Who: North Riding Wargames Group
Where: Scruton, North Yorkshire
When: Sunday 28th July
Attendance: 11 gamers and 1 visitor. A new club record!
Games: 4
. To the Strongest! (Ancients 15mm). Batavian Revolt AD69
. For King & Parliament (English Civil War 15mm)
. Honours of War (Seven Years War 10mm)
. 7 Days to the River Rhine (Cold War 15mm)
The Cold War game photo's provided by DaveD (Deedles).
To The Strongest
What follows are some photographs I took while taking charge of a part of the British landings in a D-Day Sword Beach game.
The location was Pendraken Miniatures' games room.
The miniatures belonged to James.
The terrain was a mixture belonging to Dave and James.
Martin and myself commanded the British, with Dave and James GM-ing/commanding the Axis forces.
The four of us are all members of the North Riding Wargames Group (NRWG)
Work begins on the Driving Light and it's 'cage'.
What I've done:
Holes drilled out using a drill bit and pin vice. Florist wire (goldy-colour) and paperclip used for conversion.
What's still to do:
Holes require filling in. Florist wire to be straightened out, and attaching cross-pieces. Sculpt the basic shape of a light onto the paperclip, to be attempted.
If I can manage to do all of that, it will just leave the canvas cover over the gun mantlet to sculpt.
Again, not 100% accurate but, good enough to play toy soldiers with.
Soviet Armoured Reserve (mobilised War Reserves stock) T-34-85 Model 1953
Pendaken 10mm T-34 (single) fuel drums fitted to rear of Zvezda 1/100 T-34-85, as smoke canisters. Cut down pieces of gun barrels from spare tank models, as snorkels for deep wading. Bit of a bodge representation, rather than 100% accurate.
Still to do, sculpt a 'canvas cover over the gun mantlet' and create a 'night driving lamp'.
Planning to use them in games of 7 Days To The River Rhine (7DTTRR), where they'll be outmatched by near-enough everything they go up against. But, there'll be six of them and two SU-100 tank destroyers (using Homebrew rules/points of 20 points each for a SU-100). So those eight Soviet WW2 relics will only cost 148 points in the game, whereas a top-of-the-line NATO tank is in the cost region of 80 to 90 points each. The WW2 relics will struggle head on against two Abrams, Challengers, or Leopard 2s, but you get five or more of them hitting a NATO tank's flank armour and the odds are not bad.
Additional photo's of yesterday's game at Pendraken Miniature's games room:
James "Mad Tin Hatter's" photo's
Blogger has loaded up the images last to first, so start at the last and work backwards to best view.
North Riding Wargames Group day out at Pendraken Miniatures.
