Nice Rocos Keith! They had a great range in their day and some stuff can be mixed in at a pinch with the larger scales. We still use some of the field artillery and cooking/water trailers. I wish I'd brought more of it when it was readily available ....
cheers
Brent
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DaGreatQueeg
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165thspc
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Posted: Sunday, February 08, 2015 - 03:20 AM UTC
Brent can you provide more info on this vehicle? I am not usually into paper panzers but this 128mm monster is really interesting to me.
Thanks for any help. Mike
Thanks for any help. Mike
DaGreatQueeg
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Posted: Sunday, February 08, 2015 - 05:37 AM UTC
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Brent can you provide more info on this vehicle? I am not usually into paper panzers but this 128mm monster is really interesting to me.
Thanks for any help. Mike
Hey Mike,
It's an E-100 Krokodil in 1/76th from Cromwell. It's basically an interpretation of the spec to base a heavy JgPz on the E-100 hull. There's a few different design around but I like this shape the best. Gordons re-mastering it in 1/72nd and tidying a few things such as the track runs at the same time.
Along the same lines here's some of my own personal stuff, my Project '46 gaming collection. (There's igger pics of both on my blog.)
The group so far in no particular order;
E-100 Krokodil – Cromwell Models
E-75 10.5cm – Cromwell Models
Saracen 6×6 APC – JB Models
TigerIID IR – Dragon / Queeg conversion
PaK44 12.8cm – Cromwell Models
Boarhound 8×8 armoured car – Giesbers Models
Katzchen APC – Cromwell Models
Sherman M4E8B – Dragon/Cpl Overbys Motor Pool M51 conversion
T30 Heavy tank – Cromwell Models
T29 Heavy tank – Cromwell Models
Blackprince – Milicast
SdKfz 350/3 3cm zwilling – Planet Models / CMK Kugelblitz / Queeg conversion
SdKfz 350/2 APC – Dragon / Queeg conversion
T28 105mm GMC – Cromwell Models
Cromwell 5.5in SPG – Revell / Arfix / Queeg conversion
Grille 30 30.5cm Morser – Cromwell Models
T29E3 Heavy tank – Cromwell Models
IS-4M Heavy tank – Cromwell Models
SdKfz 234/6 SPW – Hasegawa / Queeg conversion
cheers
Brent
165thspc
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Posted: Sunday, February 08, 2015 - 07:19 PM UTC
Thanks Brent for the quick reply! I am doing my "catch up research" right now.
Fantastic stuff you have there. The paint and weathering makes all your models appear to be award winners! - Mike
Fantastic stuff you have there. The paint and weathering makes all your models appear to be award winners! - Mike
1stjaeger
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Posted: Sunday, February 08, 2015 - 09:01 PM UTC
Hi guys,
those pics showing a floor covered in terrain and vehicles reminds me of similar adventures I had in the 70ies.
Vehicles were 1 to 1 and infantry was reduced to fire factors calculated.
It took 15 of us to set everything up and to control the forces in action!
I have 1 complete US brigade, 1 BW brigade and 1 division of elite russian forces.
There are only pics of the US brigade available:
Brigade is as per 1967, according to the official TOE
HQ company of the brigade. All the vehicles have the correct bumper numbers.
Far from Brent's top quality, but we had some fun back then!!
Cheers
Romain
woltersk
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Posted: Monday, February 09, 2015 - 07:30 AM UTC
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Hi guys,
those pics showing a floor covered in terrain and vehicles reminds me of similar adventures I had in the 70ies.
Vehicles were 1 to 1 and infantry was reduced to fire factors calculated.
It took 15 of us to set everything up and to control the forces in action!
I have 1 complete US brigade, 1 BW brigade and 1 division of elite russian forces.
There are only pics of the US brigade available:
Brigade is as per 1967, according to the official TOE
HQ company of the brigade. All the vehicles have the correct bumper numbers.
Far from Brent's top quality, but we had some fun back then!!
