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25/08/2018 at 09:35 #97568
Jemima Fawr
ParticipantCheers Zippy! They’ve been on hold just lately, due to being on holiday for three weeks, getting a new pup and then getting the urge to paint some Cold War stuff, but I’ll get some more Rebs done soon. Pender’s division is 2/3rds finished – they’ll double my Confederates and if I then add a few Confederate cavalry I’ll have a force suitable for a wide range of small historical scenarios.
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
25/08/2018 at 14:23 #97607grizzlymc
Participant“getting a new pup” – YAY! Bloody April!
30/08/2018 at 22:42 #98139Jemima Fawr
ParticipantIt was a first run-out for my Cold War Danes and East Germans this week, as they fought for a series of river-crossings in Schleswig-Holstein, circa 1984:
“Fortes Fortuna Juvat”: The Jutland Dragoons at Wulfsfelde, 1984
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
31/08/2018 at 01:35 #98145grizzlymc
ParticipantDusty Danish dragoons delay the deutsch.
05/09/2018 at 19:01 #98649Jemima Fawr
ParticipantSpurred by a load of 15mm Cold War Polish infantry who lack suitable transport, I recently dabbled for the first time in the world of 3D-printed models, as that is the only 15mm source for the Polish SKOT eight-wheeled APC (also known as the OT-64). And I have to say that I’m VERY pleased with them! 🙂
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
19/09/2018 at 01:16 #99707Jemima Fawr
ParticipantGrognards will have seen all this before, but I’m slowly gathering together the best of my old photo galleries together onto my blog. So here are the British units I painted for the Waterloo Bicentennial game in 2015. Netherlands, French and Prussians to follow:
“The Scum of the Earth”: Wellington’s Army at Waterloo in 15mm
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
27/09/2018 at 18:46 #100324Jemima Fawr
ParticipantGot my Cold War Polish battalion finished this week, using some cracking 15mm figures by Oddzial Osmy and SKOT APCs by Butler’s Printed Models:
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
28/09/2018 at 14:02 #100377Jemima Fawr
ParticipantThings are afoot in darkest Pembrokeshire…
A Very British Civil War in Pembrokeshire 1938: The Welsh Are Revolting!
(NB this is old stuff that you might have seen before – I’m bringing old threads together on to my blog)
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
01/10/2018 at 06:05 #100511Jemima Fawr
ParticipantThings are getting even stranger in Wales:
A Very British Civil War in Pembrokeshire 1938: Huw Puw Gets His Marching Orders
[Edited to correct link]
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
15/10/2018 at 14:26 #101573Jemima Fawr
ParticipantYes, yes, I know that they never wore them in the field, but I just can’t resist a nicely-trimmed busch: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2018/10/15/prussian-foot-guard-regiments-1813-15mm-ab-figures/
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
15/10/2018 at 16:36 #101583Darkest Star Games
ParticipantBwahahaha! Nice tag line! Figures look great too.
"I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."
15/10/2018 at 17:59 #101590Jemima Fawr
ParticipantBwahahaha! Nice tag line! Figures look great too.
