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Post by TAMMY »

It would be a "very late cold war" as the first Eurocopter Tigers were delivered to the Germnan Army at the end of 2003.
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TAMMY wrote:It would be a "very late cold war" as the first Eurocopter Tigers were delivered to the Germnan Army at the end of 2003.
PAH -1 with HOT - MBB BO-105 was the common German attack helo of the time.

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Post by ROGER_HOUSTON2EMC-ENG.COM »

Kinda like having the 11th ACR use the M-1A2 Abrams and Longbow Apaches in the Fulda Gap..

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Post by RedLeif »

I'm trying to finish up enough german armor, infantry and artillery to field any 1 of the army or SS Pz/PzGren divisions in 4th panzer army of July 1943. Of course I'm also working on component units of the 1st tank army, 67th guards army and 5th guards tank army for the soviets as well.

I collect at platoon scale so its not as daunting as some of the other respondents plans, but it keeps my wallet fairly empty, my painting table covered and me out of too much trouble.

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Post by razor »

I'm still working on a stalled early 80's UK armored force. The chieftains have been stripped/painted 3 times and I think I'm ready to start on the 4th, and hopefully final, time. Maybe it was the purchase of Challenger 2000 with this force (and USSR units) that helped send it to the back burner?

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Post by Mickel »

1940 Germans, company of infantry, couple of companies of tanks and assorted hangers on.
1940 Italian, not really sure what's in that box any more. Certainly tanks.
1970s Soviet BTRs. Too many wheels to paint...
1991 US GW1 M1s/M2s (the USMC from the same is half done)
Italian ships from WW-II
A few RN ships
A few Kriegsmarine ships
1980s Soviets - assorted T-80s and BMPs
'73 Israeli & Egyptians, 60 odd tanks and assorted others. The '67 Egyptians are now getting there!
'70s US armoured stuff
A Middle Eastern village
Winter '42/'43 Eastern front - only a small force
That's all I can remember without going and having a look... really need to get some painting done!

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Post by voltigeur »

The list is so very long.

FIrst project I have failed to get off the ground is a 1980's Marine Corps BLT (Battalion Landing Team) in 1:1 scale. Just such a daunting task when I think about painting almost a 1000 infantry. The vehicles would be a snap to finish.

Second project I have failed to get off the ground is a VISMOD opfor unit. The new BMP models provide a better option than buying saggars from the other guys to scratch build them. Again would probably make this tank heavy just becasue it is easier and fits the packaging better. Of course along with this is the Terrain for the training area.

Then there are the projects started but not finished. I still ned to paint up infantry for my Brits. Infantry for my West Germans, Russian airborne, 3rd world rebels and Goverment troops.

Winter is coming and my outdoor activities will soon be stopping and I will be back to painting.
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Post by 6mmwargaming »

I've just started a large project which I've thought about for years.

I'm making some 6mm scale European terrain board mostly for modern and WW2 but perhaps earlier periods. I've brought the wood (4.75mm MDF) and sponge floor tiles to make 16 2x2ft tiles but I will also make some coastal ones so i will end up with about 20 tiles!

The plan is to have some terrain fixed and some interchangeable. I will have blank hex shaped areas (with a-joining roads) where I put towns, forests, hills or cover it with plain pieces and fields. These will be all the same size hexes but the pieces inside willl be different so i can mix and match (especially for the towns). The tiles will have roads, fields and rivers built in and a few smaller hills,ridges, ponds and rises. I'm also going to make some more interesting tiles like airfields, roundabouts, coast lines, port and so on.

I'm also planning to make/buy a bunch of trees and power poles with pins in the bottom so i can stick them into the terrain where I like. O

Hopefully I will have enough finished by feb next year so I can use them for a moderns tournament here.

And here's a few pictures to give you an idea of the materials

Cardboard shapes I used to plan the town sections

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Wood and floor tiles (the interlocking tiles should hold together pretty well I hope).

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i'll probably start a blog about this as it will be long and it will help me keep track of it all.

And I need to paint some more russinas as i think the tournamnet will have acold war theme.

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Like many folks on here I'm long on projects, short on completed units.

I"m currently working on my German North Africa units. I started with the Africa Korps CC as a modeler, however as I've purchased more and more...and more, my brother and I have discussed tyring to play some of these minis.

Project #1:

I've got a number of units (PzII, PzIII, PzIV, but heavy on transport and armoured cars) Trying to get a TOE (though rarely accurate in reality) for the armoured combat units of the 15th AD. I also have some Italians for use with units of the Ariete. As well as some aircraft from the theatre, the Itialian CR.42 (beautiful), as well as Me109s, Me-110 and Ju-52 painted in tropical get up. I have a Dorchester for Rommel's command stand and various german, french and british trucks for the transports. The infantry is what's putting me off as I have never been that great at painting human beings and I don't want sand colored blobs.

Concurrently, I'm combing through all my British gear to get an OPFOR for my German/Italians based off of the Commonwealth 1941 CC with a large number of additions.

Project #2:

Finishing my Reichsmarine, replacing my Prinz Eugen stand ins for the Blucher and Hipper as well as replacing the Graf Spee (Scheer) with the real Scheer.