Cheers
Romain
@Romain--As a certain caped crusader's sidekick would say, "Holy Order of Battle, Batman!" That's a lot of flippin' vehicles!
@Brent--the more of your stuff I see, the more I am impressed. To paraphrase Michael: I hope you've entered them in contests. Have you ever tried the DMOM?
@Cristian--a belated thanks for the kudos!
Keith
DaGreatQueeg
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Posted: Monday, February 09, 2015 - 08:28 AM UTC
Quoted Text
Hi guys,
those pics showing a floor covered in terrain and vehicles reminds me of similar adventures I had in the 70ies.
Vehicles were 1 to 1 and infantry was reduced to fire factors calculated.
It took 15 of us to set everything up and to control the forces in action!
I have 1 complete US brigade, 1 BW brigade and 1 division of elite russian forces.
There are only pics of the US brigade available:
Brigade is as per 1967, according to the official TOE
HQ company of the brigade. All the vehicles have the correct bumper numbers.
Far from Brent's top quality, but we had some fun back then!!
Cheers
Romain
Oh wow. 1:1 TOE !!!!! I love to see the "tail end" of combat units being represented too and this is just superb. I wish you had pics of your Sovs too, they must have been something to see! And are they Roco Minitanks too or various manufacturers?
And hey Keith, I think I entered the DMOM once (maybe twice) many years back. Tis pretty hard to compete against 1/35th stuff with a 20mm wargaming vehicle lol There aren't really many local comps here in NZ and those that are held are either inevitably in Auckalnd or Christchurch which are both quite a haul from where I am.
cheers
Brent
1stjaeger
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Posted: Monday, February 09, 2015 - 01:09 PM UTC
Hi Brent,
the Nato forces are all Roco, but the Russkies are Trident metal. They were (and still are me thinks) the only company to field a complete array of russian vehicles, not only one type of tank!
Having designed some of their figure sets, the metals would only cost me the material price.
There are pics of the US brigade only because I had them on display in the Salzburg off-road fair (not my idea, the organizer begged me to set them up).
I never was the "images" type I'm afraid....and the web (of course) wasn't an issue back then, so publishing of photos wasn't either!
Cheers
Romain
the Nato forces are all Roco, but the Russkies are Trident metal. They were (and still are me thinks) the only company to field a complete array of russian vehicles, not only one type of tank!
Having designed some of their figure sets, the metals would only cost me the material price.
There are pics of the US brigade only because I had them on display in the Salzburg off-road fair (not my idea, the organizer begged me to set them up).
I never was the "images" type I'm afraid....and the web (of course) wasn't an issue back then, so publishing of photos wasn't either!
Cheers
Romain
Treadhead12
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Posted: Monday, February 09, 2015 - 08:23 PM UTC
Brent, thanks for the links to the sci-fi vehicles.
Thanks to all that have shared their photos.
Thanks to all that have shared their photos.
JohnTapsell
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Posted: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 - 03:00 AM UTC
Thought I'd add something to this thread. I'm not a gamer these days but Brent's recent work on 1/48 scale armour got me inspired to purchase the HLBS Warthog.
Good quality resin wargames vehicle that (to me at least) cries out for some TLC
The first image shows the assembled OOB kit whilst the others illustrate what I've added or changed.
I'd love to fit the bar armour and portray the vehicle operational in Afghanistan but I am unlikely to attempt it. Instead the vehicle will be finished as a vehicle operating on Salisbury Plain.
I've just picked up the same mob's MTLB and that also looks like a great kit to work on (it's the Red Star Miniatures kit as well).
Regards,
John
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Good quality resin wargames vehicle that (to me at least) cries out for some TLC
The first image shows the assembled OOB kit whilst the others illustrate what I've added or changed.
I'd love to fit the bar armour and portray the vehicle operational in Afghanistan but I am unlikely to attempt it. Instead the vehicle will be finished as a vehicle operating on Salisbury Plain.
