Flight-stands for Cold war 6mm

One of my projects is Cold war in the 6mm-scale

and for this I need both airplanes and helicopters

but it will look so much better when they are 

mounted on flightstands.

I have looked at many variants on the market

but I intend to make my stands low but steady.

I bought a big-pack with black plastic-stands 

and I will paint these in sky-blue.

The base is not steady and will be glued onto a

3mm-steelplate and detailed with some pva to

attach sands and "greens".

The model will finally be drilled underneath to

fit the pivot on the flight-stand that will mount it.

On the picture I have a 3d-printed Soviet SU-25

with a heavy bomb-load for close support to

the infantry.

My first handmade building - rendered

 Last year I made my first building drawing i CAD

and finally 3d-printed the finished STL-file.

The result was very satisfying and made in filament.

I haven´t painted the model yet but I decided to

experiment with colors and render to see what if.

I must say the model looks good and almost if it

is taken from the real world.

On the link below you also can read about this

model in the making and come alive:

https://huggochslag.blogspot.com/2022/06/my-first-handmade-cold-war-building.html 

The last picture show the housemodel fresh from the

3D-printer. 

Lasercut building

 As a former member of the woodworking-industry I

now has taken a new step into the lasercut-community.

My friend Mats helped me to test this because it also

was intended to be on display on a gaming-convent

in the north named Norrsken.

I was very interessted in drawing in CAD and let my

work be converted into a 3d-model.

I draw the house-model in 3d-cad and it is inspired

from the 5 stores high housemodel that resulted in a

very nice model printed in filament.

The material is 3mm MDF. The walls will be fitted with

match-sticks to give support when glued together

using pva. I will also make balconies to make the 

model complete. The model is made in the 6mm-scale

(1/300). On the last picture the laser was not calibrated

and worked to fast and some details are missing.

Next project will be to make house-ruins for

the game Flames of war. I must end my report and say that

working creative using the computer and print the result

is very inspirational and open up a new dimension in my

hobby.

My first handmade Cold-war-building

Finally I have drawn my first building in CAD and

also printed it in a filament(thread)-3d-printer.

I have tested other housemodels in a resin-printer,

but never in a filament-printer and the result is

not bad at all. My friend Mats in the very cold north

has been my guide into the filament-printer-world

and it has been a very interessting journey.

The model is inspirated from soviet/eastern Europe

high-rise living-compartments and will fit perfectly

into my scenarios when to play Cold war in the

6mm-scale(1/285). The model is very light when

comparing to resin and the only negative is that the

layers are visible but I will use some extra paint to

hide this as much as possible. I can promise you that

this is not by far the last building I will draw and print

myself! :)

Happy New Year 2022 and 2021 in retrospective

First of all I will send out a BIG thankyou 

to all you readers of this blog and giving me

support in my hobby. Very nice and always nice

to read your comments.

The year 2021 has been a very hectic one and

also filled with pandemic and a different way of

life. This year me and my growing family decided

to sell our house and also build a new one.

The time was right and we made a good deal selling

our old house and also a good deal building and 

signing a contract before all the prices went up

because of the pandemic. During the in-between-

time we all moved to a small vacation-house in

the woods and during this time I didn´t make any

hobby-projects but I bought some more models and 

figures...:)

Next year will be much easier with no big projects

and I also pray that I and my family will not get sick.

The pictures show some of my buys(both 6mm and 15mm) and

my 3d-printing-projects that will also continue next year 

with more home-drawn models.

Happy New Year 2022 and stay safe!

Cheers / Peter

Cold war - 6mm Soviet- and Nato-airsupport

To get my armies going on the gaming-table

they all need air-support. This summer I 

completed both my Soviet and NATO-forces

with more planes from Scotia Grendel.

The planes will both be used for bombing and

supporting the troops but also to bring down

other planes and this will make the games more

dynamic.

The Soviets received Mig-25 and Mig-21.

The NATO got F-15 and F-4 Phantom.

I have been thinking of spreading my whole

collection into this:

Soviet union / USSR:

Mig-27 (1 plane)

Mig-25 (5 planes)

Mig-23 (2 planes)

SU-25 (6 planes)

SU-24 (3 planes)

East Germany / DDR / W.P

Mig-21 (6 planes)

Mig-19 (2 planes)

Su-7 (2 planes)

USA - NATO

F-15 (4 planes)

F-10 (2 planes)

Great Britain - NATO

Sepecat Jaguar (6 planes)

Sea harrier (3 planes)

West Germany / BDR - NATO

F4 Phantom (3 planes)

To top all this above I also have swedish

cold war forces and helicopters to all 3

fractions but this will be written about in

a future report. :)

Finally I will send out a big Merry Christmas to

all readers of this blog and fellow miniature-gamers.

Cold war - 6mm Red storm rising III

During my absence in the woods building our

new house I ordered some more soviets to my

growing 6mm-collection playing the cold war

in the 1980-ies.

More infantry and especially soviet artillery-

crew and HQ but also transport, self propelled

guns and radar. All models from Scotia Grendel

and I like the details and scuplting a lot.

This will be my third big addition to my soviets

and to summarize I now have the artillery completed.

To play a super power like the soviets in 1980-era

it is a must to have a lot of artillery!!!

The 8-wheel truck will be used with my DDR-troops.

The two small trucks are both to be used but also

bought for nostalgia because one of the rare vehicles

from the soviets I have encountered was the :

Gaz 66-truck with communication body.

I saw this vehicle during a short visit in Hungary(Györ)

in 1987. Eventhough it wasn´t a fighting vehicle it

was a good memory and I also took a picture at the

location. Finally I also bought som very nice SA-4 and

SA-6. These rocketry looks indeed very menacing and

will be nice models on the gaming-table when painted.

Here are the links to my previous reports about 6mm

soviet vehicles and models to my collection:

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