During my vacation I bought some very useful bits.
Some of these are now used in a plasma-gunners-project
to the game Warhammer 40 000 and my Imperial guards.
I used standard IG for legs, torso, heads and arms.
The Plasma-guns are probably from some kind of Space-
marine unit and the grabbing hands in the front of each
gun are from Warhammer fantasy-range (Zombies/undead).
Looking at my conversion I am pleased but the hands from
the undead looks a bit to big but they are in the right scale
and from the very same manufacturer(Games workshop) so
they will do and on the battle-field these figures will look
great and also be a menace to all tanks and enemies. :)
Next up is finds to Flames of war and my growing japanese
force. Transport and HQ will be a nice addition on the
gaming-table. Last but not least are my book about helicopter-
warfare during the 1960-1970 and will be used to the
game-conversion Flames of war - cold war 1986. In this clone
a prelude to the official Team Yankee the maker has written
that the Tropical lightning to Flames of war Vietnam is advisable
to use for guidance how to use helicopters in FoW.
All the three finds are ordered from the sales at Figurspel.se.
Finally I also have bought some very nice bits to be able to
complete my second mortar team to my also growing Imperial
guards.
First step in my 6mm-project is to make a nice
scenery during the cold-war. Several years ago
I tested making simple templates to make building
and cut out the shapes in scale using polystyrene.
The house is not 1:285 or 1:300 but smaller but
the technique works and its pictured for inspiration.
When getting the templates right I will use the
scale 1:300 and also make bricks/walltextures in
a photo-editing-program before printing.
Next up is game-markers that I have made both for
my soviets and swedes. It is fun to make and also
very personal. I used the swedish M90-camo-pattern
for my swedish template and I also couldn´t resist
adding the engineer-symbol on the mines-marker as
a former member of the swedish royla engineers in
the dense woods of Småland (county north of scania).
The third inspiration-tip is books and catalogues that
describe the cold war era both in Soviet union and
Sweden. I also took pictures of recruitments posters
to make more women and men to join the swedish
armed forces for a professional career.
Soviet war-machine is a classic and also the books
from Osprey publishing. In my military library I have
saved a lot of outdated instruction-manuals and also
written tactics that describe the cold war-era as it was
viewed in Sweden. One of my own favourites are the
inspiration-catalogue made by Tamiya about the russian
"modern" tanks. Very nice pictures and also a lot of
smiling russian soldiers eventhough it was very "cold"
times in those days in the eighties. :)
Last friday a very nice package arrived to my home.
I bought some 6mm models and figures to play cold war-
games between soviets and swedes. Very nice models indeed.
I decided to start playing games in this scale very long ago but
it was until now I made the final step. One of the reasons
for this final push is that I have limited space at home and 6mm
are very handy and you can build a lot and able to store it.
My dream is to build a urban scenery with lots of details.
I will probably build a city-table with modular slots to place buildings.
The buildings will be in two different versions: whole and ruined.
First I will build a table with woodlands, small traditional swedish-
red houses that are very common on the countryside.
The first table will also be fitted with rivers, lakes and roads.
In the future I will also plan to buy some more to complete my collection
especially more troops and transport.
The game-system for this will be Cold war-FoW or a Fistful of Tows.
During the vacation this summer I managed to
play a interessting table once again with woodland-
scenery.
Fun and intense between Space wolves and IG.
My IG got beaten once again and probably be-
cause of my lack of AA. Next up will be a Hydra-
conversion that will bring down any "bad-birds"
flying in the sky. My mortars lived up to the task
very well and my opponents didn´t like the heavy
rain at all... :)
A fun gaming-session indeed!
