Flames of war - collection of german vehicles and artillery

My collection of 15mm german vehicles and artillery.
From left to right you can see my heavy armour,self-
propelled artillery. Medium size tanks, transport,Goliath.
MBT, Stugs, tracked transport, armoured cars.
Anti aircraft, Flying tankhunters and Me262.
The collection is almost complete except 2 more
STUGs and 4 sdkfz 251/52 because they are still
unbuilt. In 2021 I will paint as much as possible
and also convert my Sdkfz 251/52 to various models
as: Stuka zu fuss, bridgelayer, recon with 2cm A-cannon
and finally the AA-version using 3 cannons side by side.

The artillery will be able to deliver quite some firepower
except heavy bombardment(15cm).
From left to right: 10,5cm, 88mm, 7,5cm PAK, Nebel-
werfer. Flak 3,7cm,  3,7cm PAK, HG 15cm, HG 7,5cm and
light and medium-size mortars.
Finally some motorcycles, heavy mortars and the
heavy Pak 43/41.

Next up will be a line-up with all my german infantry.

Game-markers and dices

Here are my latest find of game-markers and dices.
Very useful for most of the games that I am playing.
I especially like the arrows that are two-sided and
says "charge" and "retreat".
The transparent markers are to mark artillery-barrage
and flamers. Very nice indeed.

Flames of war - Soviet collection of vehicles and artillery

Here are some pictures of my collection containing
15mm soviet vehicles and artillery.
From left to right. Heavy tanks and tankhunters.
Light tanks and tracked AA(lend lease). 
MBT(T-34/85 and replaceable turrets for T-34/76).
Transport and armoured cars.

The artillery-collection is almost complete except
37mm light antitank-guns.
From left to right. Medium size guns and medium
size mortars. Heavy guns, heavy mortars, AA.
Flying tank-hunters(Sturmovik), transport, medium
size antitank-guns. 
Rocketlauncers(Katyusha) both BM-13 and BM-31,
self propelled guns SU-76.

Next up will be a line up with all my soviet infantry.

Flames of war - Japanese collection

 My complete collection of 15mm models and figures 

for Flames of war.

Flames of war - germans

My latest buy of 15 mm germans. I bought some
partisans and I also got an offer to buy these very
cheap. The Pak 43 is a deadly antitank-gun and will
be a nice addition to my collection. I also got a 
FJ MG-platoon with both MG34 and MG42.
Together with the models above a Schwimmwagen
and some german regular infantry came along.

Flames of war - Soviet partisans

My latest buy of 15mm models for Flames of war are the
Soviet partisans. I like the thought of using these for a 
stab in the back when playing wargames on the eastern
front. This forces will be able to deliver a heavy blow
when necessary. The force contain self-propelled
guns(lend lease), SU76i(german tanks that has been
converted after the defeat in Stalingrad), armoured
cars. The figures looks real nice and I will try to 
paint them all in 2021.

Old planes-nostalgia

 As a young boy I went for a visit at my mothers office and this

affected my interest for models and the hobby in general.

This was when I was 7-8 years old back in the 1980-ies.

My mother worked at weekly magazine writing about dishes

and cooking. Two persons at the office that were both working with 

the layout and the graphics had lined up both model airplanes and

tanks and that catched my eye for ever. The first person Bertil

also offered me to take over all his old models in various

condition but I didn´t care if they were handed in pieces because

I was overwhelmed. To mention a few of the models I got for a 

present was a german Panther Ausf D with moving tracks in 1/16-scale

and a british Hawker hurricane in the 1/32-scale together with a

lot of tanks in 1/48 scale but also small planes in 1/72-scale.

Very nice gifts indeed but I am sad to say that nothing of these

has lived on to present days. I also wish that Bertil could read

this report and see how much his presents meant to me and also

affected my hobby-interest but he passed away several years ago.

The next person that really have influenced me is Tor that is

one of the most enthusiastic person I know and he is also a walking

library in swedish aero-history. The first time I met Tor he had

lined upp two planes from World war 1 at his office and I know that

one of these was a german tri-plane and the other a english biplane.

Which model I can´t tell because I don´t remember and I have asked

Tor about this but his memory was short in this case.

A couple of weeks ago I found 3 very nice modelplanes to be mounted

on holders to get the feeling on flying.

Just looking on these old model-kits made me remember myself as a

young boy full of enthusiasm and joy and I couldn´t resist buying

these for a very reasonable price of 4 Euros each.

One french Nieuport 17, one english Sopwith triplane and finally

one german Fokker D VII.The kits looks o.k and when scaning on the

internet I have seen some very nice builds.

I am really looking forward building these kits and place them on 

one of the shelf in my office and maybe I will also influence anybody 

outhere young or old.

Next report will show the planes assembled and painted. 

Lend lease AA and halftracks

 To play the game Flames of war it is the diversity that 

is half of good experience.

To give my 15mm soviets an extra edge I will use Spetznaz-units.

In the rule book they drive stolen Sdkfz 251/252 and a 

Sdkfz 250(command vehicle) but I will use M3 halftrack and 

a the Sdkfz 250. The M3 was a part of lend-lease between

the allies and I like the vehicle a lot and it is a nice model.

When I asked in a forum for Flames of war I also was offered 

two M16(quad-MG AA) and 

one M15A1 (double MG and one 37mm gun) for only 4 Euros 

and 3 M4-shermans for 1 Euro each. A great second hand-deal 

but it will need some fixing.On the M16 AA two 50-cal

MG´s are missing and will be scratchbuilt.

The shermans are divided in two tanks with the smaller 75mm 

gun and only one 76mm and I will either modify the two to look 

like the bigger version or try to buy two 76mm-towers. 

The two M3-half tracks are still mounted on the sprue and looks like

real nice models and fun to build.

The 3 AA-guns above were a very powerful threat to all german 

aircrafts and in the rule book(version 3) it is written that you can use 

this together with your HQ and this I will.