Cheers! Not so much a double as a single-entendre… 😉
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
17/10/2018 at 21:41 #101737Jemima Fawr
ParticipantThis week I have mostly been sticking placky Leopards together…
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26/10/2018 at 16:25 #102483Jemima Fawr
ParticipantI’ve got my Dutch Cap on this week…
‘Going Dutch’: Building a Cold War Dutch Battlegroup (Part 1)
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
31/10/2018 at 13:08 #102821Jemima Fawr
ParticipantHere’s a gallery of some French Allied units (Polish, Baden, Saxon, Westphalian and Hessian) that I’ve painted over the last couple of years:
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
04/11/2018 at 12:29 #103137Jemima Fawr
ParticipantThe campaign continues in Pembrokeshire: Lord Tenby’s Royalist forces move in for the kill against a wounded Bishopric of St David’s: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2018/11/04/a-very-british-civil-war-in-pembrokeshire-the-battle-of-robleston-hall/
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
19/11/2018 at 13:56 #104069Jemima Fawr
ParticipantThis is a rather large game we did at Bovington Tank Museum a few years back, of the assault by 53 (Welsh) Division on the Dutch city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch:
Refighting Operation ALAN: The Welsh Victory, 22-29 October 1944
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
24/11/2018 at 21:27 #104478Jemima Fawr
ParticipantSome more 1980s Cloggies from me this week: Some M113 C&V 25 recce vehicles, a YPR-765 conversion and the first of the infantry:
‘Going Dutch’: Building a Cold War Dutch Battlegroup (Part 2)
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
29/11/2018 at 17:12 #104776Jemima Fawr
ParticipantToday I’ve put some more AB Napoleonics up on the blog, along with one ‘paint-conversion’ of Marshal Bessiers from a Marshal Murat figure by Sho Boki:
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
10/12/2018 at 21:45 #105475Jemima Fawr
ParticipantThe Warsaw Pact rampage through Schleswig-Holstein continues! The Danish Funen Life Regiment makes a stand at the village of Gnissau:
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
10/12/2018 at 22:25 #105477Deleted User
MemberSuch very pretty work. A joy to look at.
donald
10/12/2018 at 23:37 #105482Jemima Fawr
ParticipantSuch very pretty work. A joy to look at. donald
Cheers Donald! You’re not so bad yourself, sweetie.
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
11/12/2018 at 04:02 #105484Deleted User
MemberSuch very pretty work. A joy to look at. donald
Cheers Donald! You’re not so bad yourself, sweetie.
Better than you can afford.
Can I ask about what you use to “elevate” your aircraft? Transparent plastic rod, obviously, but where to get it, how’s it affixed etc?
It looks so much better than my coathanger wire stands.
donald
11/12/2018 at 16:32 #105525Jemima Fawr
ParticipantSuch very pretty work. A joy to look at. donald
Cheers Donald! You’re not so bad yourself, sweetie.
Better than you can afford. Can I ask about what you use to “elevate” your aircraft? Transparent plastic rod, obviously, but where to get it, how’s it affixed etc? It looks so much better than my coathanger wire stands. donald
I bought them from someone, but can’t remember who – he had a wargame scenery company, but was packing it all in to rejoin the Army. The bases are resin with almunium tubes embedded in them that take the Perspex rod. I then drilled into the end of each rod and stuck a length of brass wire into them. The planes then each have a hole drilled in them to allow them to be impaled on the poles.
However, experience is a wonderful thing… The aeroplanes do tend to spin around on their poles if you drill the hole on the centre of gravity, so I try to put them in a nose-down attitude (ideally by drilling the hole to the rear of the CoG), so that the weight of the planes nose keeps them pointing downward and in the same direction, instead of weather-vaning in the slightest draught…
In retrospect I’d have used magnets, but that wasn’t really ‘a thing’ back then. I use magnets for my helicopters.
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
11/12/2018 at 21:27 #105541Deleted User
MemberThanks for that. Whilst my WW2 games will never approach the visual impact of yours, I do need to do something about flying stands.
Just what, I don’t yet know.
donald
11/12/2018 at 21:35 #105544Jemima Fawr
ParticipantYeah, I had the same problem until coming across that bloke quite by chance at Bovington and just when he was selling up (I bought six stands, which was all he had left).
If you have a look at the recent Operation Alan (‘s-Hertogenbosch) article, you’ll see Richard de Ferrars’ solution for his Typhoons (two of them are his and one is mine – they’re all the same Dinky die-cast model). He just pours molten lead (old redundant figures) into an old shoe-polish tin and then sticks a length of stiff piano-wire into the molten lead before it cools.
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
11/12/2018 at 21:41 #105545Jemima Fawr
ParticipantActually, now I come to think of it, I think he uses welding-rod rather than piano wire.
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
12/12/2018 at 05:15 #105553Deleted User
MemberActually, now I come to think of it, I think he uses welding-rod rather than piano wire.
Some of my aircraft are diecast & @ 1/72 weigh a fair bit.
