Tanker's Tuesday: Dangerous Missions: Tank Crews

In WWII, American tank crews duked it out with Nazi Panzers in a high-explosive duel to the death. The German tanks had thicker armor and better guns than the mainstay of the U.S. armored forces, the M-4 Sherman, in Season 1, "Tank Crews".

The Greatest Star Trek Series You're Not Watching -- Full Episode!

Mecha Monday: Heavy Gear cinematic (part 01)

Tanker's Tuesday : FRENCH TANKS / War Thunder

This video is the latest episode of our "Climbing the ranks" series. In these videos we take a quick stroll through a nation's tech tree, highlighting the most interesting vehicles that you definitely should check out. Today we are going through the ground vehicles of… France.

Mecha Monday Free Heavy Gear Blitz! Field Manual

The Heavy Gear Blitz Field Manual - Core Rulebook Revised is the current rules set for Heavy Gear Blitz. It adds a new and exciting style of game-play to Heavy Gear Blitz! This book takes the field test rules featured in the first 3 issues of our Gear UP eZine and revises the Locked & Loaded rulebook sections with new rules, flow charts for ease of use and new datacards for the Heavy Gear Blitz! miniatures.

The Core Heavy Gear Blitz miniature game rulebook for all players; Requires the use of the Locked & Loaded Rulebook (Northern, Peace River Defense Force, or Leagueless Army Lists), Black Talon Return to Cat's Eye (Black Talon, C.E.F. or Caprice Army Lists), Terra Nova Gambit (Utopian Army List), Perfect Storm NuCoal Field Guide (NuCoal or P.A.K. Army Lists), Forged in Fire Southern Field Guide (Southern Army Lists), or Dream Pod 9's free Gear Garage Software available on our website to build your armies. Also requires the use of six-sided dice (not included) and Dream Pod 9 miniatures. For two or more players, age 8 and older.

Heavy Gear Blitz Field Manual Free

Latest ROCO/1/8th Scale Haul

Picked this up on line from a guy on one of the FB groups I'm on, was a very sweet deal !

Tankers Tuesday: German Invasion of the USSR

On June the 22nd, 1941, the Wehrmacht proceeded with the so-called 'Operation Barbarossa', the planned invasion of the Soviet Union. While able to conquer large amounts of Soviet territory in the early stages of the war, the tides turned for Nazi Germany with the failed siege of the Soviet capital,

Mecha Monday: Heavy Gear Wiki

Heavy Gear is a game universe published since 1994 by Canadian publisher Dream Pod 9. It includes a tabletop tactical wargame, a role-playing game and a lesser known combat card game (Heavy Gear Fighter). The setting is also known through the PC-game incarnations published by Activision in 1997 and 1999, developed after Activision lost the rights to the Battletech/MechWarrior series. It also spawned a 40-episodes, 3D-animated TV series in 2001, which featured a much simplified version of the universe developed in the role-playing game.

Heavy Gear Wiki

Happy Traveller Day!

I kind of got into Traveller backwards, I got talked into playing the original Striker and discovered because of it this very rich background universe. I played that for years untill I moved back to Texas where no one was playing it, they were playing GURPS however....from there it was easy 　 I've found that I like the background history in Gurps Traveller even more than the classic (each to his taste I know 　 )

Tanker's Tuesday: AMERICAN VEHICLES / War Thunder

Mecha Monday: Arcus Magog War Mecha 50A

"The largest walkers in the Prydian Precinct the Magogs are a class of war machine which tower over all others. Piloted by a pair of veteran crew each Magog carries the mightiest weapons into battle and is the equal to the finest of other armoured vehicles. They are giant knights. They are the mecha of the Marcher Barons and among them the Targa Works type 50 variants rule supreme. Magogs are giants of legend given titanium alloy form in the war against the Khanate.”

