Saturday, May 19, 2012

Great news and a bit of disappointment

Hi All,

Let's start with the good news. Brian has gone to the Shizuoka Hobby Show sponsored by Tamiya Models, and has managed to set up a small display of a WW2 game. Hopefully this will help us to get some exposure and recruit new players. Thank you Brian for your effort!

Germans vs British Commandos display 

And now the disappointment! Today I received the first of 3 boxes of terrain that I purchased for the club.  The purchase consists of 5 boxes of pre-painted river sections from Gale Force 9 (Flames of War)
On the web te pieces looked awesome and reasonably priced, so I went for it and bought enough for 2-3 gaming tables, so we could all benefit from it.

The box

The Boxes
 Then I open up the boxes and I see that all the pieces are made of some sort of heavy soft plastic, great I say to myself, I take them off the PVC bags they where in and Horror of Horrors they had had a sort of chemical reaction and the paint sort of melted and sticked the pieces to the bags! Taking them off the bags some awful marks would remain on the river sections. You could only see those in backlight but they are still disturbing. I tried to wash them in warm water with soap but it didn't work!


I already sent an e mail to the manufacturer, sO I am trying to see if we can get an exchange, otherwise we might have to repaint them, which in itself could be a good idea since blue rivers do not exixt, perhaps green or muddy brown!

If anybody would like to take up the job of repainting them, please let me know I will pass on the pieces.

Cheers

Giovanni

Friday, May 18, 2012

Knights!

Hi Guys,
I got hold of a fantastic set of Knights Templar from Fire Forge Games a new Italian miniature manufacturer.

I have 12 knights and I would love to share them at the next games day.

We could have a little painting competition or perhaps we could all paint one and have a skirmish game.

www.fireforge-games.com

Giovanni

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Some Napoleonics picutres from the 4th of May game

Hi Again,
皆さん、
here are some pictures of the game that was played on the 4th of May. Enjoy!
5月4日に行ったゲームの写真です。ウォーロードゲームズのブラックパウダールールを使ってミニチュアは28MMです。


The battlefiled from the British side
 


The units getting ready to face the French Army
 


Matt's casualty markers
 


Rod's disordered markers
 


The 2 lines are about to clash, in the back ground you can see Sada's beautifully painted French Hussars.