After priming the planes yesterday, I have done a quick painting session this morning after church. I have painted the two Skyhawks and two sea Harriers. I am happy with the results. I could have worked longer on the details, and the free hand markings are not completly streight. It does look the job, and…
Quick little Falklands
For my birthday I received some Tumblingdice aircraft. Two Harriers, two a-4 Skyhawks and two MB-339 planes. The last two will be reserved for the Eritrean air force, the others will be used for a quick paint up for the Falklands war. We will have a gaming evening next Tuesday I hope to finish it…
Africa@war books arrived
The books I ordered arrived. I already spotted some nice photos and pictures. Hope to read them coming days. Probably i will write a review when finished.
Spanish civil war air encounters
With the Dutch air war of the world war 2, I will have a German early war air force. To expand the options to play, I want to re-purpose a part of these planes and use them in an other conflict. When I started searching for suitable conflicts, were I could re-use the german planes,…
Dutch Cold war airforce project
After playing Missile Threat a couple of times with modern aircraft, I find the rules very engaging. One drawback I encountered, aircrafts after the 1980s do have a lot of missiles, which results in easy hits. Dogfights are therefore quick encounters, of who passes who first and fires the most rockets. A lot of times…
Book review: Ethiopian-Eritrean wars Volume 1
Last weekend I have started with research for the Ethiopian-Eritrean-Somalia conflict s. Couple of weeks ago I had ordered a book from Helion Africa@war series. Number 29: Ethiopian-Eritrean wars, volume 1, Eritrean war of independence 1961-1988. (Click on image for link to Helion site) Before I read this book, I had only done a quick…
Dutch air war 1940
10 may 1940, Germany invades the Netherlands as part of the second world war. Starting with the bombing of different airfields, the first airborne assault on different bridges and airfields. And a mass bombardement on the city of Rotterdam, which did force the Netherlands to surrender after 5 days. Alltough the Netherlands is quite a…
Battle of Cinq Bras
Battle of Cinq Bras – [23.04.1815] Last Tuesday evening, the first 2mm Napoleonic battle took place. This is a short battle report. My father was the opponent, playing the British (red) force and I was playing the France (blue) force. When I explained the rules and used a real life example of Quatre Bras, my…
Dreams and plans
In last post, I explained how it started, and some of the starting projects. In this post I hope to set some goals and plans for myself to guide me in the future. And to prevent piling up a too large leadpile. In my day to day job I am working as engineer for a…
The beginning
One reason to start blogging is to create a little more oversight in my plans. So this first post is about the beginning of my wargame adventure. I have followed different blogs and pages the last couple of years, and have a general idea in what I want. Mostly in the direction of smaller scales,…