Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Broken Stars & Burning Ships: 15mm Scifi: Ion Age Prang Raiders & Army Platoon





Broken Stars & Burning Ships: 15mm Scifi: Ion Age Prang Raiders & Army Platoon: My latest 15mm scifi project comes from Ion Age's Prang range.  The Prang are an amphibious alien race that are best described as milita...

Friday, January 26, 2018

15mm Wargaming for Fun and Sanity: RS Mercenaries on Mars 4 Headed of at the Pass


15mm Wargaming for Fun and Sanity: RS Mercenaries on Mars 4 Headed of at the Pass: Number 4! The main battle's over and the strewn and steaming bodies of the young acolytes are found.  There follows wailing, gnashin...

15mm Wargaming for Fun and Sanity: FL Mercenaries on Mars 3 Town Panning


15mm Wargaming for Fun and Sanity: FL Mercenaries on Mars 3 Town Panning: Number 3 , is a near re-run of game 1. The objective is the same. We must presume that another troop is advancing from a different direct...

Plastic Soldier Company acquires Armies Army



 





Plastic Soldier Company acquires Armies Army

We are delighted to announce that Plastic Soldier Company has acquired Armies Army and its superb range of high quality 15mm Modern resin and metal vehicles and infantry. All products are now available to buy in the Modern section of the Plastic Soldier Company webstore:-
The introduction of this resin and metal range will complement our plastic range and provide many additional options for us. The range will be introduced over the next few weeks with many items available today.

There is an absolute treasure trove of unreleased vehicles which we will roll out over the coming months plus Keith will continue to design new stuff for us. Our newly acquired extensive CAD data library will also give us the ability to produce selected kits and conversion packs in other scales - 20mm and 10mm....................

and plastic..............

Roll on Battlegroup Northag!

Cheers
Will
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Friday, January 19, 2018

15mm Wargaming for Fun and Sanity: RS Mercenaries on Mars 2 The Black God Raid


15mm Wargaming for Fun and Sanity: RS Mercenaries on Mars 2 The Black God Raid: In the last game one wagon and a scratch crew of passengers comprising the Captain, five crew of another wagon and 2 troopers. Th...

Thursday, January 18, 2018

15mm Wargaming for Fun and Sanity: FL Mercenaries of Mars 1 World of Hurt.


15mm Wargaming for Fun and Sanity: FL Mercenaries of Mars 1 World of Hurt.: This is by way of an open experiment. If you want to make comments or useful criticism, please do! I guess it's a campaign.  I have...

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

GZG UPDATE - WEDNESDAY 17th JANUARY 2018:


NEW RELEASES NOW READY!
I hope that 2018 is treating you all well so far, and that those of you who have gone down with various seasonal coughs and colds are now recovering..... well, to cheer things up in the bleak middle of January, the promised NEW RELEASES are now ready for sale - with a couple of weeks left before the January Discount Vouchers expire - so if you've been waiting for these before placing your order, here they are!

A FULL RANGE of all the essential packs for the new ESU REGULAR ARMY, as previewed late last year with the introductory SG15-E41 pack (now relisted as a standard 8-figure pack); now with NINE packs, including Command and the various Heavy Weapons teams, PLUS a very useful little 6-wheeled "mule" as a light transport/towing vehicle.
As explained when the E41 pack was launched, these figures are variants of the ESU Naval Infantry range, with new helmets and additional kit giving them a very different look - while the Naval Infantry are the "Marines" of the ESU Space Naval forces, the Regular Army are the grunts who make up the majority of the Eurasian Solar Union ground troops.

