I’ve been Googling for various North African period photos as inspiration for my Flames of War table. This is the best photo of a North African ‘airfield’ I’ve come across.
That’s a lot of Ju 52s and a Messerschmitt Bf 110 in the foreground by the looks of it (well spotted Ben).
I also stumbled across this interesting photograph of a German AK Bf 109 in a nice desert camo!
Good inspiration for painting that Stuka I bought a while back.
Old Crow Models make a number of interesting looking sci-fi 15mm vehicles for some game system I’m unfamiliar with. However what really grabbed me was their 15mm pipe sections.
I wonder how good these pieces would look as ducting for 28mm terrain?
Kim of Kreative Scenery is a fellow New Zealand hobbyist making 15mm scenery for Flames of War! The photo shows his new Farm House which is very nicely made and textured. He also has a range of other useful and affordable 15mm terrain.
The eight part resin 15mm guard tower is now available from our order pages for $20nz!
We are also now selling to Australia!
And the good news is Aussie customers don’t have to pay New Zealand GST which means you’ll get 12.5% knocked off the value of the goods you order (excluding shipping)!
Two sets of Gale Force Nine game tokens recently arrived in my mailbox and I’m very happy with them. I picked up the ‘massive wound markers’ and ‘wound/objective/target’ token bags and they’ll definitely reduce the tedious book keeping in WHFB and 40k, not to mention look better on the tabletop than random scraps of paper or ‘wound’ dice.
They’d also make an *excellent* Xmas gift for any obsessive tabletop gamer you may have in your household.
I’ve finally got a 15mm guard tower up to the painting stage after casting resin parts from the three molds I’ve put together for this kit. This tower is about to be washed and spray primed black before I go to work on it. This photo shows it as ‘naked’ resin.
I’ve added sandbagging, a crude ladder and a corrugated iron roof. I had originally planned to sculpt a peaked canvas roof for the tower but a gaming friend suggested the iron roof instead and it looks fine – so thanks Aaron!
The sandbagging naturally goes all the way around the tower and while the ladder was fussy to put together from slivers of balsa wood the cast piece looks good and doesn’t even look out of scale to me. This tower was modelled from several historical photos of rather rough wooden towers with similarly crude ladders.
The roofing iron is slightly angled so rain runs off it. It’s also removeable so you can place a small Infantry base inside the tower as shown in this photo.
I plan to cast several and paint one up before I make the kit available from our order pages shortly. At this point I’m unsure of the pricing because of the more costly resin involved but the good news is the cast pieces are so flat and light I might be able to get away with shipping them airmail world-wide in a document envelope.
Man if I ever win Lotto some of this Tekcast spin casting equipment would definitely be on my ‘must buy’ list. Their six step process makes it look so ridiculously easy!
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