Ssendam's Blog

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I’ve been a bit slow to complete the 6 stands of fighters to go with my British Aeronef Aircraft Carrier. This has been for a few reasons but one of them was that I was not keen on the stands used to hold the flight of 3 planes per stand; it was all too uniform. So I decided to take the “spider” stands made by Ground Zero Games for holding fighters for the sapce combat game Full Thrust and adapt them.

There is a little work to get the stands ready for my needs which includes cutting 3 of the 6 “arms” off and trimming down the end of each arm that attaches to the plane but hopefully the pictures below illustrates the process and results.

I thought I’d share a few pictures of some scenery I bought recently from Total Battle Miniatures for my ongoing 6mm ACW project.

TBM do a range of scenery scales and it comes in painted or unpainted flavours, at very reasonable prices. Initially I just wanted some fencing, the snake style fencing to be exact, but I ordered a building to bulk out my purchase. I ordered 3 types of fence, which you can see in the gallery pictures below and was so impressed I put another order in for some roads.

TBM  have been superb and I can’t recommend their service enough. You can find them here:

http://www.totalbattleminiatures.com/index.html

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Well they are ready at last. I now have a couple of decent forces for a tangle. I have a few other models invluding a Zepplin, 4 British Ships (2 Battleships, Torpedo Boat and a Cruiser), and a few planes to get ready for the British Carrier; but they shouldn’t take long to do. Anyway back to the Germans …

• Deck & Masts: Vallejo 128 German Camo Orange Ochre, followed by a Citadel Wash of Devlan Mud
• Hull and superstructure: Citadel Foundation Adeptus Battlegrey, highlighted with Citadel Codex Grey
• Windows: Vallejo 057 Medium Blue with a Vallejo 065 Andrea Blue highlight
• Gun Barrels: Vallejo 169 Black with a Citadel Bolt Gun Metal highlight
• Tail markings: Vallejo 169 Black, Vallejo 001 White and Citadel Blood Red

Close ups can be found in the Aeronef Gallery:

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I’m just finishing off my German Aeronef fleet, (bar one zeppelin which is having some grey splinter pattern cammoflage put on it), and I thought I would share with you a slightly different basing technique using rare earth magnets from “Dom’s Decal’s” www.domsdecals.com

Here is a picture of one of my German Aeronef, an Emden Class Light Cruiser I believe.

And here is the craft ready for transporting to the next wargame event.

And here’s the secret. A little rare earth magnet, 3.15mm in diameter, glued to the top of the stand and fitted in a hole drilled into the underside of the model.

Here’s a closeup of the little fella.

And here is where the idea came from. At the local wargaming club, The Manx Wargames Group, one of the members, we shall call him “M” but his real name is Mike … put together some stands for Wings of War models to be mounted on ariels and held in place with these earth magnets. In this case the magnets are slightly larger, but the use of ariels allows for a truely 3D game. I’ve made my magnet settings the same polarity, so should I trial a 3D areonef game in the future I can ask to borrow agent M’s stands. There never was a more cunning plan!

Well I’ve had a bit of time to finish off the British carrier and Cruisers. I decided to model a plane just taking off from the carrier and apart from having to add some wing decals I’m pleased with the result.

Just thought I would pose a few Aeronef ships I’ve been working on. I have a couple of Cruisers and a Carrier to add to this, photo’s soon.

Quick colour reference …

• Hull – Black
• Deck – Vallejo Beige brown 135 followed by a Citadel Devlan Mud Wash
• Structure – White
• Funnels – Citadel Bubonic Brown
• Structure Roof – Citadel Snakebite Leather
• Tail Markings – Citedel Blood Red / White / Ultramarines Blue

Just used a little time to finish off my Vargan Fleet.

… or so they say.

I bought some space models from the Kallistra Space Dreadnaught 3000 range at Christmas time and decided to give them a lick of paint so my son, (the Earth Empire ships are his), and I could play a game with them. I have to be honest and say that the rules are not what I want from a Space game, being more campaign based, so after a little search we started using the Full Thrust Light rules set which is free, has a vibrant community and is well supported. The model’s themselves painted up a lot better than I thought they would and here’s a few samples.