20mm Cold War
At the local flea market today and was given these three buildings because the lady just wanted rid of them. Ideal for 20mm Cold War Germany. Two village type houses and a autobahn road diner. Think these will be given some Milan teams to stop the Red horde.

Houses with some 20mm Cold War Britannia British infantry the middle one is a type of diner that used to be found at motorway stops along the German Autobahns. Most have now disappeared to be overtaken by bigger restaurant chains.

                             Front of the houses need a paint but gives me some thing to do lol

Dwarve Orc wars terrain
I went to the local Flea Market today. Just browsing round the stalls found a model castle in some disrepair after taking my bag of figures out ( I carry a zip lock bag of a 6mm sci fi,10mm WWII, 10mm fantasy and a 20mm WWII figure to check scale) finding it was almost perfect for my 10mm LOTR, I asked the lady how much? She told me it was free as she just wanted rid of it she then gave me another couple of 20mm HO scale buildings for free.(more of these on a later post.)
I think this will be ideal for a old Ruined castle protecting an old Ford across a river or the end of a valley through the mountains.

                                                                   The Castle Ruins

                                                    A close up of the moulded base

                                With some Copplestone castings Dwarves and Orcs for scale

With having built a large Dwarven army I started looking into the LOTR Dwarve Orc War as alluded to in the Hobbit. After reading up I realised that most of the battles were fought underground. So I sat down and thought what do you normally see in Dark damp places?
Mushrooms and stalactites (they hang down) and stalagmites(they reach up). Being as I'm in Germany I knew the Germans make all sorts of things for Autumn so I went looking in the shops. Found some little plastic red and white mushrooms but they didn't look right. Then I found some foam mushrooms on sales for between 1.00 euro and .50 cent so I bought 6.00 euros worth.

Here you can see both types the larger one with two sprouts was 1.00 euro and the smaller was .50 cent. So now what to do about Stalagmites. Looking round Tedi (a local cheap shop) I saw some Christams lights looking closer they had icicle looking tips. So I bought a set to see how they worked.

                                 Whole light set cost 3.99 Euros giving me 8 Icicles/Stalagmites

                                                         After lights taken out

After a drybrush of greys above centre is an ice tower using same principles below is a closer picture of the stalagmites

                                    The stalagmites On my battlefield with the mushrooms

More reinforcements for my 10mm LOTR Armies. This time Gondor

 Some bases still needing painting

15 bases of Pendraken Normans acting as Gondorian Infantry.

More figures this time 20mm Britannia 16 Air Assault for Afghan for an Attack state red game.

                                                                         First section

Shot of the webbing might give these a light drybrush to simulate the dusty conditions

More reinforcements based and under coated. These are the special add ons Sniper,Combat shotgun, mine detector, LSW,

Picked these up at a flea market today in a mixed bag of miniatures I have identified most of the miniatures from an OOP Asterix miniatures set from the 90's. And one Ral Partha figure of 11-053 Midnight. But still need to try and identify these three. The larger wizard has a TSR Ral Partha identity but can't find it in any of their catalogues. But I think it's larger than 28mm. The next two are another standing wizard with the top of his staff missing but looks like another Gandalf type figure. The last figure looks like a werewolf wearing a hat and a flasher Mac and flashing neither of the last two have any marks distinguishable underneath.

Just a quick taster of my 10mm Lord of the Rings Armies. These are a long term project of mine trying to fit it in between the other Scales/Periods I paint so has been going a few years. Just noticed that a few of them are missing in these photos (witch king of Angmar on his fell beast for one.
Enjoy!

                                                         Battlegroup Piper/Wotan
Pendraken miniatures
After poring over the page below and Pendrakens catalogue I've come up with this list
The vehicles will be GR205 251/3 command vehicle,GR68a Panther, GR33 Pzr IV,GR93 251 Ambulance,GR47 251/7, GR81 Wirblewind,GR63 Mobelwagon,GR103 TigerII, GR201 Ostwind,GR49 251/1, GR88 251/9, GR38 Pak40, GR61 Maultier, GR10 Kubelwagon, GR233 Mercedes L4500, GR58 SDkfz 10/4,GR193 Sdkfz 7/1,GR109 120mm mortar, GR40a 105mm Howitzer.
Hopefully get some photos up soon.

Well after coming back from the Middle East and then travelling back to Bavaria.
I've been looking on my next big project. Looking on the Guild website has given me some inspiration. So I'll be trying this out next

This will be done in 10mm as usual using the Pendraken figures and vehicles I will do the infantry based individually for R/F and also for BKC.

This is nearly the full  "The 10th Guards Tank Ural-L'vov the Order of October Revolution Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov and the Order of Kutuzov Volunteer division in the name of Marshal of the Soviet Union R.A. Malinovsky" 

The gap at the bottom is for the 2nd and 3rd tank Bns for the 3rd tank regiment top left is the start of the Airforce for the VDV Regt.

More CWC Russians for the battle of Hannover.

Firstly the game master has decided every one has to have a repair base and a first aid facility, so here is 10th Soviet Guards tank Divisions First Aid post.

Still needs to be flocked and maybe a tree or two.

The start of the Bn and Regt Command bases for my VDV Regt

Next up some Recce assets from the Divisional Reece Bn.

Better D-Day pictures

Some better pictures of the British assaulting units.

Battle for Hannover Soviet 357th Guards order of Suvarov Parachute Regiment

Finished the 357th Guards Parachute Regiment.
Some pictures taken from my IPhone so a bit better quality.
Full Regiment

Bn with support each Bn has 3 Nona Mortar carriers and 9 BMD Air-Dropable IFV.

I have given each Bn 3 Sagger Systems, 3 80mm mortars, 2 bases of Spigots.

2 75mm recoiless rifles and a grenade machine gun.