Tank Destroyer!

Just eye candy for this post, no history. I finally got the crew for my Rubicon M36. Painted them and fit them in the turret.

Romans!

Okay, a couple of quick posts to show my reasonably recent work.

First a small 12 men unit of Ceasarian Roman legionaries from Warlord. I bought them sprue by sprue in one of their sprues sale. Shields are LBMS.  I like them, and painting them was quite nice, but the annoying part was for the gladius armed ones removing the gladiuses (gladia, if my latin has not gone completely downstair...) from the scabbards. Now it was not that difficutl (advantage of plastic, easy to cut!) but when the manufacturer as pila and gladia armed ones on different sprues (and sold separately...)  you expect the the bodies are different. Instead only the arms are...

Anyway here are the chaps ready for combat:

I like the shields, I had to get used to a decent method to apply the LBMS transfer on the big spine shields but after a couple of different approaches I found the easy going one... I trimmed the whole shape carefully, did the hole for the boss, and then applied the transfer. Then when it was dried, I used microsol solution to soften it. It was much better than going with the two halves separately.  Then usual retouching with a fine brush. 

It is Battles time, again

Well,

the new issue if Battles, issue #13 to be exact, is coming next month. Game will be Solferino 1859 (from Vae Victis) in a new edition (oh well it is the trend of the day, second editions). Articles will be as usual aplenty, two of them mine. Here is a quick run down of the components provided by the publisher:

• Reviews: Montelimar: The Anvil Of Fate, Holland'44, Helsinki 1918, Mike Force, Radetzky's March, Albuera 1811, At Any Cost: Metz 1870, The Battle Of Blenheim 1704, '65, D-Day At Iwo Jima, Nemesis, Fortress Sevastopol...

• Back to: Empire Of The Sun, War Of The Suns...

• History: A Memory Of Many Solferinos

• Most Wanted: The designers talk about their coming games, Root...

• General articles by Charles Vasey, Elias Nordling, Tom Russel, Philip Sabin...And more... 132 pages!

IT sounds quite packed. I am looking forward to Metz (now that it is more difficult to get hold of it, I am getting interested!), and Blenheim. Not very impressed by the word 'root'... 

I know Battles has never been published with a steady schedule, but the reviews are usually (if we except the crap David Hughes writes...) top notch, on average better than Vae Victis' (the other French wargaming magazine) average. 

This is not to say that Vae Victis is bad, or that their reviews are bad, just that I found Battles one usually deeper.