The BMP-3 infantry combat vehicle entered production in the late 1980s. About 120 BMP-3 vehicles are in service with the Russia Army and over 900 have been exported to a number of countries, including United Arab Emirates (600 vehicles), Cyprus (40), Indonesia (30), Kuwait (110) and South Korea (70).
UPDATE - FRIDAY 21st APRIL 2017: Final pre-SALUTE update.....
Better late than never, I guess.... only one day now before SALUTE, I'm heading down to ExCel this afternoon to set up.... for those of you making your way there tomorrow, we will be in pretty much the same place as the last couple of years - stand TE02. If you turn left as you come in from the queueing area, we're at the end of the second row of tradestands. There are quite a few new releases, including 15mm ones for the Brethren, PAU, CDF, FSE, Xar, Islamics, Kra'Vak and more - PLUS some new FULL THRUST codes for the Crusties - some really lovely new fighters and strikeboats, all 3D designed by MMG!
Oh, and we now have a new stock of the FT STARTER GAME BOXES, so these will be on sale again at a SPECIAL SHOW PRICE but will also be available again to mailorder next week.
I will have SOME stock of all the new items at the show, but a few of them will be in very small quantities only, so if you want to get them before they are sold out then please make us one of your first stops when you get into the hall!
Hope to see lots of you tomorrow, safe travels to the show......
The tracked IFV known to the British Army as the Warrior was originally known as MCV-80. It was intended to replace the old FV432 armored personnel carrier. This vehicle was developed from the 1970s onwards. A series of pre-production prototypes built in the early 1980s. Production by GKN Defence commenced during 1986. The Warrior has been in British Army service since 1988, seeing combat in the Gulf in 1991 and during Iraq war. Production of this armored vehicle ceased in 1995. The original order was for over 1 000 units but Army reorganizations reduced that to 789 of all types sufficient to equip seven Mechanized Infantry battalions. The British Army plans to operate these armored fighting vehicles until 2035.
The M2 Bradley, or Bradley IFV, is an American infantry fighting vehicle that is a member of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle family. It is manufactured by BAE Systems Land & Armaments, which was formerly United Defense.
The Evil Empire on the Brazos (BEE) chronicles the on going wars (games) and the diplomatic efforts (Posts/GNN Reports) of all the known nations (wargame collections) in my little area of the galaxy.My goal is to both entertain
and inform those new to art of miniature wargaming, and have a few laughs with it. This Blog is open to all and also welcomes comment from all and I hope that many will come to join in the madness.....)
WMMS 2024
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A big fail for me as I forgot my camera and my phone, so I had no way to
take pictures. Luckily "Tales from GHQ" did take pictures of some of the
games (li...
SA-10 ‘Grumble’ (s300)
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Models of big missile launchers are always good for a laugh, so it was easy
to persuade myself to get this lot painted. They are 1/285 scale models
made ...
What size grid? A few experiments might help
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Before I begin work on my new gridded terrain board, I need to decide what
size grid squares I’m going to use. I laid out the options available to me
in ...
Cybertron Terrain
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Its spraying day today and I've got a lot of terrain to get through.
Starting with these futuristic bases from Micro Machines. These give loads
of wonder...
Tales From The Periphery - BattleTech Podcast
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If you're interested in BattleTech I recommend you check out 'Tales From
The Periphery'. Link
It describes itself as, 'An audio podcast, news blog, even...
Psionic powers - all in the mind?
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I got a couple of Alternative Armies Espers to give me some psionic-type
characters for games like Rogue Stars. They remind me of some of the old
"sanc...
And then the wheels dopped off.
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Chris K asked me if I wanted to play in the DBA tournament at Hammerhead in
a week's time. This is not normally my thing at all, but Phil had had to
drop...
An Arabian Night On The Town
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My Middle Eastern building collection has grown over the years. Originally
designed as generic buildings for use with my Crusades collection it will
now ...
The Trans-Syldavian War of 1938 starts......
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One of the things the Tintin books oddly do not cover is Trans-Syldavia,
that region north of the Syldavian Alps whose history which has been
covered in ...
The Conquistador Main Battle Mecha In 28mm Scale
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The Conquistador is the most commonly encountered variant of the varied
Project Cervantes armored walkers, being suited for both close and distant
combat...
New Fantasy sets from Alliance
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I know, I havent been active for..???..a long time but I keep looking at
what´s going on in the world of bods..and today I found
these.....Apparently the...
A different kind of convention (for me anyway)
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Earlier this month, my wife and I went to our first ever science fiction
convention: ArmadilloCon here in the Austin area.
My wife did confess that at f...
15mm Terminator: Junkyard Dogs
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I’ve started work on sourcing and painting up some scenic elements and
terrain for the 15mm Terminator project, and am kicking things off with
some wr...
