Monday, May 30, 2011

Hidden Gems: Tobsen77 Miniatures

Hi, today I'm starting with a new feature on my blog from now on I will support small wargame companies by linking towards their website (the link is clickable on the right side of this article).

The first company I decided to support is Tobsen77 Miniatures, this home-based company is located in Germany and is set up by Tobsen. The entreprise is specialized in all sorts of resin vehicles which can be used in all sorts of settings such as Victorian Science Fiction, Pulp and Science Fiction. The models are all cast resin pieces and are designed by Tobsen himself. His range of models includes robots such as the Maximilian and other strange contraptions such as monowheels, wooden tanks and small submersibles!


The resin kits can be ordered online at more than reasonable prices!

Greets,

Friday, May 27, 2011

Wargame news from Warlord Games, Foundry, ...

Hi, here are some new releases I've just found on the World Wide Web! First of all we have the preview of the Warlord Games and Empress Miniatures plastic Zulus! Well, they look splendid and I will probably be buying a box of two for my savage Mbuij Mayians, just looks at their facial expressions! Breathtaking! And they are even making two sets! Married and unmarried ones with a plastic Natal Native contingent underway!


There's also the release of the "Dead Stalkers" set from Lead Adventure, a relatively new company in the wargame industries set up by Prof. Witchheimer of the famous Lead Adventure Forum, the place to be if you like either historical or semi-historical game settings! However the company is new, it already features three amazing ranges of miniatures. First of all you have the "1881" range which features Victorian times with a sci fi touch, secondly you have the amazing "post apoc" range which features ragged russians, zombies, survivors and many more! The last range is the newest and is called "Bruegelburg" and consist out of amazing sculpts of medieval townsmen. There's also a small range with unusual characters which are based on people of the forum. All the ranges are sculpted by the talented Igor Karpov, which sculpts new greens at an amazing speed and level of detail!

Another thing I found on the internet is that Wargames Factory is now also selling their own bases! Quit a surprise as there are already lots of plastic base manufacturers such as Renedra and Mantic Games but well they decided to also produce their own bases in the usual 3 sizes, round, square and rectangles. They also shown a preview of their shock trooper heavy weapon set, they look quit nice except for the heavy weapon's tripod which seems to be based on an animal leg?

Another big player on the wargame market, Wargames Foundry also released an amazing range of 28mm metal Dwarfs! Such as most of their fantasy ranges, these miniatures are full of character and looks ace when nicely painted. The range seems to exist out of 21 packs of 4 miniatures! With additional heroes and support! Well, that's a range!

More exciting news apart from the awesome Zulus! Comes from the guys at Warlord Games with their newly releases World War 2, Soviets and they look good if not splendid! These miniatures can be bought seperatly or boxed in a set which contains enought soldiers (23) to form a late war platoon. Just looks at these painted examples, especially the standardbearer!

Warlord Games also started a cooperation with Steel Models Terrain in order to sell entire Celtic Villages for your Ancient Celts! Great resin pieces at more than reasonable prices!


I hope you liked this small news flash!

Greets and of studying I go!

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Colonial British gun crew

Hi, here are some recently finished British for my ongoing VSF project. The miniatures are made by Wargame Foundry and entirely painted with GW paints, the only things they know need is some basing and a gun to man!



I hope you like them, greets,

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Terror at Kivu!

Hi, here's a small Comic I've made by using some old photographs and a cool program called "Comic life". Not sure on how to upload the pages straight from the file, so I simply took some printscreens of them and posted them (the photos are clickable!). Greets,


Tuesday, May 10, 2011

"At the Mountains of Madness"

Hi, I've just stumbled upon an fan made trailer (dated 2008) of the Lovecraft book "At the Mountains of Madness" and I decided to post it here as it really looks good!


And here's another, created by using parts of a game but I looks really good!


I hope liked them as much as I did and no I'm not starting another genre of wargaming! Tempted but I must resist!

Greets,

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Assembling an invasion fleet

Hi, as mentionned in a previous post I've recently started an attempt to recreate the fictional invasion of England or better known as operation Sealion in 20mm scale. The first thing I needed was an German invasion fleet! The fleet that was assembled for the operation existed out of nothing more than hundreds of unmotorized barges, dozens of motorized barges and tugboats. These improvised transport ships were occasionally defended by Kriegsmarine surface vessels and U-boats. In an attempt to increase the defence of the slow fleet, German engineers added armor and AA guns of all sorts and sizes. Due to a shortage of trained naval personnel to man these guns, poorly trained army personnel was pressed into service decreasing the much needed firepower of the fleet.


My fleet for the moment exists out of two unpowered barges which I built by using my pontoonbridge, two motorized barges, two small tugboats and a siebelfaehre (some sort of improvised pontoon sometimes equiped with up to four flak 88's!).


In my attempt to increase the fleet's firepower I managed to built three AA gun emplacements which will be placed upon some of the fleet's ships.

Greets,