I've just picked up the same mob's MTLB and that also looks like a great kit to work on (it's the Red Star Miniatures kit as well).
Regards,
John
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woltersk
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Posted: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 - 06:54 AM UTC
Finally finished converting my old, yellowing, ‘Mini-Tank’ rules to a word doc. Bob (panzerbob01) was kind enough to test out the URL to make sure it works, so hopefully it will open from your browser. Copy and paste the URL to your browser and enjoy.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7fj30nlpml7mnzz/MINI%20TANKS%202.doc?dl=0
It should be clean, but if you download it you might want to run the file through a virus-checker just to be sure.
Feel free to download it, peruse it, compare it to the rules in whatever games you play, share it with friends & family, adapt it, or parts of it, for your own use. And please let everyone know what you think.
Thanks,
Keith
DaGreatQueeg
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Posted: Saturday, February 14, 2015 - 09:22 AM UTC
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Finally finished converting my old, yellowing, ‘Mini-Tank’ rules to a word doc .........
Thanks,
Keith
Very generous and much appreciated Keith!!!! Have a copy now safely stashed on my "Rules" drive ....
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Thought I'd add something to this thread. I'm not a gamer these days but Brent's recent work on 1/48 scale armour got me inspired to purchase the HLBS Warthog.
Regards,
John
Awesome stuff John. I'd looked at this boy before but wasn't sure if it was worth the work, now it's on the "to do" list! Be great with slats wouldn't it lol Anyway looking fwd to seeing more .....
ps the HLBS BMP1 seems worth sinking some work into too
cheers
Brent
woltersk
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Posted: Sunday, February 15, 2015 - 08:10 AM UTC
@John--very cool looking vehicles, and nice job on the scratch modification work. Are those guitar string antennae? Or some other thin wire? Please keep us posted on their progress!
@Brent--You're welcome. Happy gaming!
Keith
@Brent--You're welcome. Happy gaming!
Keith
woltersk
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Posted: Sunday, February 15, 2015 - 08:18 AM UTC
As they used to say on one of my favorite TV programmes, “And now for something completely different.”
I dug through my boxes of stash and found some old D & D figures. I never did much fantasy gaming, but I enjoyed painting figures for those who did.
These guys are ancient and have seen better days, both literally and figuratively. Ancient: as in the fantasy characters are medieval and the actual figures are from the ‘80s. Seen better days: as in the fantasy characters are undead, hence they were once alive, and the actual figures’ paint is chipped, their limbs and weapons bent, and parts have broken off.
Keith
I dug through my boxes of stash and found some old D & D figures. I never did much fantasy gaming, but I enjoyed painting figures for those who did.
These guys are ancient and have seen better days, both literally and figuratively. Ancient: as in the fantasy characters are medieval and the actual figures are from the ‘80s. Seen better days: as in the fantasy characters are undead, hence they were once alive, and the actual figures’ paint is chipped, their limbs and weapons bent, and parts have broken off.
Keith
DaGreatQueeg
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Posted: Sunday, February 15, 2015 - 10:35 AM UTC
Wow Keith, ancient coolness 
I think we've owned some of those ... Ral Partha or Grenadier I think.
Oh my maybe I should post some more tricky stuff, I've got aircraft built for airwargaming and a slew of sci-fi stuff ... not to mention theres the Napoleonics too
Brent
I think we've owned some of those ... Ral Partha or Grenadier I think.Oh my maybe I should post some more tricky stuff, I've got aircraft built for airwargaming and a slew of sci-fi stuff ... not to mention theres the Napoleonics too
Brent
JohnTapsell
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Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 - 03:40 AM UTC
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@John--very cool looking vehicles, and nice job on the scratch modification work. Are those guitar string antennae? Or some other thin wire? Please keep us posted on their progress!
Keith,
The aerials are Albion Alloys brass rod and tube (0.3mm rod with some 0.5 diameter tubing to form the base. The 'spring' section is some Contrail plastic tube sanded back to an curve top and bottom.
