Stuart Jalopies from QRF
New from QRF are these Stuart Jalopies (aka sawn off Stuarts) which were used in many British and Canadian armoured regiments in 1944 and 1945. They were first used towards...
Author: Derek
Albatros Jasta
Looking to get a coherent Jasta look for my six Albatros I spent a load of time looking round the Interwebs to find a historical Jasta for which I could...
Silly, but fun.
My son won a two of these Eureka Cowboy Teddy Bears at the “Toy Story” demo game put on by the RAF Leuchars Wargames Club at Carronade earlier this year....
Jasta 15 decals from Dom’s decals
Just back from my holidays and I’ve got my hands on some of the Jasta 15 decals from Dom’s Decals. The decals are specifically designed for modifying the Wings of...
Wings of War Series 2: British repaints
below is the De Haviland DH4 (Atkey) as bought. To expand my squadron I scraped of the number 5s using an modelling knife, touched up the paint using Tamiya XF-64...
Converting WoW Prepaints (4) Jasta 15 Fokker DVIIs
My starting point here is the WoW prepainted Fokker DVII (Schäfer) pictured below To my mind this model needs quite a lot of work done on it before it is...
Wings of War Miniatures wave two: My first impressions
Jules from Figures in Comfort brought the full range of the second wave Wings of War miniatures along to the club last night so I just had to buy a...
Converting Wings of War Prepaints. (3) Albatros DVa
For my Albatros flight I decied to use Wings of War Ernst Udet prepaints as a base. Well they’ve got the lozenge pattern on the wings, which I like a...
Converting Wings of War Prepaints. (2) Sopwith Camels
As discussed in a previous post I am trying to make up flights of aircraft from the same squadron by converting the Wings of War prepainted miniatures – but without...
Converting Wings of War Prepaints. (1) Fokker DrIs from Jasta 2
I’m not sure that converting is the right word here, as it’s all done with a paintbrush. Anyway, I’ve been playing Wings of War a lot recently, with my son...
World of Warcrack
Over a year since I last blogged and it’s mostly down to the time I’ve been spending in Azeroth, the setting of the Masssively Multplayer Online Game World of Warcraft....
Wargames Through the Looking Glass
I’ve finally cracked how the Flames of War flexible groundscale works. With a bit of help from Lewis Carroll. ‘When I make a measurement playing Flames of War,’ Humpty Dumpty...
