Christmas Truce

For military and political leaders one of the worst things that could happen in a war is fraternisation with the enemy. As people who  know eachother tend not to be aggressive against eachother – sadly exeptions happen.

Anyway – one of the best kown fraternisations happen druing the Great War at the Western Front at Christmas 1914 – unsurprisingly named Christmas Truce.

As soon as I had seen Wargames Illustrated did a vignette in their „moments in history“ series I must get them. And here are the results.

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The Old One

There are lots of Cthulhu-Miniatures out there. Most of them are quite good some are silly. These one is specially for gamers as it shows why some people have dicing luck.

I have taken two work in progress pictures to show how I did the painting. Or better: so you could get an impression.

I used three to four layers. Started with drybrush then lights and details. Really simple but with nice effect.

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Interwar Unrest

The numbers of rebel rousers still increasing. The following miniatures could be used for games in the Very British Civil War or Resistance some for the Irish-Anglo-War, German Revolution and Spanish Civil War.

Some got some minor conversions – manly at the heads or the gear – but most just got paint. All of them are taken from different peterpigs ranges (manly WWII Resistance and Spanish Civil War Militas) and flames of war (French Forces Interiour – Regiment).

 

#vcbw #verybritishcivilwar #interwar #spanishcivilwar #resitance #15mm #wargames #Irishwar #pulp

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Sharke’s Orc Rifles (and elves)

Fantasy with magic, orcs, elves, dwarves and other people are not limited to some would-look-like medieval or bronze age setting. Urban fantasy with vampires and werwolves crwaling the streets are bestsellers – no to mention Shadowrun. Weird fantasy at WWII and Wild West are common among RPGs.

At miniatures level you get easy access to classical fantasy as well as SF-Fantasy (thanks the evil empire games). Others settings are rare. But you get 19th century Napoleon-War with lots of cool minis. I own just some small minis but these are even more appreciated.

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The small side of football violence

15mm is my favorite scale for massed miniatures games – which is for me more then 10 minis a side. As I am in exotic backgrounds and settings I love Aggro 70 (german / english). Getting into fight over whos team is the best is much more fun on tabletop as on the streets.

So I have done some research to get minis for 15mm Aggro. I have found usefull minis at Rebels Minis (modern rioters, pulp thugs and pulp policemen) Khurasan Miniatures (modern rioters / zombies) and Irregular Miniatures (rioters – not in the pictures).

All had to be converted. Manly to get a football-look with scarves. Also the police got their heads removed to get an english look.hools1hools2hools3hools4hools5hools6bobby1

I want to ride my bicycle

I have got some new gimmick – a light tent – so it will be better pics „soon“. But first I have to learn to use the camera right. Oh and how to use the right software to get the best out of them.

 

Anyway – I am going to start with my 15mm lads on bikes for the use with Very British civil War. The minis are from Peter Pig – WWI Belgish cyclist and WWII Homeguard – slightly conversions on all of them at the head.

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