Rubicon Panzer III

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Although Ash, Bryan and I are busy beavering away with our Saga campaign I keep getting the urge to return to North Africa so here I present a rather significant reinforcement for my motorised column - a Rubicon Panzer III.

I have to say this was my first Rubicon kit and it was a pure pleasure to put together. It only had about 10 parts in total with almost all the joins cleverly hidden. the plastic is very sturdy and overall I was very impressed. The kits comes with  couple of options, I've chosen the ausf G with 50mm gun and external mantlet.

I have a Rubicon Hanomag to build which I'm looking forward to now as these kits are just superb.

Laters
Ste

Back to Afrika - DAK Motorbike and sidecar

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My DAK force continues to grow with the addition of this Bolt Action motorbike and sidecar. This was a complete pain to build, my superglue refused to stick it together, I've pinned it and propped it and it's fallen to bits several times.

However it does look cool! In Bolt Action these guys are normally part of a Kradschutzen platoon however there is an option to have a single one operating in recce mode. However it normally mounts an MG34 which I couldn't be bothered to model on to this one.

Hey ho, it still looks cool and as I don't play in tournaments I don't have to worry about it as my regular gaming opponents will be fine with a "counts as" model.

Now on to my Rubicon Panzer iii

Infinity Scatter Terrain

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I don;t recall where I found it but I remember a website where some dude made a bunch of Infinity/Sci-Fi terrain from junk he found in his house. So I can't claim credit for this as an original idea however mine do look pretty cool! So after rummaging in the kids craft supplies I pulled out all the old milk carton tops I could find and sat one night sticking them together with contact adhesive. I also managed to find some petrol pumps in the toy car box! So here we have the bottle tops and pumps stuck together.

I slathered them all with the first cheapo artists acrylic to come to hand, mixed up some dirty wash out of old black gw ink, green and brown paint and some dirty dish water and let it dry. Then I printed out some warning signs that had been suitably shrunk down and hey presto - fuel and chemical containers

And here they to scale with the recent completed building (ooh look there's another building in the back, I told you I had more on the way).

Infinity terrain from junk

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Long time readers of this blog will have become familiar with my obsession for gaming on a budget and the "stuff from junk" theme is still alive and strong. Whilst decorating our bedroom (the missus and I) I pulled down a long broken and useless alarm sensor that was gathering dust in a corner. Being a bloke I swiftly stashed it in the garage in the box titled "might come in handy one day, hide from the wife", and continued with the decorating.

Fast forward a few months and I had finished my first Infinity building when I remembered this useless item and thought "Hmm what could I make from this?" Scavenging through my junk box I pulled together various bottle tops, plastic pipes, bits of wood and cardboard and fashioned this:

Looks kind funky and out of theme however with a little paint and imagination it ended up as this:

Not bad from some scrap really! Next up will be some scatter terrain involving bottle tops!

Ste

Grrrrrr - Beware the full moon!

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Its funny how a game can have great miniatures but terrible rules! This cheerful chappy is a Schreckwulfen from Warlord Games/Clockwork Goblin's Konflikt 47. I have 6 of them in total however this is the only one to have made it to the (almost) complete stage. The other 5 are in various stages of disarray and may never make an appearance.

Hans the wolfie here is actually a pretty nice sculpt and was very easy to paint, however not having a reason to paint him (cos I don't like the game) made him a bit of a chore. On the bright side though he does look the part if I wanted to do some gothis horror gaming (if you ignore the cargo paints).

Maybe one day the rest of his pack will make an appearance.

We'll see.

Ste