This pack contains one 15mm scale large walker or Mecha called a Magog. This Magog is the Arcus 50A which is a longer range encounter type of war mecha armed with an Anda 115mm Missile Pod cluster on the end of each arm (see page 58 of Callsign Taranis). The kit is composed of nine high quality grey tone resin pieces which are standing pose legs, upper body, Armet style head cockpit, upper left arm, left weapon mount, upper right arm, right weapon mount and two jet units one for the rear of each arm. Easy to assemble and durable as a playing piece. When building there is choice in torso rotation and arm pose and head direction.

When assembled this model stands about 80mm tall. Supplied unpainted and unassembled without a base (shown on our IAF167 75mm round base). You can purchase one kit or three kits saving more on screen.

Arcus Magog War Mecha

Tanker's Tuesday: Development of the British Tank Arm, 1918-1939

Mecha Monday: Firebird Up Scaled

From: Krzysztof Strato Raczyński‎Strato Minis Studio Group

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Firebird up scaled to 1/100. Master came out amazingly, we should be able to cast them before the end of the week! 1/285 version for scale.

Going to the National Training Center (NTC)

GZGs Phase Two Offer

SITUATION UPDATE 17/4/20:
First off, my apologies for the delay in posting this update, and special thanks to those of you who contacted me to check that everything was OK! All is good here at the moment with both business and family, and I hope the same applies to all of you out there.
The response to the first phase of the Lockdown Special Offer was enormous - thanks to all of you who ordered - and even since it ended two weeks ago, orders have still been coming in at a good steady rate.

There WILL be a Phase Two of the offer, as promised, which will feature the FT Starships ranges - but for various reasons I will not now be starting it until around the beginning of MAY. I have a number of things that I need to catch up on between now and the end of April, and while I will be able to handle a normal amount of orders in that time I don’t want to get overwhelmed and unable to keep with them - and if the reaction to the earlier special on the 15mm ranges was anything to go by, that could easily happen when the FT offer starts!

The postal services appear to still be generally working OK, but in the last week or so I have become aware that some mailings are taking a little longer than normal to arrive; domestic First Class mail is now taking two or even three days in some cases, and even Special Delivery packets are sometimes taking two days rather than the usual next day service. I don’t have a lot of info on how other countries’ postal services are coping, but for airmail packets to the US (for example) I would tend to expect 10-14 days at the moment rather than the usual 5-7 days.
If any of you would like to take a few moments to let me (Jon) know via email when your packets arrive, that would give me some useful feedback on how the various services are performing and what advice to give other customers.

Please check back here now and then for further updates and more news - there may even be some more NEW RELEASES soon…
Thanks again to everyone - keep safe, keep healthy, and keep painting - the day will come when we can all face our friends and opponents across the tabletop battlefield again!

Jon (GZG), Friday 17th April 2020.

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Shockwave Darkside

This falls under the "Bad Movie, good wargame category : Shockwave Darkside: Using GZGs  Moongrunt forces or some such, would make for an enjoyable game.....

The movie it's self is a rather low tech (in computer graphics anyway) affair with mediocre acting at best. It's translation to table top play would be IMO very easily done :)

From the film bio:

It is the last, great war. Out of the wreckage of a troop transport, five soldiers on the way to battle find themselves stranded on the dark side of the moon. Cut off and behind enemy lines, they start a dangerous journey through snipers and minefields back to their home territory. As their numbers dwindle and nerves fray, they make an amazing discovery about the moon that just might save their lives.

Shockwave Darkside

Tanker's Tuesday: SWEDISH TANKS / War Thunder

WW2 was a huge testing ground for tank industries all around the world. Sweden, though, stuck to its own path. Swedish designs weren’t tested in real combat, but Swedish engineers were eager to learn from any successes of their foreign counterparts

Mecha Monday: Coversion

By Dizzy more of his amazing model conversions. This is one of a series that he's done in 1/100 which inspired a project I have yet to begin. He used a 1/72 Russian Tunguska to base the upper torso.

Tanker's Tuesday: The PATTON Family

Mecha Monday: The Gundam Project

Lots of pictures from The Gundam Project on FB
The Gundam Project