Project #3:

Painting up some Soviet T-26s and T-34s for a company of Finns. Green paint whitewashed. Don't know what to do for infantry though. I was thinking WWII Soviets and sprinkling in some early German. Thoughts?

May add the StuGIII's later but this is for the first war, not the continuation and I believe they only had captured T-26s (about 20) and 3-5 T-34s and a KV-1 though the T-34s and KV-1 may have been later. Finns obviously didn't have a lot of armor, but did fight a couple of good playable scenarios from what I've read.

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Post by pmskaar »

Hi Suisse6

A book you might find helpful for putting together a German unit for North Africa is George R. Bradford's book - Rommel's Afrika Korps, El Agheila to El Alamein. I have a copy of this book for myself but also got one for one of my friends as well. It is an excellent book showing the whole TO&E in silhouette form of various units in the Afrika Korps including 15th Panzer at various times. Also included are a few British and Italian TO&E's as well. Essentially it shows all the individual vehicles at the company level and higher echelons as well. It is a great book.

I noticed that you are in the Phoenix area. I live in Surprise and occasionally run a game at Imperial Outpost. I am also working on getting more stuff for North Africa as well as per my previous post on this thread.

Pete - Binpicker, Out!

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Post by El Grego »

Kieran, I shall be watching your progress with great interest - I like the moveable tree idea.
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Post by suisse6 »

Pete, thanks for the direction, good reference materials are always in demand in my library. I may try and hit you up for a game some weekend when I'm not working on my Chevelle or army's...assuming you don't mind a newb.

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Post by 7.62 »

I also have too major scenic projects I'm trying to work on:
-- 4 lane divided highway including an overpass.
-- Airbase/Civilian Airport (interchangable due to terrain hex system.

Ahhh the airbase project!!!!
I too, many years ago started a modular airbase project.
It started as a simple runway and a pad on a few hex, about 2'x1'.
It then went to 4 x 1 sq foot tiles. 2 for the runway and 2 for the airbase or civil airport.
The last version of this had the runways (up to 2 now) on 6" boards along two sides at a right angle.
The center area was on two changeable boards (civil or military) and the total size was up to 30'x36'.
It never really looked right. The biggest problem was I was always trying to cram too much into too small a space.
The civil side is long lost but I still have the runway and the airbase tiles. This weekend I did a complete change/rehash of the old dispersal area and added more length to the main runway. This time there will be more area with less in it and it looks much better already.
So this project is maybe close on ten years in the making!
Thank you Hkurban for your post. This is something I always wanted to do but normal day to day got in the way.
I am going to Finnish this one, at least to a point I am happy with this time.
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Re: Projects

Post by Mk 1 »

suisse6 wrote:Project #3:

Painting up some Soviet T-26s and T-34s for a company of Finns. ... Don't know what to do for infantry though. I was thinking WWII Soviets and sprinkling in some early German. Thoughts?
From my readings I believe that Finns during the Winter War did not wear helmets. I think your best bets would be a mix of Russian Winter Individual Soldiers for those with fur hats (you'll have a lot of surplus Red Army figs with helmets) and German Winter Individual Soldiers for those with over-hoods (again with a surplus of figs with helmets).

For later continuation war Finns you might add the original German Individual Infantry figs, or even Hungarian Individual Infantry figs for helmetted Finns, and perhaps some Afrika Korps figs for Finns in summer field-caps.
... this is for the first war, not the continuation and I believe they only had captured T-26s (about 20) and 3-5 T-34s and a KV-1 though the T-34s and KV-1 may have been later.
Later indeed.

The T-34 was not taken into service by the Soviets in time to see action in the Winter war. The KV was in fact combat tested in the Winter war, but only in the very last campaign -- not in time for the Finns to capture any and use them in action.

The tanks taken in numbers by the Finns during the Winter war were primarily T-26s, BT-5s and -7s, and T-28s. The Finns don't seem to have liked the BTs in their original guise (having little use for "fast tanks" in such close terrain), and took time and effort to convert some portion of their booty BTs to big-gun SPGs. The T-26s and T-28s were turned around against their prior owners pretty directly as they became available. I have seen pictures of both early short-barrelled and later longer-barrelled T-28s in Finnish service. GHQ models only the later longer-barreled version, but they aren't hard to convert.

The Finns also started the war with a force of more than 30 Renault FTs (GHQ FR15), and about a dozen Vicker's 6-ton tanks of their own. I have the impression some of the Vickers were the twin-turretted model A, but I could be mistaken. The GHQ Polish 7TPdw (P2) could serve for the twin-turretted Vickers A, and the 7TPjw (P3) for the single-turretted Vickers B. I think believe the Finns upgunned their Vickers B with the 37mm Bofors AT gun either just prior to or during the war, making the 7TPjw a pretty good stand-in. Prior to the upgunning they had the original short-barreled 47mm gun, which would be a simple mod to make to the GHQ models.

After the Winter war they upgraded the few remaining Vickers they had to the standard of the Soviet T-26s they had captured, and the two would have been pretty much indistiguishable for the continuation war.

Just some musings. Consider or discard at your discretion.
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Post by 6mmwargaming »

Some progress on my terrain boards although I've been dsitracted by other things.

http://6mmfan.wordpress.com/

I hope to really crack into it this and mark out all the roods and get the hills done over the next week

Cheers
Kieran

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