictures of the closing stages of the P&S GAME.

A good day was had by the 9 members who participated in these two games.

Cheers

Mick