Space: The final battleground...
...maybe.Some random thoughts on game design.I've spent some time over the last few weeks tinkering with a tabletop card game. The initial test was rewarding, but revealed some areas that needed...
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Anaconda: River of Blood - the Red River campaign expansion for Anaconda
New to Wargame Vault is Anaconda: River of Blood, a supplement to the original Anaconda rules.Designed to generate tabletop miniature games simulating naval naval battles during the ill-fated Red River...
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North Sea air action this Saturday at DAYCON - Dayton, Ohio
On Saturday 25 Feb 17, at the Dayton Gaming Convention I'm hosting a Wings of Glory game featuring a bevy of seaplanes for a North Sea game. Come see the Felixstowe and it's escorting DH.4 take on the...
View ArticleCapital Navies correction...
For those that had purchased Capital Navies - I was notified this morning that download file was the Publisher file was uploaded in error instead of the PDF file. If you purchased and downloaded...
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Great War - Air Action, North Sea
2/18/2017 was the date of Day Con, the first issue of what we hope will become an annual staple of the Dayton, Ohio gaming calendar. As part of the days events, I provided a Wings of Glory game titled...
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Check Your 6 - Great War edition...
Saturday afternoon at Day Con provided an opportunity to play in a game of Colorful SKies - which is a Great War flavor of the Check Your 6 game engine. The afternoon's game saw a complex clash as...
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Back to Civil War Naval...
...but did I ever really leave?Even more 1/600 models added to the backlog of ship models to be assembled, painted and brought to the gaming table. This time, it's a batch of models from Bay Area...
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Ram Fever!
I'm telling you, I got the ram fever!I pulled out an Ellet ram from a box and thought, hmmm...glad I picked this up. Can't ever have enough Ellet rams. For example...A pair of Ellet Ram models from...
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Assembling the CSS Manassas - 1/600 model from Bay Area Yards
In February of 2017 I acquired a model of the Confederate ironclad CSS Manassas. Oft remembered as the Confederacy's first ironclad, she was slow and poorly armed. If it was not for the fact her...
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Assembling the Manassas, part 2
Completing the assembly of the Manassas. Cutting the stacks off the sprue and filing the ends flat was straightforward.The mount for the stacks was a little more complex. The mount has a hole for each...
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ALARM!!!
Type VIIB U-BoatFrom the archives of the patrol logs of U-72May ‘40Dear Willy, You’ll be happy to know that I’ve returned from the sea once again. Unlike the events in my last letter, I’ve much happier...
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Spring into model building!
Well it's spring 2017. And that means break out the airbrush and start painting models. And then......oh...yeah.Okay, so let's start with BUILDING all the models acquired over the winter and THEN get...
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Terrain for my 15mm inner brown coat.
While at the Game Haven (just one of my FLGS) for a Wings of Glory event, I spied a copy of Yahtzee on the shelves. While I am a fan of most dice games (I'm a gamer for Pete's sake) I'm not normally a...
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Spring in to painting II...
okay got most of the models assembled and broke out the airbrush today. Got a good base of colors on many of the models.Now for the detail work!A mixed bag of Battlefront and Plastic Soldier Company...
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The Manassas prepares to sail...
Earlier in the year I had acquired a 1/600 scale model of the Confederate ironclad ram Manassas from Bay Area Yard. You can read about the assembly of the model here.View down the bow showing off the...
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New balloon section joins the action at the front for...
...1/144 Great War aerial gamingI've completed a project that has languished on the modelling table all spring - a 1/144 model of the Avorio-Prassone kite balloon produced by Daryl at the Reduced...
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More 1/144 float planes ready for action
I've managed to finish a couple of additional plane models for use with Ares Games Wings of Glory game system. The recent planes are all German floatplanes - a Hansa-Bradenberg W. 29 (the second of the...
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That moment when...
...you discover the box in the basement that you thought was full of model trains turns out to be full of 1/144 models of Great War airplanes for Wings of Glory.Okay...That might be enough pl....oh,...
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1/144 Maurice Farman Shorthorn in the painting queue
I've been making progress on the model of the Maurice Farman Shorthorn that I acquired from Shapeways.com. I wanted it to build a collection of models of the planes used in Mesopotamia during the Great...
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15mm Sdkfz 231 series heavy armored cars
At the start of the year I was lured into building a German late war armored recon force using the new Battlefront 234's and PSC 250's. You can read more about that here. To compound the evilness, PSC...
View ArticleThe Anaconda's coils tighten
Good to see Anaconda: Capital Navies getting some exercise! Gary's running a campaign game and posting the results on his blog.I'm always happy to see folks putting the Anaconda games to use. Every...
View ArticleSo many miniatures...so little time...so many games
I've not accomplished much painting recently. It's a combination of spending more of my gaming time on board games and less on painting miniatures.Still...progress is being made. I'm a year in on...
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1/144 Shapeways models in progress - The H-12 "Large America" Flying Boat and...
In October I orders two models from the Reduced Aircraft Factory store on Shapeways. I received a Curtis H-12 seaplane and two Halberstadt D. V fighters. As with most Shapeways models, surface...
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Blackhawk UP! Brown Water Navy's 3D printed gunboat model in 1/600 scale
I know, it's been a while since I've posted. Lots of projects that pull me in different directions.Regardless, I found some motivation with a new batch of ACW ship models I acquired from Matt at Brown...
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CSS Polk from Brown Water Navy
Another model that was recently added to my collection was the Confederate protected gunboat "General Polk" done by Brown Water Navy. Contrary to most of the gaming models of Confederate gunboats, the...
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