SG15-E41        ESU Regular Army Rifle Troops A - 8 figs, 2 each of 4 poses.
SG15-E42        ESU Regular Army Rifle Troops B - 8 figs, 2 each of 4 poses.
SG15-E43        ESU Regular Army SAW Gunners - 8 figs, 2 each of 4 poses.
SG15-E44        ESU Regular Army Special Weapons (Snipers and Portable Missile Launchers) troops - 8 figs, 2 each of 4 poses
SG15-E45        ESU Regular Army Command and Comms pack - 8 figs, 2 each of 4 poses.
SG15-E46        ESU Regular Army Tribarrel Autocannon teams - 2 guns with light wheeled carriages, 4 crew figures (2 per gun), plus bonus sprues of spare ammo cans
SG15-E47        ESU Regular Army Medium Mortar teams - 2 drum-fed mortar tubes with light wheeled carriages, 4 crew figures (2 per mortar), plus bonus sprues of spare ammo cans
SG15-E48        ESU Regular Army Anti-Vehicle Missile System (AVMS) teams - two complete weapon teams, each consisting of launcher (with optional parts to assemble as 2-round or 4-round system) on light wheeled carriage, 2 crew figures and packs of reload missiles
SG15-E51        ESU Electric Mule (6-wheel light vehicle) with Regular Army driver - light transport load carrier used as towing vehicle for Mortar, AVMS and Tribarrel teams (multi-part kit of one vehicle with driver)

To see (and purchase!) all these new codes, scroll down to the foot of the front page of the store and click on the relevant featured items, or simply go to the ESU page of the 15mm Infantry listings.

Jon (GZG), Wednesday 17th January 2018.
 
www.gzg.com

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Tanker's Tuesday: Rolling Hot With Hammers Slammers


Hammer's Slammers are one of the most powerful mercenary companies in existence. They are led by Colonel Alois Hammer and are greatly feared. They are among the best-trained and equipped troops in the galaxy, although they are not polished and are sometimes judged by this. Officers are expected to lead from the front. One of the most powerful weapons in the Hammer's Slammers arsenal is their hover tank. Along with the hover tank, Hammer's Slammers operate combat cars, Mobile 200 mm howitzers, air cars, and skimmers for the infantry. Crews often give their combat vehicles unusual names including names like Flame Thrower", "Death dealer", and "Daisy Belle"
http://kitsunesden.xyz/SF-Conversions/Rift_SF_Conv.htm#Hammer

http://www.hammers-slammers.com/home.htm

Monday, January 8, 2018

A Slammers -verse Birthday Gift!

I've always been a Hammer's Slammers fan, and
have drooled over the models ever since the first
time I saw them several years ago.

These will all be painted up in WWII US colors..........

one command tank

3 up armored blower tanks
3 up gunned blower tanks
3 missile armed blower tanks
9 jeeps
one artillery piece 
3 scout cars
3 anti tank missile APCs



one command APC


one calliope
one ADA missile APC
3 IFVs
one MLRS
3 tank hunters
3 scout tanks


Plan to do these as a colonial force painted up in WWII US Army
livery. it's what happens when your Governor is a retired history
professor...)  







UD-4L CHEYENNE DROPSHIP


I picked up a pair of  the classic UD-4L CHEYENNE DROPSHIPS
#4 Alien  by NECA CINEMACHINES They look to be about 1/144th
scale which work well for my gaming.




A  great write up can be found here The Occasional Ambush

The Big 60!

Hey buddy welcome to the sixth decade of existence....It's not so bad, trust me!

Prang From Ion Age's 15mm Range

Lot of 13 minis for use in scifi skirmish games like Patrol Angis,
Stargrunt, Tomorrow's War. GRUNTZ, etc.  Intended to be a used
as small force of alien mercenaries/raiders.  These are Prang from
Ion Age's 15mm range, extremely chunky humanoid aliens that
stand a little taller than an average human in scale and are about
three times as bulky.  Imagine a hippo-sized bipedal frog in heavy
carapace armor carrying suitably massive weaponry and that's a
Prang.

Total of 13 heavy infantry with an eclectic mix of weaponry and gear,
including several personality types, one with a pet, another waving 
sword around like this is a 40K game, and three heavy weapon
troopers.