The project progresses. I'm decalling the beastie at the moment - all the markings are home-printed and there are lots of them on the vehicle I'm portraying!
Brent,
Having looked at the MTLB I'm a trifle disappointed as the tracks are very basic. There's still a lot of potential so we'll see (maybe a Swedish PBV 401 in typical splinter camo methinks)
The BMP looks nice but I'm eyeing up the BMD-2 or the ACRV.
Regards,
John
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Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 - 05:23 AM UTC
Last week, I bought a couple of boxes of (hard) plastic 28mm figures. Not for gaming - just the challenge of painting and building. One box of U.S. Marines and another of British Infantry (Peninsular Campaign/Waterloo).
Photos to come...
Photos to come...
DaGreatQueeg
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Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 - 08:23 AM UTC
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.... Photos to come...
Looking fwd to them Jim. Hope the painting is pretty stressless. I almost always muck around "off topic" after a big projects finished and shipped. At the moment I'm poking around at things with "wings". A couple of days here and there in between the serious stuff works wonders for my ability to paint for others
And while I don't want to send this thread off into the dark depths of 40K Keith did say Scifi gaming stuff was ok. My way of making things ok is that use my own scifi rules .....
So here a couple of edgy scifi things;
Brent
woltersk
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Posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 07:15 AM UTC
@John--Thanks for the aeriel info. I've had good luck with different gauge guitar string. I'll have to give you method a try. Speaking of methods...what do you plan to do with the windows?
@Jim--please join in. Looking forward to seeing your stuff. My son-in-law got my daughter into WH 40K and I'm thinking about adding to her space wolves(?) army, just to try my hand at them.
Yes!! @Brent--looks like armor to me! And more of your excellent work! Am I to gather, from what I read on your website, that these and your WWII stuff were all done sans airbrush!?! I'm gonna hafta visit your site and read your "How To's".
Keith
@Jim--please join in. Looking forward to seeing your stuff. My son-in-law got my daughter into WH 40K and I'm thinking about adding to her space wolves(?) army, just to try my hand at them.
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And while I don't want to send this thread off into the dark depths of 40K Keith did say Scifi gaming stuff was ok...
Yes!! @Brent--looks like armor to me! And more of your excellent work! Am I to gather, from what I read on your website, that these and your WWII stuff were all done sans airbrush!?! I'm gonna hafta visit your site and read your "How To's".
Keith
DaGreatQueeg
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Posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 07:36 AM UTC
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.... Am I to gather, from what I read on your website, that these and your WWII stuff were all done sans airbrush!?! .......
Hey Keith, Yeah everything I do is all brush painted, the majority of it with GW acrylics to boot ....
cheers
Brent
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Posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 08:18 AM UTC
Brent, is the M113 a 1/35 kitmash or a kit? Awesome
DaGreatQueeg
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Posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 11:24 AM UTC
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Brent, is the M113 a 1/35 kitmash or a kit? Awesome
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Hi, no it's a mash-up. Pretty basic though. It was a photo-feature over on the scifi forum some years ago, link below should get you there.
https://archive.kitmaker.net/features/1889
The GW APCs are ridiculously undersized and there's no way you could fit real troops inside them. And seems as I can get 3 - 5 M113s for the price of 1 GW APC it seemed like a good idea to make my own.
I've got 2 other versions half built but as I don't have a lot of spare cash for bits they're sitting stalled. One day I'll finish em! lol
cheers
Brent
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Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 03:13 PM UTC
Awesome stuff, Brent. Just awesome!!
KoSprueOne
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Posted: Friday, February 20, 2015 - 07:55 AM UTC
Very clever use of those tracks and drive sprocket!
JohnTapsell
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Posted: Sunday, February 22, 2015 - 02:31 AM UTC
I've added paint and markings to the Warthog now - still need to weather it up some more and finish final assembly. The markings are all DIY item made using my PC and inkjet-friendly decal sheet.
Regards,
John
Regards,
John
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