Adventures on the Wargames Table

I already have four 8 man sections* but looking in my boxes of toy soldiers I stumbled upon enough figures for another section. So on to the painting table they went! (*I know that sections are theoretically 10 strong, but I'm allowing for a few casualties) The 'recipe' I use can be found under the Painting tab, see above. I especially liked the Bren gunner with the weapon shouldered and a look on his face that suggests he's having a good grumble about boots / officers / weather, etc. Hard to see at this scale but he has, honest!

Another Saturday at Bristol Independent Gaming playing Bolt Action with Wargames Table chum Orange Dave!! This time it's game five of our Italian campaign. The notorious Monte Cassino!! The battlefield map is shown below. Scenario map: published without permission ;o) Here's the table with all the troops in play. Dave's mega-hill does sterling service again! I put my best troops amongst the ruins on Monastery Hill with a strong secondary force holding Hill 444. By the way - we both missed the rule about the battlefield being impassable to vehicles - doh!? Dave's fine body of men! Indians and Kiwis - tough chaps all. Turn 1 saw a general advance mainly on the north-eastern flank of the hill. The tanks exchanged long range shots but the shells either missed or bounced off. Dave had deployed some smoke in turn 1 and now it rather usefully (for the Allies) drifted towards Monastery Hill. Turn 2 saw a little more shooting from the longer ranged element...

Here's a little article with some tips for building the lovely Brasserie from Charlie Foxtrot Models . I've already posted a few articles about building CFM kits ( here , here , here and here ) so I'll try not to repeat myself! I'll start with a pic of the nearly finished article. Bonjour! Here's the kit. Like the other buildings it's mainly a series of boxes which are easy to build, but a couple of things worth pointing out are the order of the pieces for the front doors and how the roof chimney components look. (Colin does include diagrams with his kit but I thought you might like to see it 'for real'). Don't glue the pieces with doors or panelling yet (the top and bottom pieces in the following pic) as these are easier to paint first then attach later! In this pic the final end piece for the gable/chimney has yet to be attached, so you can see how it all goes together. Also I spray the roof sections black or dark grey before assembl...