Week26 Updates
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A bit more progress over the last few weeks, although I still am not
getting out the brushes as often as I would like / need to. The
legionaries are fin...
Food Basics Flyer Dec 8 to Dec 14, 2022
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Browse through the latest Food Basics flyer December 8 to December 14, 2022
on this page. This weekly flyer from Food Basics has found amazing price
for yo...
Car Insurance Sioux Falls
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*Car Insurance Sioux Falls*. The best price for comprehensive car insurance
in sioux falls for most drivers is from state farm at an average annual
premi...
A Wellsian interlude
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Taking the chance to get the guns and matchsticks out on a sunny Sunday
afternoon…
Bought at some point in a job lot ( I think) these were lying unused i...
Wargaming the interwar period
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*CROSSPOSTED FROM WARGAMING MISCELLANY*
This year’s VCOW (Virtual Conference of Wargamers) took place over the
weekend, and I was able to take part in se...
Printing The 7 Years War
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Back in the days, before smart phones, cell phones, the internet, usable
home computers (1985); when one had to go to the local game store to find
out w...
Mighty Armies: Invasion is live!
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We have released our newest Mighty Armies book though Kickstarter
featuring ramies from Splintered Light Miniatures!
Check it out here:
https://www.ki...
Last post here-
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OK, the web site drama is finally coming to an end.
Here is a summary. I had been using a Weebly web site, this blog hosted
by Blogger, and a e-commer...
Boarding Parties
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A couple of stands to represent RN boarding parties or sailors with
small-arms put ashore
For CD3 the count as 'other' so of limited use, expecting spec...
Summer 1001 - Apocalypse Now
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"My Emperor," the messenger announced, "I have news of the war with the
Mangu hordes."
The Emperor paused briefly as he swallowed the soft flesh of the nec...
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The Capture of Piet Petronius-1880
A Great Solo Game-The Men Who Would Be Kings
The Men Who Would is Kings (abbreviated TMWBK) is a* great*fast play
Colonia...
Stalingrad Pt5: Combined Ops
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After a seemingly refreshing break from the bloggasphere, Stalingrad is
back! While the previous games had been some classic infantry attacks, we
noted ...
Wunderlist For Windows 3.18.0
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Wunderlist - is one of the most well known cross-platform task manager and
to-do list application. It is also available for Mac and instantly sync
your ...
15mm Great Swamp Lizard
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We are very pleased to release our latest 15mm fantasy model -- the Great
Swamp Lizard. This towering beast can eat his way straight through entire
enemy ...
Law Enforcement
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Hi!
I've managed to paint up a few law enforcement officers for Jim to avoid!
Outland Judge Patrol
I ended up going for the classic Judge Dredd paint sch...
Grimlocks in 15mm
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Here are 12 grimlocks for dnd 5th ed.....15mm Picts from copplestone.
Back from a long break in gaming....looking forward to a little dungeons
and dragons s...
Hail Mary .....of the LIVING DEAD!!!!
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So I somehow managed to knock out another 60-something zombies before this
baby arrives, nothing fancy here, I didn't even texture the bases. I
figured I ...
Risorgimento or Garibaldi in Sicily 1860
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I studied the Italian Unification at school and it was fascinating; This
lead to following Garibaldi's career and especially his amazing campaign in
Sicily...
More 15mm Orcs painted this weekend.
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This weekend I worked on finishing another squad of Orcs. Note: These minis
are OOP and are no longer being sold. I Also removed the banners that were
cast...
Origins 2013 X-Wing Event
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We had a great time at Origins this year and other then the several hours
we had to evacuate from the convention center due to a flaming transformer
everyt...
more painting-
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I have been working on getting approx. 1500+ points in some at least
minimum "table top gaming condition" before Mid-june. I have most of the
fig.s t...
Hail Zlobenia!
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I picture of PFU troops from Zlobenia. The Zlobs have always been more open
in their views about the outside world, and see the current conflict as a
way...
Martian Civil War
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My flyer was pulled out of the box for only the second time. It was fun to
run, and was a constant pain to the bad guys. After our last gathering,
plans...
SBH SOLO Vikings VS Hunters of Evil
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With my new love of Universal Battle, I have run yet another solo game.
This time it was the under dog Vikings VS the Vet Hunters of Evil.
I set the game u...
Mortimer’s Cross - AAR By Lord Stanley
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Last Thursday we put paid to the lowly Lancastrian and nailed the body of
the Lancastrian leaders to some nice new crosses at a place called Mortimer
- hen...
A game with Vulture
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I had a F.A.D. game with Vulture last week. He won this one by taking and
holding the objective with his light power armored troops, and backing them
up wi...