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chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:20 pm

I do not remember, It was from The Miniatures Page:Discussion,
Modern Gallery, then back several pages. I saw it months ago, perhaps a year ago, having been posted May 2014. I do not know anything specific about the video. Like the castle in European city.

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=344511

When I saw it again, remembered it had been awhile, so hopefully no one would fuss too loudly. There is another youtube suggested which was posted on GHQ forum few years ago,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDZdHhfbAqE
Posted 2007.

WW2 youtube, animated is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdAA1w3QFag
Nice looking terrain.

why game in 6mm????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouGknMVRuTY

I use TMP, for commentary, terrain, paint, etc. Some of us on here post periodically.
Hope this helps.
Chris

Dog Smack · Post by **Dog Smack** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 8:17 pm

mluther wrote:Steve,
Do you do any air gaming with your planes? We use Check Your 6! Just starting a Kursk air campaign this week.
Mark

Mark-
I don't really have much of an air wing to game with. In fact if you took my Luftwaffe and faced them off with my Soviets in an air engagement, it would probably last 5 seconds.

2 Me-109s and 1 Stuka don't stand much of a chance against 2 MiG-29s, a MiG-27, and a MiG-21!!! Kind of a miss match!!!

I have heard that CY6 is a good gaming system but I don't have it so can't comment on it really.

Steve

pibber · Post by **pibber** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 11:13 am

Great painting job on your canadians cama !

Great job too Dog Smack on your Stuka and your germans panzer.

Very nice wargaming landscape PolishGI. (I only make the same note like Tammy said about the paddies : you should do them under the ground level, lower, and it would be perfect)
I hope to do as well as you when I will launch myself to make my own Vietnam wargaming landscape.

33YearsGHQ · Post by **33YearsGHQ** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:43 pm

Cama,
Awesome work on the Canadians, I especially like the Lynx.

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 9:30 pm

Cama,
Nice looking pics and camo. I appreciate it, love the decals.
....the Lynx, I hope that GHQ does not produce the Lynx, I would rather that GHQ produce the items that they are, which many are unique in the market place, at least with anything in this scale, and certainly higher quality with better visual appeal. Since the other company produces some items at a very nice quality level, we are better off. We have more choices or more options of what to buy/invest.
BTW, First Clash was a good read, read it about 15 years ago or so. The Canadians were effective with their .50 cal m.g., as I recall. Did the Canadian use Cougars or Grizzlies in the book? LAV 25?
An idea is for a company to produce the Leopard 1C, with all the extra armor as the Canadians used in Iraq and Afghanistan. If a company oversea produced this with more metal blobs, it might work, just put netting over the model. Who would know?

Cama, I really like your paint job, go paint some more, Need at least 9 more Leopard 1A5, 20 more M113.

TAMMY · Post by **TAMMY** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 11:19 pm

First Clash was published in 1985 so no LAV 25 or Grizzlies.

PolishGI · Post by **PolishGI** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 3:59 am

Great work on the Canadian forces cama! I love the Leopards! The infantry and supporting vehicles look great!

pibber wrote: Very nice wargaming landscape PolishGI. (I only make the same note like Tammy said about the paddies : you should do them under the ground level, lower, and it would be perfect)
I hope to do as well as you when I will launch myself to make my own Vietnam wargaming landscape.

Thanks for the kind words pibber! I was hesitant on getting into that kind of detail to represent a rice paddy in 1/285 scale. My approach was more of creating a berm for infantry to hide behind in case you are taking enemy fire. I will try the dropping the water level on the next round of paddies and see what it looks like. I assume that after I am done digging into the Styrofoam, I will need to fill in the bottom with puddy/clay to level things out. And then add the water back.

paul · Post by **paul** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 8:29 pm

Cama,

Where do you get the helicopter bases? I've been wanting to use magnets on my helicopters and planes but was not sure how they would work using GHQ or CinC bases. The one's you show look like they can handle most of the medium size figs.

Regards,

Paul

BattlerBritain · Post by **BattlerBritain** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 3:32 am

The helicopter bases and magnets look identical to the stands I have for my planes.

I use Games Workshop clear plastic stands available thru the GW website. They do 2 sizes: large and small. Those helicopter bases look like the small ones.

For the magnets I use 1/8th" diam magnets from a UK supplier who also does lots of decals (his name is Dom). He sells them for 6p each (about 10c US).

I use super-glue to stick them on to the top of the plastic stand.

You then use another magnet glued to the model plane, but make sure it's the right polarity (way round) or else it'll just bounce and fall off.

With the 2 1/8th" magnets the model plane sticks quite well to the stand but is just in level flight.

You can also use another more powerful 6mm magnet placed on top of the magnet on the stand and place a M3-sized hexnut on top of that. Attach the model plane to the hexnut and this works like a 'Universal Joint' allowing you to set the plane model in a bank and/or dive.

Works-for-me.

Hope this helps,

B

PolishGI · Post by **PolishGI** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 5:15 am

Found some older stuff from my WWII collection.

paul · Post by **paul** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 6:08 pm

Thanks Battle of Britain and Cama. It has given me some ideas to work with.

TAMMY · Post by **TAMMY** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 4:49 am

PolishGI

note that the paddy fields are not excavated. The water is above ground level (remember that you must be able to drain the water) and the berms keep the water in. It is not deep water, usually ess than on foot. The most important thing is that the field be as horizontal as possible to grant an uniform cover of water. This is th main reason of the varius berms as it's easier to level relatively small areas.

There are various systems to pout water in. The easiest one is to use the seasonal flooding of a river but yo can do it by hand too, like hee

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/paddy ... in-vietnam

A last note. Paddy is a word of Indian origin that means rice, so youshould say paddy fields or rice fields but not rice paddies.

PolishGI · Post by **PolishGI** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 5:02 am

I am glad to see that the forums did not take a direct hit!

TAMMY wrote: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/paddy ... in-vietnam

A last note. Paddy is a word of Indian origin that means rice, so youshould say paddy fields or rice fields but not rice paddies.

Hi Tammy,

Thanks for the response. But I am going to respectfully disagree. I think it is a waste of time with us going back and forth as to whether or not it is called a paddy field or a rice paddy.

Based on your response, it should be called a paddy field. Paddy, by definition, is a field where rice is grown. Adding the field is already known.

It is perfectly acceptable to use the term rice paddy based on Encyclopedia Britannica. A paddy and rice paddy are interchangeable.

So while we can go round and round with which term is accurate, both terms can be used and both terms are redundant. You are either calling it a paddy field (rice field field) or a rice paddy (rice rice field). But I have already spent too much time on this matter.

So with that said, I will be moving onâ€¦

Are there any other pics to share?

Luca · Post by **Luca** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:02 pm

Some more units for my 7th Panzer in France:

Dismounted Infantry beside their motorcycles

Some PanzeJagers and SP Arty

37th Recon Battalion

A Bicycle Battalion (not for the 7th)

Finally some horses

PolishGI · Post by **PolishGI** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:44 pm

Luca!

That is awesome work! Love the horses and the bicycle infantry!

Great job!

Show us yer stuff!

7th Pz