The current solution (as pictured) is workable & my WW2 games aren’t meant to be fancy public displays, so I’ll be patient until a solution appears.
donald
29/12/2018 at 10:20 #106550Jemima Fawr
ParticipantThe Chrimbo Game this year was a 10mm ACW battle fought with Fire & Fury 2nd Edition: the right flank of Bloody Antietam:
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
06/02/2019 at 16:32 #108653Jemima Fawr
ParticipantThe year is 1938 and the Fish Guardian’s intrepid reporter Huw Puw is back in West Wales, embedded with a Welsh Nationalist regiment as they raid a Royalist-held farm for ‘provisions’…
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
10/02/2019 at 23:54 #108887Jemima Fawr
ParticipantToday on my blog I’m taking a look at one of my stalled wargame projects: 28mm War of Spanish Succession. This was started a few years ago with great enthusiasm, but then fizzled out… 🙁
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
14/02/2019 at 07:54 #109090Jemima Fawr
ParticipantOur latest game was a 10mm American Civil War historical refight using Fire & Fury 2nd Edition rules: The Battle of Cedar Mountain, 9th August 1862:
“A Game of Two Halves”: The Battle of Cedar Mountain, 9th August 1862 (Fire & Fury 2nd Edition)
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
15/02/2019 at 23:49 #109223Jemima Fawr
ParticipantAnother report from Huw Puw, roving reporter for the Fish Guardian, who this week is reviewing the armoured might of the Fish Guards:
A Very British Civil War in Pembrokeshire 1938: Armour of the Fish Guards
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
17/02/2019 at 19:39 #109400Jemima Fawr
ParticipantAnother ‘blast from the past’ game on my blog today – The First Battle of Bishenpur (Imphal 1944), as played at The Tank Museum, Bovington:
Black Cat v White Tiger: The 1st Battle of Bishenpur (Imphal 1944)
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
09/04/2019 at 15:57 #112336Jemima Fawr
ParticipantThis month we’ve been testing a scenario for the forthcoming Brigade Fire & Fury ‘Great Western Battles 2nd Edition’ scenario book – the Battle of Champion Hill, 16th May 1863: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2019/04/09/the-battle-of-champion-hill-16th-may-1863-fire-fury-10mm-acw/
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
12/04/2019 at 14:40 #112501Jemima Fawr
ParticipantA few readers of my blog have been asking for all the rules-specific scenario ‘nitty-gritty’ to accompany my game-reports, so here’s the full scenario for a game I reported on last year – the Battle of Raab 1809. We use ‘Napoleon’s Battles’ rules (formerly by Avalon Hill, but now in its 4th Edition from Capitan Games), which is a ‘grand-tactical’ set, where each unit represents a brigade or large regiment. The scenario could therefore be easily adapted to ‘Age of Eagles’, ‘Bluecher’ or some other ruleset designed for that level of play:
The Battle of Raab, 14th June 1809 – A Scenario for Napoleon’s Battles
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
18/04/2019 at 10:28 #112792Jemima Fawr
ParticipantI’ve been running a cooperative X-Wing campaign for my Minions (‘Brown Squadron’) over the last few years. Here are the campaign rules:
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18/04/2019 at 10:30 #112793Mike
Keymaster18/04/2019 at 11:17 #112798Jemima Fawr
ParticipantOoooh one of my favourite tanks.
You’re clearly a man of impeccable taste… (I don’t care what the others say about you – it was never proved, anyway.)
Yes, much maligned as the ‘Grave for Seven Brothers’, it was the ‘Tiger of the East’ as far as the Japanese were concerned. The commander of the Japanese 14th Tank Regiment was even said to have wept when he saw an imprint of Lee track-prints on the Tiddim Road, as he knew that nothing he had could match it (he did however, capture a Lee and took it to Imphal – where nobody was fooled and it was immediately knocked out).
My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/
18/04/2019 at 13:37 #112806deephorse
ParticipantSome of my aircraft are diecast & @ 1/72 weigh a fair bit. The current solution (as pictured) is workable & my WW2 games aren’t meant to be fancy public displays, so I’ll be patient until a solution appears.donald
Nothing wrong with a bit of coat hanger wire.
No matter what you use it will be visible. Even the transparent rod is obviously there.
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